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Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
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Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson
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Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen’s Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All
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Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
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With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
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Queen Emma and the Vikings: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England
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Leading the Way: Women In Power
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Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
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Victoria, The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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You Wouldn't Want to Be Cleopatra!: An Egyptian Ruler You'd Rather Not Be
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Cleopatra Rules!: The Amazing Life of the Original Teen Queen
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The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
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Isabella Warrior Queen
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Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
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Cleopatra's Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen
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Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
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Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen
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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
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Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians
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The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
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Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
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An Angry Drum Echoed: Mary Musgrove, Queen of the Creeks
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
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The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
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The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
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Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
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Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World
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The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
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Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
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Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen
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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
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Queens of the Conquest (England's Medieval Queens, #1)
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Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen
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The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955)
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Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
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Phoolan Devi, Rebel Queen
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Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
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In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
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Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
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Native Princess: Sarah Winnemucca
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The Bones of Birka: Unraveling the Mystery of a Female Viking Warrior
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Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
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Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
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Wonder Woman: The Complete History
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Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
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Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
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Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
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Woman of the House: The Rise of Nancy Pelosi
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
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Lives of Moral Leadership: Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
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The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour, and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News
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Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music
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Soldier, Sister, Spy, Scout: Women Soldiers and Patriots on the Western Frontier
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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
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Barbara Jordan: American Hero
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What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
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4.45 avg rating — 836 ratings
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Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture
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4.33 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
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The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery
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I'll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
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Blood, Fire Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
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Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.
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Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League
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Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England – The Ruthless Entrepreneur and Sixteenth-Century Feminist Icon
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
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Elizabeth: The Later Years
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