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When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Easy
E YOU M.
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E YOU M.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Juvenile Biography
EB YOUSAFZAI M.
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EB YOUSAFZAI M.
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Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them. As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that needed fixing. And even if she never found a magic pencil,...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
E 331.892 MARKEL 2013
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E 331.892 MARKEL 2013
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When Clara arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast. But that didn't stop Clara. She went to night school, spent hours studying English, and helped support her family by sewing in a shirtwaist factory. Clara never quit, and she never accepted that girls should be treated poorly and paid little. Fed...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
E 920.72 CLINTON 2017
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E 920.72 CLINTON 2017
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Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
45) Bossypants
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Biography
B FEY T.
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B FEY T.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Biography
B FEY T.
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B FEY T.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD B FEY T.
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CD B FEY T.
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From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
305.42 GATES 2019
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305.42 GATES 2019
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A timely call to action for women's empowerment by the influential co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation identifies the link between women's equality and societal health, sharing uplifting insights by international advocates in the fight against gender bias. --Publisher
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'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. This book brings you Greta in her own words. Collecting her speeches...
48) My beloved world
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"An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. She writes of her precarious childhood and the refuge she...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 920.72 HARRISON 2017
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J 920.72 HARRISON 2017
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 920.72 HARRISON 2017
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J 920.72 HARRISON 2017
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Based on her popular Instagram posts, debut author/illustrator Vashti Harrison shares the stories of 40 bold African American women who shaped history.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD B ELIZABETH
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CD B ELIZABETH
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"From the moment of her ascension to the throne at age twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled admiration and scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do we really know the world's most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in extraordinary detail the public and private lives of one of...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
522.19 SOBEL 2016
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522.19 SOBEL 2016
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD 522.19 SOBEL 2016
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CD 522.19 SOBEL 2016
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as "human computers" to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography, enabled the women...
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"A single woman considers her life, the life of the bold single ladies who have gone before her, and the long arc of slowly changing attitudes towards women"--
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"Illustrated profiles of 50 pioneering female artists--from the 11th century to today--from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science"--
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 509.2 IGNOTOFSKY 2016
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J 509.2 IGNOTOFSKY 2016
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
YA 509.2 IGNOTOFSKY 2016
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YA 509.2 IGNOTOFSKY 2016
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A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
305.42 ADICHIE 2015
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305.42 ADICHIE 2015
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics—from the award-winning author of Americanah
"A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." —Medium
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...
"A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." —Medium
In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 920.72 FAVILLI 2016
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J 920.72 FAVILLI 2016
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Audio Visual Collection
CD J 920.72 FAVILLI 2016
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CD J 920.72 FAVILLI 2016
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"To the rebel girls of the world: dream bigger, aim higher, fight harder, and, when in doubt, remember you are right"--Introduction.
"Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the stories of 100 heroic women from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams. Illustrated by 60 female artists from every corner of the globe, this is the most-funded original book in the history of crowd-funding."--Publisher's description.
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A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, Drawing on interviews and archival research to reveal the pivotal role of feminism in shaping her seven-decade story.
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A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
59) Pachinko
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
LEE M.
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LEE M.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
LEE M.
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LEE M.
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"A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone. PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan....
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"At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her...