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High Heels & Beetle Crushers: The Life, Losses and Loves of an Officer and Lady
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Beyond the Rock
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3.91 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
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America Day by Day
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor
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Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing
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Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson
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Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
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Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's
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Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon
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Sister Age
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Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times
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Among Friends
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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
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Judgement Day
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Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
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The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling
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George Sand: True Genius, True Woman
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative – LA Times Prize-Winning Biography of Hannah Bond, the First Black Female Novelist and Enslaved Writer
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Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist
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Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman – The Media Icon Who Reimagined Womanhood and Championed Female Ambition
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Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
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Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman
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Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
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A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
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The Huntress: The Adventures, Escapades, and Triumphs of Alicia Patterson: Aviatrix, Sportswoman, Journalist, Publisher
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Margaret Mitchell: A Scarlett or a Melanie
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Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
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In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
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Margaret Bourke-White: Photographer
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