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The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

By Kara Cooney

From Housewife to Heretic

By Sonia Johnson (University College London), Lorretta Barrett

Detectives Don't Wear Seat Belts: True Adventures of a Female P.I.

By Cici McNair

Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo

By Birut e Marija Filomena Galdikas

Catherine, the Princess of Wales: The Biography: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER - The Royal Gift of the Year

By Robert Jobson

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

By Jason Fagone

ROSE WEST: The Making of a Monster

By Jane Carter Woodrow

My Friends' Secrets

By Joan Collins

Mafia Princess

By Marisa Merico

Old Rage: 'One of our best-loved actor's powerful riposte to a world driving her mad' - DAILY MAIL

By Sheila Hancock

Surviving Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Hope, Treatment, and Recovery

By Patricia Prijatel (E.T. Meredith Distinguished Professor Emerita, E.T. Meredith Distinguished Professor Emerita, Drake University School of Journalism), Carol Scott-Conner (Professor of Surgery, Professor of Surgery, University of Iowa Carver College o...

BP Title - FAMOUS PEOPLE, FAMOUS LIVES : MARIE CURIE

By Karen Wallace

Basically...: My Life as a Real Essex Girl

By Gemma Collins Limited

Creative Lives: Vivienne Westwood Paperback

By Sean Connolly

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II

By Linda Porter

Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis

By Tilar J. Mazzeo

The Accidental Office Lady: An American Woman in Corporate Japan

By Laura Kriska

Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World

By Christine Mathieu, Yang E Namu

Selected Letters

By Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Smith, Janet Gezari (Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of English, Connecticut College)

Carve Her Name with Pride

By R., J. Minney

The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

By Elspeth Huxley

Married To A Bedouin

By Marguerite van Geldermalsen

Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 18: Claudia Jones: Change-maker

By Davina Tijani, Jacqui C. Smith

Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces?

By Immi Tallgren (Professor of International Law, Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki)

Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

By Mason Currey

Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith

By Emma Mason (Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick)

The Scent of Holiness: Lessons from a Women's Monastery

By Constantina R Palmer, Mother Gabriella

Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian

By Leonora Neville (John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History, John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Diana: Woman of Style

By Jackie Modlinger, Zandra Rhodes

When I Fell From The Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival

By Juliane Koepcke