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The Little Book of Great Women: Thoughts from Women Who Changed the World

By Troth Wells

Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

By Joel Selvin, Pamela Turley

The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of The Railway Children

By Eleanor Fitzsimons

More Than a Woman

By Caitlin Moran

Mother Ireland

By Edna O'Brien

Grace Slick: Somebody to Love? - A Rock-and-roll Memoir

By Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan

The Gate

By Francois Bizot

Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future

By Ruth Davidson

Virgins: An Outlander Short Story

By Gabaldon, Diana

The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle

By Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland

The Russian Lieutenant's Woman: A True Story of Passion, Love and Betrayal

By Barbara Davies

Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women

By Jean Said Makdisi

Working in Women's Archives: Researching Women's Private Literature and Archival Documents

By Marlene Kadar, Helen M. Buss

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

By Charlotte Gordon

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