Women’s History
- All girls: single-sex education and why it matters. Karen Stabiner. 371.82 STA
- All the daring of the soldier: women of the Civil War armies. Elizabeth D. Leonard. 973.7 LEO
- Alpha girls: understanding the new American girl and how she is changing the world. Dan Kindlon. 305.235 KIN
- America and the pill: a history of promise, peril, and liberation. Elaine Tyler May. 363.96 MAY
- America‘s women: four hundred years of dolls, drudges, helpmates, and heroines. Gail Collins. 305.4 COL
- Bad girls of the Bible: and what we can learn from them. Liz Curtis Higgs. Large Type 220.92 HIG
- Band of sisters: American women at war in Iraq. Kirsten Holmstedt. 956.7044 HOL
- Big girls don’t cry: the election that changed everything for American women. Rebecca Traister. 324.973 TRA
- Bluebird: women and the new psychology of happiness. Ariel Gore. 305.42 GOR
- Born to rule: five reigning consorts, granddaughters of Queen Victoria. Julia P. Gelardi. 940.28 GEL
- The boundaries of her body: the troubling history of women’s rights in America. Debran Rowland. 342.0878 ROW
- Breaking & entering: women cops talk about life in the ultimate men’s club. Connie Fletcher. 363.2 FLE
- Caesars’ wives: sex, power, and politics in the Roman Empire. Annelise Freisenbruch. 937.06 FRE
- Cinderella ate my daughter: dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture. Peggy Orenstein. 305.23 ORE
- A circle of sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin. Judith Flanders. 941.081 FLA
- Civil War wives: the lives and times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant. Carol Berkin. 973.7082 BER
- Click: when we knew we were feminists. 305.42 CLI
- College girls: bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now. Lynn Peril. 378.198 PER
- Count on me: tales of sisterhoods and fierce friendships. 177.62 COU
- A day in the life of the American woman: how we see ourselves. Sharon J. Wohlmuth. 305.4 WOH
- Discovering Biblical equality: complementarity without hierarchy. 220.83 DIS
- The double-daring book for girls. Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz. Y 031.02 BUC
- Elizabeth and Mary: cousins, rivals, queens. Jane Dunn. 942.055 DUN
- Elsie and Mairi go to war: two extraordinary women on the Western Front. Diane Atkinson. 940.475 ATK
- Equal: women reshape American law. Fred Strebeigh. 342.73 STR
- Eve’s revenge: women and a spirituality of the body. Lilian Calles Barger. 233.5 BAR
- Eve’s seed: biology, the sexes, and the course of history. Robert S. McElvaine. 305.309 MACE
- Everyday icon: Michelle Obama and the power of style. Kate Betts. 646.34 BET
- Extraordinary women: fantasies revealed. 305.4209 EXT
- Extreme makeover: women transformed by Christ, not conformed to the culture. Teresa Tomeo. 282 TOM
- The female brain. Louann Brizendine. 612.82 BRI
- The feminine mistake: are we giving up too much? Leslie Bennetts. 331.4 BEN
- A few good women: America’s military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. 355.008 MON
- The first ladies fact book. 973.099 HAR
- Five centuries of women & gardens. Sue Bennett. 712.0942 BEN
- The flipside of feminism: what conservative women know–and men can’t say. Suzanne Venker, Phyllis Schlafly. 305.42 VEN
- The floating brothel: the extraordinary true story of an eighteenth-century ship and its cargo of female convicts. Sian Rees. 365.6 REE
- Flow: the cultural story of menstruation. Elissa Stein, Susan Kim. 612.662 STE
- Founding mothers: the women who raised our nation. Cokie Roberts. 973.099 ROB
- Four sisters of Hofei. Annping Chin. 951.05 CHI
- From out of the shadows: Mexican women in twentieth-century America. Vicki L. Ruiz. 973.0468 RUI
- Girl power: the nineties revolution in music. Marisa Meltzer. 782.4216 MEL
- The girls from Ames: a story of women and a forty-year friendship. Jeffrey Zaslow. 305.4 ZAS
- Girls like us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon–and the journey of a generation. Sheila Weller. 782.4216 WEL
- Girls like us: fighting for a world where girls are not for sale, an activist finds her calling and heals herself. Rachel Lloyd. 362.88 LLO
- Girls on the edge: the four factors driving the new crisis for girls: sexual identity, the cyberbubble, obsessions, environmental toxins. Leonard Sax. 305.235 SAX
- The girls who went away: the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the dec-ades before Roe v. Wade. Ann Fessler. 362.8298 FES
- Global soccer mom: changing the world is easier than you think. Shayne Moore. 361.2 MOO
- Good time girls of the Alaska-Yukon gold rush. Lael Morgan. 971.91 MOR
- The good women of China. Xinran. 951.05 XIN
- The great divorce: a nineteenth-century mother’s extraordinary fight against her husband, the Shakers, and her times. Ilyon Woo. 305.4209 WOO
- Half the sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide. Nicholas Kristof. 362.8309 KRI, , DVD 305.42
- Her story: a timeline of the women who changed America. Charlotte S. Waisman. 920.72 WAI
- Holding her head high: 12 single mothers who championed their children and changed history. Janine Turner. 306.8743 TUR
- Home fires burning: married to the military, for better or worse. Karen Houppert. 355.0092 HOU
- How to be a woman. Caitlin Moran. 305.42 MOR
- I am an emotional creature: the secret life of girls around the world. Eve Ensler. 155.433 ENS, Y 155.433 ENS
- I dwell in possibility: women build a nation, 1600-1920. Donna M. Lucey. 305.4 LUC
- In her hands: craftswomen changing the world. Paola Gianturco, Toby Tuttle. 745.082 GIA
- In triumph’s wake: royal mothers, tragic daughters, and the price they paid for glory. Julia P. Gelardi. 940 GEL
- Into a new country: eight remarkable women of the West. Liza Ketchum. 978 KET
- Just like us: the true story of four Mexican girls coming of age in America. Helen Thorpe. 305.868 THO
- Jeroboam’s wife: the enduring contributions of the Old Testament’s least-known women. Robin Gallaher Branch. 221.92 BRA
- Kabul Beauty School: an American woman goes behind the veil. Deborah Rodriguez. 305.486 ROD, Spanish Lang. 915.81 ROD, CD 915.81 ROD
