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Bestselling author Sanjay Gupta delivers an emotionally raw, deeply loving memoir about the wild history and the complex character who made him: a mother who survived the largest forced human migration in history to become the first female engineer hired at the Ford Motor Company. The Light...

True stories of strength and spirit from Australian women who served across a century of war Throughout Australia’s history, women have willingly and courageously stepped into the chaos of war, defying societal expectations and establishing a turning point in our national and military history...

In her deeply inspiring memoir, the ultrarunner who covered more than fifty miles a day on the Appalachian Trail for forty straight days tells the story of her gutsy, transcendent, and record-shattering odyssey. Tara Dower shocked the endurance running community when she set what’s referred to...

The radical, bold, and timelessly free life of America’s first and only openly gay First Lady could not stay forgotten for long Rose Cleveland—sister of President Grover—was the United States’ first and only openly gay First Lady, and that’s only about the fifth-most-interesting thing...

Every life has many doors and any novel that tells of breakdown must draw us through to unexpected places; places of fear, intensity and muddled thought, but also of what feels to me – in retrospect - like a sort of shimmering that vibrates on through the rest of life when the experience is...

Hookbone is the name of a remote farm on a hill where Eleanor Ashburn spent her childhood – a world of well-bred depravity. Here, there were no rules except enunciation, manners and who could hit the hardest. One of six surviving children, she was left to roam the countryside unsupervised...

Madeleine Smithberg, co-creator and original executive producer of The Daily Show, takes readers on a VIP backstage tour as she relives some of the most seminal moments in late-night comedy. For more than four decades, Madeleine Smithberg helped shape the world of late-night comedy from behind...

A Boston Globe journalist reframes the pressures of midlife and maps a more fulfilling way forward for Gen X and Millennial women. When Kara Baskin found herself losing her mom while working full time and caring for young children, she sought out a book that would put her experience—which hit...

From Stephanie Land, critically acclaimed author of bestselling memoirs Maid and Class, a series of autobiographical essays based on the bureaucratic forms that shaped her life. An exploration of the trauma of poverty and finding hope in the face of an American system increasingly devoid of...

Where are the women writers? Has their work been lost to history? Or did it ever exist at all? Were there really women writing in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries? (Or indeed, in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth?) And were any of them any good? Many people have a hard time naming a...

The extraordinary life of the pioneering New York Times architecture critic who changed how Americans saw our cities. For fifty years, Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013) was the preeminent writer on architecture in America and a passionate voice in defense of civic beauty and the public good. The...

A devastating and exhilarating memoir about the re-emergence of memory after sexual violence, recovery and rebuilding a life Rosie Price was twenty-three, starting a life and a career in London, when her world was turned upside down by the re-emergence of a memory of rape. As she tried to piece...

Shortlisted for the Booker, the Whitbread Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction, Shena Mackay has been one of the UK's most fascinating writers for over sixty years Born in Edinburgh, she grew up in Kent and came to fame before she was twenty when she published Dust Falls on Eugene...

From bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson, this is the inspiring tale of Marie Curie, the passionate scientist who pushed through all obstacles to set the stage for the modern world. The only person in history to win Nobel prizes in two different sciences, Marie Curie ushered in the 20th...

The fascinating, never-before-told story of Arcangela Tarabotti, a 17th century Venetian nun who set the European literary world alight, advocating for women and combatting misogyny in her time. Set amid the extravagance of 17th-century Venice, Arcangela unearths the biography of an iconoclastic...

Women’s work is calling. Will you answer the phone? Throughout the mid-twentieth century, female telephone operators did far more than connect calls. Their voices soothed the anxieties of the modern age—charming infatuated suitors, informing curious residents, and providing life-saving...

A tender, hopeful book that pierces through the seemingly insurmountable doom of our existential climate threat, allowing us a window into another world through stories of tenacious, inspiring approaches to restoration and repair across the globe The Past and Possible World explores how to...

From the author of the critically acclaimed Some of My Best Friends (a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year) comes a brilliant, incisive, and unforgettable memoir that illuminates one of the most significant archetypes in our culture—the mentor—and the dynamics it breeds. Tajja Isen was...

A lively, propulsive chronicle that reframes a familiar period in ancient history, a time of great political and social turmoil—the end of the Roman Republic—asking a simple question: what did Rome’s civil wars look like from the women’s point of view? Previous histories of Rome have...