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Maya Angelou

By Miles Shapiro, Coretta Scott King

A Woman Named Jackie

By C. David Heymann

Run or Die: The Inspirational Memoir of the World's Greatest Ultra-Runner

By Kilian Jornet Burgada

Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science

By Ann Oakley (UCL Social Research Institute)

Call The Midwife

By Worth, Jennifer

The World's First Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

By Isabel Thomas, Cliff Moon, Collins Big Cat

You Can't Run: The Terrifying True Story of a Young Woman Trapped in a Violent Relationship

By Mandy Thomas

ADELE

By Smith, Sean

But You Did Not Come Back

By Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Sandra Smith

The Tale of Two Nazanins

By Nazanin Afshin-Jam

Princess Sultana's Circle

By Jean Sasson

Jane Austen

By Carol Shields

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