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Women are...: Celebrating Women's Achievements

Women are...

...Activists.

Link to What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Dispair to Action by Jane Fonda in the catalog
Link to Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernadine Evaristo in the catalog
Link to The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg in the catalog
Link to Love and Justice: a journey of empowerment, activism, and embracing Black beauty by Laetitia Ky in the catalog
Link to Unbound by Tarana Burke in the Catalog
Link to I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai in the Catalog
Link to The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall in the Catalog
Link Year of the Tiger: an activist's life by Alice Wong in the catalog

...Actors.

Link to Thicker than Water: a Memoir by Kerry Washington in the catalog
Link to Chita: a Memoir by Chita Rivera in the catalog
Link to Down the Drain: A Memoir by Julia Fox in the catalog
Link to Love, Pamela Anderson by Pamela Anderson in the catalog
Link to My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand in the catalog
Link to You should sit down for this : a memoir about wine, life, and cookies by Tamera Mowry-Housley the Catalog
Link to Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed by Donald Bogle in the catalog
Link to Making a Scene by Constance Wu in the catalog

...Artists.

Link to Kiki Man Ray: art, love, and rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude in the catalog
Link to Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel in the Catalog
Link to Vivian Maier Developed by Ann Marks in the Catalog
Link to Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin in the catalog
Link to Bisa Butler: Portraits edited by Erica Warren in the Catalog
Link to The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel in the catalog
Link to Brushed Aside : the untold story of women in art by Noah Charney in the catalog
Link to Fashioned by Sargent edited by Erica Hirshler in the catalog

...Athletes.

Link to Naomi Osaka: her journey to finding her power and her voice by Ben Rothenberg in the catalog
Link to Good for a Girl by Lauren Fleshman in the catalog
Link to The Hard Parts : A Memoir of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters in the catalog
Link to Queen of the Court: the many lives of tennis legend Alice Marble by Madeleine Blais in the catalog
Link to Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham by Deborah Jowitt in the catalog
Link to Strong Like Her: a celebration of rule breakers, history makers, and unstoppable athletes by Haley Shapley in the catalog
Link to Seeing Serena by Gerald Marzorati in the Catalog
Link to When Women Stood: the untold history of females who changed sports and the world by Alexandra Allred in the catalog

...Comedians.

link to Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams Is No Joke by London Hughes in the catalog
Link to Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir by Leslie Jones in the catalog
Link to Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford in the catalog
Link to Dear Girls by Ali Wong in the Catalog
Link to Hello, Molly!: a Memoir by Molly Shannon in the catalog
Link to Black Friend: Essays by Ziwe in the catalog
Link to Yours Cruelly, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson in the Catalog
Link to Please Don't Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes by Phoebe Robinson in the Catalog

...Musicians.

Link to The Woman in Me by Britney Spears in the catalog
Link to But Will You Love Me Tomorrow? : an oral history of the '60s girl groups by Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz in the catalog
Link to This Woman's Work edited by Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson in the catalog
Link to Her country : how the women of country music became the success they were never supposed to be by Marissa R. Moss in the catalog
Link to Shine bright : a very personal history of black women in pop by Danyel Smith in the Catalog
Link to Talking to My Angels by Melissa Etheridge in the catalog
Link to Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton in the catalog
Link to Maybe We'll Make It: a Memoir by Margo Price in the Catalog

...Law Makers.

Link to Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson in the catalog
Link to There Is Nothing for You Here by Fiona Hill in the Catalog
Link to Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds by Huma Abedin in the catalog
Link to Shirley Chisholm: champion of Black feminist power politics by Anastasia C Curwood in the catalog
Link to This Is What America Looks Like by Ilhan Omar in the Catalog
Link to Believing by Anita Hill in the Catalog
Link to Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney in the catalog
Link to Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi by Susan Page in the Catalog

...Scientists.

Link to Not Necessarily Rocket Science by Kelli Gerardi in the Catalog
Link to A Portrait of the Scientist As a Young Woman: a memoir by Lindy Elkins-Tanton in the catalog
Link to The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike in the catalog
Link to Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Clair L. Evans in the Catalog
Link to Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini in the Catalog
Link to Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shutterly in the Catalog
Link to Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes in the Catalog
Link to Twice As Hard: the stories of Black women who fought to become physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century by Jasmine Brown in the catalog

...War Heroes.

Link to Fierce Ambition : the life and legend of war correspondent Maggie Higgins by Jennet Conant in the catalog
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers Who Went to War by Judith Mackrell in the Catalog
Link to The Sisterhood : the secret history of women at the CIA by Liza Mundy in the catalog
Link to The Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon in the Catalog
Link to Of Love & War by Lynsey Addario in the Catalog
Link to No Ordinary Assignment: a memoir by Jane Ferguson in the catalog
Link to All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner in the Catalog
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich in the Catalog

...Writers.

Link to Deep As the Sky, Red As the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig in the catalog
Link to You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston in the Catalog
Link to Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton
Link to Thunderclap: a memoir of art and life & sudden death by Laura Cummings in the catalog
Link to Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros in the catalog
Link to Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel by Bonnie Garmus in the catalog
Link to Y/n: a novel by Esther Yi in the catalog
Link to Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby in the catalog

Watch

Link to She Said 2023 film by Universal Pictures in the catalog
Link to Hidden Figures in the Catalog
Link to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in the Catalog
Link to On The Basis of Sex in the Catalog
Link to Whitney Houston : I wanna dance with somebody 2023 film directed by Kasi Lemmons in the catalog
Link to Harriet 2020 film directed by Kasi Lemmons in the catalog
Link to Unsung Heroes: The Story of America's Female Patriots in the Catalog
Link to Selena in the Catalog
Link to The Iron Lady in the Catalog
Link to Jackie in the Catalog
Link to Amazing Grace in the Catalog
Link to Code Girls in the Catalog
Link to Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict in the Catalog
Link to Queen of Katwe in the Catalog
Link to Bessie in the Catalog
Link to Wild in the Catalog