To celebrate Women’s History Month we honor the women who not only transformed the world from behind closed doors, but made it possible for women to be a force for good in the light of day. With fresh, real stories, historical remembrance, rocky roads to recovery, radical self-help, inventive poetry, and a few fictional masterpieces, ground breaking women fill our picks for this historic month!

Unseen: A Therapist’s Reflection on a Daughter’s Journey Through a Narcissistic Father’s Shadow by Dr. Rachna Buxani

Dr. Rachna Buxani explores the unique impact of narcissistic fathers on daughters, revealing the traumas that reverberate from childhood into adulthood. Unseen is a story of transformation from shrinking submission to revolutionary agency through shedding weights of paternal neglect and igniting a deep belief in recovery and revival. This book explores how supportive treatment can change the outcome for survivors of hostile parenting.

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Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations by Dr. Jennifer Reid

Dr. Jennifer Reid delivers a refreshing take on the mental load unique to women; unlocking the social, psychological, and personal boundaries that prevent liberation from the confines of expectation. Advocating for radical change means tossing out shame and remorse to reclaim the self in mind, body, and spirit!

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Everything Lost Returns by Sarah Domet

A 1986 class action lawsuit shakes Nona Dixon’s blooming career, catapulting her into action to investigate the company responsible for her ascent: Earthshine Soap Company. Nona learns much about the owner, Bertie Tuttle and employee, Opal Doucet who may hold the answers to the tribulations currently rocking the company all the way from 1910. More was put into the makings of soap, long ago Opal infused medicinal ingredients that mended afflictions and instigated an inflammatory labor strike that shaped the brand. Past and present clash as Nona reconciles the actions of the women seventy-six years ago, scrambling to save her present day career.

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Missing Me: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis and the Long Road back by Ayana Lage

Ayana Lage’s pregnancy was typical, filled with worries about loss and prepping for all the things you need to know as a mom, but after giving birth, Lage’s mental status shifted as she descended into a psychosis postpartum. Long-held religious beliefs skewed in a mind that was no longer her own leading to an extended psychiatric stay filled with pitfalls and tentative progress towards regaining awareness. The book navigates post-psychosis life as Lage tentatively reacquaints herself, reorients her beliefs, finds solid ground and the courage to share the journey.

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We The Women: The Hidden Heroes that Shaped America by Norah O’Donnell and Kate Anderson Brower

A step closer to the truth, American history reframed to reveal the women who changed the country for the better. Disenfranchised, and a force to be reckoned with, this collection based on years of research, interviews, historical documents, and photographs unveil the rich history of women who fought for liberty, not just for women, but for all.

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The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism by Durba Mitra

The Future That Was explores female-led activism and campaigns that countered existing sexual, cultural and ideological oppression in Third World nations. From South Asia, to Africa, and all the way to the Caribbean, Durba Mitra reveals the radical female-driven movements that inspired social change and awareness through the tireless efforts of women in the 1970s, efforts that still reverberate today.

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Pinky Swear by Danielle Gerard

A traumatic event shatters Lexi and Mara’s high school friendship, but when Mara returns a decade and a half later asking for shelter from a toxic relationship, Lexi lets bygones be bygones. The girls settle into a revitalized friendship leading to Mara becoming Lexi’s surrogate. But, mere days before the due date, Mara vanishes and with her, Lexi’s unborn baby. Old wounds resurface as Lexi travels far and wide to find the truth and to save her child.

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Motherfaker by Anna Brook-Mitchell

All is well for small island resident Barri Brown until she wakes to discover that not only has her husband left, but he drained their life savings. Barri concocts a plan born of desperation and a fervent need for a new beginning when she fakes a pregnancy for the opportunity to leave behind Guernsey under the guise of a faked maternity leave that provides ample funds to carve out a new life off island. The tenuous plot dips as she forges new relationships that make her reconsider emigration.

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Maybe the Body by Asa Drake

Asa Drake’s poetry considers the shaping forces of ideological, societal, political, and environmental noise that stunts liberative artistic expression. Spanning cross countries and generational divides, Maybe the Body reconciles the complexities of the world in the present day.

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The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu

Eleanor’s existence has been defined by her mother and she much prefers the backseat approach to life. While focusing on her career as a therapist, she leaves the rest in her mother’s capable hands. When her mother dies, grief-stricken, she decides to honor her mother’s dying wish to use the inheritance to purchase a house. A place of refuge becomes a natural disaster as the house crumbles under a deluge of rain. Raw and exposed, Eleanor must find a way to survive as house and mind decline into a state of ruin.

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