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Let's face it: Real-life friendship is hard! We find ourselves challenged by superficial #girltribe social media posts, so how can we really achieve authentic friendship? And is friendship even worth it?
Sisterhood isn't just a trend or unreachable goal, in fact, friendship with other women is a necessity. Why? Because we're made for it. We're created in the image and likeness of the triune God. "Relationship" is stamped into our spiritual DNA -...
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The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict. The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy as...
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For Helen Keller, "w-a-t-e-r" was a cool, slippery splash. "S-u-n" was the warm afternoon glow coating her skin. "L-i-l-y" was a sweet-smelling petal, soft and delicate to her touch. After an illness left her blind and deaf, Helen relied on her senses of touch and smell to help compensate for her loss. And then she met her teacher, Annie Sullivan, who showed her a new way to give meaning to the world around her. But most of all, Annie gave Helen a...
4) Helen Keller
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Focuses on the early life of a woman who is well known for overcoming her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.
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Biographical portraits of: Sybil Ludington, Lydia Darragh, Deborah Sampson, Margaret Corbin, Sarah Emma Edmonds, Loreta Janeta Velasquez, Rose Greenhow, Elizabeth Van Lew, Ruby Bradley, Virginia Hall, Anna Mae Hays, Elizabeth Hoisington, Jeanne Holm, Dolley Madison, Helen "Nellie" Taft, Edith Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara...
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Deeply personal and emotional accounts of more than a dozen American soldiers returning home from the war in Iraq; includes women from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard. Inspiring stories of courage, while recovering from both physical and psychological wounds along with the frustrations of navigating the military bureaucracy to get help. How combat affects someone's entire life, including her family and friends.
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"Thirty years after her death, Alice Eve Cohen's mother appears to her, seemingly in the flesh, and continues to do so during the hardest year Alice has had to face: the year her youngest daughter needs a harrowing surgery, her eldest daughter decides to reunite with her birth mother, and Alice herself receives a daunting diagnosis. As it turns out, it's entirely possible for the people we've lost to come back to us when we need them the most"--Dust...
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From Betsy Ross to Florence Price, Georgia O'Keeffe to Katherine Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Kamala Harris and many more, readers will meet artists, activists, scientists, and icons throughout history. Organized chronologically, 100 American Women Who Shaped American History offers a look at the prominent role women have played, and how their talents, ideas, and expertise have influenced the country from its very beginning, all the way up to today....
12) Zelda Fitzgerald: the tragic, meticulously researched biography of the Jazz Age's high priestess
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A portrait of the Jazz Age artist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald traces their dysfunctional marriage, Zelda's work as a painter and dancer, and her struggle to define herself.
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Victoria Woodhull was a feminist pioneer who rose up from poverty to become the first woman Wall Street broker, the first woman to testify before Congress and the first woman to run for president. A beautiful woman and a spellbinding public speaker, she was also a figure of scandal, a divorcee and practicing clairvoyant turned muckracking newspaper publisher, a free-love advocate (and practitioner), and a socialist.
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"Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameful, seductive and brilliant, and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London she drove men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her lesbian love...
16) Generation J
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"I'm not alone. I am part of a generation of fragmented Jews. We're in a kind of limbo. We're suspended between young adulthood and middle age, between Judaism and atheism, between a desire to believe in religion and a personal history of skepticism. Call us a bunch of searchers. Call us post-Holocaust Jews. Call us Generation J." Generation J is the ambivalent generation: unaffiliated seekers, men and women who have grown up questioning the bounds...
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The day my father was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, I decided to go and find him a miracle. Do Not Go Gentle is a transporting memoir about Ann Hood's quest to find a cure, if not an outright miracle, that would cure her father's cancer. Her "spiritual Odyssey, with a secret history all its own" would take her from Rhode Island to El Santuario de Chimayo, New Mexico, in search of dirt reputed to contain astonishing healing powers. Along...
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A highly successful couples therapist reveals the true story of her own failed marriage-and reflects on why we stay so long in unhappy relationships. For years, Sharyn Wolf was a practicing psychotherapist and "relationship expert" revitalizing the marriages of countless couples. But while she was being interviewed on Oprah and other shows and writing bestselling books, instructing millions on how to flirt, find mates, and "stay lovers for life,"...
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As long as there has been an America, the indomitable spirit of American women has shaped both the country's history and society. Regardless of the time and place these women were born each excelled in her respective field, making it easier for the next generation. This is what makes them heroines.
In American Heroines, Kay Bailey Hutchison presents female pioneers in fields as varied as government, business, education and healthcare, who overcame...
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A brutally honest memoir of life as an obese woman, the pain, humiliation...and hope Jennifer Joyner was slowly killing herself with food. She didn't know what to fear more: dying or knowing that she was causing her own death. She was powerless to stop. She weighed 336 pounds. She had uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure. She'd lost jobs and friendships, and her marriage was hanging by a thread. She disgusted herself. She couldn't even attempt...
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