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Mary Sumner: Mission, Education and Motherhood: Thinking a Life with Bourdieu

By Sue Anderson-Faithful

Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader

By Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman

All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully

By Carrie Hope Fletcher

Blood Sisters: French Revolution in Women's Memory

By Marilyn Yalom

Diamonds at the Lost and Found: A Memoir in Search of My Mother

By Sarah Aspinall

Riding the Waves: My Story

By Jane McDonald

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Rebecca Skloot, Skloot, Rebecca

Are You Somebody?: The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain

By Nuala O'Faolain

Gertrude Bell

By H.V.F. Winstone

Marilyn Monroe: the Biography

By Donald Spoto

Malala's Magic Pencil

By Malala Yousafzai, Kerascoet

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

By Elizabeth Gaskell, Elisabeth Jay

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

By Anita Anand

Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Laureate

By Eugene Straus

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

By Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell, Jr.

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War

By Michael Neufeld

Marie Curie: A Life

By Susan Quinn

Off The Cuff: The Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women who Love Them

By Carson Kressley

Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life

By Allen Shawn

Bloody Mary: My Story

By Mary Coughlan

Farewell To The East End

By Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Sunita Williams: A Star in Space

By Aravinda Anantharaman

The Hungry Heart

As Affecting the Fate of My Absent Husband: Selected Letters of Lady Franklin Concerning the Search for the Lost Franklin Expedition, 1848-1860

By Lady Jane Franklin, Erika Behrisch Elce

Women in America's Wars

By Silvia Anne Sheafer

The Black Widow: The true crime book of the year

By Linda Calvey

The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

By Kara Cooney

From Housewife to Heretic

By Sonia Johnson (University College London), Lorretta Barrett

Detectives Don't Wear Seat Belts: True Adventures of a Female P.I.

By Cici McNair

Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo

By Birut e Marija Filomena Galdikas