Linda Skeers

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

52 Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels

Women Who Dared

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#hardcover #women #trailblazingwomen #victorian 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Utah

Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice

Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance--a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own. Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant gifts granted them fame, fortune, and most important, influence as they crossed rigid boundaries of gender and class as easily as they passed between the realms of the living and the dead. The Fox sisters inspired some of the era’s best-known political activists and set off a transatlantic séance craze. While in the throes of a trance, Emma Hardinge Britten delivered powerful speeches to crowds of thousands. Victoria Woodhull claimed guidance from the spirit world as she took on the millionaires of Wall Street before becoming America’s first female presidential candidate. And Georgina Weldon narrowly escaped the asylum before becoming a celebrity campaigner against archaic lunacy laws. Drawing on diaries, letters, and rarely seen memoirs and texts, Emily Midorikawa illuminates a radical history of female influence that has been confined to the dark until now.

Out of the Shadows

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Oregon

The award-winning poet presents a daily record of her thoughts and feelings during her eighty-second year, reflecting on her youth, the vicissitudes of her cat, the rigors of a Maine winter, and the mystery of old age.

At Eighty-Two

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Laurie Notaro

Library discard, has markings but i don't believe it was ever really read

New Jersey

A Novel

Soar back to the fearless 1920s with #1 New York Times bestselling writer Laurie Notaro--beloved author of The Idiot Girls' Action Adventure Club--in a stunning historical novel that tells the true, little-known story of three aviatrixes in a race to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

Ten thousand feet in the sky, aviatrixes from London to Paris to New York--fueled by determination and courage--have their eyes on the century's biggest prize. The year is 1927, and Amelia Earhart has not yet made her record-breaking cross-Atlantic flight. Who will follow in Charles Lindbergh's footsteps and make her own history?

Three women's names are splashed daily across the front page: Elsie Mackay, daughter of an Earl, is the first Englishwoman to get her pilot's license. Mabel Boll, a glamorous society darling and former cigar girl, is ardent to make the historic flight. Beauty pageant contestant Ruth Elder uses her winnings for flying lessons and becomes the preeminent American girl of the sky.

Inspired by true events and real people, Notaro vividly evokes this exciting time as her determined heroines vie for the record. Through striking photos, meticulous research, and atmospheric prose, Notaro brings Elsie, Mabel, and Ruth to life, pulling us back in time as the pilots collide, struggle, and literally crash in the chase for fame and a place in aviation history.

Crossing the Horizon

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#hardcover #vintage #historicalfiction #australia #women #womensfiction #fiction #historical #womenshistory #history 

Sara Dane 

Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Combines biographical essays with selections from Anthony's speeches, letters, and quotes

Failure Is Impossible

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#paperback #history #women #womenshistory #livingbook #historical #america #ushistory #homeschool #homeschooling 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Stories and pictures of the legendary actresses who braved the hazards of the road and public opinion to bring the glamour of the stage to the frontier towns and cities of the West.

Women Who Charmed the West

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#hardcover #anthropology #vintage #solomonislands #papuanewguinea #womenshistory #history More than 80 years ago, Caroline Mytinger, a portrait artist, and her childhood friend Margaret Warner set out by freighter from San Francisco with little more than $400 in their pocket and a tin of paints to their name. Their objective was to paint portraits of the tribal people of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands before the encroachment of modern, European-style culture changed their lives forever.

This gripping book tells of the two women’s experiences whilst traveling through Melanesia between 1926 and 1930.

Around the Coral Sea

Headhunting in the Solomon Islands

Laurie Halse Anderson

Very good condition from a smoke-free home.

Ohio

What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution

Combines historical facts and humor to pay homage to the ladies who played important roles in the founding of our nation.

Independent Dames

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#hardcover #biography #nonfiction #elizabethI #womenshistory #queenelelizabethI

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

An accomplished English biographer, the author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII, presents a large-scale, exhaustively researched, illustrated biography that reveals the personality, private life, and romantic intrigues of Elizabeth I.

The Life of Elizabeth I

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Chelsea Clinton

HC no dust jacket. Light rubbing to corners. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

California

"A nonfiction picture book compilation of the stories of 13 American women who persisted in overcoming obstacles and changing the world"--Provided by publisher.