- Ladies of liberty: the women who shaped our nation. Cokie Roberts. 973.409 ROB
- Leading ladies: American trailblazers. Kay Bailey Hutchison. 920.72 HUT
- Letters to my daughters. Mary Matalin. 306.8743 MAT
- Lighting the way: nine women who changed modern America. Karenna Gore Schiff. 920.72 SCH
- Living with cannibals and other women’s adventures. Michele Slung. 910.92 SLU
- Madam President: shattering the last glass ceiling. Eleanor Clift, Tom Brazaitis. 324.7 CLI
- Maharanis: the extraordinary tale of four Indian queens and their journey from purdah to parliament. Lucy Moore. 954.035 MOO
- Mennonite woman: exploring spiritual life and identity. Dawn Ruth Nelson. 248.48 NEL
- The Mercury 13: the untold story of thirteen American women and the dream of space flight. Martha Ackmann. 629.45 ACK
- Millionaire women next door: the many journeys of successful American businesswomen. Thomas J. Stanley. 305.523 STA
- Modern women: women artists at the Museum of Modern Art. 704.042 MOD
- More than petticoats: remarkable Indiana women. Rachel J. Lapp. Ind. Coll. 920.72 LAP
- Moses’ women. Shera Aranoff Tuchman, Sandra E. Rapoport. 221.92 TUC
- My hope for peace. Jehan Sadat. 956.05 SAD
- 19 stars of Indiana: exceptional Hoosier women. Michael S. Maurer. Ind. Coll. 920.72 MAU
- Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: an illustrated history. Geoffrey C. Ward. 305.42 WAR
- 100 Christian women who changed the twentieth century. Helen Kooiman Hosier. 270.092 HOS
- Passing on the comfort: the war, the quilts, and the women who made a difference. An Keuning-Tichelaar, Lynn Kaplanian-Buller. 940.534 KEU
- Patently female: from AZT to TV dinners: stories of women inventors and their breakthrough ideas. Ethlie Ann Vare, Greg Ptacek. 609 VAR
- Plain wisdom: an invitation into an Amish home and the hearts of two women. Cindy Woodsmall, Miriam Flaud. 289.7 WOO, CD 289.7 WOO
- Pregnancy and power: a short history of reproductive politics in America. Rickie Solinger. 363.96 SOL
- Princesses: the six daughters of George III. Flora Fraser. 941.073 FRA
- Rating the first ladies: the women who influenced the presidency. John B. Roberts II. 923 ROB
- Recipes for our daughters. Naomi Neft. 641.5 NEF
- The rights of women: the authoritative ACLU guide to women’s rights. Lenora M. Lapidus, Emily J. Martin, Namita Luthra. 346.0134 LAP
- Savage summit: the true stories of the first five women who climbed K2, the world’s most feared mountain. Jennifer Jordan. 796.522 JOR
- See Jane win: the Rimm report on how 1,000 girls became successful women. Sylvia Rimm. 155.5 RIM
- Selling women short: the landmark battle for workers’ rights at Wal-Mart. Liza Featherstone. 331.4 FEA
- Sex with the queen: 900 years of vile kings, virile lovers, and passionate politics. Eleanor Herman. 940 HER
- She has done a good thing: Mennonite women leaders tell their stories. 289.7 SHE
- She-wolves: the women who ruled England before Elizabeth. Helen Castor. 942 CAS
- A shining thread of hope: the history of Black women in America. Darlene Clark Hine. 973.0496 HIN
- Shortchanged: why women have less wealth and what can be done about it. Mariko Lin Chang. 339.22 CHA
- The silenced cry: one woman’s diary of a journey to Afghanistan. Ana Tortajada. 915.81 TOR
- Skirting the issue: stories of Indiana’s historical women artists. Judith Vale Newton, Carol Ann Weiss. Ind. Coll. 704.042 NEW
- Sovereign ladies: the six reigning queens of England. Maureen Waller. 942 WAL
- Standing alone in Mecca: an American woman’s pilgrimage into the heart of Islam. Asra Q. Nomani. 297.352 NOM
- The status of women in Indiana. Ind. Coll. 305.4
- The story of Ruth: twelve moments in every woman’s life. Joan D. Chittister. 248.843 CHI
- The storyteller’s daughter. Saira Shah. 958.104 SHA
- The supergirls: fashion, feminism, fantasy, and the history of comic book heroines. Mike Madrid. Y 741.5 MAD
- 33 things every girl should know about women’s history. Y 305.4 THI
- This day in the life: diaries from women across America. 305.4 THI
- Three wishes: a true story of good friends, crushing heartbreak, and astonishing luck on our way to love and motherhood. Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones, Pamela Ferdinand. 306.8743 GOL
- A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France. Caroline Moorehead. 940.5336 MOO
- Under the sabers: the unwritten code of Army wives. Tanya Biank. 355.12 BIA
- Unveiled: the hidden lives of Nuns. Cheryl L. Reed. 271.9 REE
- War is not over when it’s over: women speak out from the ruins of war. Ann Jones. 363.3498 JON
- Water from the well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah. Anne Roiphe. 222.11 ROI
- Wheels of change: how women rode the bicycle to freedom (with a few flat tires along the way). Sue Macy. Y 796.6 MAC, J 796.6 MACY
- When everything changed: the amazing journey of American women, from 1960 to the present. Gail Collins. 305.4209 COL
- Why women should rule the world. Dee Dee Myers. 973.929 MYE
- Women impressionists. 759.054 WOM
- Women in early America: struggle, survival, and freedom in a new world. Dorothy A. Mays. 305.4 MAY
- Women in pants: manly maidens, cowgirls, and other renegades. Catherine Smith. Y 391.2 SMI
- Women of taste: a collaboration celebrating quilt artists and chefs. 746.46 WOM
- Women of the American Revolution. Louise Chipley Slavicek. 973.3 SLA
- The women of the cousins’ war: the duchess, the queen, and the king’s mother. Philippa Gregory, David Baldwin, Michael Jones. 942.04 GRE
- Women of the world: a global collection of art. 704.042 WOM
- Women travelers: a century of trailblazing adven-tures, 1850-1950. Christel Mouchard. 910.92 MOU
- Women who risk: profiles of women in extreme sports. Marilyn Olsen. 796.082 OLS
- Women’s letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the present. 920.72 WOM
- Women’s rights. 323.34 WOM
- A world apart: women, prison, and life behind bars. Cristina Rathbone. 365.43 RAT
- A world of our own: women as artists since the Renaissance. Frances Borzello. 704.042 BOR
