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Miss giardino
A unique psychological portrait of an urban working-class teacher, and the dynamics of teaching itself.
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Movements: liat yossifor
Named an "Artist to Watch" in 2016 by Modern Painters Magazine, this is Israeli born, LA-based Liat Yossifor's first monograph.
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Moving the mountain
Florence Luscomb campaigned for suffrage early in the century and worked for social change. Ella Baker was a civil rights organizer for over fifty years. Jessie Lopez De La Cruz, a lifelong farmworker, was the first woman to organize in the fields for the United Farmworkers. These vivid oral hist...
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My belly
If my hatred of my belly was a person, she would be old enough to have completed a lengthy education and given me grandchildren.An unflinching and feminist portrait of one woman’s obsession with her belly and the cultural and social norms that feed that obsession––for readers of Nora Ephron’s cla...
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My body is a book of rules
In My Body Is a Book of Rules, Elissa Washuta corrals the synaptic gymnastics of her teeming bipolar brain, interweaving pop culture with neurobiology and memories of sexual trauma to tell the story of her fight to calm her aching mind and slip beyond the tormenting cycles of memory.
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My brilliant friends
My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women’s bonds.
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My what if year
A People Magazine “Best New Book” “Hailed as the next Eat, Pray, Love” —CNN InternationalAn exuberant, hilarious memoir about a woman who pauses her successful career for a year and explores the “What If” jobs of her dreams.DELIGHTFULLY IRREVERENT, My What If Year recounts the adventures of a suc...
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Narrative of sojourner truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the memoir of an African-American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the early 1800s
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Nathalie sarraute
The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europ...
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Nine moons
Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2020From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.Women play all the time with the great power...
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One body: a retrospective
Nominated in Scotland’s National Book AwardsIn this searing, frank and funny memoir, Catherine Simpson describes what it’s been like to live in her woman’s body, and to reach the realisation that all that time she’d spent trying to change her body to conform - often to unattainable standards - co...
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One step sideways, three steps forward
The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps—not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology. In this engaging and moving ...
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Paddling my own canoe
An Epic Memoir of an Intrepid Solo Adventurer, a Woman Who Lived by the Philosophy "Go Simple, Go Solo, Go Now"
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Phyllis schlafly and grassroots conservatism
Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. In this provocative new book, historian Donald T. Critchlow sheds new light on Schlafly's life and on the unappreciated role her grassroots activism played in transf...
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Portraits of chinese women in revolution
Agnes Smedley, author of Daughter of Earth, worked in and wrote about China from 1928 to 1941. These 18 piecesall out of print and most unavailable even in public librariesare based on interviews with revolutionary women. They include descriptions of the massacre of feminists in the Canton comm...
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Queen of the court
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais, the dramatic and colorful story of legendary tennis star and international celebrity, Alice Marble In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by the famed Alfred Eisenstaedt. She was a glamorous worldwi...
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Radiation diaries
Exquisitely written diary of radiation treatment for pelvic cancers that delves into literary consciousness, feminism, memory and an unquiet past.
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Radical
Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a “voice . . . speaking with full freedom” (Wall Street Journal), which has made her one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation. She is the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Nine Continents and a Granta Best Young British Nove...
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Rape new york
A true story of sexual violence, a corrupt property market, and the fight for justice.
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Red wave
A memoir by an American who almost single-handedly introduced Soviet rock to the free world, [...] Stingray, who wrote this memoir with her daughter, Madison, nicely captures her daring amid an atmosphere of liberation and fear, and she's a study in moxie and enthusiasm.—Kirkus ReviewsAs one of t...
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Remembering shanghai
In the tradition of Wild Swans, this fully illustrated, multi-generational memoir is at once a thrilling journey and a dazzling time capsule of Shanghai during a period of dramatic political and cultural change.
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Residual
Writing alongside the specter of premature death, Tisa Bryant traces the contours of Black women’s interior lives and domestic spaces through meditations on literature, cinema, installations, and archival research to reaffirm her own way of being.In the long aftermath of her mother’s death, Tisa ...
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Season of the body
A memoir in essay form, with the body as its central reference point.
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Self-portrait in green
Who are the green women? They are powerful (one is a disciplinarian teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost). They are seductive (one marries her best friend’s father). And they are unbearably personal (one is the author’s own mother).They are all aspects of their creator: ...
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She changed the nation
An important new biography of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South to serve in CongressDuring her keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic Party convention, Barbara Jordan of Texas stood before a rapt audience and reflected on where Americans stood in that bicentennial year. “Are we ...
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Sinkhole
Finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book AwardA sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family.In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a distur...
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Sister of the road
Long before Jack Kerouac went on the road, Boxcar Bertha was riding the rails.
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Something, not nothing
A poignant graphic memoir about the power of art to transform and heal after the death of a loved one In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a ...
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Spring and autumn annals
Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary of her passing.In the autumn of 1964, Dian...
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Still alive
The acclaimed Holocaust memoir declared "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight." LA Times
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Stolen family
Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie’s abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.
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Streets
An authentic, humorous, and realistic memoir of the Jewish immigrant Lower East Side during the very early 20th century.
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Swell
Sailing Ten Years and 20,000 Miles In Search of Surf and Self
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Tastes like war
A powerful account of a Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history to understand her mother's schizophrenia.
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Teresa, my love
Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love follows Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting her life.
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The answer is in the wound
“Lyrical and brutal, intimate and culturally relevant. I’ve never read anything like it.”—Maggie SmithAn intimate, linked, lyrical essay collection focusing on the longer-lasting effects of trauma and PTSD on survivors—challenging a culture in which violence against women is normalized and illumi...
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The bearded lady project
Challenging persistent gender biases in the sciences, the Bearded Lady Project puts the spotlight on underrepresented geoscientists in the field and in the lab. This book pairs portraits of these scientists after donning fake beards with personal essays in which they tell their stories.
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The body papers
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant WritingWinner of the Massachusetts Book Award for NonfictionGrace Talusan’s critically acclaimed memoir The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigran...
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The communicating vessels
For the first time available in English, two portraits of grief by Friederike Mayröcker, one of the significant European writers of our time. Friederike Mayröcker met Ernst Jandl in 1954, through the experimental Vienna Group of German writers and artists. It was an encounter that would alter th...
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The danger to be sane
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE MOST ANTICIPATED OF 2026 - New York Times・Publishers Weekly・The Millions “An ebullient examination of madness, mortality, suicide.”—Chris Kraus A dazzling journey into the eccentric, troubled, and luminous minds that shaped literature. In this bold and deeply resear...
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The day nina simone stopped singing
The wild ride of a young woman’s sexual rebellion in war-torn Beirut.
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The diary of elizabeth drinker
The journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective. Drinker wrote in her diary nearly continuously between 1758 and 1807, from two years before her marria...
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The green butterfly
To the older generations in her native Slovakia, Hana Ponická is well known for her successful children’s books and courageous fight against the communist regime. This political biography is the first ever written about Ponická, despite her being a household name in Slovakia.
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The insider
Virginia C. Gildersleeve was the most influential dean of Barnard College, which she led from 1911 to 1947. In this biography, historian Nancy Woloch explores Gildersleeve’s complicated career in academia and public life.
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The key to everything
An intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American poetMay Swenson (1913–1989) was one of the most important and original poets of the twentieth century. The Key to Everything is a biography of this experimental American modernist that draws directly from her unpublished diaries and her lette...
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The last goldfish
In this intimate portrait of a friendship between two young women, Lahey reflects on cancer and coming of age.
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