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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In a display case in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley's Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love, passed down through generations. In 1850s... |
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The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
Dorothy Wickenden
Format: Hardcover
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Harriet Tubman - no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient, and strategically brilliant - was one of the most important conductors on the underground railroad and hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basement kitchens of Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances... |
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
Olivia Campbell
Format: Hardcover(Original)
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For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care. In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from... |
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Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
Mayukh Sen - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers.Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants,... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction
Julie Klam - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the twentieth century the sisters' parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie... |
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One Life
Megan Rapinoe - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Megan Rapinoe is one of the world's most talented athletes. But beyond her massive professional success on the soccer field, Rapinoe has become an icon and ally to millions, boldly speaking out on the issues that matter most. In recent years, she's become one of the faces of the equal... |
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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Julia Cooke - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, ajet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5’3" and 5’9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years... |
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Kamala's Way: An American Life
Dan Morain
Format: Hardcover
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There's very little that's conventional about Kamala Harris, and yet her personal story also represents the best of America. She grew up the eldest daughter of a single mother, a no-nonsense cancer researcher who emigrated from India at the age of nineteen in search of a better... |
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All In: An Autobiography
Billie Jean King - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career--six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby... |
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy... |
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The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters
Rachel Trethewey - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill girls - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in another family, they were Churchills, and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From their father - 'the greatest Englishman'... |
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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished,... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARDThe phenomenal... |
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Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
Anne Sebba - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware... |
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Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit
John Boessenecker - Hanover Square Press; Original edition
Format: Hardcover
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The little-known story of Pearl Hart, the most famous female bandit in the American West. On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disguised as a man, held up a stagecoach in Arizona and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A manhunt ensued as word of her heist spread, and Pearl... |
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Bookclub Selection - May/June 2018"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark... |
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Michelle Duster
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Winner of a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862. In this inspiring and accessible biography, Duster tells the incredible story of Wells's life, including stories from her childhood in Mississippi, her famous refusal... |
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A Woman's Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers
HANNAH KIMBERLEY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes... |
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Visionary Women
Andrea Barnet - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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Four influential women we thought we knew well - Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters - and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women - linked not by friendship... |
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Lisa Evans - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until now.Women... |
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Just As I Am
Cicely Tyson - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer, Cicely Tyson, tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life. |
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Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
ALISON WEIR - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare - but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and moralizing. Now, in the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author and esteemed biographer... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know... |
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Eleanor
David Michaelis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired... |
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Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
KEITH O'BRIEN - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s - and won Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multiday events, and cities... |
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
KARA COONEY - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in ancient... |
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Matthew Goodman - Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLEROn November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day - and heading in the opposite... |
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Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Susan Ware - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, an acclaimed historian gives voice to the thousands of women from different backgrounds, races, and religions whose local passion and protest resounded throughout the land.For far too long, the history of how American women... |
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
Amy Shira Teitel - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Spaceflight historian and creator of YouTube's "Vintage Space" Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.A book that will appeal to readers of Fly Girls and The Astronaut Wives' Club,... |
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Personal History
Katharine Graham - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAn extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of Americas most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history.It is the story of Grahams parents the multimillionaire... |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells... |
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Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Andrew Morton
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the New York Times bestselling author of 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle... |
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Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Jeffrey H. Jackson - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women, Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute "paper bullets" - wicked... |
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The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England's "Maids for Virginia"
Jennifer Potter - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Jamestown, England's first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger -- from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates were impossibly high: Six out of seven settlers died within the first few years. How clear... |
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My life on the road
Gloria Steinem - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gloria Steinem--writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader--tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change. ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED... |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang - Touchstone
Format: Paperback
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The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history - a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An... |
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Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
Marianne Monson - Shadow Mountain
Format: Print book
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Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. As a slave, Clara watched helpless as her husband and children were sold, only to be reunited with her youngest daughter, as a free woman, six decades... |
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Book Of Ages
Jill Lepore - Thorndike Press
Format: Large Print Hardcover
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A National Book Award FinalistLike her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve. Making use of an amazing cache of little-studied material, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin... |
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My Beloved World
Sonia Sotomayor - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey... |
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The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography
Hilary Holladay
Format: Hardcover
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.Adrienne Rich was the female face of American poetry for decades. Her forceful, uncompromising writing has more than stood the test of time, and the life of the woman behind the words is equally impressive. Motivated by personal revelations, Rich transformed herself from a traditional,... |
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My own words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Simon & Schuster
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"The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words... |
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Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Madeleine Albright - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright - one of the world's most admired and tireless public servants - reflects on the final stages of one's career, and working productively into your later decades in this revealing, funny, and inspiring... |
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Anne Frank - Doubleday
Format: Book
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The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring... |
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Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Lyndall Gordon - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's... |
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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Keisha N. Blain - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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"We have a long fight and this fight is not mine alone, but you are not free whether you are white or black, until I am free." - Fannie Lou HamerA blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice.... |
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Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
Dolly Parton - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend.As told by Dolly Parton in her own inimitable words, explore the songs that have defined her journey. Illustrated throughout with previously... |
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Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
Lisa Napoli - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism where a woman might be lucky to get a foothold... |
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Pelosi
Molly Ball - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by award-winning political journalist Molly BallShe's the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president... |
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The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel - Viking
Format: Print book
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New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR,... |
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Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
Celia Stahr - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know todayMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit,... |
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Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
JULIA BAIRD - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen - a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak,... |
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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline
Loretta Lynn - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The Nashville version of Just Kids or Girls Like Us,ME & PATSY shares the never-before-told story of the remarkable relationship between legendary country queen Patsy Cline and country music icon Loretta Lynn.Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters... |
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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
Julia Sweig - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White House under the worst of circumstances--following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--he had to decide whether to run to win the presidency in his own right. He turned... |
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The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame, and Mystery
Robert Weintraub - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The story of 1930s tennis icon Alice Marble, and her life of sports, celebrity, and incredible mystery. Who was Alice Marble? In her public life, she was the biggest tennis star of the pre-war era, a household name like Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis. She was famous for overcoming serious... |
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Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty
J. Randy Taraborrelli
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only First Ladies Barbara and Laura, but other colorful women whose stories have been left out of history for far too long, including Barbara's mother-in-law, the formidable... |
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The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
Various - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices... |
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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
Debby Applegate - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite... |
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Agatha Christie: A Mysterious life
LAURA THOMPSON - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant... |
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The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World
Janice Kaplan - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses are almost always men? New York Times bestselling journalist Janice Kaplan explores the powerful forces that have rigged the system - and celebrates the women geniuses past and present... |
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
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Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative... |
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Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Sonia Purnell - Viking
Format: Print book
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"Sonia Purnell has at long last given Clementine Churchill the biography she deserves. Sensitive yet clear-eyed, Clementine tells the fascinating story of a complex woman struggling to maintain her own identity while serving as the conscience and principal adviser to one of the most... |
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Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fiona Sampson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A "nuanced and insightful" (New Statesman) portrait of Britain's most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times."How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic... |
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My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
Katherine Johnson - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change.In 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine... |
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