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  • Women’s History Month Suggestions

    Just as the title implies Kathryn Atwood’s books center on sung and unsung heroines during WW2. She has several popular ones like Sophie scholl, Carrie ten boom, Josephine Baker, Irene Sandler and Martha Gelhorn, Nancy Wake, Noor Inayat Khan, and Virginia Hall, but she also shares plenty new ones. Split into seven sections of each…

  • Book Highlight: Vanished!

    During the Golden Age of Magic from 1860 to 1930, seven women magicians in America defied Victorian conventions and created a unique place in history for themselves and future performers to come. There was Anna, the mindreader; Adelaide, who could float in midair; Talma, who could magically shower the stage with gold coins…and many more!…

  • Book Highlight: Girls Who Run the World

    While everyone knows the big names, Tesla, Musk, Bezos, women have been inventing and leading just as long. After all women were the ones who invented the washing machine, Monopoly, windshield wipers, the list goes on. But you can read a history book if you want to learn more. Knapp is seeking to put a…