Strong Women’s Voices in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

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A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.“Tayari Jones’s storytelling washed over me like a trip back home . . . Kin is a masterpiece of a novel that will live with you long after you turn the last page.”—Oprah Winfrey

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Cleopatra tells her own story in this evocative and sensuous historical epic from the bestselling and award-winning author of Faebound and The Final Strife.

“Enchanting, smart, and subversive—this is El-Arifi’s masterpiece.”—R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis

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The New York Times bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman’s cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in.

“Semple has created something rare in Go Gentle: a story that’s both deeply intellectual and still accessible. This novel is what happens when someone who understands trauma writes about healing. Smart, funny, and devastating in a great way. Read this book.” —Jennette McCurdy, New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died and Half His Age

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For readers of Jeannette Walls, Robert Goolrick, and Sue Monk Kidd, three sisters take over their father’s Ozark Mountains moonshine business in an evocative, Prohibition-era story of reinvention, sisterhood, revenge, and the alchemy of love from the USA Today bestselling author of The Flower Sisters.

From a well-camouflaged still in the moonshine-slicked mountains of Prohibition-era Missouri, to the drink order of a Hot Springs gangster, and even the hidden depths of her own heart, a Strong woman knows how to keep a secret . . .

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How does the greatest writer of our time tell her own story?

As she explores her past, Atwood reveals more and more about her writing, the connections between real life and art—and the workings of one of our very greatest imaginations.

“The most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century–or ever.”—The Boston Globe

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A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union.

“This terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden role that women have played at every stage of our country’s history.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin

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The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for shame to “change sides.” For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story.

“An extraordinary memoir that inspires courage and compassion, but also crucially demands change . . . A Hymn to Life is truly a gift to every woman in the world, and we should thank her for her courage with all our hearts.”—Emma Thompson

Also Available in Spanish: Un himno a la vida. Mi historia
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Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.

“We’ve long known the late Toni Morrison as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and an astute cultural critic. Here we engage her as a scholar in a collection of Princeton University lectures enriched by marginalia, a beguiling testament to a prodigious mind in motion. American literature has been shaped by streams of influences from an array of continents and peoples, a ‘chaos’ of imagery and rhythms as vibrant and volatile as the nation itself. Taking stock of works from writers like Herman Melville, William Faulkner, and Gertrude Stein, Morrison probes the ‘powerful presence of Africanist personae, discourse, and narrative’ within our emerging canon.”—TIME Magazine

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