- A year of Biblical womanhood: how a liberated woman found herself sitting on her roof, covering her head, and calling her husband “master”. Rachel Held Evans. 220 EVA
POETRY & LITERATURE
- After every war: twentieth-century women poets. 831 AFT
- Between the heart and the land = Entre el corazon y la tierra: Latina poets in the Midwest. 811.008 BET
- The extraordinary tide: new poetry by American women. 811.008 EXT
- Girl sleuth: Nancy Drew and the women who created her. Melanie Rehak. 813 REH
- Her words: diverse voices in contemporary Appalachian women’s poetry. 811.009 HER
- I am the beggar of the world: landays from contemporary Afghanistan. 891.593 IAM
- A journey with two maps: becoming a woman poet. Eavan Boland. 824 BOL
- A jury of her peers: American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. Elaine Showalter. 810.9 SHO
- Let me tell you where I’ve been: new writing by women of the Iranian diaspora. 810.8092 LET
- Modernist Women Poets: an anthology. 811.008 MOD
- Songs of love and war: Afghan women’s poetry. Sayd Bahodine Majrouh. 891.593 MAJ
- Watercolor women, opaque men: a novel in verse. Ana Castillo. 811 CAS
- The woman I kept to myself. Julia Alvarez. 811 ALV
BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR
- 5 Black Women, Inc.: 25 stories that gave birth to a company. Annette Y. Britton. Ind. Coll. B Britton
- Ada Blackjack: a true story of survival in the Arctic. Jennifer Niven. B Blackjack
- Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker. Stacy A. Cordery. B Longworth
- All things at once. Mika Brzezinski. 070.92 BRZ
- All we know: three lives. Lisa Cohen. 920.72 COH
- Amelia Earhart: the thrill of it. Susan Wels. B Earhart
- American Jezebel: the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans. Eve LaPlante. B Hutchinson
- America’s mom: the life, lessons, and legacy of Ann Landers. Rick Kogan. B Landers
- And his lovely wife: a memoir from the woman beside the man. Connie Schultz. B Schultz
- At Powerline and Diamond Hill: unexpected intersections of life and work. Lee Snyder. B Snyder
- Barefoot heart: stories of a migrant child. Elva Trevino Hart. B Hart, Spanish Lang. 973.0468 HAR
- Beatrix Potter: a life in nature. Linda Lear. B Potter
- Becoming Jane Austen. Jon Spence. B Austen
- Becoming Queen Victoria: the tragic death of Princess Charlotte and the unexpected rise of Britain’s greatest monarch. Kate Williams. 941.081 WIL
- Bend, not break: a life in two worlds. Ping Fu. B Fu
- Betrayed: the assassination of Digna Ochoa. Linda Diebel. 364.1523 DIE
- Between two worlds: my life and captivity in Iran. Roxana Saberi. 070.92 SAB
- Big world: a girl’s own adventure. Claire Brownsworth. Y 910.4 BRO
- Billie Holiday: the musician and the myth. John Szwed. B Holiday
- Black, white and Jewish: autobiography of a shifting self. Rebecca Walker. B Walker
- Blasphemy: a memoir: sentenced to death over a cup of water. Asia Bibi. B Bibi
- The body and the book: writing from a Mennonite life: essays and poems. Julia Kasdorf. B Kasdorf
- Book of ages: the life and opinions of Jane Franklin. Jill Lepore. B Mecom
- Born with teeth: a memoir. Kate Mulgrew. B Mulgrew
- Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero. Kate Clifford Larson. B Tubman
- Breath: a lifetime in the rhythm of an iron lung: a memoir. Martha Mason. B Mason
- The Brontes at Haworth. Ann Dinsdale. B Bronte
- Bugatti queen: in search of a French racing legend. Miranda Seymour. B Nice
- Burned alive: a victim of the law of men. 362.8292 SOU
- The butterfly mosque. G. Willow Wilson. B Wilson
- Calamity Jane: the woman and the legend. James D. McLaird. B Calamity Jane
- A century of wisdom: lessons from the life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor. Caroline Stoessinger. B Herz-Sommer
- Charlotte Brontë: a fiery heart. Claire Harman. B Bronte
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe: a biography. Elaine Showalter. B Howe
- Claiming ground. Laura Bell. B Bell
- Claudette Colvin: twice toward justice. Phillip Hoose. Y 323.092 HOO
- Cleopatra: a life. Stacy Schiff. B Cleopatra
- The climb of my life: scaling mountains with a borrowed heart. Kelly Perkins. 796.522 PER
- Climbing the mango trees: a memoir of a childhood in India. Madhur Jaffrey. 641.509 JAF
- Clover Adams: a gilded and heartbreaking life. Natalie Dykstra. B Adams
- Coco Chanel: the legend and the life. Justine Picardie. B Chanel
- The confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the creation of the Bush legacy. Glenn Kessler. 973.931 KES
- Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: the story of a daughter and a mother in the Gilded Age. Amanda Mackenzie Stuart. B Vanderbilt
- The convert: a tale of exile and extremism. Deborah Baker. 297.574 BAK
- The cooked seed: a memoir. Anchee Min. B Min
- Country girl: a memoir. Edna O’Brien. B O’Brien
- Crazy love: a memoir. Leslie Morgan Steiner. 362.8292 STE
- Crossing over: one woman’s exodus from Amish life. Ruth Irene Garrett. B Garrett
- Cyndi Lauper: a memoir. Cyndi Lauper. B Lauper
- Danica–: crossing the line. Danica Patrick. B Patrick
- Daring: my passages. Gail Sheehy. B Sheehy
- Daughters of the samurai: a journey from East to West and back. Janice P. Nimura. 920.72 NIM
- Dear Senator: a memoir of the daughter of Strom Thurmond. Essie Mae Washington-Williams. 973.9 WAS
- Decca: the letters of Jessica Mitford. B Mitford
- Diana of the Dunes: the true story of Alice Gray. Janet Zenke Edwards. Ind. Coll. B Gray
- A dip in the ocean: rowing solo across the Indian. Sarah Outen. Y 910.916 OUT
- The discovery of Jeanne Baret: a story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Glynis Ridley. B Baret
- Dolores Huerta: labor leader. Debra A. Miller. B Huerta
- The dressmaker of Khair Khana: five sisters, one remarkable family, and the woman who risked everything to keep them safe. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. 958.1 TZE
- Eating pomegranates: a memoir of mothers, daughters, and the BRCA gene. Sarah Gabriel. 362.1969 GAB
