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When I Hit You

By Meena Kandasamy

Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams

By Louisa Thomas

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

By Anna Quindlen

Dear Committee Members

By Julie Schumacher

A Very Peruvian Practice: Travels with La Senora

By John Lane

The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

By Alice Weaver Flaherty

The Only Way Home: One Woman, Two Donkeys and an Extraordinary Outback Journey of Healing and Renewal

By Liz Byron

Capote's Women: Watch TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS

By Laurence Leamer

The Right Sort of Girl: The Sunday Times Bestseller

By Anita Rani

Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

By J. Randy Taraborrelli

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

By Katie Hickman

No longer whispering to power: The story of Thuli Madonsela

By Thandeka Gqubule

The Long Ride Home: The Extraordinary Journey of Healing that Changed a Child's Life

By Rupert Isaacson

All My Days

By Kathleen Dayus

I and Claudius: Travels with My Cat

By Clare de Vries

Lady Under Fire on the Western Front

By Andrew Hallam, Nicola Hallam

Casual Affairs: The Life and Fiction of Sally Benson

By Maryellen V. Keefe

The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit

By MacLaine

Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais

By Suzanne Fagence Cooper

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

The Widow's Secret: Bella Wallis Mystery

By Brian Thompson

First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents

By Bonnie Angelo

I am fifteen and I do not want to die: The true story of one woman's wartime survival

By CHRISTINE ARNOTHY, Antonia White

Barbra Streisand

By Nick Yapp

Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

By Kit de Waal

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

By Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick

Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship

By Bee Rowlatt, May Witwit

Children of the Far-flung

By Geraldine O' Connell Cusack

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

By Lan Yan, Sam Taylor

Anthology of Amazing Women

By Sandra Lawrence (Author), Nathan Collins