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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
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Hidden Figures
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3.80 avg rating — 18,892 ratings
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Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013
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3.98 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
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4.36 avg rating — 1,139 ratings
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions
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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
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The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
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3.48 avg rating — 701 ratings
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
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Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves and Other Female Villains
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Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays
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3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Bessie Coleman: Daring Stunt Pilot
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3.94 avg rating — 33 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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A Century of Women Cartoonists
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4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
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3.73 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Coretta Scott
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4.21 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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A Seminole Legend: The Life of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper
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4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
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3.73 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas
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4.07 avg rating — 142 ratings
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She Sang Promise: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader
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4.01 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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4.06 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement
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3.92 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
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3.84 avg rating — 28,934 ratings
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Soldier, Sister, Spy, Scout: Women Soldiers and Patriots on the Western Frontier
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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
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3.72 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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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 — 2,595 ratings
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Reeva: A Mother's Story
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3.96 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Mother and the Tiger: A Memoir of the Killing Fields
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4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Anthology of Amazing Women: Trailblazers Who Dared to Be Different
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4.19 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Josephine Baker (Little People, BIG DREAMS, #16)
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4.22 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile
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4.41 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain
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4.25 avg rating — 907 ratings
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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3.87 avg rating — 9,371 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII
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4.04 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies
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4.21 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Teen Trailblazers: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20
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3.89 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Harriet Tubman (Volume 13) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 14)
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4.28 avg rating — 606 ratings
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The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story
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3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
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3.98 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
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4.31 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-girl Dance Band
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3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague (Amazing Scientists, 3)
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4.41 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
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4.44 avg rating — 3,323 ratings
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Rad Girls Can: Stories of Bold, Brave, and Brilliant Young Women
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4.21 avg rating — 195 ratings
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War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry
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3.67 avg rating — 530 ratings
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Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist
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4.10 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Black Women Who Dared
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3.81 avg rating — 81 ratings
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
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3.59 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired
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3.71 avg rating — 905 ratings
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The Ballad of the Pirate Queens
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4.01 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
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4.42 avg rating — 876 ratings
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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3.66 avg rating — 7,727 ratings
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
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4.13 avg rating — 2,110 ratings
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Ada Lovelace (Little People, BIG DREAMS, #10)
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4.15 avg rating — 835 ratings
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Marie Curie (Little People, BIG DREAMS, #6)
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4.19 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
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3.85 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
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She Persisted Around the World
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4.39 avg rating — 1,711 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 — 1,367 ratings
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A Girl Named Rosa: The True Story of Rosa Parks (American Girl: A Girl Named): The True Story of Rosa Parks
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4.22 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World
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4.23 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Rosa Parks (Volume 9) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 7)
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4.40 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Who Says Women Can't Be Computer Programmers?: The Story of Ada Lovelace
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3.79 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb: Founder of Save the Children
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3.68 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Amelia Earhart
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4.15 avg rating — 1,342 ratings
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Elizabeth Blackwell: America's First Woman Doctor
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4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
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4.33 avg rating — 1,326 ratings
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Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen
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4.32 avg rating — 893 ratings
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The Great Women Cartoonists
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3.92 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Native Princess: Sarah Winnemucca
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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3.65 avg rating — 7,143 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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4.28 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
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Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility: The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
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3.63 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
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4.28 avg rating — 574 ratings
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She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It
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3.64 avg rating — 2,689 ratings
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
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4.51 avg rating — 9,350 ratings
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Her Majesty: A Guide to the Women Who Ruled the World
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3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Hidden Women: The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories)
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4.36 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs (20) (Women of Action)
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3.91 avg rating — 69 ratings
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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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3.98 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote (Washington Mews Books)
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3.65 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won the Right to Ride in New York
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3.95 avg rating — 124 ratings
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She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World
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4.37 avg rating — 6,864 ratings
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Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire
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4.39 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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Hedy's Journey: The True Story of a Hungarian Girl Fleeing the Holocaust (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books)
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4.19 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
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4.19 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
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Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression
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3.67 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Mahalia Jackson: Walking with Kings and Queens
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Dorothea Dix: Advocate for Mental Health Care
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Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World
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Dangerous Jane: ?The Life and Times of Jane Addams, Crusader for Peace
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Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin (Southern Biography Series)
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This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
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4.19 avg rating — 315 ratings
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For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
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Sarah Emma Edmonds Was a Great Pretender: The True Story of a Civil War Spy (Carolrhoda Picture Books)
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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
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My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth – An Illustrated Biography of an Iconic Abolitionist and Orator for Children (Ages 6-10)
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3.97 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Gold Rush Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Nellie Cashman
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3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings
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