- Eighty days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s history-making race around the world. Matthew Goodman. 910.41 GOO
- Elizabeth of York: a Tudor queen and her world. Alison Weir. B Elizabeth
- Elizabeth the Queen: the life of a modern monarch. Sally Bedell Smith. B Elizabeth II
- Empress Dowager Cixi: the concubine who launched modern China. Jung Chang. B Cixi
- Escape. Carolyn Jessop. 289.33 JES
- Escape points: a memoir. Michele Weldon. 362.1969 WEL
- Everybody’s got something. Robin Roberts. B Roberts
- Extraordinary, ordinary people: a memoir of family. Condoleezza Rice. B Rice
- Fair game. Valerie Plame Wilson. B Wilson
- The far traveler: voyages of a Viking woman. Nancy Marie Brown. 970.013 BRO
- Farmworker’s daughter: growing up Mexican in America. Rose Castillo Guilbault. 305.488 GUI
- Fashion is freedom: how a girl from Tehran broke the rules to change her world. Tala Raassi. 746.92 RAA
- The favored daughter: one woman’s fight to lead Afghanistan into the future. Fawzia Koofi. B Koofi
- Fight on!: Mary Church Terrell’s battle for integration. Dennis Brindell Fradin. Y 323.092 FRA
- A fighting chance. Elizabeth Warren. 328.73 WAR
- Flappers: six women of a dangerous generation. Judith Mackrell. 920.72 MACK
- Forbidden lessons in a Kabul guesthouse: the true story of a woman who risked everything to bring hope to Afghanistan. Suraya Sadeed. 958.1047 SAD
- Gabby: a story of courage and hope. Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly. B Giffords, Large Type B Giffords
- Gellhorn. Caroline Moorehead. B Gellhorn
- Gertrude Bell: queen of the desert, shaper of nations. Georgina Howell. B Bell
- Girl hunter: revolutionizing the way we eat, one hunt at a time. Georgia Pellegrini. 799.2 PEL
- God moves mountains one pebble at a time: the healing journey of Naomi Stoltzfus. B Stoltzfus
- Going rogue: an American life. Sarah Palin. B Palin, Large Type B Palin
- Hard choices. Hillary Rodham Clinton. B Clinton, Large Type B Clinton, Spanish Lang. B Clinton, Ebook, EAudiobook
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: a spiritual life. Nancy Koester. B Stowe
- Harriet Tubman: a biography. James A. McGowan, William C. Kashatus. B Tubman
- Healing hearts: a memoir of a female heart surgeon. Kathy E. Magliato. 617.412 MAG
- Hildegard of Bingen: a spiritual reader. Carmen Acevedo Butcher. 248.22 BUT
- Hillary Clinton. Dena B. Levy. B Clinton
- HRC: state secrets and the rebirth of Hillary Clinton. Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes. B Clinton
- I, Nadia, wife of a terrorist. Baya Gacemi. 965 GAC
- Ida McKinley: the turn-of-the-century first lady through war, assassination, and secret disability. Carl Sferrazza Anthony. B McKinley
- If nuns ruled the world: ten sisters on a mission. Jo Piazza. 255.9 PIA
- An illuminated life: Belle da Costa Greene’s journey from prejudice to privilege. Heidi Ardizzone. B Greene
- I’m still standing: from captive U.S. soldier to free citizen–my journey home. Shoshana Johnson. 956.7044 JOH
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. Rebecca Skloot. 616.0277 SKL, Large Type 616.0277 SKL, Y 616.0277 SKL
- Immortal summer: a Victorian woman’s travels in the Southwest: the 1897 letters & photographs of Amelia Hollenback. 979 HOL
- In my father’s country: an Afghan woman defies her fate. Saima Wahab. 958.1047 WAH
- In the body of the world. Eve Ensler. B Ensler
- In the name of honor: a memoir. Mukhtar Mai. B Mai
- Incidents in the life of a slave girl: contexts, criticism. Harriet Jacobs. B Jacobs
- Infidel. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. B Hirsi Ali
- Inside the kingdom: my life in Saudi Arabia. Carmen Bin Ladin. B Bin Ladin
- It’s what I do: a photographer’s life of love and war. Lynsey Addario. 770.92 ADD
- James Tiptree, Jr.: the double life of Alice B. Sheldon. Julie Phillips. B Tiptree
- Jane Addams: spirit in action. Louise W. Knight. B Addams
- Jane Goodall: the woman who redefined man. Dale Peterson. B Goodall
- Janis Joplin: rise up singing. Ann Angel. Y 782.4216 ANG
- Joan of Arc. Mary Gordon. B Joan of Arc
- Journey from the land of no: a girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran. Roya Hakakian. B Hakakian
- Joy: poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis. Abigail Santamaria. B Davidman
- Katherine the queen: the remarkable life of Katherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII. Linda Porter. B Catharine Parr
- Katie: the real story. Edward Klein. B Couric
- The keeper of Lime Rock: the remarkable true story of Ida Lewis, America’s most celebrated lighthouse keeper. Lenore Skomal. B Lewis
- The kings’ mistresses: the liberated lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and her sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin. Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. 944.033 GOL
- Know your power: a message to America’s daughters. Nancy Pelosi. 328.73 PEL
- The lady and the panda: the true adventures of the first American explorer to bring back China’s most exotic animal. Vicki Constantine Croke. 599.789 CRO
- The lady and the peacock: the life of Aung San Suu Kyi. Peter Popham. B Aung
- Lady Catherine, the earl, and the real Downton Abbey. The Countess of Carnarvon. B Carnarvon
- The lady in the tower: the fall of Anne Boleyn. Alison Weir. B Anne Boleyn
- The language of baklava. Diana Abu-Jaber. 641.595 ABU
- The last empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the birth of modern China. Hannah Pakula. B Chiang
- Leap of faith: memoirs of an unexpected life. Queen Noor. B Noor, Large Type B Noor, CD B Noor
- A Lenape among the Quakers: the life of Hannah Freeman. Dawn G. Marsh. 970.3 MAR
- Liar, temptress, soldier, spy: four women undercover in the Civil War. Karen Abbott. 973.785 ABB
- A life displaced: a Mennonite woman’s flight from war-torn Poland. Edna Thiessen. B Thiessen
- A life in secrets: Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII. Sarah Helm. B Atkins
- Life is not a stage: from Broadway baby to a lovely lady and beyond. Florence Henderson. B Henderson
