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Born reading : 20 stories of women reading their way into history / by Krull, Kathleen.; Loh-Hagan, Virginia.; Lewis, Aura.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Cleopatra (69 BC-30 BC) -- Wu Zetian (624-705) -- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) -- Sor (Sister) Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695) -- Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784) -- E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) -- Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) -- Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) -- Patsy Mink (1927-2002) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Temple Grandin (1947- ) -- Sally Ride (1951-2012) -- Oprah Winfrey (1954- ) -- Sonia Sotomayor (1954- ) -- Serena Williams (1981- ) -- Taylor Swift (1989- ) -- Malala Yousafzai (1997- ) -- Amanda Gorman (1998- ) -- Marley Dias (2005- )."Once books change their brains, girls change history. Discover the foundation of reading that empowered some of the world's most influential women in this collection of 20 biographies"--Ages 8-12.
Subjects: Women; Women;
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Inseparable : desire between women in literature / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260), Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: English literature; French literature; Lesbianism in literature.; Desire in literature.; Women in literature.;
© c2010., Cleis Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Margaret Atwood / by Bloom, Harold.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses, and index.LSC
Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Women and literature;
© c2009., Infobase Pub.,
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The Cambridge companion to Jane Austen / by Copeland, Edward.; McMaster, Juliet.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Women and literature;
© 1997., Cambridge University Press,
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A likkle Miss Lou : how Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley found her voice / by Hohn, Nadia L.; Fernandes, Eugenie,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references.A look at how as a child Jamaican poet Louise Bennett Coverley was caught between writing the English she was taught at school and the Jamaican patois she heard around her. LSC
Subjects: Bennett, Louise, 1919-2006; Women poets; Authors, Jamaican;
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Sacajawea : her true story / by Milton, Joyce.; Hehenberger, Shelly.;
Grades 2-3.F&P text level N.LSC
Subjects: Sacagawea; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Shoshoni women; Shoshoni Indians; Shoshone women; Shoshone;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Fatty legs : a true story / by Jordan-Fenton, Christy.; Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret.; Amini-Holmes, Liz.;
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Subjects: Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret; Inuit; Inuit women;
© c2010., Annick Press,
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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A stranger at home : a true story / by Jordan-Fenton, Christy.; Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret.; Amini-Holmes, Liz.;
Ten-year-old Margaret Pokiak, a young Inuit girl, must relearn her language and her family's way of living after she returns home from residential school.LSC
Subjects: Pokiak-Fenton, Margaret; Inuit; Inuit women;
© c2011., Annick Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Katherine Johnson / by Wilkins, Ebony.; Ager, Charlotte.;
Counting on Katherine -- Asking questions -- Separate and unequal -- Breaking barriers -- A new journey -- Woman at work -- Pushing for change -- The space race -- Apollo 11 -- "One giant leap" -- An incredible career -- Awards and acclaim.Examines the life of mathematician Katherine Johnson, from her early education and career before working for NASA to her integral role in the space program.LSC
Subjects: Johnson, Katherine G.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; African American women mathematicians; Women mathematicians; African American women physicists; Women physicists;
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Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books / by Nafisi, Azar;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-356).
Subjects: Nafisi, Azar; English teachers; English literature; American literature; Women; Books and reading; Group reading;
© 2004, c2003., Random House Trade Paperbacks,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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