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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
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The Radium Girls:The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Harrowing Historical Nonfiction Bestseller About a Courageous Fight for Justice)
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Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World
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Hidden Figures
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
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The Warrior Queens
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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World (Women in History Book, Book of Women Who Changed the World)
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
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3.92 avg rating — 3,909 ratings
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
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100 Nasty Women of History
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Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History
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Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History's Mightiest Matriarchs
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World
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Hidden Women: The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race
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4.37 avg rating — 54 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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Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
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Caesars' Wives: The Women Who Shaped the History of Rome
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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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3.88 avg rating — 8,195 ratings
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
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Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future!
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Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
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The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages: Queens, Saints, and Viking Slayers, From Empress Theodora to Elizabeth of Tudor
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
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Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
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Women In Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of Brave Bessie Coleman
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
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Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
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Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Uppity Women of Medieval Times
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
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Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code
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Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia
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4,000 Years of Uppity Women: Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages
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Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party
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No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure
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Bold Women of Medicine: 21 Stories of Astounding Discoveries, Daring Surgeries, and Healing Breakthroughs
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Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World
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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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The Little Book of Feminist Saints
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
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Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color
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Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War
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The Weaker Vessel
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