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Title Author Non-Fiction Title Author Non-Fiction A glorious freedom : older women leading extraordinary lives / The discoverer : Mary Baker Eddy / Parsons, Cynthia. Girl up : kick ass, claim your woman card, and Bates, Laura, crush everyday sexism / When everything changed : the amazing journey Collins, Gail. of American women from 1960 to the present / Women's letters : America from the Revolutionary War to the present / White feminism : from the suffragettes to Beck, Koa, influencers and who they leave behind / The moment of lift : how empowering women Gates, Melinda, changes the world / Here we are : feminism for the real world / Nasty women : feminism, resistance, and revolution in Trump's America / History vs women : the defiant lives that they Sarkeesian, Anita, don't want you to know / A room of one's own / Woolf, Virginia, My life on the road / Steinem, Gloria, Freedom's daughters : the unsung heroines of the Olson, Lynne. civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970 / America's working women : a documentary history, 1600 to the present / The witches : Salem, 1692 / Schiff, Stacy, My own words / Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, The glass universe : how the ladies of the Harvard Sobel, Dava, Observatory took the measure of the stars / Rise of the rocket girls : the women who Holt, Nathalia, propelled us, from missiles to the Moon to Mars / The astronaut wives club : a true story / Koppel, Lily. Full-court quest : the girls from Fort Shaw Indian Peavy, Linda S. School, basketball champions of the world / Women on high : pioneers of mountaineering / Brown, Rebecca A., Passionate minds : women rewriting the world / Pierpont, Claudia Roth. Bird Cloud : a memoir / Proulx, Annie. Something to declare / Alvarez, Julia. In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist Walker, Alice, prose / Fifty things that aren't my fault : essays from the Guisewite, Cathy, grown-up years / A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot & Midorikawa, Emily, Virginia Woolf / Women travelers : a century of trailblazing Mouchard, Christel. adventures, 1850-1950 / Leadership in turbulent times / Goodwin, Doris Kearns, The tin ticket : the heroic journey of Australia's Swiss, Deborah J. convict women / Biography The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Bell-Scott, Patricia. the struggle for social justice / Teen trailblazers : 30 fearless young women who Calvert, Jennifer, changed the world before they were 20 / All we know : three lives / Cohen, Lisa, Founding mothers : the women who raised our Roberts, Cokie. nation / D-Day girls : the spies who armed the Resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II Rose, Sarah, / Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child / Spitz, Bob. 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