 | The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden Practices by Barbara Foster
Buy used from: $7.95 A true explorer revealed by two genuine fans.
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 | Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
Buy used from: $0.59 Phoey on Lawrence of Arabia - read about this gal who was there!
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 | Personal History by Katharine Graham
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 The book that started it all for me.
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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy used from: $0.01 The last hundred years of chinese history made compelling through three generations of one family of women
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 | Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China by Sterling Seagrave
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $1.39 The previous book's time period just overlaps the end of this one, this might be interesting to read first. chinese history and a brilliant study of how "history" twists the stories of powerful women
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 | Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words by Lynn Sherr
Buy new: $19.66 / Used from: $2.72 Well stitched together for good reading. After this book you'll cry to think she doesn't have a statue on the federal mall. Easily as inspiring and important a leader as any this country has had.
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 | Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood by Eileen Whitfield
Buy used from: $2.50 Being a Hollywood powerbroker is not new for women
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 | Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored by Mary Gabriel
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $0.66 The first wall street broker. A contemporary of Susan B. who lived life out loud!
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 | Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant by Mary V. Dearborn
Buy used from: $9.99 Yet another strong women who tossed stereotypes to the wind to travel to dangerous places and write about them.
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 | Women World Leaders: Fifteen Great Politicians Tell Their Stories by Laura A. Liswood
Buy used from: $2.86 Great reading. I heard the author speak about gathering the stories and it was really interesting. She was going to put together a video, I'd love to find it.
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 | Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (California Studies in the History of Science) by Ruth Lewin Sime
Buy new: $23.89 / Used from: $3.00 A classic physicist, but female. Like other famous German physicists it was her Jewish background that cost her career.
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 | Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Buy used from: $8.82 Speaking of Nobel Prize winning (or often just deserving) women scientists....
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