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Taking On the World: More Read Women and Their Adventures
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305.4 DAL
Women in the Material World by Faith D’Aluisio

323.092 OLS
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338.47677 MOR
The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove by William Moran

387.54 DRU
She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea by Joan Druett

629.45 ACK
The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Martha Ackmann

796.522 HOW
K2: One Woman’s Quest for the Summit by Heidi Howkins

796.72 SAI
Ride of Your Life: A Race Car Driver’s Journey by Lyn St. James

797.124 MAC
Taking On the World: A Sailor’s Extraordinary Solo Race Around the Globe by Ellen MacArthur

797.21 COX
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox

910.92 SLU
Living with Cannibals and Other Women’s Adventures by Michele B. Slung

940.5486 ALI
The Spy Wore Red: My Adventures as an Undercover Agent in World War II by Aline, Countess of Romanones

Biography ANDERSON, M.
Marian Anderson: A Singer’s Journey by Allan Keiler

Biography BRICKMAN, A.
Mob Girl: A Woman’s Life in the Underworld by Teresa Carpenter

Biography GOODALL
Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters : The Early Years by Jane Goodall

Biography HADDOCK, D.
Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year by Doris Haddock

Biography KAWAKAMI, S.
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West by Lesley Downer

Prepared by Gloria Walsh Rock, April 2004
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