Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
By: Ramie Targoff
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak…
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1. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
- audiobook
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
2. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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- feminism
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- womens
- audiobook
3. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
By: Karen Valby
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- history
- audiobook
4. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
By: Rebecca Boyle
3.95
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
5. Enlightenment
By: Sarah Perry
3.70
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- british literature
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment
6. The Tower
By: Flora Carr
3.70
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more
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7. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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- history
- historical
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- womens
- audiobook
8. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
By: Leah Redmond Chang
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more
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- audiobook
9. All Our Yesterdays: A Novel of Lady Macbeth
By: Joel H. Morris
3.72
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and piercing debut, set ten years before the events of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, about th… read more
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- historical
10. Carson McCullers: A Life
By: Mary V. Dearborn
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on … read more
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11. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
By: Owen Elliot-Kugell
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
By: Catherine Coldstream
3.71
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more
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13. The Painter's Daughters
By: Emily Howes
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more
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14. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
By: Ramie Targoff
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more
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- biography
- history
- british literature
- historical
- feminism
- nonfiction
- writing
- womens
- books about books
- audiobook
15. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
By: Amanda Jones
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- books about books
- audiobook
16. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
By: Anthony Bale
3.76
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
17. How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity
By: Jill Burke
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Beauty, make up, power: plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics *A Waterstones Best Book o… read more
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- historical
- feminism
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- womens
18. Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
By: Kathleen Sheppard
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt an… read more
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- history
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
19. Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
By: Tabitha Stanmore
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and st… read more
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- nonfiction
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20. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
By: Margalit Fox
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more
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