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This Girl Is on Fire: How to Live, Learn and Thrive in a Life You Love: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

By Andrea McLean

A Garden in the Hills

By Katharine Stewart

Remember Me?

By Kinsella, Sophie, Sophie Kinsella

Woman's Hour: From Joyce Grenfell to Sharon Osbourne: Celebrating Sixty Years of Women's Lives

By Various

117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation under the South African 90-Day Detention Law

By Ruth First, Gillian Slovo

Lifting: Becoming the World's Strongest Brothers

By Luke Stoltman, Tom Stoltman

Zeitoun

By Dave Eggers

Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530-1603

By Anne Chambers

The Unexpected Patriot: How an Ordinary American Mother is Bringing Terrorists to Justice

By Shannen Rossmiller, Sue Carswell

Pirate Queen of Ireland

By Anne Chambers

Jewish Women on Stage, Film, and Television

By R. Mock

On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs: A Critical Anthology

By M. Johnson, S. Mintz

Childhood, Culture, and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931

By Carolyn Steedman

Jeanette Winterson

By Sonya Andermahr

Past-it Notes

By Maureen Lipman, Lipman, Maureen

A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot

By mary walton

George Eliot in Love

By Brenda Maddox

The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy

By J. Rider, J. Friedman

Uncompromised: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of an Arab American Patriot in the CIA

By Nada Prouty

Exile through a Gendered Lens: Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema

By G. Zinn

The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age

By Jane Shilling

What Should I Do With My Life?

By Po Bronson

John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)

By John Barnard

Reading the Bronte Body: Disease, Desire and the Constraints of Culture

By Beth Torgerson

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

Women and Spirituality in the Writing of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, and Eddy

By A. Ingham

Statecraft

By Margaret Thatcher

A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

By Terzani, Tiziano, Tiziano Terzani

Prisoner of Tehran: The End of Childhood in Iran

By Marina Nemat

Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners

By R. Warnicke