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Wife, Interrupted

By Amy Molloy

Childhood Interrupted: Growing up in an industrial school

By Kathleen O'Malley

Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur

By F Houghton

The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail

By Moore, Tim

Desert Dawn

By Waris Dirie

You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead

By Marieke Hardy

Going Solo: My choice to become a single mother using a donor

By Genevieve Roberts

Women by Design

By Penelope Swithinbank

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

By Sarah Perry

Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

By Amelia Abraham

The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

By Joan Schenkar

Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

By Brian Hinton

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

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

Reeva: A Mother's Story

By June Steenkamp

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity

By Clementine Ford

How To Be a Medieval Woman

By Margery Kempe, Barry Windeatt

Oh, Carol!

By Carol McGiffin

Margaret Mead

By Jane Howard

Who Knows Tomorrow: A Memoir of Finding Family among the Lost Children of Africa

By Lisa Lovatt-Smith

A Spoonful of Sugar

By Liz Fraser

Calling the Shots: My Autobiography

By Sue Barker

I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside Saddam's Regime

By Pauline Knowles-Samarraie, Karen O'Brien

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott

City of Secrets: The Extraordinary True Story of the Woman Who Found Herself at the Heart of the Grail

By Patrice Chaplin

I Choose Myself

By Deepti Vempati

The Lies We Told

By Chamberlain, Diane, Diane Chamberlain

Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

By Kathleen Norris

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

By Baroness Catherine Ashton

Gigorou: It's time to reclaim beauty. First Nations wisdom and womanhood.

By Sasha Sarago

My Father's Daughter: A Memoir

By Tina Sinatra, Jeff Coplon