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by Ruth Ozeki
Fiction
Having lived in America since she was young, sixteen-year-old Nao finds it difficult to conform to the new standards she’s forced to confront. Always seeming to live in the past, she finds her name “Nao” to be ironic. However, when she discovers her great grandmother’s diary, she sets off a chain of events that ultimately help her find out more about her grandmother and herself.
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by Martha Hall Kelly
Fiction
Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.
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by Alice Hoffman
Fiction
The lives of four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of a siege in ancient Israel.
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by Sandra Cisneros
Fiction
In a series of vignettes, The House on Mango Street follows a young Latina girl coming of age and discovering her identity in Chicago.
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by Abi Daré
Fiction
The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams.
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by Margot Lee Shetterly
Nonfiction
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA’s African-American women mathematicians to America’s space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
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by Kate Moore
Nonfiction
The Radium Girls explores the strength of extraordinary women in the face of almost impossible circumstances and the astonishing legacy they left behind
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by Sara Tuvel Bernstein
Nonfiction
From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein’ s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust.
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by Tayari Jones
Fiction
A story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle.
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by Brandi Carlile
Nonfiction
The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer, and six-time Grammy winner opens up about faith, sexuality, parenthood, and a life shaped by music.
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by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller
Nonfiction
Waris Dirie traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu — the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.N.
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by Jessica Simpson
Nonfiction
Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she’s kept since age 15, this memoir is brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity.
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by Etaf Rum
Fiction
Three generations of Palestinian-American women in contemporary Brooklyn are torn by individual desire, educational ambitions, a devastating tragedy, and the strict mores of traditional Arab culture.
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