She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World

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#history #womenshistory #womensrights #victorianamerica #womensstudies #paperback 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

American Women in the 19th Century

The Other Civil War

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Margot Lee Shetterly

New York

Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and illustrator Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers! Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really good. They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. But they worked hard. They persisted. And they used their genius minds to change the world. In this beautifully illustrated picture book edition, we explore the story of four female African American mathematicians at NASA, known as "colored computers," and how they overcame gender and racial barriers to succeed in a highly challenging STEM-based career. "Finally, the extraordinary lives of four African American women who helped NASA put the first men in space is available for picture book readers," proclaims Brightly in their article "18 Must-Read Picture Books of 2018." "Will inspire girls and boys alike to love math, believe in themselves, and reach for the stars."

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

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Beverly Gherman

Very good condition from a smoke-free home. Jacket tear is repaired with tape on front as seen in photo.

Interesting facts about the lives of the mothers of 44 of the presidents of the United States.

First Mothers

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#historicalfiction #civilwarfiction #womenshistory

North Carolina

Traveling to Civil War-era Washington, D.C. to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother's pleas for her to return home. A first novel.

My Name Is Mary Sutter

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Brad Meltzer

HC with dust jacket. DJ shows minimal wear. Tight binding. Pages in like new condition. 

Groundbreaking American pilot Amelia Earhart is the 2nd hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8.

Amelia Earhart refused to accept no for an answer; she dared to do what no one had ever done before, and became the first woman to fly a plane all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. This biography follows her from childhood to her first flying lessons and onward to her multi-record-breaking career as a pilot.
 
This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big. Included in each book are:

   * A timeline of key events in the hero's history
   * Photos that bring the story more fully to life
   * Comic-book-style illustrations that are irresistibly adorable
   * Childhood moments that influenced the hero
   * Facts that make great conversation-starters
   * A character trait that made the person heroic and that readers can aspire to 

You'll want to collect each book in this dynamic, informative series!

I Am Amelia Earhart (Ordinary People Change the World)

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Ntozake Shange

HC with dust jacket. DJ shows minimal wear, specifically with small scrape near bottom spine. Ex-library with noted markings. CD included (unsure if CD works). Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

Multiple starred reviews greeted this amazing collaboration between Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson. As Booklist put it: "Poet and painter have joined forces to offer an indelible, emotional expression of the strength, beauty, and joy of one woman's character."

Celebrated poet and playwright Ntozake Shange captures the spirit of Civil Rights pioneer Coretta Scott King in this picture book biography gorgeously illustrated by Caldecott Medal artist Kadir Nelson. 

Walking many miles to school in the dusty road, young Coretta Scott knew the unfairness of life in the segregated south. A yearning for equality began to grow. 

Together with Martin Luther King, Jr., she helped lead change through nonviolent protest. It was the beginning of a journey--with dreams of freedom for all.

Coretta Scott

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Lori Mortensen

HC with dust jacket. DJ shows minimal wear. Tight binding. Pages in like new condition.

This dashing picture book biography takes us around the world with a daring Victorian female explorer and author. Exploring was easier said than done for a young woman in nineteenth-century England. But somehow Isabella persisted, and with each journey, she breathed in new ways to see and describe everything around her. Question by question, word by word, Isabella bloomed. First, out in the English countryside. Then, off to America and Canada. And eventually, around the world, to Africa, Asia, Australia, and more. Always more—more places, more questions, more words—and all those experiences became books, in which she described the land she traveled, the people she met, and the dangers she experienced. And finally, Isabella returned home to England, where she became the first female member of the Royal Geographic Society and was presented to the Queen. But to wild-vine Isabella, the world was home. Back matter features an author's note, bibliography, and timeline.

Away with Words: The Daring Story of Isabella Bird

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The Extraordinary Life of “Fighting Shirley Chisholm”

Speak Up, Speak Out

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Lynne Olson

The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island “Brava to Lynne Olson for a biography that should challenge any outdated assumptions about who deserves to be called a hero.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WASHINGTON POST In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty and glamour, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization—the only woman to serve as a chef de résistance during the war. Strong-willed, independent, and a lifelong rebel against her country’s conservative, patriarchal society, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade was temperamentally made for the job. Her group’s name was Alliance, but the Gestapo dubbed it Noah’s Ark because its agents used the names of animals as their aliases. The name Marie-Madeleine chose for herself was Hedgehog: a tough little animal, unthreatening in appearance, that, as a colleague of hers put it, “even a lion would hesitate to bite.” No other French spy network lasted as long or supplied as much crucial intelligence—including providing American and British military commanders with a 55-foot-long map of the beaches and roads on which the Allies would land on D-Day—as Alliance. The Gestapo pursued them relentlessly, capturing, torturing, and executing hundreds of its three thousand agents, including Fourcade’s own lover and many of her key spies. Although Fourcade, the mother of two young children, moved her headquarters every few weeks, constantly changing her hair color, clothing, and identity, she was captured twice by the Nazis. Both times she managed to escape—once by slipping naked through the bars of her jail cell—and continued to hold her network together even as it repeatedly threatened to crumble around her. Now, in this dramatic account of the war that split France in two and forced its people to live side by side with their hated German occupiers, Lynne Olson tells the fascinating story of a woman who stood up for her nation, her fellow citizens, and herself. “Fast-paced and impressively researched . . . Olson writes with verve and a historian’s authority. . . . With this gripping tale, Lynne Olson pays [Marie-Madeleine Fourcade] what history has so far denied her. France, slow to confront the stain of Vichy, would do well to finally honor a fighter most of us would want in our foxhole.”—The New York Times Book Review

