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Women biography, Family and relationships, Parenting
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Learn how to meet women and create healthy, lasting relationshipsCertified dating coach Elsa Moreck draws on her years of professional…
experience to offer an insider view of what women are really looking for in partners. You'll find practical strategies to help you express your true self and flip the script on pickup artist trickery to make a real match.Dating for Men takes you through:Being your best—Start your dating journey right with strategies for making yourself more physically, mentally, and emotionally attractive and appealing.Every step of a relationship—Learn how to handle yourself during each and every part of the dating process, from first meetings and first dates to committed relationships.Sex and consent—Discover how to approach and initiate physical intimacy with a primer that helps you fully understand what consent entails and how it can be sexy.Get the advice you need to create a real romantic connection thanks to this insider guide.
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Biography, Arts and entertainment, Frontier and pioneer life, Fine arts biography, Women biography
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Presents, in brief text and illustrations, the life of the painter who drew much of her inspiration from nature For preschool to grade 2
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Biography, United States history, Frontier and pioneer life, Archaeology, Women biography, Customs and cultures
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Marjorie Lambert's life story is intricately involved in the development of archaeology and institutional building in the American Southwest. She…
became a professional archaeologist and museum curator and was successful at both when relatively few women were able to enter either of these professions. Adult
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Nature, Environment, Women biography
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Raised on the Isles of Shoals, a group of nine small rocky islands off the coast of New Hampshire, Thaxter…
lived there for much of her life. These essays blend natural history, oral tradition and personal observation and were an immediate sensation when published in the "Atlantic Monthly" in 1869. Unrated
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Biography, Women biography
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"Little Seed is an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author's relationship with her brother and family…
with a deeply personal field guide to ferns. The chapters move associatively, commenting on each other indirectly and drawing out questions of assimilation, race, class, gender, nature and the general problem of being and knowing. When the author's brother has a psychotic break, the rigid structure of the book itself breaks apart and the protagonist adventures to the cloud forest of Oaxaca in order to truly live: to know the world by experiencing it rather than reading about it or following the direction of others. Some persistent themes throughout the book: What does it mean to be Chinese? What is love and how best to love? What really is a fern?"-- Provided by publisher
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War, Women biography, Biography, Science and technology
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Praised by the Daily Oklahoman as "touching and entertaining," Rob Simbeck's biography of Cornelia Fort is wonderfully evocative and moving.…
Like Beryl Markham's and Amelia Earhart's, Cornelia Fort's daring life as a pilot was both inspiring and groundbreaking. Raised on her parents' Nashville estate and educated at a prestigious finishing school, Fort rejected the role expected of her in society to become a pilot. A member of the first women's flight squadron and one of the few to witness the bombing of Pearl Harbor from the air, she persevered in her courageous career, as one of the war's first female pilots, despite rampant prejudice toward women. Selling out just six weeks after its first printing, Daughter of the Air interweaves Cornelia Fort's own eloquent letters and diaries, historical documents, and the interviews of those who knew and flew with her, to create a vivid portrait of an infinitely courageous woman. It both tells Cornelia's remarkable story -- a life shaped by bravery, intelligence, and charm -- and describes the era's political and social atmosphere. --Goodreads Adult. Some strong language
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War, Women biography, History
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The diary of a young Jewish housewife who, together with her husband and five-month-old baby, fled the Warsaw ghetto at…
the last possible moment and survived the Holocaust hidden on the "Aryan" side of town in the loft of a run-down tinsmith's shed. Some violence
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Women biography, United States history, Biography, General non-fiction, United States travel and geography
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Born in 1738, Mary Katharine Goddard came of age in colonial Connecticut as the burgeoning nation prepared for the American…
Revolution. As a businesswoman and a newspaper publisher, Goddard paved the way for influential Revolutionary media. Her remarkable accomplishments as a woman defied societal norms and set the stage for a free and open press. When the Continental Congress decreed that the Declaration of Independence be widely distributed, one person rose to the occasion and printed the document boldly inserting her name at the bottom with a printing credit: Mary Katharine Goddard. Here is an important biography of a groundbreaking woman who had the courage to write herself into the history she helped create. For grades K-3
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Women biography, Social issues, Biography, Philosophy, Politics and government, Historical biography, Science and technology
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"White House correspondent April Ryan presents a vital look at women of different ages and backgrounds who devote their lives…
to making the world a better place, even if that means stepping out of their "place."-- From publisher
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Women biography, Biography, History
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"Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous, yet more poorly understood, than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In the…
centuries since her death in 30 BC, she has been endlessly portrayed in the arts and popular culture, from Shakespearean tragedy to paintings, opera, and movies. Despite the queen's enduring celebrity, however, many have dismissed her as a mere seductress. In this major new biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and kingdom. Roller's authoritative account is the first to be based solely on primary materials from the Greco-Roman period: literary sources, Egyptian documents (Cleopatra's own writings), and representations in art and coinage produced while she was alive. His compelling portrait of the queen illuminates her prowess as a royal administrator who managed a large and diverse kingdom extending from Asia Minor to the interior of Egypt, as a naval commander who led her own fleet in battle, and as a scholar and supporter of the arts. Even her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, the source of her reputation as a supreme seductress who drove men to their doom, were carefully crafted state policies: she chose these partners to insure the procreation of successors who would be worthy of her distinguished dynasty. That Cleopatra ultimately lost to her Roman opponents, Roller contends, in no way diminishes her abilities. This definitive portrait restores the Egyptian queen to her rightful historical status as a potent force in the ancient world, one whose policies and influence long survived her and played a determining role in the future course of the Roman empire."--From the publisher
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Biography, Frontier and pioneer life, Women biography
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A collection of stories about thirteen distinctly unconventional women who, either by choice or fate, lived and died by their…
own code of ethics. From gamblers and thieves, prostitutes and mistresses, murderers and victims, to the politically motivated, each woman presented here is as unique as the circumstances that gave her story a measure of notoriety in history. Strong language and violence
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Poetry, Women biography
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Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth…
and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility "What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?" and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal." And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. "Fine then, / I'll take it," she writes. "I'll take it all."
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Women biography, United States history, Christianity
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Celebrating the diverse contributions of Catholic lay women in 20th century AmericaRecovering Their Stories focuses on the many contributions made…
by Catholic lay women in the 20th century in their faith communities across different regions of the United States. Each essay explores the lives and contributions of Catholic lay women across diverse racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds, addressing themes related to these women’s creative agency in their spirituality and devotional practices, their commitment to racial and economic justice, and their leadership and authority in sacred and public spaces Taken together, this volume brings together scholars working in what otherwise may be discreet areas of academic study to look for patterns, areas of convergence and areas of divergence, in order to present in one place the depth and breadth of Catholic lay women’s experience and contributions to church, culture, and society in the United States. Telling these stories together provides a valuable resource for scholars in a number of disciplines, including American Catholic Studies, American Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Feminist Studies, and US History. Additionally, scholars in the areas of Latinx studies, Black Studies, Liturgical Studies, and application of Catholic social teaching will find the book to be a valuable resource with respect to articles on specific topics.
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Health and medicine, Science and medicine biography, Women biography, Psychology, Medicine
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In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia.…
When they got word that four, 24-year-old identical quadruplets in Lansing, Michigan, had all been diagnosed with the mental illness, they could hardly believe their ears. Here was incontrovertible proof of hereditary transmission and, thus, a chance to bring international fame to their fledgling institution. This book chronicles the extraordinary lives of the quadruplets and the lead psychologist who studied them, the harrowing violence they experienced, and its psychological and political consequences. Adult. Unrated
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Poetry, Women biography, Family and relationships
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In a working-class family that considers sensitivity a "fatal diagnosis," how does a child grow up to be a poet?…
What happens when a body "meant to bend & breed" opts not to, then finds itself performing the labor of care regardless? Why do we think our "common griefs" so singular? Bad Hobby is a hard-earned meditation on questions like these, a dreamscape speckled with swans, ghosts, and weather updates. Fagan writes with a kind of practical empathy, lamenting pain and brutality while knowing, also, their inevitability. A dementing father, a squirrel limp in the talons of a hawk, a "child who won't ever get born": with age, Fagan posits, the impact of ordeals like these changes. Loss becomes instructive. Solitude becomes a shared experience. "You think your one life precious" And Bad Hobby thinks hard. About lineage, about caregiving. About time. It paces "inside its head, gazing skyward for a noun or phrase to / shatter the glass of our locked cars & save us." And it does want to save us, or at least lift us, even in the face of immense bleakness, or loneliness, or the body changing, failing. "Don't worry, baby," Fagan tells us, the sparrow at her window. "We're okay." Adult. Descriptions of sex. Strong language
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Women biography, Biography, Frontier and pioneer life
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As the paramour of the daring Sundance Kid and confidant to the famous bandit Butch Cassidy, the enigmatic Etta Place…
led an adventurous and unorthodox life on the run. This account tells of the outlaw gang's activities, the infamous trio's escape to South America, and the shootout which supposedly ended in the deaths of Cassidy and Sundance
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Women biography, Frontier and pioneer life, Biography
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In All The Leavings, Laurie Easter deftly navigates both the rugged terrain of the human heart and life on the…
edge of the wilderness. Her contemplative, often experimental essays explore love and loss, drawing from a reverence for the natural world that is deeply rooted in wild Oregon. Adult. Some strong language. Some violence. Unrated
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Poetry, Women biography
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Ama Codjoe's highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art,…
make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual life. Adult
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The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.As…
a literate Christian, entrepreneur, and wife of an Anglican clergyman, Mary was one of a small number of "mixed blood" Indians to achieve a position of prominence among English colonists. Born to a Creek mother and an English father, Mary's bicultural heritage prepared her for an eventful adulthood spent in the rough and tumble world of Colonial Georgia Indian affairs.Active in diplomacy, trade, and politics--affairs typically dominated by men--Mary worked as an interpreter between the Creek Indians and the colonists--although some argue that she did so for her own gains, altering translations to sway transactions in her favor. Widowed twice in the prime of her life, Mary and her successive husbands claimed vast tracts of land in Georgia (illegally, as British officials would have it) by virtue of her Indian heritage, thereby souring her relationship with the colony's governing officials and severely straining the colony's relationship with the Creek Indians.Using Mary's life as a narrative thread, Steven Hahn explores the connected histories of the Creek Indians and the colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. He demonstrates how the fluidity of race and gender relations on the southern frontier eventually succumbed to more rigid hierarchies that supported the region's emerging plantation system.
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Women biography, Asian history, Buddhism
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Available for the first time in English, an intimate look into the private lives and spiritual experiences of 30 nuns…
and laywomen practicing under pioneering female Zen master Sozen Nagasawa Roshi in World War II-era Japan.Born in 1888, Sozen Nagasawa Roshi was a pioneer of women&’s monastic Zen practice in Japan. With a profound wish to become a nun from a young age, she persevered through the extreme social pressures and material difficulties facing women of her generation to become an abbess who trained hundreds of students (primarily women), won equal rights for Japanese nuns, and established organizations to support nuns and laywomen practitioners.Known for her compassion and fierceness, Nagasawa Roshi used a rigorous koan practice to guide her students to kensho (enlightenment). As more and more students awakened, she asked them to write about their experiences. These stories were initially published in a Japanese magazine and subsequently compiled into a book published in Japan called Collection of Experiences in Zen Practice.In This Body, In This Lifetime is a selection of 30 of these first-person accounts, exclusively from women and appearing for the first time in English. These stories offer an intimate look into the personal lives and spiritual determination of women who longed to end their suffering and awaken to their true nature despite the obstacles they faced.A rare glimpse into Zen practice in World War II–era Japan, these inspiring women confront loss, grief, food shortages, air-raid sirens, and a cultural crisis with grit and courage as they persist in their efforts to end their suffering and the suffering of all.