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• A Tyranny of Petticoats

  15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls

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  From an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines.

• The Passion of Dolssa

  a Novel

  Berry, Julie, 1974-

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  In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Thread

  Feldman, Ruth Tenzer

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  When sixteen-year-old Miriam Josefsohn inherits her grandmother's prayer shawl, she is thrust into a time-traveling adventure where she is transported back in time to inspire the Daughters of Zelophehad, the first women in biblical history to own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Cloud of Outrageous Blue

  Stamper, Vesper,

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  After her parents' deaths, Edyth is sent to live in a priory, where she begins to make a new life--a life that will be threatened by the approach of the Great Plague.

• The Blood Countess

  Popović, Lana,

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  In 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth B©Łthory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

  Boecker, Virginia,

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  In the early sixteen-hundreds, two star-crossed assassins, nineteen-year-old Toby and seventeen-year-old Kit, go undercover as actors in a Shakespeare play in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth.

• Blood Water Paint

  McCullough, Joy,

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  In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One for All

  Lainoff, Lillie,

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  In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sacajawea

  the Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

  Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

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  Sacajawea, a Shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, and William Clark alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest.

• A Madness So Discreet

  McGinnis, Mindy

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  Near the turn of the nineteenth century, Dr. Thornhollow helps teenaged Grace Mae escape from the Boston asylum where she was sent after becoming pregnant by rape, and takes her to Ohio where they put her intelligence and remarkable memory to use in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh

  Lippincott, Rachael,

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  When disheartened Pittsburgh teen Audrey transports back to 1812 England, she expects to find love as a Regency romance heroine, but surprisingly sparks fly when she meets Lucy Sinclair.

• Escaping Mr. Rochester

  McKinney, L. L. (Leatrice L.)

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  In this empowering Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and, as his dark…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under a Painted Sky

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)

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  In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri.

• Stone Mirrors

  the Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis

  Atkins, Jeannine, 1953-

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  A biographical novel in verse of a half Native American, half African American female sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, working in the years right after the Civil War.

• The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

  Lee, Mackenzi

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  A year after a whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals in mind: avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh and enroll in medical school. But the administrators, see…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cure for Dreaming

  Winters, Cat,

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  In Portland, Oregon, in 1900, seventeen-year-old Olivia Mead, a suffragist, is hypnotized by the intriguing young Henri Reverie, who's paid by her father to make her more docile and womanly but who, instead, gives her the ability to see people's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Outrun the Moon

  Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)

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  Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from poverty in Chinatown, and she gains admittance to a prestigious finishing school through a mix of cunning and bribery. She soon discovers that getting in was the easiest part, and must carve a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Audacity

  Crowder, Melanie

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  A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early twentieth century in New York.

• The Degenerates

  Mann, Jennifer Ann,

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  In 1928, Maxine, Rose, Alice, and London face vicious attendants and bullying older girls at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, each determined to change her fate at all costs. Includes historical notes about eugenics.

• Lucky Strikes

  Bayard, Louis,

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  Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together.