Female Authors Who Made History | Biography
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World (Women in History Book, Book of Women Who Changed the World)
- ASIN: 1452153930
- ISBN: 9781452153933
- Brand: Chronicle
- Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Looking for coffee table books that do more than look great on your table? Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, delivers on both counts. Featuring 100 women who made history, it's a book you can be proud to display in your home.Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, women's rights activis... [Read More]
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Educated: A Memoir
- ASIN: 0399590501
- Brand: Random House
- Manufacturer: Random House
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S AWARD IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY • FIN... [Read More]
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
- ASIN: 073522529X
- ISBN: 073522529X
- Manufacturer: Viking
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The Nightingale: A Novel
- UPC: 753922637631
- ASIN: 1250080401
- ISBN: 1250080401
- Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
- Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. France, 1939 - In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't ... [Read More]
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The Lyra Novels: Shadow Magic, Daughter of Witches, The Harp of Imach Thyssel, Caught in Crystal, and The Raven Ring
- ASIN: B0092G1BOC
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
“High-style fantasy and adventure” in the complete Lyra series by the author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles (The New York Times).Shadow Magic: While Alkyra’s noblemen squabble, an ancient enemy, the Lithmern, raises an army. And as the head of the Noble House of Brenn attempts to organize an alliance, the princess Alethia celebrates her t... [Read More]
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Pantheon Graphic Library)
- ASIN: 037571457X
- ISBN: 037571457X
- Brand: Pantheon
- Manufacturer: Pantheon
A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year” A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her l... [Read More]
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Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America
- ASIN: 0385425120
- ISBN: 0385425120
- Manufacturer: Anchor
A leading feminist activist, author, and nationally known lecturer writes of her struggle to integrate a feminist head with a Jewish heart.
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
- ASIN: 1250121973
- ISBN: 1250121973
- Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s―and without the strategy she devised, Lu... [Read More]
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Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History
- ASIN: 0399578862
- ISBN: 9780399578861
- Brand: Kate Schatz Miriam Klein Stahl
- Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
Educational and inspirational, this gift-worthy New York Times bestseller from the authors of Rad American Women A-Z, is a bold, illustrated collection of 40 biographical profiles showcasing extraordinary women from across the globe. Rad Women Worldwide tells fresh, engaging, and amazing tales of perseverance and radical success by pairing w... [Read More]
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Pirates in Peril: A Made in Savannah Cozy Mystery (Made in Savannah Cozy Mysteries Series Book 10)
- ASIN: B07DVQ8ZR3
After a friend and now business partner is suspected of attacking a competitor and leaving him for dead, Carlita and Mercedes dive in with their own investigation to help clear his name and also save their investment. Read all of Hope Callaghan's Cozy Mysteries FREE with Kindle Unlimited!"If you like clean cozy mysteries that keep you guessing unt... [Read More]
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CIRCE
- ASIN: 0316556343
- ISBN: 0316556343
- Brand: Little, Brown and Company
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times).In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But ... [Read More]
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The Island of Sea Women: A Novel
- ASIN: 1501154850
- ISBN: 1501154850
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the... [Read More]
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
- ASIN: 0374537437
- ISBN: 0374537437
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA New York Times Notable Book of 2017The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully... [Read More]
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- ASIN: 0061120065
- ISBN: 0061120065
- Brand: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Manufacturer: Amistad
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Wa... [Read More]
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Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)
- ASIN: 1452152365
- ISBN: 1452152365
- Brand: CHRONICLE
- Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 brilliant female artists in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an e... [Read More]
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In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs
- ASIN: B01BEGV5DY
- Manufacturer: Artisan
New York Times Bestseller “I want to rip out every page of this glorious book and hang them on my wall so that I can be surrounded by these incredible women all day long.” —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers Over 100 exceptional and influential women describe how they embraced their crea... [Read More]
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Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0140436766
- ISBN: 9780140436761
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literatu... [Read More]
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The Best of Everything
- ASIN: 0143035290
- ISBN: 0143035290
- Brand: Jaffe, Rona
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
"Sixty years later, Jaffe’s classic still strikes a chord, this time eerily prescient regarding so many of the circumstances surrounding sexual harassment that paved the way toward the #MeToo movement." -BuzzfeedWhen Rona Jaffe’s superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked,... [Read More]
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Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare's Female Characters
- ASIN: 0307745341
- ISBN: 0307745341
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage
Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early comedies, by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little things with no independence of thought. The women of the history plays are much more in... [Read More]
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali
- ASIN: 1577664353
- ISBN: 9781577664352
- Brand: Waveland Press
- Manufacturer: Waveland Press
What is it like to live and work in a remote corner of the world and befriend a courageous midwife who breaks traditional roles? Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Mali Midwife is the inspiring story of Monique Dembele, an accidental midwife who became a legend, and Kris Holloway, the young Peace Corps volunteer who became her closest co... [Read More]
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