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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began

On Weaving: New Expanded Edition

Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon

The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World

On Shirley Hazzard: Writers on Writers

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays

Memories

Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage

Mary Quant: My Autobiography

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

Letters to a Young Feminist

Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel

In the Lateness of the World: Poems

How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary

Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs

The Undocumented Americans

Writing In An Age Of Silence

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Mae West: An Icon in Black and White

History Vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You to Know

Go Home!

Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

Write On, Sisters!: Voice, Courage, and Claiming Your Place at the Table

Close To Home: A Materialist Analysis Of Women’s Oppression

Design*Sponge at Home

When Life is Not Peachy: Real-life lessons in recovery from heartache, grief and tough times

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

The Well-Spoken Woman Speaks Out: How to Use Your Voice to Drive Change

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Constituting Feminist Subjects: The Skybolt Crisis in Perspective

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club

101 Organic Gardening Hacks: Eco-Friendly Solutions to Improve Any Garden

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood

Letter to My Daughter

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

Evolution

The Field Guide to Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Scientific Research and Make a Difference

Sick: A Memoir

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

A Glorious Freedom: Older Women Leading Extraordinary Lives

100 Nasty Women of History

Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths

Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

The Dream Dictionary from A to Z: The Ultimate A–Z to Interpret the Secrets of Your Dreams

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life

Feminist Cross-Stitch: 40 Bold Fierce Patterns

Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen: Awesome Female Characters from Comic Book History

Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

Virginia Woolf

Betsey: A Memoir

The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life

Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen

Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United States

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Gilded: How Newport Became America’s Richest Resort

Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

Language and Woman’s Place: Text and Commentaries

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History

The Flavour Thesaurus: Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Top 50 Indoor Plants And How Not To Kill Them

Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire

View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Miss Aluminum: A Memoir

Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane

The Solidarity Struggle: How People of Color Succeed and Fail At Showing Up For Each Other In the Fight For Freedom

This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

Understanding Hoarding

Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019

Writing to Be Understood: What Works and Why

Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

Wait, It Gets Worse: Love, Death, and My Transformation from Control Freak to Human Being

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility

The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity

I Didn’t See It Coming: The Only Book You’ll Ever Need to Avoid Being Blindsided in Business

What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety

Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter

O’Keeffe

Sex and Lies

Kara Goucher’s Running for Women: From First Steps to Marathons

Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology’s Fiercest Females

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)

SCUM Manifesto

Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild

Language and Sexism

Nobody Ever Talks About Anything But the End: A Memoir

Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism

Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy and Find Personal Happiness

Save Yourself

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir

This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World (and Me)

Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Money for Jam: The Essential Guide to Starting Your Own Small Food Business

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

Plant-Based on a Budget: Delicious Vegan Recipes for Under $30 a Week, for Less Than 30 Minutes a Meal

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

It’s Time to Talk (and Listen): How to Have Constructive Conversations About Race, Class, Sexuality, Ability & Gender in a Polarized World

Sexographies

How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart

Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Glamour: Women, History, Feminism

Kick Some Glass: 10 Ways Women Succeed at Work on Their Own Terms

Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

Lady Stuff: Secrets to Being a Woman

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

It’s up to the Women

Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship

How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation

Cleopatra: A Life

Be a Warrior, Not a Worrier: How to Fight Your Fears and Find Freedom

Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials from the Studio to Crowdsourcing

Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex

The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies

You’ll Grow Out of It

Miss Fortune: Fresh Perspectives on Having It All From Someone Who Is Not Okay

Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

How Music Can Make You Better

Boundaries: Step One: Me, Myself and I

It’s OK to Feel Things Deeply

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The Writer’s Lexicon: Descriptions, Overused Words, and Taboos

Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers

Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

The Ones We’ve Been Waiting for: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

$9 Therapy Book

Me: Stories of My Life

The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

Weird in a World That’s Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures

100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Marxism and Women’s Liberation

Rules for Writers

Older but Better, but Older

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker’s Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

Shame Nation: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate

Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss

The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken Heart

Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During World War I and World War II

Modern Folk Embroidery: 30 Contemporary Projects for Folk Art Inspired Designs

Small Acts of Disappearance

Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North

101 Affirmations To Ease Your Grief Journey: Words of Comfort, Words of Hope

Finding Her in History: Confronting the Traditions of Misogyny

The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition