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And a Voice to Sing with

By Joan Baez

My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me

By Terri Thal, Elizabeth Thomson

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bront

By Maureen Adams

Knowing the Score: My Family and Our Tennis Story

By Judy Murray

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

By Alfred Habegger

Marlene Dietrich by Her Daughter

By Riva, Maria

Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings

By John Fowles, Jan Relf

Standing Out

By Katie Price

Belles on Their Toes

By Frank B Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

A Woman's Work

By Annie Spike

Green Oranges on Lion Mountain

By Emily Joy

Benazir Bhutto

By Sean Price

Better Against a Wall: Garden Writings

By Ursula Buchan

Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia [Internation al Export Edition]

By Elizabeth Gilbert

Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman to be Hanged

By Robert Hancock

Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

By David Yaffe

Secrets and Lies

By Christine Keeler

Two Women

By Laurie Lee

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

By Jung Chang

Joni Mitchell: Lady of the Canyon

By Michael A O'Neill

A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

By Francesca Wade, Alethea Hayter

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

By Kate Andersen Brower

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface (Canons)

By Olivia Laing, Laing, Olivia

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs

Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway

By Nina Stibbe

Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

By Rachel Ignotofsky

The Brontes

By Barker, Juliet R.V., Juliet Barker

Marilyn

By Gloria Steinem, George Barris

Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery

By Zana Muhsen, Andrew Crofts

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

By Nick Hunter