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Catholic Women Confront Their Church: Stories of Hurt and Hope

Too Much and Not the Mood

Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915

Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection: Unidentified Serial Killers, Unsolved Kidnappings, and Mysterious Murders

The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women

She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man’s World

Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

Get It Together: Why We Deserve Better Politics

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

Every Woman’s Guide To Saving The Planet

Abandon Me: Memoirs

Merle Thornton: Bringing the Fight

Who Did It First?: 50 Scientists, Artists, and Mathematicians Who Revolutionized the World

Korean Women in Leadership

Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life

Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide

Queens of the Resistance: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Bright Precious Thing

How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference

Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret Life

We Need More Tables: Navigating privilege in the face of poverty

Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power

Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th century told through the clothes they wore

The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America

They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy

The Heart and Other Monsters

The Hungover Games: A True Story

Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

The Business of Women’s Empowerment: Corporate Gender Politics in the Global South

Radiant Voices: 21 Feminist Essays for Rising Up Inspired by EMMA Talks

Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything

Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change

Autobiography as Activism

Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes

Goddesses in Everywoman

Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You

Satiating Mocktail Recipes

The Woman in the Story: Writing Memorable Female Characters

From Angel to Office Worker: Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950

Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

Indian Women in Leadership

Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

Contraception: A Concise History

The Fashion Forecasters: A Hidden History of Color and Trend Prediction

The Chaos of Longing

No Modernism Without Lesbians

Vintage Luxury Fashion: Exploring the Rise of the Secondhand Clothing Trade

Queens of the Resistance: Nancy Pelosi

The Sober Lush: A Hedonist’s Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life –Alcohol Free

Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom: A Brief History with Documents

Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines

Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

I Tried to Change So You Don’t Have To: True Life Lessons

What Doesn’t Kill You: Fifteen Stories of Survival

A Woman’s Place: Inside the Fight for a Feminist Future

The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work From Home

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur

Femmes Fatales

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Spice Apothecary: Blending and Using Common Spices for Everyday Health

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

Stitch & Sew: Beautifully Embroider 31 Projects

Empty

Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy

The Flower Fix: Modern arrangements for a daily dose of nature

Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style

Get Out of My Head: Inspiration for Overthinkers in an Anxious World

The Essential CBD Cookbook: More Than 65 Easy Recipes for Everyday Health

The AOC Way: The Secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Success

Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can’t Have It All in a Free Market Economy

Ugly Feelings

The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom

Notes on a Silencing

Heroism Begins with Her: Inspiring Stories of Bold, Brave, and Gutsy Women in the U.S. Military

Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women

Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

A History of the World in 500 Walks

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

My Cat Is Dying: What Do I Do?: Navigating Emotions, Decisions, and Options for Healing

My Cat Has Died: What Do I Do?

The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants

The Future of Design: Global Product Innovation for a Complex World

Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women and the Realities of Patriarchy

Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F.

The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Handbook for Girl Geeks

Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere

Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

Places I’ve Taken My Body: Essays

Minnie Lansbury: Suffragette, Socialist, Rebel Councillor

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Destruction of the Syrian Arab Kingdom in 1920 and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism

Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle

A Field Guide to Awkward Silences

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

Listening to Images

Getting Genki In Japan: The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Family in Tokyo

Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation of American Terror

The Spell Book for New Witches: Essential Spells to Change Your Life

Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America

Women Who Hike: Walking with America’s Most Inspiring Adventurers

Raised in Ruins: A Memoir

Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul

Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

Arm the Spirit: A Story from Underground and Back

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care: Do Less, Achieve More, and Live the Life You Want

The Faraway Nearby

The Opposite of Certainty: Fear, Faith, and Life in Between

Curating Your Life: The End of the Work-Life Balance Struggle

How to Save Your Planet One Object at a Time

Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: Early Adventures of Working Women, the Professional Life and the Glass Ceiling

Why Race Still Matters

Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir

Finding Peace in Difficult Times

In Search of Safety: Voices of Refugees

Women’s Entrepreneurship in Europe: Multidimensional Research and Case Study Insights

Grief’s Country: A Memoir in Pieces

Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

Initiated: Memoir of a Witch

They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion

The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change

Surviving Autocracy

The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World’s Favorite Insect

Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today

From No-Knead to Sourdough: A Simpler Approach to Handmade Bread

A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes

Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves

Out of Office: Ditch the 9-5 and Be Your Own Boss

The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs: Your Complete Guide to the Hidden Powers of Herbs

The Modern Guide to Witchcraft: Your Complete Guide to Witches, Covens, and Spells

Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972–77

Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life

Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First Superstar

We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times

Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You

Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

Revolution And Evolution In The Twentieth Century

Living For Change: An Autobiography

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

Why Women Need Quotas

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror

Introduction to Transgender Studies

Modesty: A Fashion Paradox: Uncovering The Causes, Controversies And Key Players Behind The Global Trend To Conceal Rather Than Reveal

Healing with CBD: How Cannabidiol Can Transform Your Health without the High

Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

OBIT

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory

Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom

Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop–and Why It Matters

Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism

The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness

AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker

Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World

Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias

Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology