New Books for Women's History Month

March 2, 2020 | SuzyQ

Marie Curie. Eleanor Roosevelt. Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth I of England. Florence Nightingale. These remarkable women are well known to most of us, but there are many others in history just as remarkable whose names may not be as recognizable. In honor of Women's History Month we should all make some time to learn about them by reading some of the many biographies to found in the library's collection:

Battling Bella : the protest politics of Bella Abzug by 1979- Leandra Ruth Zarnow
Louisa on the front lines : Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War by Samantha Seiple
In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules by Karen Karbo
Eighty Years and More : Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Ann D. (AFT) Ellen Carol (INT)/ Gordon Elizabeth Cady/ Dubois Stanton
The Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America by Elisabeth (FRW) Robert C./ Griffith Plumb
The sun and her stars : Salka Viertel and Hitler's exiles in the golden age of Hollywood by 1961- Donna Rifkind
Unbreakable : the woman who defied the Nazis in the world's most dangerous horse race by Richard Askwith
Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop by 1951- Thomas J. Travisano
A Delayed Life : The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus
Alice Adams : portrait of a writer by 1948- Carol Sklenicka
Frida in America : the creative awakening of a great artist by Celia Stahr
Imperfect union : how Jessie and John Frémont mapped the West, invented celebrity, and helped cause the Civil War by Steve Inskeep
The Watergate girl : my fight for truth and justice against a criminal president by Jill Wine-Banks
Life in a cold climate : Nancy Mitford : the biography by 1964- Laura Thompson
Still here : the madcap, nervy, singular life of Elaine Stritch by Alexandra (Editor) Jacobs
Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox
We are not here to be bystanders : a memoir of love and resistance by 1980- Linda Sarsour
Phantom lady : Hollywood producer Joan Harrison, the forgotten woman behind Hitchcock by Christina Lane
These fevered days : ten pivotal moments in the making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann
999 : the extraordinary young women of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany by 1962- Peter Finn
Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy by Larry Loftis
The book of gutsy women by HIllary Rodham Clinton
D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II by 1974- Sarah Rose
The Genius of Women : From Overlooked to Changing the World by Janice Kaplan
Odetta : a life in music and protest by Ian Zack
Hell and Other Destinations : A 21st-century Memoir by Madeleine Korbel Albright
Pelosi by Molly Ball
The Silver Swan : In Search of Doris Duke by Sallie Bingham
Square haunting / Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade