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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!…

  • Books for Women’s History Month

    It’s women’s history month again! And since last year I did a 8 part series of books one can read, I’m just relisting them here. You can search the tags by title or author to check out my thoughts and summaries on them. But basically one could choose to read a book a day for…

  • Women’s History Month Books P1

    In honor of Women’s History Month, here are some of my favorite nonfic books about historical and some present-day role models who broke boundaries and made (underrated) history.