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  Uppity Women of the New World (Uppity Women Series)

  by Vicki Leon

  Men weren't the only explorers between the early 1500s and the 1800s. This book recounts the adventures of over 200 of history's forgotten female pioneers, including France's Jeanne Baret, the first person to circumnavigate the globe.
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  Uppity Women of the Renaissance

  by Vicki Leon

  Introducing some of history's most dangerous, outrageous, and flamboyant women, Uppity Women of the Renaissance introduces readers to ex-nun Catalina de Erauso, who dueled, drank, and cross-dressed her way through Spain and North America; Chiyome, who started a profitable business renting out female ninjas, called "deadly flowers," in 16-century Japan; and Zubayda, an Arab engineer who, when she wasn't busy... (more)
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  Uppity Women of Ancient Times

  by Vicki Leon

  In a witty and informative way, Vicki Leon profiles 150 women who made their mark around the Mediterranean between 2800 B.C. and 450 A.D.--3,200 years of history from a female vantage point. Among those featured are the Assyrian queen of Babylon who is credited with inventing trousers and the Queen of Kish who began her career as a bar owner. Photos & illustrations.
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  Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? (Vintage)

  by Molly Ivins

  Only Molly Ivins can write about redneck politics in her native Texas and the discreet charm of the Bushwazee and manage to be both brutally honest and unabashedly affectionate.
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  Having Our Say

  The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

  by Sarah Louise Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, A. Elizabeth Delaney

  A collection of humorous and inspirational quotes by a feisty pair of century-old sisters offers advice on living a long life while reflecting on the monumental changes in African-American history throughout their lifetimes. Reprint. AB.
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  Love, Loss, and What I Wore

  by Ilene Beckerman

  “Illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women. . . . This small gem of a book is worthy of a Tiffany box.” — The New York Times Book Review “A memoir every reader will wish to copy in her own size.” — Glamour “Ilene Beckerman’s sleek little memoir . . . strikes a startling chord. . . . Unsettling and oddly powerful.” — People “Surprisingly poetic.” — Entertainment Weekly “<A>... (more)
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  Sea Queens

  Women Pirates Around the World

  by Jane Yolen, Christine Joy Pratt

  Throughout the ages, women from all classes and walks of life turned to pirating out of necessity, desperation, or greed. Acclaimed author Jane Yolen examines the contradictions of these bold women's lives and times. Meet Artemisia, the admiral-queen of Persia in 500 BC; Grania O'Malley, the Irish "pirate queen" who challenged Queen Elizabeth I's British ships; Madame Ching, who sailed the South China Sea in the... (more)
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  Narrative of Sojourner Truth

  by Olive Gilbert

  This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women’s rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in pursuit of racial and sexual equality. Essential reading for students of American history.
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  Uppity Women of Medieval Times

  by Vicki Leon

  The author of Uppity Women of Ancient Times makes history sizzle once again with insightful and witty portraits and accounts of women, notorious, courageous, and unusual who both defined and defied their times. Exceptionally researched and irresistibly entertaining, Uppity Women of Medieval Times gives readers a feminist--and humorous--perspective on little-known great women of history. NPR underwriting in San... (more)
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  V I Warshawski Mysteries: Book 11

  Blacklist

  by Sara Paretsky

  Readers love sleuth V.I. Warshawski. Now she returns in a novel of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations-from one of the most compelling writers in American crime fiction.
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  The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery

  by Joann Fletcher

  Nefertiti - 'the Beautiful' - is one of Egypt's most compelling and mysterious figures. She and her controversial pharaoh husband Akhenaten lived in perhaps the most tumultuous period in the country's long history, fascinating for both the enormous changes it brought to Egypt's culture and the many mysteries surrounding it. Top Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher has taken a fresh eye to the evidence and arrived at one... (more)
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  V I Warshawski Mysteries: Book 5

  Blood Shot

  by Sara Paretsky

  Also published as Toxic ShockEveryone's favorite female detective returns in her fifth case, as a missing person assignment turns into a murder investigation, in which V.I. is placed more than knee-deep in a deadly mixture of big business corruption--and chemical waste!
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  V I Warshawski Mysteries: Book 1

  Indemnity Only

  by Sara Paretsky

  America's "most convincing and engaging" (Entertainment Weekly) female private-eye, V.I. Warshawski, is looking for a missing coed, but finds a large scam involving big business executives, notorious underworld figures and murder.I. Warshawski novel.
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  The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)

  by N. A. Durova

  This fascinating memoir of a Russian woman soldier of the 19th century is presented for the first time in two independent English translations, each a graceful rendering of the original Russian. Nadezhda Durova (1783-1866), a young woman of the gentry, spurned her family, disguised herself as a man, and joined the Russian cavalry. She fought with distinction in the Napoleonic Wars and served from 1807 until her... (more)
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  Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World

  by Milbry Polk

  Across the centuries and from many lands, women have set forth on journeys of exploration. Visionaries, adventurers, artists, and scientists, these women challenged the limitations, both physical and social, of their times and, in the face of formidable challenges, expanded the world's body of knowledge. Yet despite their extraordinary achievements, they have remained unknown and unsung for too long. No longer.... (more)
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  Women in History Series

  The Warrior Queens

  The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War

  by Antonia Fraser

  Fraser gives readers a singularly rich and provocative study of the Warrior Queens, those women who--cutting across the entrenched male view of women as weak--have rallied armies and whole populations to themselves and their causes. 16 pages of photographs.
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  The Amazons: The Mysterious World of the Warrior Women

  by Merina Valasca

  The myth of a female-only tribe that lived in isolation and fought valiantly in war is showcased in this collection of anecdotes, stories, paintings, drawing, sculptures, and other renderings of warrior women. Folklore drawn from Greek, ancient Egyptian, African, and Asian sources depicts the Amazons, providing a distinctive cross-cultural perspective on gender conceptions. Historical evidence and centuries-old... (more)
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  Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons

  by Priscilla Martin

  This is a feminist study of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry. The author argues that these are Chaucer's major subjects and that he sees them as areas fraught with problems. The author considers the areas of role and stereotype, gender and genre, and power and subversion. The book concludes with an account of the relationships between discourse, silence, sex and gender, and of Chaucer's changing attitudes... (more)
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  Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and biblical Israel (Anchor Bible Reference Library)

  by Susan Ackerman

  Some of the Bible's most memorable characters are the women in the book of Judges. From Deborah and Jael to Delilah and Samson's mother, these women led the Israelites in battle, used their wits to defeat the enemy, their wiles to seduce mighty men, and their wisdom to prevail on God. In Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen author Susan Ackerman offers a keen analysis of the main types of women found in Judges and... (more)
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  V I Warshawski Mysteries: Book 8

  Tunnel Vision

  by Sara Paretsky

  Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she's been implicated in a murder--after the body of Deirdre... (more)