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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA – A Powerful Biography of the Woman Airbrushed Out of Scientific History
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4.12 avg rating — 2,613 ratings
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Hidden Figures
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3.96 avg rating — 114,157 ratings
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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries
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4.25 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 808,549 ratings
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Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (Volume 11)
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4.36 avg rating — 140 ratings
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In Praise of Imperfection
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4.03 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr
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3.55 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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3.18 avg rating — 3,400 ratings
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Rocket Girl
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3.86 avg rating — 1,176 ratings
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Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Edition of Hidden Figures―Celebrating African American Women Pioneers at NASA
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3.96 avg rating — 114,157 ratings
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The Miracle Worker: A Play
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4.19 avg rating — 35,303 ratings
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The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady
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4.46 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
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4.07 avg rating — 2,251 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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3.60 avg rating — 3,548 ratings
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Women in Mathematics
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3.64 avg rating — 73 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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3.92 avg rating — 32,716 ratings
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Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers (6) (Women of Action)
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3.69 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists
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3.62 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Passionate Minds
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4.10 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
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4.24 avg rating — 712 ratings
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Remarkable Minds: 17 More Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Madame Curie: A Biography
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4.38 avg rating — 5,309 ratings
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
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4.07 avg rating — 3,199 ratings
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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4.01 avg rating — 3,016 ratings
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
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3.84 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
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Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
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3.75 avg rating — 208 ratings
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The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
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3.96 avg rating — 3,570 ratings
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Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Change Is Possible: Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics
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4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini
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4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa
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4.18 avg rating — 3,676 ratings
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Lab Girl
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3.98 avg rating — 72,113 ratings
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Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter
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3.60 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
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3.83 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Strong Force: The Story of Physicist Shirley Ann Jackson
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Rita Levi Montalcini
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross
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3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology
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3.69 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Emmy Noether: 1882-1935
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3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Shark Lady: True Adventures of Eugenie Clark
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4.06 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Hedy Lamarr and a Secret Communication System
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3.65 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Ada Lovelace: Programming the Future
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Мария Кюри
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4.73 avg rating — 41 ratings
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How to Survive the Singularity
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century
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3.87 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas
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3.84 avg rating — 7,354 ratings
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Almost Heaven: Women on the Frontiers of Space
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Me... Jane
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4.04 avg rating — 13,752 ratings
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Florence Nightingale: The Lady with the Diagrams
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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3.99 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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Breaking Through: My Life in Science
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4.64 avg rating — 2,686 ratings
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Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the primeval monsters
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3.77 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Marie Curie: A Life
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4.22 avg rating — 780 ratings
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
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4.21 avg rating — 929 ratings
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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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3.96 avg rating — 2,236 ratings
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
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4.09 avg rating — 23,865 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
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4.37 avg rating — 9,364 ratings
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The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
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4.32 avg rating — 2,117 ratings
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Nevertheless, She Persisted: True Stories of Women Leaders in Tech
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3.98 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Lady with the Iron Ring: An Engineer's Memoir of Hope, Luck and Success
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
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4.16 avg rating — 735 ratings
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
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4.13 avg rating — 2,123 ratings
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
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3.74 avg rating — 2,593 ratings
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Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
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4.10 avg rating — 756 ratings
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Complexities: Women in Mathematics
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist
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3.67 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
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3.84 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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Why So Few: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale
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3.81 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
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3.80 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age: With Selections from her Correspondence
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Pioneering Women in American Mathematics
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Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earheart
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3.78 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Florence Nightingale, Founder of Modern Nursing.
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The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water
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3.71 avg rating — 699 ratings
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A Quaker Astonomer Reflects: can a scientist also be religious?
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Chien-Shiung Wu: Pioneering Physicist and Atomic Researcher
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Twenty Years at Hull-House
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3.66 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
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Dr. Frau: A Woman Doctor Among the Amish
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3.92 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
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3.78 avg rating — 309 ratings
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My Story of the War (Illustrated): A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army
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4.27 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer
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3.39 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Notes on Nursing
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3.79 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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African American Women Chemists
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3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Angel of the Battlefield: The Life of Clara Barton
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3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Clara Barton: Healing the Wounds (History of the Civil War Series)
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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