Topical/Women's History
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Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators
$32.95 Read moreOn Feb. 2, 2019, the skies over Maynardville, Tennessee, filled with the roar of four F/A-18F Super Hornets streaking overhead in close formation. In each aircraft were two young female flyers, execut
- Author: Weintraub, Beverly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493055119
- Language: English
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Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage
$22.00 Read moreIn this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and intersectional examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK.
In this fascinating fe- Author: Lennon, Rachael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0711267111
- Language: English
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Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time
$66.58 Read moreA major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule
Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-t- Author: Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691179069
- Language: English
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The Anxious Investor: Mastering the Mental Game of Investing
$28.99 Add to cartA revelatory new guide to becoming a smarter investor, drawing upon behavioral psychology, economic modeling, and market history to offer practical advice for reaching your financial goals
“With the eq
- Author: Nations, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0063067609
- Language: English
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The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century
$31.99 Add to cartAward-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills,
- Author: Hodes, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 039333029X
- Language: English
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Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History
$14.99 Read moreOver six hundred years ago a woman known as Julian of Norwich wrote what is now regarded as one of the greatest works of literature in English. Based on a sequence of mystical visions she received in
- Series: Very Brief Histories
- Author: Ramirez, Janina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0281076847
- Language: English
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The Witch of Mansfield: The Tetched Life of Phebe Wise
$24.99 Read moreMeet one of Richland County’s most colorful citizens.
There are those who thought Phebe Wise was a witch. More thought that the cranky old lady was “tetched,” meaning crazy. And she was crazy–like
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Jordan, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155217
- Language: English
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Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives
$30.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of the extraordinary women behind a trailblazing British magazine.
During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accom- Author: Adams, Jad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147891
- Language: English
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
$30.00 Read more“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”–Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestsel
- Author: Puhak, Shelley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1635574919
- Language: English
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
$18.00 Add to cart“‘The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America, ‘ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”–Wall Street Journal
A master- Author: Gallagher, Winifred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130064
- Language: English
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What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
$16.99 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the meaning of whiteness and creating an antiracist world
- Author: Dabiri, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 006311271X
- Language: English
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For the Boys: The War Story of a Combat Nurse in Patton’s Third Army
$34.95 Read more“This novelistic narrative captures both the violence and trauma of WWII and its subject’s remarkable heroism.”– Publishers Weekly
A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Ncr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1636241581
- Language: English
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Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages
$27.95 Add to cartThroughout the mid-1800s, outsiders, including many Euro-Americans, arrived in what is now northwest Washington. As they interacted with Samish, Lummi, S’Klallam, Sto: lo, and other groups, some of th
- Author: Wellman, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: May 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0874223466
- Language: English
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A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
$23.99 Read moreIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the A… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151688
- Language: English
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Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color
$24.95 Add to cart“This beautifully-illustrated letterpress hardcover weaves drawing, photographs, artifacts, and text to tell the story of 27 pioneers of the women’s movement from Sappho to Eleanor Roosevelt to Shirle… [more below]
- Author: O’Leary, Chandler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1632170574
- Language: English
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Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse
$23.99 Read moreThanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top’s ode “La Grange,” many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. The reality is more compl… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Blaschke, Jayme Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153931
- Language: English
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A Prairie Faith: The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
$24.99 Read moreWhat role did Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Christian faith play in her life and writing?
The beloved Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold over 60 million copies since their publication in- Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)
- Author: Fry, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0802876285
- Language: English
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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
$18.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
“A revealing look at life inside the White House. . . it’s Downton Abbey for the White House staff.”— The Today Show
A remarkable history with elements of both In the Presi
- Author: Brower, Kate Andersen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0062305204
- Language: English
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Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies
$14.95 Read moreA bold new analysis of one of history’s most misrepresented women.
History has lied.
Anne Boleyn has been sold to us as a dark figure, a scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into divorcing his q
- Author: Nolan, Hayley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1542041120
- Language: English
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The Fifth Star: Ohio’s Fight for Women’s Right to Vote
$28.00 Add to cartHow Ohio’s women were essential to the national women’s suffrage movement
Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a
- Author: Capuzza, Jamie C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1606354558
- Language: English
