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• Girl in a Band

  Gordon, Kim, 1953-

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  A founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence and as one of the first women of rock and roll.

• Lady Tan's Circle of Women

  a Novel

  See, Lisa,

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  Sent into an arranged marriage, doctor in training Tan Yunxian seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in 15th-century China.

• Brotopia

  Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

  Chang, Emily,

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  In Silicon Valley, male-dominated despite its utopian ideals and decades of companies claiming the moral high ground, women are finally starting to fight back against toxic workplaces and sexual harassment.

• Fly Girls

  How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

  O'Brien, Keith, 1973-

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  An award-winning journalist traces the lesser-known story of five women, including Amelia Earhart, who successfully fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s.

• Lessons in Chemistry

  a Novel

  Garmus, Bonnie,

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  In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.

• The Exceptions

  Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

  Zernike, Kate,

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  A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the inspiring story of Nancy Hopkins, a reluctant feminist who, in 1999, became the leader of sixteen female scientists who forced MIT to publicly admit it had been discriminating against its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Working 9 to 5

  a Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie

  Cassedy, Ellen,

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  Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered on the job. In a few short years, they had built a nationwide movement that united people of diverse races, classes, and ages.

• The Mad Girls of New York

  Rodale, Maya,

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  In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional, respectable and delicate to do the job.

• The Widows of Malabar Hill

  Massey, Sujata,

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  Bombay's first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.

• The Six

  the Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

  Grush, Loren,

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  The story of America’s first women astronauts, who made history in 1978 when they were selected to go into orbit aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle, each of them making their mark as they helped build the tools that made the space program run.

• What Stars Are Made of

  the Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

  Moore, Donovan,

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  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of, but her name is hard to find alongside those of Hubble, Herschel, and other great astronomers.