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Women are...: Celebrating Women's Achievements

Women are...

...Activists.

Link to Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Dr. Angela Y. Davis in the Catalog
Link to Unbound by Tarana Burke in the Catalog
Link to No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg in the Catalog
Link to What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth About Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics by Rachael Denhollander in the Catalog
Link to Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman in the Catalog
Link to The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza 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

...Actors.

Link to Love, Pamela Anderson by Pamela Anderson 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 Dying of Politeness: A Memoir by Geena Davis in the Catalog
Link to I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy in the catalog
Link to Making a Scene by Constance Wu in the catalog
Link to Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis
Link to Live wire : long-winded short stories by Kelly Ripa in the Catalog
Link to Finding Me by Viola Davis in the catalog

...Artists.

Link to Frida in America by Celia Stahr in the Catalog
Link to Vivian Maier Developed by Ann Marks in the Catalog
Link to Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective edited by Stephanie Rosenthal in the Catalog
Link to By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800 edited by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer and Oliver Tostmann in the Catalog
Link to Bisa Butler: Portraits edited by Erica Warren in the Catalog
Link to Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything A Star Longs To Be edited by Anita Haldemann in the Catalog
Link to Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel in the Catalog
Link to Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun in the Catalog

...Athletes.

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 The martha graham dance company: house of the pelvic truth by Blakely White-McGuire in the catalog
Link to Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad in the Catalog
Link to Seeing Serena by Gerald Marzorati in the Catalog
Link to All In: An Autobiography by Billie Jean King in the Catalog
Link to Baseball's Leading Lady By Andrea Williams in the Catalog
Link to Rise: My Story by Lindsey Vonn in the Catalog

...Comedians.

Link to Dear Girls by Ali Wong 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
Link to Hello, Molly!: a Memoir by Molly Shannon in the catalog
Link to The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays by Casey Wilson in the Catalog
Link to This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir by Cecily Strong in the Catalog
Link to Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson in the Catalog
Link to Lies my mother told me : tall tales from a short woman by Melissa Rivers in the catalog

...Musicians.

Link to Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston by Gerrick Kennedy in the Catalog
Link to The Sporty One by Melanie Chisholm 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 Book of Days by Patti Smith in the catalog
Link to Shine bright : a very personal history of black women in pop by Danyel Smith in the Catalog
Link to Maybe We'll Make It: a Memoir by Margo Price in the Catalog
Link to Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile in the Catalog

...Law Makers.

Link to The forerunner : a story of pain and perseverance in America by Cori Bush in the catalog
Link to Where the Light Enters by Jill Biden in the Catalog
Link to This Is What America Looks Like by Ilhan Omar in the Catalog
Link to There Is Nothing for You Here by Fiona Hill in the Catalog
Link to Believing by Anita Hill in the Catalog
Link to Persist by Elizabeth Warren in the Catalog
Link to Minority Leader by Stacey Abrams 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 Just a Girl: Growing Up Female and Ambitious by Lucinda Jackson 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 Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shutterly in the Catalog
Link to Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini in the Catalog
Link to Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Rachel Swaby in the Catalog
Link to The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel 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

...War Heroes.

Link to The Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon in the Catalog
The Correspondents: Six Women Writers Who Went to War by Judith Mackrell in the Catalog
Link to Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience by Anuradha Bhagwati in the Catalog
Link to Women War Photographers: From Lee Miller to Anja Neidringhaus edited by Anne-Marie Beckmann and Felicity Korn in the Catalog
Link to The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers by Elizabeth Cobbs in the Catalog
Link to Of Love & War by Lynsey Addario 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 Uphill: a Memoir by Jemele Hill in the catalog
Link to Of Women and Salt: A Novel by Gabriela Garcia
Link to Life After Death by Sister Souljah in the Catalog
Link to Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley in the Catalog
Link to Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri in the Catalog
Link to You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston in the Catalog
Link to The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan in the Catalog
Link to A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins in the Catalog

Watch

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 Unsung Heroes: The Story of America's Female Patriots 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 She's Beautiful When She's Angry in the Catalog
Link to Selena in the Catalog
Link to Wild in the Catalog