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Find It in Everything

The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

Negotiating Feminisms: Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo’s Intergenerational Women

Woman Without Shame: Poems

Finding Your Calm: Twelve Methods to Release Anxiety, Relieve Stress & Restore Peace

A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550-1800: An Anthology

The Right Kind of Wrong

Brutalities: A Love Story

The New Rules of Menopause: A Mayo Clinic Guide to Perimenopause and Beyond

Little Girl Lost

Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History

A Matter of Appearance

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

Enough

Your Voice in My Head

The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

The Life List: Master Every Moment and Live an Audacious Life

The Denim Diaries

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open

Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Catching the Light

Conversations with Birds

Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

Knitting for Radical Self-Care: A Modern Guide

Look Alive Out There: Essays

Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children

What Kind of Woman: Poems

1000 Japanese Knitting & Crochet Stitches: The Ultimate Bible for Needlecraft Enthusiasts

KIY: Knit-It-Yourself: 15 Modern Sweater Designs to Stitch and Wear

CIY: Crochet-It-Yourself: 15 Modern Crochet Designs to Stitch and Wear

Little Earthquakes: A Memoir

Subway Art

Unshakeable: Trauma-Informed Mindfulness for Collective Awakening

Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance

CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

The Only Woman in the Room

Screaming Hole

Black and Female: Essays

My Body Is Distant: A Memoir

Girlhood

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Executive Presence: The Missing Link between Merit and Success

Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler’s Bunker

Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space

This Much is True

The Art of Gifting Naturally: Simple, Handmade Projects to Create for Friends and Family

How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships

Dirtbag: Essays

Silent Racism: How Well-meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide

Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Gracious: A Practical Primer on Charm, Tact, and Unsinkable Strength

In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

Seeing: A Memoir of Truth and Courage from China’s Most Influential Television Journalist

Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways

From From: Poems

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins

Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things

Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism’s Future

In the Name of Plants: From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names

Why We Need to Be Wild: One Woman’s Quest for Ancient Human Answers to 21st Century Problems

This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained

Eyeliner: A Cultural History

Imperial Island: An Alternative History of the British Empire

Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all

Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person

The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More

Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives

How to Become a Gardener: Find Empowerment in Creating Your Own Food Security

Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Letters to the Future: On equality and Gender

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

The Insomnia Diaries

A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Wandering through Life: A Memoir

Ill Feelings

Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color

Creative Business Handbook: Follow Your Passions and Be Your Own Boss

Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free

Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science

Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Women, Art, and Society

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir

Holler, Child: Stories

Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, original, 2nd, and 3rd editions

Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women―And What We Can Do About It

Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (Including Me)

I See You, Survivor: Life Inside (and Outside) the Totally F*cked-Up Troubled Teen Industry

I Don’t

For F*ck’s Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun

The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire

Strong, Calm and Free: A modern guide to yoga, meditation and mindful living

How Veganism Can Save Us

Touching the Art

Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well

Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter

Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier

Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(And Maybe a Few You Don’t): Sane and Sage Advice to Help You Navigate All of Your Most Important Relationships

Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays

Class: A Memoir

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment

It’s About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage

The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do about It

Thrive Through Yoga: A 21-Day Journey to Ease Anxiety, Love Your Body and Feel More Alive

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

Rest Easy: Discover Calm and Abundance Through the Radical Power of Rest

Racial Wellness: A Guide to Liberatory Healing for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World

A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood

Dear Mr. You

The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

Jacinda Ardern: The Full Story of an Extraordinary Prime Minister

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems

Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

A Rome of One’s Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

New Stories We Tell: True Tales By America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists

My Name Is Barbra

Call You When I Land

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays

God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide

The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty

Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader’s Guide to Solving Hard Problems

Healing the Adult Children of Narcissists: Essays on the Invisible War Zone and Exercises for Recovery and Reflection

Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

You’re Gonna Die Alone (& Other Excellent News)

My Cousin Maria Schneider

What We See: Women & Nonbinary Perspectives Through the Lens

The Deadline

100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success

The Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay

We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

Behind The Shoulder Pads – Tales I Tell My Friends

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-65

F*ck Your Comfort Zone: Take a Risk and Become the Lead in Your Own Life

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Women We Wanted to Look Like

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science

Breaking Through: My Life in Science

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

bell hooks: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Generation Anxiety: A Millennial and Gen Z Guide to Staying Afloat in an Uncertain World

Prey Tell: Why We Silence Women Who Tell the Truth and How Everyone Can Speak Up

Stuff Mom Never Told You: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future