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

By Grace Dent

Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman

By John Morris

Shadows of a Princess

By Patrick Jephson

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

By Kara Cooney

The Woman Who Can't Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science--A Memoir

By Jill Price, Bart Davis

Just Checking

By Emily Colas

The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage

By Daniel R. Altschuler (Full Professor, Physics Department, Full Professor, University of Puerto Rico, RIo Piedras Campus), Fernando J. Ballesteros (Head of instrumentation, Head of instrumentation, Astronomical Observatory of the Uni...

Four Girls from Berlin: A True Story of a Friendship That Defied the Holocaust

By Marianne Meyerhoff, Alexander Smithline

Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War

By Jim Murphy

Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman (Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia)

Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics

By Tom Keymer (, University of Toronto)

Sosipatra of Pergamum: Philosopher and Oracle

By Heidi Marx (Professor of Religion, Professor of Religion, The University of Manitoba)

The Scent of Holiness: Lessons from a Women's Monastery

By Constantina R Palmer, Mother Gabriella

Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian

By Leonora Neville (John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History, John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Diana: Woman of Style

By Jackie Modlinger, Zandra Rhodes

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)