The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope…
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1. The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
By: Elizabeth Cobbs
3.84
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I. They were mas… read more
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2. Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer
By: Carole Boston Weatherford , Ekua Holmes
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A stirring collection of poems and spirituals, accompanied by stunning collage illustrations, recol… read more
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3. Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children
By: Debby Atwell , Jan Pinborough
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, American children couldn't borrow library books. Reading wasn't all that importan… read more
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4. Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
By: John Matteson
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louis… read more
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5. A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor
By: Joe Starita
3.37
Format: 414 pages, Hardcover
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree--becoming the first Native American… read more
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6. Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
By: Richard Rhodes
3.28
Format: 5 pages,
What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The a… read more
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7. Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
By: Julia Cooke
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted … read more
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8. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
By: Steven Lomazow
4.33
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more
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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
9. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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10. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
By: Kate Moore
4.30
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and moth… read more
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"Insane asylum - a place where insanity is made."-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
"In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back."-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
"As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not…"-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
"It's a book that is set over 160 year ago. A lot has changed. A lot hasn't. We are only just beginning to appreciate exactly how a person's powerlessness may lead to struggles with their mental healt…"-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
11. Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
By: Olivia Campbell
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first… read more
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- history
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- medical
- feminism
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- nonfiction
- womens
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12. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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13. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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- biography
- medical
- feminism
- medicine
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- science
14. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
By: Daisy Hernández
3.99
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be… read more
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- history
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15. Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU
By: Wes Ely
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a Christopher Award “Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books … read more
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16. Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit
By: John Boessenecker
3.52
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A True West magazine Best Book of 2021, a nominee for the MPIBA Annual Reading the West Book Award,… read more
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- womens
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17. The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
By: Thomas R. Cech
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A Nobel Prize–winning scientist reveals biology’s most transformative achievements in decades―a Dou… read more
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18. Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
By: Evette Dionne
4.34
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-openin… read more
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19. When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
By: Maureen Quilligan
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Library Journal • "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" Sixteenth-century Europe w… read more
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"In a short six weeks, the “Northern Rebellion,"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Although these were not necessarily gifts Mary consciously gave to Elizabeth, as the first independent queen of England it was she who established a powerful rhetoric for female rule, which Elizabeth…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Mary Stuart and Elizabeth both aimed at toleration in an intolerant age, in the same ways that Catherine de’ Medici, the mother-in-law of one and the almost mother-in-law of another English queen, la…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
"Because [Michel de Castelnau] had been charged with making peace between [Mary Stuart] and her barons, he ignored Mary’s adamant insistence on how anti-monarchal she considered the rebel lords to be;…"-Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
20. Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
By: W. Caleb McDaniel
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice - and reparations Born into sla… read more
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"That view required a considerable amount of optimism, given that most white Kentuckians at the time viewed any postwar election won by a Republican as stolen."-W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
"In an influential 1858 book, the Georgia attorney Thomas Cobb even questioned the need for laws against the rape of a female slave, since what he called "the known lasciviousness of the negro made it…"-W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
21. A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
By: Perri Klass
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring, and the way we live. Only … read more
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