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Over the Influence

Wendy Carlos: A Biography

Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach

Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces

Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing

Everybody Needs an Editor: The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing

Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement

Feminism, Young Women, and Cultural Studies: Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards

Training for Two: Safe and Smart Prenatal Exercises for a Smoother Pregnancy, Easier Birth, and Healthier Newborn

Not So Sorry: Abusers, False Apologies, and the Limits of Forgiveness

The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards

A Muzzle for Witches

Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

The Everything Guide: Hormones, health and happiness in menopause, midlife and beyond

Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People

The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women’s Health

Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence

Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

My Brother’s Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag

Our Green Heart: The Soul and Science of Forests

My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation

Everything Is OK

The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It

Lead Bigger

The Great Menopause Myth: The Truth on Mastering Midlife Hormonal Mayhem, Beating Uncomfortable Symptoms, and Aging to Thrive

Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life

Without Her: A Chronicle of Grief and Love

From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write (The Art of the Essay)

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

Crafting a Better World: Inspiration and DIY Projects for Craftivists

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds

Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America

Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us

The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI

Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority

Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters–And How to Get It

Strive: 8 Steps to Train for Success

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World

You Must Stand Up: The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America

Why Are You So Sensitive?: Navigating Everyday, Unintended Microaggressions

First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream

Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes

The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Wear Next: Fashioning the future

It’s Not about the Wine: The Loaded Truth behind Mommy Wine Culture

The Knowing: The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools

Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve and Lengthen Women’s Lives – Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

Like Love: Essays and Conversations

Are You Coming?: A Vagina Owner’s Guide to Orgasm

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult

Tits Up: What Our Beliefs about Breasts Reveal about Life, Love, Sex and Society

Hungry Authors: The Indispensable Guide to Planning, Creating, and Publishing a Nonfiction Book

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch

Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch

That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields

Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

We’re Alone

Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self

Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

The Other Fab Four: The Remarkable True Story of the Liverbirds, Britain’s First Female Rock Band

How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math

Lovely One

The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

Here After

I Would Meet You Anywhere

The Self-Confidence Workbook: A Guide to Overcoming Self-Doubt and Improving Self-Esteem

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation

Indivisible: How to Forge Our Differences into a Stronger Future

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System

How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence

Play With Your Cat!: The Essential Guide to Interactive Play for a Happier, Healthier Feline

The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health

The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

Traveling Solo: A Life Well Lived, a Death Well Planned

The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow’s Technology Still Isn’t Here

The Snarling Girl and Other Essays

I’ll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

Salem Witch Trials: A History from Beginning to End

Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You

Build Like a Woman: The Blueprint for Creating a Business and Life You Love

Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You

Shut Up and Run: How to Get Up, Lace Up, and Sweat with Swagger

Changemakers: How Leaders Can Design Change in an Insanely Complex World

My Side of the River

Private Equity

White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World

Love by Design

A Woman in the Polar Night

The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past

I Love Romcoms and I am a Feminist: A manifesto in 100 romcoms

The Natural History of Crime: Case Studies in Death and the Clues Nature Leaves Behind

The New Science of Social Change: A Modern Handbook for Activists

You Get What You Pay For: Essays

Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

Merkel’s Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World

Antiracism as Daily Practice: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities, and Help Create a Just World

Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million

Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir

It’s Your Body: The Young Woman’s Guide to Empowered Sexual Health

Loving Corrections

Aging Brilliantly: How to Eat, Move, Rest, and Socialize Your Way to Long Life

Leading Yourself: Find More Joy, Meaning, and Opportunities in the Job You Already Have (Despite Imperfect Bosses, Weird Economies, Lethargic Coworkers, Annoying Systems, and Too Many Deliverables)

Chronicles of a Fashion Buyer

Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

Mastering a Fasting Lifestyle in 30 Days

Good Team Bad Team: Lead Your People to Go After Big Challenges, Not Each Other

Money Talks: A Lifestyle Guide for Financial Wellbeing

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea

It All Makes Sense Now: Embrace Your ADHD Brain to Live a Creative and Colorful Life

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Do The Work

Cultivating Emotional Intelligence in the Digital Age

Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love

The Science of Strong Women: The True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fictional Feminists

Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers

Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass

Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us

Women Out of Bounds

Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome

A Termination

The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture

Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today

Trails and Tribulations: The Running Adventures of Susie Chan

The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right’s Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion

Breathe, Empower, Achieve: 5-Minute Mindfulness for Women Who Do It All

Women’s Lives in the Tudor Era

Empowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

The Age of Loneliness

What’s Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women

Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

Rehearsals for Living

Takedown :Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking

To the Gorge: Running, Grief, Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases

Ambition Redefined: Why the Corner Office Doesn’t Work for Every Woman & What to Do Instead

The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany

French Milk

A Short History of Queer Women

Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men

Maybe You Die: The True Story of a Couple Living the All-American Nightmare

Gender Explained: A New Understanding of Identity in a Gender Creative World

Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

Earth to Moon

A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell

Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

No Judgement: On Being Critical

Women Are Angry: Why Your Rage is Hiding and How to Let it Out

The Powerful Women of Outremer: Forgotten Heroines of the Crusader States

Dateable: Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down While Chronically Ill and Disabled

Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum (Second Edition): Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy

Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females

My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living

Studio Musician: Carol Kaye, 60s No. 1 Hit Bassist, Guitarist

Rethinking College: A Guide to Thriving Without a Degree

A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work

The Light Work: Reclaim Your Feminine Power, Live Your Cosmic Truth, and Illuminate the World

In the Fold between Power and Desire: Women Artists’ Narratives

The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist’s Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life

Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published

You’re Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Love, Lust, and Movies

Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law

The Nervous System Reset

After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art

Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation’s most iconic criminal cases

Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence

Group Living and Other Recipes

Governing the Feminist Peace: The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Thinking at the Speed of Bias: How to Shift Our Unconscious Filters

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks