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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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Zelda
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Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
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They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warriors, Runaways, and Renegades
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Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
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Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley, 1530 - 1603
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Passionate Minds
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Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
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England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
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Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
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Jill: A Biography of the First Lady
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
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Daphne du Maurier
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
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The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West
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Muriel Spark: The Biography
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A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
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Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life
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The Brontës
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
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Eva Braun: Life with Hitler
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Infidel
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Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives & Slaves
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Madam Secretary
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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A Room of One’s Own
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A Writer's Diary
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Geisha of Gion
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The Jezebel Effect: Why the Slut Shaming of Famous Queens Still Matters
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Cleopatra: A Life
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Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
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Agatha Christie: The Finished Portrait
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor
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The Women's Century: A Celebration of Changing Rules 1900-2000
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Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess
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Below Stairs
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Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice
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Dressed to Kill
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Henry VIII’s Wives: History in an Hour
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The Collected Dorothy Parker
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Orange Is the New Black
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Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
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Countess Dracula: The Life and Times of Elisabeth Báthory, the Blood Countess
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Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500
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Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915
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Murder on the Home Front
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Spartacus and Me: Life, love and everything in between
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Hypatia of Alexandria
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She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
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The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
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A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë
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Women and Literature in Britain, 1700–1800
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Call the Midwife (The Midwife Trilogy, #1)
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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Denial: Holocaust History on Trial – The Memoir of a Legal Battle in London That Resulted in Formal Denunciation
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"My Posse Don't Do Homework"
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Jo Cox: More in Common
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Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen
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The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Educated
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The Princess Diarist
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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What Happened
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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Becoming
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Brave
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Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women
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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Writers from Charlotte Brontë to Doris Lessing
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Unquiet Women
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Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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The Prison Doctor
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All That Remains: A Life in Death
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Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt
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Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession
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The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes
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Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 years of the best Journalism by women
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Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies
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Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh
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Caesars' Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire
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Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
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