- Life so far. Betty Friedan. B Friedan
- Lipstick jihad: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran. Azadeh Moaveni. B Moaveni
- Listening for Madeleine: a portrait of Madeleine L’Engle in many voices. 813 LEN
- The long journey home: a memoir. Margaret Robison. B Robison
- The lost German slave girl. John Bailey. 305.8968 BAI
- Love in a torn land: Joanna of Kurdistan, the true story of a freedom fighter’s escape from Iraqi vengeance. Jean Sasson. 956.7044 SAS
- Love my rifle more than you: young and female in the U.S. Army. Kayla Williams. B Williams
- Lucrezia Borgia: life, love and death in Renaissance Italy. Sarah Bradford. B Borgia
- M train. Patti Smith. B Smith
- Madame Tussaud: a life in wax. Kate Berridge. B Tussaud
- The maid and the queen: the secret history of Joan of Arc. Nancy Goldstone. 944.026 GOL
- Make me a woman. Vanessa Davis. Graphic B Davis
- Marrying Anita: a quest for love in the new India. Anita Jain. B Jain
- Martha Washington: an American life. Patricia Brady. B Washington
- Mary: a flesh-and-blood biography of the Virgin Mother. Lesley Hazleton. 232.91 HAZ
- Mary Boleyn: the mistress of kings. Alison Weir. B Boleyn
- Mary Magdalene. Bruce Chilton. 226.092 CHI
- Mary McGrory: the first queen of journalism. John Norris. 070.92 NOR
- Mary Tudor: princess, bastard, queen. Anna Whitelock. B Mary I
- Mayada: daughter of Iraq: one woman’s survival under Saddam Hussein. Jean Sasson. 956.704 SAS, Spanish Lang. 956.704 SAS
- Michelle: a biography. Liza Mundy. B Obama
- Mighty be our powers: how sisterhood, prayer, and sex changed a nation at war: a memoir. Leymah Gbowee. B Gbowee, CD B Gbowee
- A million years with you: a memoir of life observed. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. B Thomas
- Miss Anne in Harlem: the white women of the Black Renaissance. Carla Kaplan. 700.92 KAP
- Miss Leavitt’s stars: the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe. George Johnson. 522.09 JOH
- Mockingbird: a portrait of Harper Lee. Charles J. Shields. B Lee
- Mother Angelica: the remarkable story of a nun, her nerve, and a network of miracles. Raymond Arroyo. 271.973 ARR, Spanish Lang. 271.973 ARR
- Mother Jones: the most dangerous woman in America. Elliott J. Gorn. B Jones
- Mrs. Lincoln: a life. Catherine Clinton. B Lincoln
- Mrs. Robinson’s disgrace: the private diary of a Victorian lady. Kate Summerscale. 941.081 SUM
- Muriel Spark: the biography. Martin Stannard. B Spark
- My beloved world. Sonia Sotomayor. B Sotomayor, Large Type B Sotomayor, Spanish Lang. B Sotomayor
- My prison, my home: one woman’s story of captivity in Iran. Haleh Esfandiari. 955.0542 ISF
- My wars are laid away in books: the life of Emily Dickinson. Alfred Habegger. B Dickinson
- Naked in the marketplace: the lives of George Sand. Benita Eisler. B Sand
- Nature’s storyteller: the life of Gene Stratton-Porter. Barbara Olenyik Morrow. B Stratton-Porter
- The next big story: my journey through the land of possibilities. Soledad O’Brien. 070.92 OBR
- No higher honor: a memoir of my years in Washington. Condoleezza Rice. B Rice
- Nomad: from Islam to America–a personal journey through the clash of civilizations. Ayaan Hirsi Ali. B Hirsi Ali
- Not even my name: from a death march in Turkey to a new home in America, a young girl’s true story of genocide and survival. Thea Halo. B Halo
- Nylon road: a graphic memoir of coming of age in Iran. Parsua Bashi. Graphic B Bashi
- O my America!: six women and their second acts in a new world. Sara Wheeler. 973 WHE
- Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie Curie. Barbara Goldsmith. B Curie
- Off the sidelines: raise your voice, change the world. Kirsten Gillibrand. B Gillibrand
- On her own ground: the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker. A’Lelia Bundles. B Walker
- One woman’s army: the commanding general of Abu Ghraib tells her story. Janis Karpinski. 956.7044 KAR
- Open wide the freedom gates. Dorothy Height. B Height
- Oprah Winfrey. Helen S. Garson. B Winfrey
- The ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: a woman in world history. Linda Colley. B Marsh
- The Peabody sisters: three women who ignited American romanticism. Megan Marshall. B Peabody
- A Pearl in the storm: how I found my heart in the middle of the ocean. Tori Murden McClure. B McClure
- A perfect union: Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation. Catherine Allgor. B Madison
- Prisoner of Tehran. Marina Nemat. B Nemat
- Privilege and scandal: the remarkable life of Harriet Spencer, sister of Georgiana. Janet Gleeson. B Bessborough
- Publishing: a writer’s memoir. Gail Godwin. 813 GOD
- The Queen Mother: the official biography. William Shawcross. B Elizabeth Queen Mother
- The Queen Mother: the untold story of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who became the Queen Mother. Lady Colin Campbell. B Elizabeth
- Queen of Scots: the true life of Mary Stuart. John Guy. B Mary Stuart
- Read my pins: stories from a diplomat’s jewel box. Madeleine Albright. B Albright
- The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Jeanne Theoharis. B Parks, Large Type B Parks
- Ride of your life: a race car driver’s journey. Lyn St. James. 796.72 SAI
- Sally Ride: America’s first woman in space. Lynn Sherr. B Ride
- Sandra Day O’Connor: how the first woman on the Supreme Court became its most influential justice. Joan Biskupic. B O’Connor
- Savage beauty: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Nancy Milford. B Millay
- The sea captain’s wife: a true story of love, race, and war in the nineteenth century. Martha Hodes. B Connolly
- A search for purple cows: a true story of hope. Susan Call. B Call
- Seaworthy: a swordboat captain returns to the sea. Linda Greenlaw. 639.27 GRE
- Secrets of Mary Magdalene. 226.092 SEC, DVD
- Seducing the demon: writing for my life. Erica Jong. B Jong
- Sister in the band of brothers: embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq. Katherine M. Skiba. 956.7044 SKI
- Sister queens: the noble, tragic lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile. Julia Fox. 942.052 FOX
- Solo: a memoir of Hope. Hope Solo. B Solo
- The spy who loved: the secrets and lives of Christine Granville. Clare Mulley. B Granville
- Standing tall: a memoir of tragedy and triumph. C. Vivian Stringer. 796.323 STR
- Stevie Nicks: visions, dreams & rumours. Zöe Howe. B Nicks
- Still kicking: my journey as the first woman to play Division I college football. Katie Hnida. B Hnida
- The story of my life: an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky. Farah Ahmedi. 305.235 AHM
- Teta, mother, and me: three generations of Arab women. Jean Said Makdisi. B Makdisi
- Things I’ve been silent about: memories. Azar Nafisi. B Nafisi
- This child will be great: memoir of a remarkable life by Africa’s first woman president. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. B Johnson-Sirleaf
- The titled Americans: three American sisters and the British aristocratic world into which they married. Elisabeth Kehoe. B Jerome
- To the heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the exploration of Central Africa. Pat Shipman. 916.76 SHI
- Unbowed. Wangari Muta Maathai. B Maathai
- Unbreak my heart: a memoir. Toni Braxton. B Braxton
- Undaunted: my struggle for freedom and survival in Burma. Zoya Phan. 959.1 PHA
- Until the final hour: Hitler’s last secretary. Traudl Junge. B Junge
- Wanted women: faith, lies, and the war on terror: the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui. Deborah Scroggins. 305.4869 SCR
- The way forward is with a broken heart. Alice Walker. B Walker
- The way of the river: adventures and meditations of a woman martial artist. BK Loren. Y 796.8 LOR
- A way was opened: a memoir. Ruth Brunk Stoltzfus. B Stoltzfus
- Wendy and the lost boys: the uncommon life of Wendy Wasserstein. Julie Salamon. B Wasserstein
- When Montana and I were young: a frontier childhood. Margaret Bell. 978.6 BEL
- The woman behind the New Deal: the life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and his moral conscience. Kirstin Downey. B Perkins
- A woman in Berlin: eight weeks in the conquered city: a diary. 940.5343 WOM
- Women heroes of World War II: 26 stories of espionage, sabotage, resistance, and rescue. Kathryn J. Atwood. Y 940.53 ATW
- The women of the house: how a colonial she-merchant built a mansion, a fortune, and a dynasty. Jean Zimmerman. B Philipse
- Wonder girl: the magnificent sporting life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Don Van Natta Jr. B Zaharias
- Wrapped in rainbows: the life of Zora Neale Hurston. Valerie Boyd. B Hurston
- Yeh Yeh’s house. Evelina Chao. B Chao
- You never gave me a name: one Mennonite woman’s story. Katie Funk Wiebe. B Wiebe
- Zoya’s story: an Afghan woman’s struggle for freedom. Zoya. 958.104 ZOY, Audio 958.104 ZOY
FICTION
- Abigail. Jill Eileen Smith. Rel. Fic SMI
- Abundance: a novel of Marie Antoinette. Sena Jeter Naslund. Fic NAS
- Almost touching the skies: women’s coming of age stories. Y Fic ALM
- And she was. Cindy Dyson. Fic DYS
- The autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb. Melanie Benjamin. Fic BEN
- The baby lottery. Kathryn Trueblood. Fic TRU
- Bathsheba. Jill Eileen Smith. Rel. Fic SMI
- The blood of flowers. Anita Amirrezvani. Fic AMI
- Blueprints for building better girls: fiction. Elissa Schappell. Fic SCH
- Bond girl. Erin Duffy. Fic DUF
- Break any woman down: stories. Dana Johnson. Fic JOH
- The calligrapher’s daughter. Eugenia Kim. Fic KIM
- Calling invisible women. Jeanne Ray. Fic RAY
- City of veils. Zoe Ferraris. Mystery FER
- City of women. David R. Gillham. Fic GIL
- Clara and Mr. Tiffany. Susan Vreeland. Fic VRE, Large Type Fic VRE, CD Fic VRE
- Conquistadora. Esmeralda Santiago. Fic SAN, Spanish Lang. Fic SAN
- Daughter of Xanadu. Dori Jones Yang. Y Fic YAN
- Daughters of the stone. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa. Fic LLA
- Deadly. Julie Chibbaro. Y Fic CHI
- Diamond Ruby. Joseph Wallace. Fic WAL
- Duchess of Aquitaine: a novel of Eleanor. Margaret Ball. Fic BAL
- Duchessina: a novel of Catherine De Medici. Carolyn Meyer. Y Fic MEY
- Eight girls taking pictures. Whitney Otto. Fic OTT, Large Type Fic OTT
- The emancipator’s wife: a novel of Mary Todd Lincoln. Barbara Hambly. Fic HAM
- The favored queen: a novel of Henry VIII’s third wife. Carolly Erickson. Fic ERI
- Flygirl. Sherri L. Smith. Y Fic SMI
- A flying affair. Carla Stewart. Rel. Fic STE
- The gilded chamber: a novel of Queen Esther. Rebecca Kohn. Fic KOH
- Girl reading. Katie Ward. Fic WAR
- Hattie Big Sky. Kirby Larson. Y Fic LAR
- The heart specialist. Claire Holden Rothman. Fic ROT
- I shall be near to you. Erin Lindsay McCabe. Fic MACC
- In a gilded cage. Rhys Bowen. Mystery BOW
- Innocent traitor: a novel of Lady Jane Grey. Alison Weir. Fic WEI
- Journey to the well. Diana Wallis Taylor. Rel. Fic TAY
- Jump at the sun. Kim McLarin. Fic MACL
- The Lady Elizabeth. Alison Weir. Fic WEI
- Lilah: a forbidden love, a people’s destiny. Marek Halter. Fic HAL, Large Type Fic HAL, CD Fic HAL
- Madame Bovary’s daughter. Linda Urbach. Fic URB
- Madame Tussaud: a novel of the French revolution. Michelle Moran. Fic MOR
- Magdalene. Angela Hunt. Rel. Fic HUN
- Mary of Nazareth. Marek Halter. Fic HAL
- Michal. Jill Eileen Smith. Rel. Fic SMI
- Mrs. Lincoln’s dressmaker. Jennifer Chiaverini. Fic CHI
- Naomi and her daughters. Walter Wangerin, Jr. Rel. Fic WAN
- Nefertiti. Michelle Moran. Fic MOR
- Nine days a queen: the short life and reign of Lady Jane Grey. Ann Rinaldi. Y Fic RIN
- Nomansland. Lesley Hauge. Y Fic HAU
- The other queen. Philippa Gregory. Fic GRE
- Patriot hearts. Barbara Hambly. Fic HAM
- Pearl of China. Anchee Min. Fic MIN
- Peony in love. Lisa See. Fic SEE, Large Type Fic SEE
- Play ball. Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir. Y 741.5 DEF
- Queen defiant: a novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Anne O’Brien. Fic OBR
- Rachel and Leah: women of Genesis. Orson Scott Card. Rel. Fic CAR
- Rashi’s daughters. Maggie Anton. Fic ANT
- Rebekah: a novel. Jill Eileen Smith. Rel. Fic SMI
- Remarkable creatures. Tracy Chevalier. Fic CHE, Large Type Fic CHE
- Sarah. Marek Halter. Fic HAL, Large Type, CD
- Sarai. Jill Eileen Smith. Rel. Fic SMI
- Sex wars. Marge Piercy. Fic PIE
- A short history of women. Kate Walbert. Fic WAL
- Soldier’s secret: the story of Deborah Sampson. Sheila Solomon Klass. Y Fic KLA
- Some sing, some cry. Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza. Fic SHA
- These is my words: the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901. Nancy E. Turner. Fic TUR
- Vanessa & Virginia. Susan Sellers. Fic SEL
- Velva Jean learns to fly. Jennifer Niven. Fic NIV
- Victoria rebels. Carolyn Meyer. Y Fic MEY
- Wench. Dolen Perkins-Valdez. Fic PER
- The wild queen: the days and nights of Mary, Queen of Scots. Carolyn Meyer. Y Fic MEY
- Zipporah, wife of Moses. Marek Halter. Fic HAL, Large Type Fic HAL, CD Fic HAL
REFERENCE
- Black women in America. R 920 BLA
- The Penguin atlas of women in the world. Joni Seager. R 305.4 SEA
- Reference library of American women. R 920.7 REF
- Women in American society. R 300.7 INF
AUDIOBOOKS
- Bobbed hair and bathtub gin: writers running wild in the Twenties. Marion Meade. CD 810.9 MEA
- The naked truth: a working woman’s manifesto on business and what really matters. Margaret Heffernan. CD 658.4 HEF
DVDS & VIDEOS
- Amelia. DVD Drama A
- Backstairs at the White House. DVD Drama B
- Bend it like Beckham. DVD Foreign B, VIDEO
- Daughters of Afghanistan. DVD 958.1046
- Elizabeth I. DVD Drama E
- Fly girls. DVD 940.5449
- Generation M: misogyny in media and culture. DVD 305.42
- The iron lady. DVD Drama I
- Joan of Arc: virgin warrior. Video B Joan of Arc
- Killing us softly 4: advertising’s image of women. DVD 659.1042
- Marie Antoinette. DVD Drama M
- Mary, Queen of Scots. DVD Drama M
- Panihari: the water women of India. DVD 915.44
- Reviving Ophelia. DVD Drama R
- The secret life of Geisha. DVD 792.702
- A woman of independent means. DVD Drama W
CHILDREN’S NONFICTION
- Almost astronauts: 13 women who dared to dream. Tanya Lee Stone. J 629.45 STO
- Amelia to Zora: twenty-six women who changed the world. Cynthia Chin-Lee. J 920.72 CHI
- Ancient Egyptian women. Ruth Manning. J 932 MAN
- Ancient Roman women. Brian Williams. J 937 WIL
- Changing Woman and her sisters: stories of goddesses from around the world. Katrin Hyman Tchana. J 398.21 TCH
- Colonial women. Niki Walker. J 973.2 WAL
- Count on us: American women in the military. Amy Nathan. J 355 NAT
- Daring women of the American Revolution. Francis Walsh. J 973.3 WAL
- Daring women of the Civil War. Carin T. Ford. J 973.71 FOR
- Daughters of Eve: strong women of the Bible. Lillian Hammer Ross. J 220.9 ROS
- Extraordinary women of the American West. Judy Alter. J 920 ALT
- Fiesta femenina: celebrating women in Mexican folktale. Mary-Joan Gerson. J 398.209 GER
- From rags to riches: a history of girls’ clothing in America. Leslie Sills. J 391.2 SIL
- Girls: a history of growing up female in America. Penny Colman. J 973.083 COL
- Girls who rocked the world: heroines from Sacagawea to Sheryl Swoopes. Amelie Welden. J 920 WEL
- Good girl work: factories, sweatshops, and how women changed their role in the American workforce. Catherine Gourley. J 331.4 GOU
- Heroines of the American Revolution: America’s founding mothers. Diane Silcox-Jarrett. J 973.3 SIL
- How high can we climb?: the story of women explorers. Jeannine Atkins. J 910.92 ATK
- If you lived when women won their rights. Anne Kamma. J 324.6 KAM
- In real life: six women photographers. Leslie Sills. J 770 SIL
- Not one damsel in distress: world folktales for strong girls. Jane Yolen. J 398.22 YOL
- Once upon a heroine: 450 books for girls to love. Alison Cooper-Mullin. 011.624 COO
- Outrageous women of the American frontier. Mary Rodd Furbee. J 920.72 FUR
- Patriots in petticoats. Shirley Redmond. J 973.3
- Sea queens: women pirates around the world. Jane Yolen. J 910.45 YOL
- The serpent slayer: and other stories of strong women. Katrin Tchana. J 398.22 TCH
- Wheels of change: how women rode the bicycle to freedom (with a few flat tires along the way). Sue Macy. J 796.6 MACY, Y 796.6 MAC
- Women daredevils. Julie Cummins. J 791.092 CUM
- Women explorers of the mountains. Margo McLoone. J 796.52 MACL
- Women of the American West. Liz Sonneborn. J 978 SON
- Women’s suffrage. Deborah Kops. J 324.6 KOP
CHILDREN’S BIOGRAPHIES
- Abigail Adams. Alexandra Wallner. EB Adams
- Amelia Earhart: legendary aviator. Brenda Haugen. JB Earhart
- Anne Bailey: frontier scout. Mary R. Furbee. JB Bailey
- Anne Elizabeth’s diary: a young artist’s true story. Anne Elizabeth Rector. JB Rector
- Annie Oakley: American sharpshooter. Brenda Haugen. JB Oakley
- Belle of the West: the true story of Belle Starr. Margaret Rau. JB Starr
- Bobbie Rosenfeld: the Olympian who could do everything. Anne Dublin. JB Rosenfeld
- Bottle houses: the creative world of Grandma Prisbrey. Melissa Eskridge Slaymaker. EB Prisbrey
- Bridget “Biddy” Mason: from slave to businesswoman. Jean Kinney Williams. JB Mason
- Bylines: a photobiography of Nellie Bly. Sue Macy. JB Bly
- Carrie Chapman Catt: a voice for women. Kristin Thoennes Keller. JB Catt
- Catherine de Medici: the power behind the French throne. Barbara Somervill. JB Catherine de Medicis
- Chien-Shiung Wu: pioneering physicist and atomic researcher. Stephanie H. Cooperman. JB Wu
- Cissie Palmer: putting wealth to work. Judy Alter. EB Palmer
- Cleopatra. Adele Geras. JB Cleopatra
- Danica Patrick. Jason Glaser. JB Patrick
- The diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War nurse. JB Taylor
- Dolores Huerta: labor leader and civil rights activist. Robin S. Doak. JB Huerta
- Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the world. Barbara A. Somervill. JB Roosevelt
- Elizabeth Blackwell: a life of diligence. Ann-Marie Kishel. EB Blackwell
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: social reformer. Michael Burgan. JB Stanton
- Elizabeth Dole: public servant and senator. Dana Meachen Rau. JB Dole
