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High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood

By Spoto, Donald

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

By Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock

Gertrude and Alice

By Diana Souhami

Conversations with Maya Angelou

By Elliot, Jeffrey

Finding the Game: Three Years, Twenty-Five Countries, and the Search for Pickup Soccer

By Oxenham, Gwendolyn

Journey to Nowhere

By Figes, Eva

Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War

By Bellinger, Vanya Eftimova

Amish Women: Lives and Stories

By Stoltzfus, Louise

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution (Gender and American Culture)

By Brown, Lois

The Bolter

By Osborne, Frances

Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China

By Nigel Cawthorne

The Windsor Knot

By Wilson, Christopher

Honest

By Ulrika Johnson

How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

By Groskop, Viv

The Woman Before Wallis: Prince Edward, the Parisian Courtesan, and the Perfect Murder

By Rose, Andrew

Thank You for this Moment: A Story of Love, Power and Betrayal

By Valérie Trierweiler, Clémence Sebag

The Mask of Command

By Keegan, Sir John

The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke

By Hayward, Steven

The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

By Duncan Barrett, Barrett, Duncan, Calvi, Nuala

Mistress of Hardwick

By Plowden, Alison

Grayson

By Cox, Dr Lynne

You Can't Have My Daughter: A true story of a mother's desperate fight to save her daughter from Oxford's sex traffickers.

By McDonnell

The Woman in the White Kimono: (A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick)

By JOHNS, Ana

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail

By Kenneth L. Holmes, David C. Duniway, Ruth Barnes Moynihan

THE POET AND THE MURDERER: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery

By Worrall, Simon

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels

By Skeers, Linda

The Periodic Table (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

By Levi, Primo

How Did I Get Here From There?

By Rayner, Claire

Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910

By Cecil Woodham-Smith

Flannery O'Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionary

By Spivey, Ted R.