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• A Woman's Place Is at the Top

  a Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers

  Kimberley, Hannah,

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  Annie Peck was a suffragist, lecturer, teacher . . . and one of the world's most daring and skilled mountain climbers. This early 20th century adventurer became the first person to summit Peru's Mount Huascarán and took on a famous race to climb…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A House Full of Daughters

  a Memoir of Seven Gererations

  Nicolson, Juliet

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  Historian Juliet Nicolson delves into the legends and myths of her famous family, which includes her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, and takes readers on a whirlwind tour through seven generations of women, from 19th century slums, intellectual…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Woman of No Importance

  the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

  Purnell, Sonia,

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  Baltimore socialite Virginia Hall wouldn't be anyone's idea of a spy, which is what allowed her to become the perfect Allied asset. Working for Churchill's Special Operations Executive, she becomes the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Bookshop in Berlin

  the Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape From the Nazis

  Frenkel, Françoise, 1889-1975,

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  Françoise Frenkel fulfills her dream of opening Berlin's first French bookshop and soon attracts many artists and intellectuals looking for a place to speak freely against Nazi ideology. As a Polish Jew, Frenkel knows she's dancing on a knife's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nighthawk Rising

  a Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Bassett of Brown's Park

  Kouris, Diana Allen,

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  The Wild West didn't just belong to cowboys, no matter how movies show it. Ann Bassett was called the Queen of the Cattle Rustlers as she led a life of bold adventure across the rugged terrain of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Run-ins with lawmen,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Florence Foster Jenkins

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  Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant lead this rich and funny biopic about a woman with a dream. Florence Jenkins is one of the wealthiest women in New York, a star socialite whose greatest desire is to be an opera singer. Nothing is going to stand in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Frida

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  Salma Hayek shines in this retelling of the brilliant life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, from her humble origins to her rise to artistic prominence as she maintains an intense love affair with her husband and mentor, Diego Rivera.