Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution...

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Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman’s descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories. Seven of her finest are reprinted here. Written ...

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A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. ’I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fa...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf - "A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women."--The Washington Post Book World Within every woman there lives a powerful force, f...

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Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color ...A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggi...

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