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Wild girls : how the outdoors shaped the women who challenged a nation
by Tiya Miles
In this beautiful, meditative work, an award-winning historian profiles trailblazing women of all races in the 19th and 20th centuries who acted on their confidence in the natural world, bringing new context to misunderstood icons and underappreciated figures. Illustrations.
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Scandalous women : the lives and loves of history's most notorious women
by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
A professional actress, blogger and amateur history buff tells the stories of famous female risk takers who defied convention and beat the odds to make history, including Cleopatra, scientist Emilie du Châtelet and NAACP founder Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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The doctors Blackwell : how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
by Janice P. Nimura
"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male medical establishment and in 1849 she became the firstwoman in America to receive a medical degree. But Elizabeth's story is incomplete without her often forgotten sister, Emily, the third woman in America to receive a medical degree. Exploring the sisters' allies, enemies and enduring partnership, Nimura presents a story of both trial and triumph: Together the sisters' founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary; they were also judgmental, uncompromising, and occasionally misogynistic--their convictions as 19th-century women often contradicted their ambitions. From Bristol, England, to the new cities of antebellum America, this work of rich history follows the sister doctors as they transform the nineteenth century medical establishment and, in turn, our contemporary one"
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God Save the Queens : The Essential History of Women in Hip-hop
by Kathy Iandoli
Paying tribute to the women of hip-hop, and exploring issues of gender, money, sexuality, violence, objectification and more, this important and monumental work of music journalism finally gives these influential artists the respect they have long deserved. 75,000 first printing.
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The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times
by Michelle Obama
Drawing from personal experiences, the former first lady—and the #1 best-selling author of Becoming—offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the potential and progress around us.
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Chess queens : the true story of a chess champion and the greatest female players of all time
by Jennifer Shahade
"What does it take to make it to the top of your game? As a chess champion, Jennifer Shahade has travelled the world playing major tournaments. At the top, she finds rivalry and friendship; sexism and feminism; ecstatic highs and excruciating losses. Chess Queens invites us behind the scenes of this ultra male-dominated sport. We meet today's elite, as well as the pioneering female players in history who fought against the odds to get to the top. An essential guide for all aspiring chess queens, Jennifer's story reveals what it takes to break through the glass ceiling"
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My name is Barbra
by Barbra Streisand
In her own words, the living legend tells the story of her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in NY nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. Illustrations.
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Renegade women in film & TV
by Elizabeth Weitzman
In the wake of the "Me Too" movement, an illustrated celebration of 50 women in the entertainment industry who broke the glass ceiling—including Lucille Ball, Oprah Winfrey, Thelma Schoonmaker and Frances Marion—highlights their accomplishments. (performing arts).
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Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
by Laura Thompson
The award-winning author of The Six offers a portrait of the iconic mystery writer that shares insights into her Edwardian youth, her marriages, her relationship with her daughter and her mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926.
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Liar, temptress, soldier, spy : four women undercover in the Civil War
by Karen Abbott
Drawing from primary source material and interviews, the author weaves together the adventures of four courageous women who risked everything to become spies during the most tumultuous years of the war. By the best-selling author of Sin in the Second City. 50,000 first printing.
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The editor : how publishing legend Judith Jones shaped culture in America
by Sara B. Franklin
Based on exclusive interviews, never-before-seen personal papers and years of research, this tribute to a legendary editor reveals the audacious woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Sylvia Plath, John Updike, Anne Frank and Julie Child—changing culture mores and expectations along the way.
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Wise gals : the spies who built the CIA and changed the future of espionage
by Nathalia Holt
Meticulously researched, the New York Times best-selling author, drawing on firsthand interviews with past and present officials and declassified government documents, tells the never-before-told story of four female agents who were critical in helping to build a new organization that we now know as the CIA.
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Educated : a memoir
by Tara Westover
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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