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 Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters (Women Writers of Color)Best Price: $24.27 Writing and composing with honesty and humanism, Lucille Clifton is known for her themes of the... |  Out of the Shadows: A Life of Gerda TaroBest Price: $11.58 There are some books that transend their purpose. Unfortunately, this is not one of them. ... |  With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles'Much of the time our society stereotypes and dismisses old women as ridiculous,... |  Honorable Exiles: A Chilean Woman in the Twentieth CenturyBest Price: $1.95 Lillian Lorca de Tagle is living proof of women's progress in the twentieth century. Born... |  Ever After: Diana and the Life She LedBest Price: $2.35 I'm currently enrolled in a course on writing biographies, taught by Anne Edwards at the... |
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 Harriet Tubman: The Road to FreedomBest Price: $4.99 The story of the ex-slave, Civil War `general' and black liberation fighter Harriet Tubman... |  First There is a Mountain: A Yoga RomanceBest Price: $7.29 First There is a Mountain, by Elizabeth Kandetsky, Reviewed by Malcolm McLean, RYT Here is a... |  Wu Zhao: China's Only Female EmperorBest Price: $17.00 Behind this fabulous tale of the rise of the daughter of a lumber merchant to the first and only... | Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led Best Price: $2.35 I'm currently enrolled in a course on writing biographies, taught by Anne Edwards at the... | Sylvia Plath: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) Best Price: $17.53 The poet Sylvia Plath has been a cultural icon since 1963 when she took her own life on a cold... |
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 Amelia Earhart: True LivesBest Price: $1.59 Amelia Earhart flew into history through her courage and skill as a pilot. For women she was a... |  The Life and Work of Jane Ellen HarrisonBest Price: $114.95 Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was renowned for her work on Greek art and religion. In her... |  Elizabeth BishopBest Price: $48.08 This study charts the evolution of Bishop's poetry, aided by newly discovered diaries,... |  The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's MemoirsBest Price: $24.50 "The Weave of My Life" is the memoir of an "untouchable" caste woman in... |  Josephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGEBest Price: $43.60 Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and... |
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