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Women's History Month March 1st - March 31st, 2024
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Crow Mary : a novel
by Kathleen Grissom
Married to a white fur trader in 1872, a Crow Native woman has her journey to Saskatchewan interrupted when she steals two guns and saves five Nakota women who were kidnapped by drunken whiskey traders, setting off a culture war.
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Lady Tan's circle of women : a novel
by Lisa See
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in 15th-century China.
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The house of Lincoln : a novel
by Nancy Horan
An outsider in her community for as long as she can remember, Ana, in 1860s Springfield, Illinois, finds employment as a Saturday girl and household help for Abraham and Mary Lincoln where she gets a front-row seat to historic societal changes that reshape Springfield and the entire country.
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Did you hear about Kitty Karr? : a novel
by Crystal Smith Paul
After a silver screen icon dies and leaves her huge estate to three sisters, one of them discovers that the actress was really their grandmother, a black woman who had“passed” for white for over 60 years.
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The lady from Burma
by Allison Montclair
When a happily married woman asks them to find a new wife for her husband before she passes away from cancer, and then shortly thereafter is believed to have taken her own life, the proprietors of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau in post-WWII London must make sense of this strange case.
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Diva
by Daisy Goodwin
Describes the scandalous love affaire between the legendary opera singer, Maria Callas, and the fabulously rich Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, whose relationship ended suddenly with the shocking news that he was to marry Jacqueline Kennedy.
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The hungry season : a journey of war, love, and survival
by Lisa M. Hamilton
This unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California, follows one woman, with wounds inflicted by war and family alike, as she builds a new existence for her and her children by growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories.
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Undaunted : how women changed American journalism
by Brooke Kroeger
Chronicling the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, this essential history of American women in journalism, including Margaret Fuller, Ida B. Wells, Joan Didion and Cokie Roberts, discusses the huge and singular impact they have had on a vital profession still dominated by men.
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A life of one's own : nine women writers begin again
by Joanna Biggs
A divorced writer examines both her own journey toward intellectual freedom as well as those of other women writers such as Sylvia Plath, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot and Toni Morrison.
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Master slave, husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom
by Ilyon Woo
Recounts the extraordinary and harrowing true story of a young, enslaved couple who, achieving one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history, embarked on three epic journeys in one monumental bid for freedom, challenging the nation's core precepts of life, liberty and justice for all.
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Young and restless : the girls who sparked America's revolutions
by Mattie Kahn
Recounting one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution—teenage girls—an award-winning writer uncovers how they have leveraged their unique strengths to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them.
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Oath and honor : a memoir and a warning
by Liz Cheney
The House Republican leader who dared to take a stand against the January 6th insurrection, which she witnessed first-hand, and then helped lead the ensuing investigation, tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, the betrayal of the American people and the Constitution and the risks we still face.
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Ancient civilizations : women who made a difference
by Lori McManus
Tells the stories of the women who have shaped history and society since ancient times, from Pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt as a man, to military commanders Lady Hao in Tang China and Boudicca in Roman Britain, who led their people into battle.
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Cut! : how Lotte Reiniger and a pair of scissors revolutionized animation
by C. E. Winters
A picture book biography about the remarkable and often overshadowed career of Lotte Reiniger, a moviemaking pioneer, who first used her talent for hand-cutting paper silhouettes in the 1920s to create stop-motion animated movies. She invented the multiplane camera to give her animations depth of field and, with a small team, designed and directed the oldest full-length animated film in existence. Lotte eventually created approximately sixty films for movies and television
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Ida B. Wells marches for the vote
by Dinah Johnson
Painting a vivid portrait of one of the most influential civil rights leaders and her critical role in the Women's March of 1913, this picture book recounts how she worked tirelessly to fight for an America that was fair to everyone, regardless of race and gender.
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Civil rights : women who made a difference
by Janel Rodriguez
Profiles the trailblazing women who were in the forefront of the struggle to achieve equality for Black Americans, from the first attempts to end slavery in the 1800s to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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