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The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad
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How did women enter the New York Police Department? A retired Army major general tackles the story of pioneer policewoman Mae Foley—born ...Read Review
The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back
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As stated in the author’s subtitle, “Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back,” this nod to Eleanor Roosevelt, wife ...Read Review
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
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Thurídur Einarsdóttir (1777-1863) was born in a hamlet on the harsh coast of Iceland, the child of a poor seasonal fishing ...Read Review
The Red Widow
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Professor Sarah Horowitz’s fluid, story-like biography of colorful femme fatal Marguerite “Meg” Steinheil makes this Belle Époque hostess accessible through her thorough ...Read Review
What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World
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In the 1940s a pair of psychologists began to test the effects of segregation on Black children using what has become famous as ...Read Review
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie / Murder Isn’t Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
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The subtitle of this book about says it all: it’s a compendium of different aspects of forensic science, viewed through Agatha Christie’...Read Review
The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice (Suspenseful and Propulsive Historical Narrative Nonfiction)
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Katharine Clark was a foreign correspondent reporting for American news services from Yugoslavia in the mid-1950s after Marshal Josip Broz Tito broke ...Read Review
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
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Eder vividly brings to life a collection of stories about women who neither sought out the spotlight during World War II nor received ...Read Review
Carnegie’s Maid
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Clara Kelley finds her way from an impoverished village in Galway to the bustling streets of Pittsburgh, determined to secure a position in ...Read Review
The Other Einstein
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Mitza Marič is a brilliant young woman whose family struggles to get her accepted into and excel at Zurich’s elite Polytechnic, one ...Read Review
