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• Born to Lead

  Extraordinary Women Who Shaped World History

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  Strong and powerful women have the strength to take risks, learn from failure, recognize opportunity and shoulder responsibility. They have the courage to fight for what they believe in and not to give up, no matter how hard the challenge…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women in the Valley of the Kings

  the Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

  Sheppard, Kathleen, 1979-

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  The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the so-called Golden Age…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brave Hearted

  the Women of the American West 1836-1880

  Hickman, Katie,

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  Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them so poor they walked the entire route;…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

  The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

  Howes, Hetta

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  Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife charts the lives and times of four medieval women writers—Marie de France, a poet; Julian of Norwich, a mystic and anchoress; Christine de Pizan, a widow and court writer; and Margery Kempe, a no-good wife—who all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bones of Birka

  Unraveling the Mystery of a Female Viking Warrior

  Surrisi, C. M.,

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  How many female Viking warriors does it take to make a fact? When archaeologist Dr. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson discovers that the bones contained in the most significant Viking warrior grave ever opened are in fact female, she and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lady and the Octopus

  How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

  Staaf, Danna,

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  Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Agent Most Wanted

  the Never-before-told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II

  Purnell, Sonia,

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  The Gestapo is urgently chasing the person they have declared to be the "most dangerous spy" working for the Allies. But she keeps evading them... This the never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, an American spy who changed the course of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girls to the Front

  40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail

  Mata, Nina, 1981-

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  From the big stage to the US Navy, from laboratories to the boardroom, from the Olympics to the pages in books, these girls and women lead every line. Bold, bright, and empowering profiles by Geisel Honor–winning and #1 New York Times…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Six

  the Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

  Grush, Loren,

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  When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots—a group women were also aggressively barred from—had the right stuff. But as the 1980s dawned so…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daring Women of D-day

  Bold Spies of World War II

  Breach, Jen,

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  An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a…Read moreRead more of this annotation