The First Woman
by Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiAvailable
In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of...
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Sex and Lies
by Leila SlimaniAvailable
In these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where the law punishes and...
My Life on the Road
by Gloria SteinemAvailable
Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and one of the most inspiring leaders in the world—now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of how her early years led her to live...
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction
by Clement KnoxAvailable
When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force...
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie GarmusAvailable
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male...
The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R
by Moni MohsinAvailable
Ruby R, is an industrious student in England, aspiring to get her degree and then a job to be able restore the life and respectable status she and her mother once had in Pakistan. Enter Saif Haq, an...
The Life List
by Lori Nelson SpielmanAvailable
Brett Bohlinger seems to have it all: a plum job, a spacious loft, an irresistibly handsome boyfriend. All in all, a charmed life. That is, until her beloved mother passes away, leaving behind a will...
The Real Liddy James
by Anne-Marie CaseyAvailable
A single mother, immaculately dressed, she is one of New York City's top lawyers and seems to juggle her complicated life with ease. Despite her all-consuming work, her devastating divorce, and her...
Gather the Daughters
by Jennie MelamedAvailable
Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor The daughters of these men are...