Madame Fourcade's Secret War

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Grant MacEwan

Stories of Notable Western Canadian Women

And Mighty Women Too

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#paperback #nonfiction #history #womenshistory #renaissance #biography #europe #italy 

Arizona

The Life of Vittoria Colonna

A biography of Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian Renaissance Ramie Targoff’s Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist’s best friend—the two of them exchanged beautiful letters, poems, and works of art that bear witness to their intimacy—but she also had close ties to Charles V, Pope Clement VII and Pope Paul III, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Aretino, Queen Marguerite de Navarre, Reginald Pole, and Isabella d’Este, among others. Vittoria was the scion of an immensely powerful family in Rome during that city’s most explosively creative era. Art and literature flourished, but political and religious life were under terrific strain. Personally involved with nearly every major development of this period—through both her marriage and her own talents—Vittoria was not only a critical political actor and negotiator but also the first woman to publish a book of poems in Italy, an event that launched a revolution for Italian women’s writing. Vittoria was, in short, at the very heart of what we celebrate when we think about sixteenth-century Italy; through her story the Renaissance comes to life anew.

Renaissance Woman

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some jacket cover wear and tear but otherwose good condition. 

The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Describes the life of a young Pakistani student who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley who survived an assassination attempt and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. (This book was listed in a previous Forecast.)

I Am Malala

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The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl.

What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured commonplace book. Brought from England on Eleanor's fateful voyage to the New World, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive it, but her mother's tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped.

In the waning days of World War II, Alice is a young widow and a mother herself when she is unexpectedly presented with her birthright: the deed to Evertell, her abandoned family home and the history she thought forgotten. Determined to sell the property and step into a future free of the past, Alice returns to Savannah with her own thirteen-year-old daughter, Penn, in tow. But when Penn's curiosity over the lineage she never knew begins to unveil secrets from beneath every stone and bone and shell of the old house and Eleanor's book is finally found, Alice is forced to reckon with the sacrifices made for love and the realities of their true inheritance as daughters of Eleanor Dare.

In this sweeping tale from award-winning author Kimberly Brock, the answers to a real-life mystery may be found in the pages of a story that was always waiting to be written.

Praise for The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare:

"From the haunting first line, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare transports the reader to a mysterious land, time and family . . . the captivating women of the Dare legacy must find their true inheritance hiding behind the untold secrets." --Patti Callahan, New York Times bestselling author

 * Historical women's fiction
 * Stand-alone novel
 * Book length: approximately 135,000 words
 * Includes discussion questions for book clubs

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Linda Skeers

Women Who Dared

Emily Midorikawa

Out of the Shadows

May Sarton

At Eighty-Two

Laurie Notaro

Crossing the Horizon

Catherine Gaskin

Sara Dane

Lynn Sherr

Failure Is Impossible

Anne Seagraves

Women Who Charmed the West

Caroline Mitinger

Headhunting in the Solomon Islands

Laurie Halse Anderson

Independent Dames

Alison Weir

The Life of Elizabeth I

Chelsea Clinton; Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger

She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World

Catherine Clinton; Eric Foner (Editor)

The Other Civil War

Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Beverly Gherman

First Mothers

Robin Oliveira

My Name Is Mary Sutter

Brad Meltzer; Illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos

I Am Amelia Earhart (Ordinary People Change the World)

Ntozake Shange; Illustrated by Kadir Nelson

Coretta Scott

Lori Mortensen; Illustrated by Kristy Caldwell

Away with Words: The Daring Story of Isabella Bird

Tonya Bolden

Speak Up, Speak Out

Lynne Olson

Madame Fourcade's Secret War

Grant MacEwan

And Mighty Women Too

Ramie Targoff

Renaissance Woman

Malala Yousafzai; Christina Lamb (As told to)

I Am Malala

Kimberly Brock

The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare