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The astronaut wives club : a true story
by Lily Koppel

Describes what lives were like for a group of military wives, including Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Betty Grissom and Louise Shepherd, who were thrust into the spotlight when their husbands became Mercury Seven astronauts and made them stars.
Black hole blues : and other songs from outer space
by Janna Levin

In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now, Janna Levin, herself an astrophysicist, recounts the story of the search, over the last fifty years, for these elusive waves--a quest that has culminated in the creation of the most expensive project ever funded by the National Science Foundation.
The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
by Denise Kiernan

Traces the unknown contributions of tens of thousands of women residents of the Manhattan Project's then-secret city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, whose uranium-enriching jobs in support of the Project were shrouded in secrecy and whose legacy is still being felt today.
The glass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars
by Dava Sobel

Shares the lesser-known story of the scientific contributions of a group of women working at the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-20th century, tracing their collection of star observations captured nightly on glass photographic plates that enabled extraordinary discoveries.
Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
by Rachel Swaby

These profiles of Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed and the discoveries for which they're best known.
Lab girl
by Hope Jahren

A debut memoir by an award-winning paleobiologist traces her childhood in her father's laboratory, her longtime relationship with a brilliant but wounded colleague and the remarkable discoveries they have made both in the lab and during extensive field research assignments.
Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars
by Nathalia Holt

Traces the pivotal achievements of the elite female science recruits at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where in the mid-20th century they transformed rocket design and enabled the creations of the first American satellites.
Space race : the epic battle between America and the Soviet Union for dominion of space
by Deborah Cadbury

From the author of Dreams of Iron and Steel comes a fascinating account of the competition between the Americans and Soviets for control of outer space, focusing on two brilliant and ambitious scientists--Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev--who fueled it.
We could not fail : the first African Americans in the space program
by Richard Paul

Profiles ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrated the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. They recount how these technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate surmounted barriers to move, in some cases literally, from the cotton fields to the launching pad. Adding new names to the roster of civil rights heroes and a new chapter to the story of space exploration, We Could Not Fail demonstrates how African Americans broke the color barrier by competing successfully at the highest level of American intellectual and technological achievement.
The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies
by Jason Fagone

Describes the true story of Elizebeth Smith, a Shakespeare expert, who met and married a groundbreaking cryptologist and worked with him to discover and expose Nazi spy rings in South America by cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine.
Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history
by Sam Maggs

The best-selling author of The Fangirl¡s Guide to the Galaxy presents a fun and feminist look at the brilliant, brainy and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers and inventors, along with interviews with real-life women in STEM careers.
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