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Lead Sister : The Story of Karen Carpenter: A Times Book of the Year
O'Brien, LucyBonnier Books UK 2023When the Carpenters first toured Japan, a journalist mistakenly referred to Karen as the 'lead sister' of the band. This designation stuck and Karen liked it so much that she had a...
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Our Biggest Experiment : An Epic History of the Climate Crisis
Bell, AliceCatapult 2021Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defini...
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Pop Song : Adventures in Art & Intimacy
Pham, LarissaCatapult 2021"A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex...
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The Arctic Fury : A Novel
Macallister, GreerSourcebooks 2020A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition—and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back.Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer...
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The Daughters of Yalta : The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
Katz, Catherine GraceHarperAudio 2020 UnabridgedThe untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful r...
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The Future of Another Timeline
Newitz, AnnaleeMacmillan Audio 2019 UnabridgedLOCUS AWARD FINALIST! "A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard." —Wil Wheaton From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, come...
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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers : Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power
Doyle, SadyMelville House 2019Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop culture offers “provocative and incisive” commentary on society’s fear of female rage...
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Regretting Motherhood : A Study
Donath, OrnaNorth Atlantic Books 2017A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhood Women who...
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Trainwreck : The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear . . . and Why
Doyle, SadyMelville House 2016She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in fron...
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The Folded Clock : A Diary
Julavits, HeidiKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2015Like many young people, Heidi Julavits kept a diary. Decades later she found her old diaries in a storage bin, and hoped to discover the early evidence of the person (and writer) s...
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Princesses Behaving Badly : Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
McRobbie, Linda RodriguezQuirk Books 2013These 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story . . . Pop history meets a funny, feminist point...
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Mathis, AyanaKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes h...
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Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches
Lorde, AudreClarkson Potter/Ten Speed 2012Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this ch...
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A Woman's Story
Ernaux, AnnieSeven Stories Press 2011WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book"A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Revie...
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The Possession
Ernaux, AnnieSeven Stories Press 2011WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind...