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	Becoming Myself; Cassandra Walker Simmons; (Free Spirit)
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	The Diary of LaToya Hunter; LaToya Hunter; (Vintage)
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Art & Design
	A Young Painter: The Life and Paintings of Wang Yani - China’s Extraordinary Young Artist; Alice Low; (Scholastic Trade)
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	Art Talk: Conversations with 15 Women Artists; Cindy Nemser; (HarperCollins)
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	The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art; the Guerrilla Girls; (Penguin)
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	We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold; Faith Ringgold; (Little Brown & Company)
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	Women Artists; Nancy Heller; (Abbeville)
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Autobiography
	The Book of Mechtilde; Anna Ruth Henriques; (Knopf)
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Biography
	A History of Women Photographers; Naomi Rosenblum; (Abbeville)
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	Diane Arbus; Patti Bosworth; ()
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	Focus: Five Women Photographers; Sylvia Wolf; (Whitman)
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	Frida Kahlo; Malka Drucker; (University of New Mexico Press)
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	Great Women Writers: 1900-1950; Christina Gombar; (Facts on File)
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	Julia Morgan: Architect of Dreams; Ginger Wadsworth; (Lerner)
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	Keeping Secrets: The Girlhood Diaries of Seven Women Writers; Mary E. Lyons; (Henry Holt)
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	Life into Art: Isadora Duncan and Her World; ; (W.W. Norton & Company)
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	Lillian Hellman: Rebel Playwright; Ruth Turk; (Lerner)
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	Margaret Bourke-White: A Photographer’s Life; Emily Keller; (Lerner)
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	The Life and Dances of Martha Graham; Trudy Garfunkel; ()
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	Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers; Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe; ("Dodd, Mead")
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Fiction
	Allegra Maud Goldman; Edith Konecky; (The Feminist Press)
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	Baby of the Family; Tina McElroy Ansa; (Harcourt Brace)
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	Girl Goddess #9; Francesca Lia Block; (HarperCollins)
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	Girls to the Rescue: Volume I, II, and II; edited by Bruce Lansky; (Meadowbrook Press)
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	Kissing the Witch; Emma Donoghue; (HarperCollins)
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	Kitchen; Banana Yoshimoto; (Grove Press)
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	Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind; Suzanne Fisher Staples; (Knopf)
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	The Bean Trees; Barbara Kingsolver; (HarperCollins)
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	The House on Mango Street; Sandra Cisneros; (Knopf)
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	The Oxford Book of Women’s Writing in the United States; edited by Linda Wagner-Martin and Cathy N. Davidson; (Oxford)
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	Walk Two Moons; Sharon Creech; ()
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Film & TV
	Film Fatales: Independent Women Directors; Judith M. Redding and Victoria A. Brownworth; (Seal Press)
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	When Women Call the Shots; Linda Seger; (Henry Holt)
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Memoir
	An American Childhood; Annie Dillard; (HarperPerennial)
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	Black Ice; Lorene Cary; (Vintage)
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	Bronx Primitive; Kate Simon; (Penguin)
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	Coming of Age in Mississippi; Anne Moody; (Dell)
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	Drops of This Story; Suheir Hammad; (Harlem River Press)
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	Fifth Chinese Daughter; Jade Snow Wong; (University of Washington Press)
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	One Writer’s Beginnings; Eudora Welty; (Harvard University Press)
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	The Road from Coorain; Jill Ker Conway; (Vintage)
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	When I Was Puerto Rican; Esmerelda Santiago; (Vintage)
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	Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse; Sharon Skolnick and Manny Skolnick; (University of Nebraska Press)
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Music
	Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music; Hettie Jones; (Puffin)
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	She’s a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll; Gillian G. Gaar; (Seal Press)
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Performing Arts
	Contemporary Plays by Women of Color; edited by Kathy Perkins and Roberta Uno; (Routledge)
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	Eight Women of the American Stage Talking About Acting; Roy Harris; (Heineman)
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	In Other Words: Women Directors Speak; Helen Manfull; (Smith & Kraus)
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Writing
	Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to Thirty-Five Important Writers; edited by Janet Bukovinsky Teacher; (Running Press)
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