- Elizabeth I: Queen of Tudor England. Myra Weatherly. JB Elizabeth I
- Elizabeth Van Lew: Civil War spy. Heidi Schoof. JB Van Lew
- Ellen Ochoa: the first Hispanic woman in space. Joy Paige. JB Ochoa
- The escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s slave finds freedom. Emily Arnold McCully. EB Judge
- Florence Nightingale and the advancement of nursing. Bonnie Hinman. JB Nightingale
- The forbidden schoolhouse: the true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students. Suzanne Jurmain. JB Crandall
- Gertrude Elion: Nobel prize winner in physiology and medicine. Jennifer MacBain. JB Elion
- The girl from Chimel. Rigoberta Menchu. JB Menchu
- Gloria Steinem: champion of women’s rights. Nancy Garhan Attebury. JB Steinem
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov. Mary Englar. J 947.083 ENG
- Grandma Moses. Alexandra Wallner. EB Moses
- Harriet Tubman, secret agent. Thomas B. Allen. JB Tubman
- Hatshepsut: the princess who became king. Ellen Galford. JB Hatshepsut
- Helen Keller. David A. Adler. EB Keller
- Hypatia: mathematician, inventor, and philosopher. Sandy Donovan. JB Hypatia
- I could do that!: Esther Morris gets women the vote. Linda Arms White. EB Morris
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett: powerhouse with a pen. Catherine A. Welch. JB Wells-Barnett
- Isak Dinesen: Gothic storyteller. Roger Leslie. JB Dinesen
- Jane Addams: a photo biography. John Riley. EB Addams
- Joan of Arc: heroine of France. Ann Tompert. EB Joan of Arc
- The last princess: the story of Princess Ka`iulani of Hawai`i. Fay Stanley. JB Kaiulani
- Madam C.J. Walker: entrepreneur and millionaire. Darlene R. Stille. JB Walker
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek: face of modern China. Sandy Donovan. JB Chiang
- Margaret Bourke-White: her pictures were her life. Susan Goldman Rubin. JB White
- Marvelous Mattie: how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor. Emily Arnold McCully. EB Knight
- Mary Cassatt: impressionist painter. Lois V. Harris. JB Cassatt
- Mary Wollstonecraft and the rights of women. Calvin Craig Miller. JB Wollstonecraft
- Mercy Otis Warren: author and historian. Jennifer Blizin Gillis. JB Warren
- Mighty Jackie: the strike-out queen. Marissa Moss. EB Mitchell
- Patience Wright: America’s first sculptor, and revolutionary spy. Pegi Deitz Shea. JB Wright
- Phillis Wheatley: slave and poet. Robin S. Doak. JB Wheatley
- Queen Noor: American-born queen of Jordan. Lucia Raatma. JB Noor
- Rare treasure: Mary Anning and her remarkable discoveries. Don Brown. EB Anning
- Rosa. Nikki Giovanni. EB Parks
- Rosalind Franklin. Cath Senker. JB Franklin
- Sacagawea. Stacy DeKeyser. JB Sacagawea
- Searching for Chipeta: the story of a Ute and her people. Vickie Leigh Krudwig. JB Chipeta
- Sojourner Truth: preacher for freedom and equality. Suzanne Slade. JB Truth
- Spirit like a storm: the story of Mary Shelley. Calvin Craig Miller. JB Shelley
- A strong right arm: the story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson. Michelle Y. Green. JB Johnson
- Talkin’ about Bessie: the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman. Nikki Grimes. JB Coleman
- They called her Molly Pitcher. Anne Rockwell. EB Pitcher
- Venus and Serena Williams. David and Patricia Armentrout. EB Williams
- Victoria Woodhull: first woman presidential candidate. Jacqueline McLean. JB Woodhull
- Vision of beauty: the story of Sarah Breedlove Walker. Kathryn Lasky. EB Walker
- The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights. Russell Freedman. JB Anderson
- Wangari’s trees of peace: a true story from Africa. Jeanette Winter. EB Wangari
- When Esther Morris headed West: women, Wyoming, and the right to vote. Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge. EB Morris
- Wild Rose: Nancy Ward and the Cherokee Nation. Mary R. Furbee. JB Ward
- Wilma Mankiller: chief of the Cherokee Nation. Pamela Dell. JB Mankiller
CHILDREN’S FICTION
- Getting in the game. Dawn FitzGerald. J FIT
- The girl who threw butterflies. Mick Cochrane. J COC
- Girls to the rescue: tales of clever, courageous girls from around the world. J GIR
- You come to Yokum. Carol Otis Hurst. J HUR
PICTURE BOOKS & EASY READERS
- Dirt on their skirts: the story of the young women who won the world championship. Doreen Rappaport, Lyndall Callan. Pic RAP
- Elena’s serenade. Campbell Geeslin. Pic GEE
- Girl, you’re amazing! Virginia Kroll. Pic KRO
- Girls A to Z. Eve Bunting. Pic BUN
- Girls hold up this world. Jada Pinkett Smith. Pic SMI
- How the Amazon queen fought the prince of Egypt. Tamara Bower. Pic BOW
- Mama went to jail for the vote. Kathleen Karr. Pic KAR
- Pilot mom. Kathleen Benner Duble. Pic DUB
- Players in pigtails. Shana Corey. Pic COR
- Stagecoach Sal. Deborah Hopkinson. Pic HOP
- Touchdown! Alyson Heller. E HEL
- Voting rights days. Ellen Weiss. E WEI
- You forgot your skirt, Amelia Bloomer: a very improper story. Shana Corey. Pic COR
LA HISTORIA DE LAS MUJERES EN ESPAÑOL / WOMEN’S HISTORY IN SPANIAH
- Corazón descalzo: historias de una niña migratoria. Elva Treviño Hart. Spanish Lang. 973.0468 HAR
- Cleopatra. Ignacio Saúl Pérez-Juana de Casal. Spanish Lang. B Cleopatra
- Isabel I, Reina de Inglaterra: la reina virgen. Enrique Sarasa Bara. Spanish Lang. B Elizabeth I
- Juana la Loca: reina de España. Luis Cantalapiedra. Spanish Lang. B Juana
- Retazos de mi vida: testimonio de una revolucionaria salvadoreña. Lorena Pena Mendoza. Spanish Lang. B Palacios
- Las seis esposas de Enrique VIII. Antonio Fraser. Spanish Lang. 942.052 FRA
- Sonia Sotomayor: una sabia decisión. Spanish Lang. B Sotomayor
- Vivas en su jardín: la verdadera historia de las hermanas Mirabal y su lucha por la libertad. Dede Mirabal. Spanish Lang. B Mirabal
- Leona. Celia del Palacio. Spanish Lang. Fic PAL
- Ellen Ochoa: la primera astronauta latina. Lila y Rick Guzman. Sp. Lang. JB Ochoa
- Frida Kahlo: pinto su vida. Lila y Rick Guzman. Sp. Lang. JB Kahlo
- My name is Gabriela: the life of Gabriela Mistral = Me llamo Gabriela: la vida de Gabriela Mistral. Monica Brown. Sp. Lang. EB Mistral