Topical/Women's History
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies
$19.99 Read more“[A] gossipy, but surprisingly deep, look at the women who help and sometimes overshadow their powerful husbands.” — USA Today
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backs
- Author: Brower, Kate Andersen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0062439669
- Language: English
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It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
$19.99 Add to cart“A fast-paced political thriller…. Wrong’s gripping, thoughtful book stands as both a tribute to Githongo’s courage and a cautionary tale.” —New York Times Book Review
“On one level, It’s Our Turn
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0061346594
- Language: English
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Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West
$22.95 Add to cartIf countless books and movies are to be believed, America’s Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain men–a man’s world. Here, C
- Author: Enss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064770
- Language: English
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The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World
$16.99 Add to cartNever tell a woman where she doesn’t belong.
In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that “women are not
- Author: Zanglein, Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1728239583
- Language: English
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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler’s Germany
$17.99 Add to cartNazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler’s inner circle.
Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann–na- Author: Wyllie, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1250815967
- Language: English
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
$22.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman’s fight for justice–and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed i- Author: McDaniel, W. Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197564283
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years’ War: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Notable Conflicts of the Middle Ages and in European History and the Life of Jo
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Hundred Years’ War, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- The Hundred Years’ War: A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts B
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: December 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1647481333
- Language: English
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Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife
$16.95 Add to cartMountain midwife Orlean Puckett endured many trials during her lifetime. A bride at the age of 16, she had given birth to and buried 24 babies by the time she was in her mid-thirties. When John Pucket
- Author: Smith, Karen Cecil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1887905723
- Language: English
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Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy–And the Sister She Betrayed
$21.99 Add to cart*An Amazon Best Book of 2023*
*An Apple Book of the Month for January*“This is the definitive history of how one of America’s most highly regarded intelligence analysts betrayed her country, and how sh… [more below]
- Author: Popkin, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1335017550
- Language: English
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Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartFrom 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflected the cultural milieu and complex social structure o
- Author: Landau, Emily Epstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 21, 2018
- ISBN10: 0807169269
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval Village
$18.99 Add to cartMedieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages
This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415662
- Language: English
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Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall
$17.99 Add to cartIn 1692 Puritan Samuel Sewall sent twenty people to their deaths on trumped-up witchcraft charges. The nefarious witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts represent a low point of American history, made fa
- Author: Laplante, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 04, 2008
- ISBN10: 0060859601
- Language: English
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
$25.48 Add to cartRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle
Nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in
- Author: Bell, Janet Dewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975580
- Language: English
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First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy
$25.95 Add to cartWhen Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the … [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Disher, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 31 2013
- ISBN10: 1591142164
- Language: English
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Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America
$34.99 Add to cartIn the years following the Civil War, pioneers in the women’s rights movement, women’s medical education, and public-private charitable partnerships joined forces to reduce the incidence of abortion i… [more below]
- Author: Klem, Monica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773391
- Language: English
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Bagby, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0063141981
- Language: English
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Compelled to Witness: Women’s Memoirs of the French Revolution
$14.95 Add to cartFrom Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison, to Charlotte Robespierre, the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the guillotine, women on both sides of the revolution were b
- Author: Yalom, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 098605822X
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
$18.99 Add to cartThe thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade Europe.
From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spi- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0316387894
- Language: English
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Gender Roles and the People of God: Rethinking What We Were Taught about Men and Women in the Church
$24.99 Add to cartMost women in the church don’t aspire to “lord it” over men, nor do they want to scramble for position. Instead, they want to be accepted as full participants in God’s work, sharing in kingdom tasks i
- Author: Mathews, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0310529395
- Language: English
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Margaret Fuller: A New American Life: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
$24.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
“Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints.” — Boston Globe
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- Author: Marshall, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 054424561X
- Language: English
