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	Letters of a Woman Homesteader; Elinore Pruitt Stewart; (Houghton Mifflin)
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	Nothing to Do But Stay: My Pioneer Mother; Carrie Young; (Delta)
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	Once upon an Eskimo Time; Edna Wilder; (Alaska Northwest Books)
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	Photographing Montana: 1894-1928 The Life and Work of Evelyn Cameron; Donna Lucey; (Knopf)
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	Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows; Frank B. Linderman; (Bison Books)
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	The Ways of My Grandmothers; Beverly Hungry Wolf; (William Morrow)
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Autobiography
	Quiet Odyssey; Mary Paik Lee; (University of Washington Press)
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	Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution; Ji Li Jiang; (HarperCollins)
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Backpacking
	On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet; Luree Miller; (The Mountaineers)
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	Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America's First Women Explorers; Elizabeth Fagg Olds; (Houghton Mifflin)
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Biography
	Champions of Equality; Laurie Lindop; (Twenty-first Century Books)
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	Eleanor Roosevelt; Russell Freedman; (Clarion)
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	Political Leaders; Laurie Lindop; (Lerner)
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	Remember the Ladies: A Woman’s Book of Days; Kirstin Olsen; (University of Oklahoma)
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	St. Joan of Arc; Vita Sackville-West; (Doubleday)
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	Uppity Women of Ancient Times; Vicki Leon; (Conari Press)
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	Uppity Women of Medieval Times; Vicki Leon; (Conari Press)
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Community Service
	Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers’ Rights; Judith Pinkerton Josephson; (Lerner)
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Fiction
	Catherine, Called Birdy; Karen Cushman; (HarperTrophy)
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	Journey to Nowhere; Mary Jane Auch; (Henry Holt)
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	Lyddie; Katherine Patterson; (Puffin)
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	Sarah Bishop; Scott O’Dell; (Scholastic)
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	The Midwife’s Apprentice; Karen Cushman; (HarperTrophy)
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	The Witch of Blackbird Pond; Elizabeth George Speare; (Bantam Doubleday Dell)
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	Treasures in the Dust; Tracey Porter; (HarperCollins)
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Foreign Languages
	Lost in Translation; Eva Hoffman; (Penguin)
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	The State of Women of the World Atlas; Joni Seager; (Penguin)
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	Women in the Material World; ; (Sierra Club Books)
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Government
	A Heart in Politics: Jeannette Rankin and Patsy T. Mink; Sue Davidson; (Seal Press)
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	African-American Women in Congress: Forming and Transforming History; LaVerne McCain Gill; (Rutgers)
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	Mankiller; Wilma Mankiller; (St. Martins)
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	Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress; Clara Bingham; (Random House)
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History
	From Pocahontas to Power Suits; Kay Mills; (Penguin)
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	Hearts of Fire: Great Women of American Lore and Legend; Kemp Battle; (Three Rivers Press)
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	Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks; Lynn Sherr and Jurate Kazickas; (Times Books)
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	The American Women’s Almanac; Louise Bernikow; (Berkley)
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	The Readers Companion to U.S. Women’s History; "edited by Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith, and Gloria Steinhem "; (Houghton Mifflin)
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Internships
	Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper’s Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of Ame; Dr. Joycelyn Elders; (Avon)
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Journalism
	Getting the Real Story: Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells; Sue Davidson; (Seal Press)
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Memoir
	Coming of Age in Mississippi; Anne Moody; (Dell)
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Racial Identity
	A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America; Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson; (Broadway Books)
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	Bound Feet and Western Dress; Pang-Mei Natasha Chang; (Anchor Books)
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	In My Place; Charlayne Hunter-Gault; (Vintage)
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Trekking
	Desert Places; Robyn Davidson; (Viking)
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