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Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived

By Ralph Helfer

Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar

By Geoff Benge, Janet Benge

The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort-- the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal

By Alan Dershowitz

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

By Jung Chang

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

By Luce Irigaray, Gillian Gill

Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A memoir

By Jessica Fox

Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

By Queen Noor

The Good Good Pig

By Sy Montgomery

Sarah Lucas (Modern Artists)

By Matthew Collings

Nancy Wake: The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy

By Peter FitzSimons

Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women

By Jane Graham, The Big Issue

Unbowed

By Wangari Muta Maathai

History Rocks: Women in Law

By Guy Fox, Blackstone Chambers Ltd, Mari Takayanagi

Men and Women of the New Testament

By Derek Thomas

God? of course

By Aron Andersson

The Stone Diaries: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By Carol Shields, Penelope Lively

Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography

By Loraine Fletcher

The Serial Killer's Daughter (Serial Killer Series)

By Alice Hunter

The Glass Mother: A Memoir

By Rosie Jackson

Napoleon and Josephine: The Improbable Marriage

By Evangeline Bruce

Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

By Eliese Colette Goldbach

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By Joan Didion

Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

By Gillian Anderson

Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman

By Nuala O'Faolain

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

By Barbara Amiel

By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

By Charles Murray

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

By Kate Summerscale

An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Princess Vicky: Princess Vicky

By Hannah Pakula

Basketball GOATs

By Bruce Berglund

If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

By Sharon Blackie