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Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

By Brian Hinton

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

Reeva: A Mother's Story

By June Steenkamp

Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity

By Clementine Ford

How To Be a Medieval Woman

By Margery Kempe, Barry Windeatt

Oh, Carol!

By Carol McGiffin

Margaret Mead

By Jane Howard

Who Knows Tomorrow: A Memoir of Finding Family among the Lost Children of Africa

By Lisa Lovatt-Smith

A Spoonful of Sugar

By Liz Fraser

Calling the Shots: My Autobiography

By Sue Barker

I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside Saddam's Regime

By Pauline Knowles-Samarraie, Karen O'Brien

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott

City of Secrets: The Extraordinary True Story of the Woman Who Found Herself at the Heart of the Grail

By Patrice Chaplin

I Choose Myself

By Deepti Vempati

The Lies We Told

By Chamberlain, Diane, Diane Chamberlain

Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

By Kathleen Norris

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

By Baroness Catherine Ashton

Gigorou: It's time to reclaim beauty. First Nations wisdom and womanhood.

By Sasha Sarago

My Father's Daughter: A Memoir

By Tina Sinatra, Jeff Coplon

Dear Dodie: Life of Dodie Smith

By Valerie Grove

Girl, Interrupted

By Susanna Kaysen

The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories

By Katie Fforde

Living History

By Hilary Rodham Clinton

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

By Joanna Biggs

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

By Nadia Wassef

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

By Janice Hadlow

Passing

By Nella Larsen

The Girl with No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys

By Chapman, Marina, James, Vanessa

The Thing Around Your Neck

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie