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The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende
Format: Hardcover
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"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without "resources or voice." Isabel became a fierce and defiant little... |
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The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free
Paulina Bren
Format: Hardcover
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The Barbizon tells the story of New York's most glamorous women-only hotel, and the women - both famous and ordinary - who passed through its doors. World War I had liberated women from home and hearth, setting them on the path to political enfranchisement and gainful employment. Arriving... |
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This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
Don Lemon · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak... |
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Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty
J. Randy Taraborrelli
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only First Ladies Barbara and Laura, but other colorful women whose stories have been left out of history for far too long, including Barbara's mother-in-law, the formidable... |
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The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed
Wendy Lower
Format: Hardcover
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In 2009, the acclaimed author of Hitler's Furies was shown a photograph just brought to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The documentation of the Holocaust is vast, but there are virtually no images of a Jewish family at the actual moment of murder, in this case by German... |
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