Women's History

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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,272 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique 3.87 avg rating — 30,214 ratings
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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U. S. Women's History
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U. S. Women's History 4.06 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth 4.10 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,007 ratings
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Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920
Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 3.91 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties
Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties 3.86 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them 3.74 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators 4.40 avg rating — 101,059 ratings
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Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century 3.71 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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When God Was a Woman
When God Was a Woman 3.98 avg rating — 6,348 ratings
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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools 4.35 avg rating — 6,610 ratings
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement 4.34 avg rating — 43,154 ratings
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The Creation of Patriarchy
The Creation of Patriarchy 4.37 avg rating — 2,236 ratings
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Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas
Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas 4.10 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Mercury 13
The Mercury 13 3.98 avg rating — 972 ratings
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls 3.82 avg rating — 3,737 ratings
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Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation 3.71 avg rating — 1,712 ratings
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Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915
Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World 3.80 avg rating — 4,174 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars 3.59 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 4.36 avg rating — 398 ratings
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The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention
The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention 3.96 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World 4.13 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
The Weaker Vessel 3.92 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote 4.02 avg rating — 4,042 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
The Warrior Queens 3.71 avg rating — 2,784 ratings
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Bound Feet & Western Dress
Bound Feet & Western Dress 3.92 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull 3.93 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom
by: Sue Macy
3.84 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient 4.06 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World 3.89 avg rating — 5,468 ratings
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The World's Two Smallest Humans
The World's Two Smallest Humans 3.88 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad
Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad 4.06 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote 3.95 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words 4.09 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics 4.39 avg rating — 3,444 ratings
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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced 3.83 avg rating — 23,919 ratings
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No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers
No Place for a Lady: Tales of Adventurous Women Travelers 3.69 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Women in Mathematics
Women in Mathematics 3.62 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician
The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician 3.47 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community 4.19 avg rating — 791 ratings
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Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller
Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller 3.93 avg rating — 604 ratings
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"They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race
"They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race 3.77 avg rating — 111 ratings
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In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial 4.06 avg rating — 21,519 ratings
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Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries
Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries 4.16 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Singled Out
Singled Out 3.77 avg rating — 892 ratings
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Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Beauty Myth
The Beauty Myth 3.91 avg rating — 30,478 ratings
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To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War 4.18 avg rating — 660 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,146 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 4.18 avg rating — 63,001 ratings
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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty 3.81 avg rating — 1,341 ratings
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The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World 3.71 avg rating — 489 ratings
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The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women 4.09 avg rating — 64,215 ratings
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Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres
Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres 3.54 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers
Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines 4.16 avg rating — 4,836 ratings
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Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans
Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans 3.73 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch 3.68 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
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Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic
Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List 3.70 avg rating — 2,256 ratings
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The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods 4.01 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
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They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush 3.89 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners 3.82 avg rating — 9,083 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,458 ratings
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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues
The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues 3.51 avg rating — 1,262 ratings
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The Whole Woman
The Whole Woman 3.75 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 8,810 ratings
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Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women 3.84 avg rating — 779 ratings
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College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now
College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now 3.83 avg rating — 555 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Six Wives of Henry VIII 4.12 avg rating — 72,136 ratings
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Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3.79 avg rating — 206 ratings
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No Surrender: A Novel of the Suffrage movement
No Surrender: A Novel of the Suffrage movement 3.86 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition
Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History 3.82 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
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The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700
The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America
A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America 4.19 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Hanna's Daughters
Hanna's Daughters 3.69 avg rating — 7,936 ratings
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Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE
Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE 4.23 avg rating — 193 ratings
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City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 3.89 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Aristocrats
Aristocrats 4.10 avg rating — 1,958 ratings
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity 3.99 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote 4.19 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Fighting Women
Fighting Women 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War 3.93 avg rating — 1,168 ratings
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A History of Women's Boxing
A History of Women's Boxing 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History 3.86 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth 4.11 avg rating — 12,163 ratings
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The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké
The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists 3.80 avg rating — 370 ratings
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No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women 3.93 avg rating — 823 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe 3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
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Women and Gender in Islam
Women and Gender in Islam 4.10 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
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Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York 3.82 avg rating — 833 ratings
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Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France 3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History
The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History 4.27 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture 3.88 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World 3.82 avg rating — 5,039 ratings
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