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Bette & Joan : The Divine Feud
by Shaun Considine
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford: two of the deadliest arch-rivals of all time. Born in the same year (though Davis swore 'Crawford is five years older than me if she's a day'), the two fought bitterly throughout their long and brilliant Hollywood careers.
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The Wife's Tale: A Personal History
by Aida Edemariam
A Guardian journalist traces the life of her remarkable nonagenarian grandmother against a backdrop of the tumultuous transformations from feudalism, to monarchy, to Marxist revolution, to democracy, over the course of a century in modern Ethiopia.
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine who Launched Modern China
by Jung Chang
Presents an epic portrait of the 19th-century empress that provides coverage of the coup that rendered her regent after her father's death, her defiance of centuries of traditions and formalities and her role in introducing Western political ideas and technologies.
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Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
by Susan Quinn
An intimate account of the close relationship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok shares compassionate insights into how their more than three-decade friendship transformed their lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
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What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
by Alan Light
A biography of the beloved singer, inspired by the acclaimed Netflix documentary, explores both her public persona and her private life, including her love of classical music despite her heartbreaking rejection from that field, her successful rise in the world of soul and her civil rights activism. By the author of The Holy or the Broken and Let's Go Crazy.
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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History
by Pamela D Toler
Reveals how women have stepped out of traditional female roles throughout history to take up arms or assume leadership positions in transformative ways—from Britain Celtic tribe leader, Boudica, to Battle of Little Bighorn Cheyenne warrior, Buffalo Calf Road Woman.
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Power in Numbers : The Rebel Women of Mathematics
by Talithia Williams
Exploring the lives and work of history’s most preeminent female mathematicians, a fully illustrated volume serves as an affirmation of female genius and tribute to the endless applications of mathematics.
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O my America!: Six Women and their Second Acts in a New World
by Sara Wheeler
Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird, and novelist Catherine Hubback--who fled various sorts of trouble in the 19th century and came to America to start new lives.
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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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