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Hang the Moon : A Novel
Walls, JeannetteScribner 2023"A rollicking tale." —The Washington Post *"Propulsive." —Associated Press * "Wild, smart, energetic." —Los Angeles Times * "Brilliant and effervescent." —NPR From the #1 bestsel...
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Shine Bright : A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Smith, DanyelRandom House Publishing Group 2022American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women gen...
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Our Biggest Experiment : An Epic History of the Climate Crisis
Bell, AliceCatapult 2021Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defini...
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The Daughters of Yalta : The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
Katz, Catherine GraceHarperAudio 2020 UnabridgedThe untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful r...
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Legendborn
Deonn, TracyMargaret K. McElderry Books 2020An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy...
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Yale Needs Women : How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
Gardiner Perkins, AnneSourcebooks 2019WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE"Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting f...
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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers : Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power
Doyle, SadyMelville House 2019Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop culture offers “provocative and incisive” commentary on society’s fear of female rage...
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Sonia Sotomayor : A Biography
Mendoza, SylviaLerner Publishing Group 2019Arguably one of the most prominent US Supreme Court Justices at the moment, Sonia Sotomayor has paved her own way to enact profound changes and reforms, despite the obstacles that...
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The Lost Girls of Paris : A Novel
Jenoff, PamPark Row Books 2019Three women. One daring mission. 1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen...
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Radical Dharma : Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
williams, Rev. angel Kyodo; Owens, Lama Rod; Syedullah, JasmineNorth Atlantic Books 2016Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call...
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Feminism : Reinventing the F-Word
Higgins, Nadia AbushanabLerner Publishing Group 2016While most people say they believe in equal rights, the word feminism—America's new F-word—makes people uncomfortable. Explore the history of US feminism through pioneers such as E...
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Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
Woelfle, GretchenLerner Publishing Group 2014"All men are born free and equal." Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren't the only ones who believed t...
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Red Bird Sings : The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
Capaldi, Gina; Pearce, Q. L.Lerner Publishing Group 2014"I remember the day I lost my spirit." So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in Sou...
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Princesses Behaving Badly : Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
McRobbie, Linda RodriguezQuirk Books 2013These 30 true stories of take-charge princesses from around the world and throughout history offer a different kind of bedtime story . . . Pop history meets a funny, feminist point...