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American Jezebel : The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans

By LaPlante, Eve

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)

By Ung, Loung

The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs

By Albright, Madeleine

Frida Kahlo The Paintings

By Herrera, Hayden

The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage

By Hanauer, Cathi

Shadows of a Princess: Diana, Princess of Wales

By Jephson, P. D.

Devotion: A Memoir

By Shapiro, Dani

The One Hundred: An A-to-Z Guide to the 100 Items Every Stylish Woman Must Own

By Nina Garcia

The Tattoo Chronicles (Kat Von D)

By Von D, Kat

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

By Byrne, Paula

Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women

By Gross, Michael

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

By Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

By Gay, Roxane

Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Shetterly, Margot Lee

Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman's Recovery and the Shelter Dogs Who Loved Her Back to Life

By Kopp, Shannon

Chelsea Girls

By Myles, Eileen

It's Messy: On Boys, Boobs, and Badass Women

By de Cadenet, Amanda

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

By Gay, Roxane

Jane Doe January: My Twenty-Year Search for Truth and Justice

By Winslow, Emily

Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage

By Shinoda Bolen, Jean

On Women Turning Fifty: Celebrating Mid-Life Discoveries

By Rountree, Cathleen

Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World

By Watts, Shannon

Iris Murdoch Biography

By Wilson, A. N.

Joan Of Arc

By Poole, Josephine, Barrett, Angela

Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War

By Drakulic, Slavenka

Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5

By Rimington, Stella

All The King's Women

By Wilson, Derek

Another Hour On A Sunday Morning

By Scheeres, Julia, Julia Scheeres

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

By Reichl, Ruth

Autobiography Of A One Year Old

By Candappa, Rohan