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March 15, 2006
NEW BIOGRAPHIES OF WOMEN
March is Women's History Month. This might be a good time to read some of the New Biographies that have women as the subject:
The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier by Laura Leedy Gansle (NEW BIO EDM)--amazing story of a Michigan girl who served in the Union Army as a soldier during the Civil War
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise W. Knight (NEW BIO ADD)--the first part of the life of the founder of Chicago's Hull House from 1860-1899
Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover (NEW BIO MOZ)--covers the influences in Mozart's life of his wife and family, his friends and the singers, as well as the parts he wrote for women
Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend by James D. McLaird (NEW BIO JAN)--the story of the famous hard-living woman of the American West
Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale by Jen Trynin (NEW BIO TRY)--the rise and fall of a '90's pop/rock musician, originally a member of The Loveless
Mary Edwards Walker: Above and Beyond by Dale L. Walker (NEW BIO WAL)--the life of one of the earliest women doctors in America, who received a Congressional Medal of Honor for her work during the Civil War
Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice by Joan Biskupic (NEW BIO OCO)--the life of the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court, especially her work on the Court
Nancy Reagan: On the White House Stage by James G. Benze, Jr. (NEW BIO REA)--how the wife of President Reagan influenced his life and work while in the White House and after
Breaking the Perfect 10 by Tracy Lindsey Melchior (NEW BIO MEL)--the role of Christian Faith in the life of a Hollywood starlet who comes to realize there is more to her life than Show Business glamor
Posted by egvpl at March 15, 2006 10:40 PM