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Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future

By Ruth Davidson

Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838

By Barbara Bush

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

By Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Kim Barker

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

By Natalie Livingstone

Toxic

By Sarah Ditum

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

By Mikki Kendall

The Unwomanly Face of War

By Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

Marie Antoinette

By John Edward Nicholl Hearsey

Courtesans

By Hickman, Katie

Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By John T. Alexander (Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas, Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas)

Across Many Mountains: The Extraordinary Story of Three Generations of Women in Tibet

By Yangzom Brauen

Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism

By Barbara Winslow, Sheila Rowbotham

Queen Victoria: The woman who ruled the world

By Kate Hubbard

The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

By Lan Yan, Sam Taylor

Lady Under Fire on the Western Front

By Andrew Hallam, Nicola Hallam

Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

By Katie Hickman

Back to the Broads: Britain in Old Photographs

By David Holmes

Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity

By Francoise Lionnet

The End of Silence: Women and Priesthood

By Karen Armstrong

All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart

By Beezy Marsh

White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

By Mo Moulton

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

By Sonia Purnell

The Sorrows of Mattidia: A New Translation and Commentary

By Curtis Hutt, Jenni Irving

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory

By Roxane van Iperen

Born Survivors

By Wendy Holden

Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-The-Scenes Companion

By Gina McIntyre, Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

By Natalie Haynes