Woman: The American History of an Idea
By: Lillian Faderman
4.36
Format: 600 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the…
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1. Daisy Miller
By: Henry James
3.37
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South les… read more
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"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her."-Henry James, Daisy Miller
"The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma"-Henry James, Daisy Miller
2. Open City
By: Teju Cole
4.00
Format: 45 pages, Hardcover
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The … read more
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3. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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- politics
- history
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
4. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
5. Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
By: Jenni Nuttall
3.82
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language--and what we can l… read more
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6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- feminism
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7. Women & Power: A Manifesto
By: Mary Beard
4.03
Format: 115 pages, Hardcover
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly att… read more
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"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto
8. Dolls of Our Lives
By: Mary Mahoney
3.53
Format: None pages, None
For Feiwel & Friends, Kat Brzozowski bought world rights to a currently untitled book by Allison Ho… read more
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9. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
10. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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- lgbt
- gender
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- gender and sexuality
- audiobook
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
11. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.40
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resis… read more
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"Якщо ніхто з нас не готовий загинути за свободу, усі ми загинемо під тиранією."-Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
"Люди, які запевняють вас, що безпека можлива лише коштом свободи, зазвичай хочуть забрати у вас і безпеку, і свободу."-Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
"Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive."-Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
12. Sylvia's Second Act
By: Hillary Yablon
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore… read more
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13. How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
By: Regan Penaluna
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential … read more
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- feminism
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- womens
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14. The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
By: Kim Foster
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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15. Female Husbands: A Trans History
By: Jen Manion
4.01
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women w… read more
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16. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
By: Jennifer Wright
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more
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17. When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
By: Maureen Quilligan
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Library Journal • "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" Sixteenth-century Europe w… read more
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"In a short six weeks, the “Northern Rebellion,"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Although these were not necessarily gifts Mary consciously gave to Elizabeth, as the first independent queen of England it was she who established a powerful rhetoric for female rule, which Elizabeth…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Mary Stuart and Elizabeth both aimed at toleration in an intolerant age, in the same ways that Catherine de’ Medici, the mother-in-law of one and the almost mother-in-law of another English queen, la…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Because [Michel de Castelnau] had been charged with making peace between [Mary Stuart] and her barons, he ignored Mary’s adamant insistence on how anti-monarchal she considered the rebel lords to be;…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
18. Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
By: Katie Hickman
4.15
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American frontier as readily as rye grass from sod, and … read more
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19. The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
By: Susannah Gibson
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life … read more
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20. Woman: The American History of an Idea
By: Lillian Faderman
4.36
Format: 600 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the… read more
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