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Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple

By Layton, Deborah

The Illustrated Discovery Journal: Creating a Visual Autobiography of Your Authentic Self

By Ban Breathnach, Sarah

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

By Gbowee, Leymah

Whose Face is in the Mirror?: The Story of One Woman's Journey from the Nightmare of Domestic Abuse to True Healing

By Schwartz, Dianne

Beatrix Potter (Tell Me About S.)

By Malam, John

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (Little House Nonfiction)

By Anderson, WILLIAM

High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood

By Spoto, Donald

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

By Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock

Gertrude and Alice

By Diana Souhami

Conversations with Maya Angelou

By Elliot, Jeffrey

Finding the Game: Three Years, Twenty-Five Countries, and the Search for Pickup Soccer

By Oxenham, Gwendolyn

Journey to Nowhere

By Figes, Eva

Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War

By Bellinger, Vanya Eftimova

Amish Women: Lives and Stories

By Stoltzfus, Louise

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution (Gender and American Culture)

By Brown, Lois

The Bolter

By Osborne, Frances

Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China

By Nigel Cawthorne

The Windsor Knot

By Wilson, Christopher

Honest

By Ulrika Johnson

How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

By Groskop, Viv

The Woman Before Wallis: Prince Edward, the Parisian Courtesan, and the Perfect Murder

By Rose, Andrew

Thank You for this Moment: A Story of Love, Power and Betrayal

By Valérie Trierweiler, Clémence Sebag

The Mask of Command

By Keegan, Sir John

The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke

By Hayward, Steven

The Warrior Queens : Boadicea's Chariot Part One

By Antonia Fraser

Mistress of Hardwick

By Plowden, Alison

Grayson

By Cox, Dr Lynne

You Can't Have My Daughter: A true story of a mother's desperate fight to save her daughter from Oxford's sex traffickers.

By McDonnell

The Woman in the White Kimono: (A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick)

By JOHNS, Ana

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail

By Kenneth L. Holmes, David C. Duniway, Ruth Barnes Moynihan