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Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving

By Michele Roberts

FairBreak

By Karen Motyka, Shaun Martyn

Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields

By Wendy Lower

Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride Into Parenthood

By Sophie McCartney

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

By Philippa Gregory

Breathtaking: The story you haven't been told - now a major ITV series

By Rachel Clarke

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

By Juliane Koepcke

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

Selected Letters

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

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert

By Gertrude Bell

Montserrat Caballe: Casta Diva

By Robert Pullen, Stephen Taylor

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)

Diana: Woman of Style

By Jackie Modlinger, Zandra Rhodes

This Mum Runs

By Jo Pavey

Wake: A heartrending story of three women and the journey of the Unknown Warrior

By Anna Hope

Acting With Adler

By Joanna Rotte

Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities

By Elizabeth Edwards

Miss Shirley Bassey

By John L. Williams

Staying True

By Jenny Sanford

The Diary of Two Nobodies

By Mary Killen, Giles Wood

Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

By Cathy Newman

Florence Nightingale

By Stewart Ross

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

By Christina Lamb

Bossypants

By Tina Fey

Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time

By Grace Dent