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Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo

By Lisa J Shannon

Bossypants

By Fey, Tina

Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy

By Lucas, Geralyn

Yoga Bitch: One Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment

By Morrison, Suzanne

Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India

By Kennedy, Miranda

Diving Into Light

By Farrant, Natasha

F My Life: And You Thought You'd Had a Bad Day...

By Guedj, Didier, Valette, Maxime, Passaglia, Guillaume

Trio: Portrait of Intimate Friendship: Oona Chaplin, Carol Matthau, Gloria Vanderbilt

By Saroyan, Aram

Momentum: The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People

By Mowlam, Mo

Margaret Bourke-White: Her Pictures Were Her Life

By Rubin, Susan Goldman, Bourke-White, Margaret

Live: Art and Performance

By Adrian Heathfield

This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL

By Margolyes, Miriam

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

By Lamott, Anne

Florence Nightingale: v. 3 (Visionary Women S.)

By Hartill, Rosemary

The Trial of Joan of Arc: v. 4 (Visionary Women S.)

By Warner, Marina

Up With The Lark: My Life On the Land

By Bomford, Joan

The Martyrdom of Perpetua: v. 2 (Visionary Women S.)

By Maitland, Sara

Women in Church History: 20 Stories for 20 Centuries

By Turpin, JoAnne

Not Counting Women and Children: Some Forgotten Stories

By Mckenna, Megan

The Kitchen Congregation

By Seton, Nora

The Gospel According to Mary: A New Testament for Women

By Winter, Miriam Therese

The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story (Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two)

By Dunlop, Tessa

Virginia Woolf: Introductions to the Major Works

By Briggs, Julia

Elizabeth I (Profiles in Power)

By Christopher Haigh, Haigh, Christopher

To War with Whitaker: 13 (Pan Heritage Classics, 13)

By Ranfurly Countess of Ranfurly, Hermione

Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers

By Birkett

The Diary of Two Nobodies

By Killen, Mary, Wood, Giles

Sold: One woman's true account of modern slavery

By Muhsen, Zana, Crofts, Andrew

A Promise To Nadia: A true story of a British slave in the Yemen

By Muhsen, Zana, Crofts, Andrew

Sharon Osbourne: Unauthorized, Uncensored, Understood

By Crawford, Sue