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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Ladies of liberty	Cokie Roberts	Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicli…	OL16066365W
No invitation required	Annabel Goldsmith	Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. The family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her enthralling memoir she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an incre…	OL16577251W
This charming man	Marian Keyes	Four women are affected by a politician's decision to marry a woman who is not his girlfriend.	OL17729088W
Under a strong wind	Dorothy Nafus Morrison	A biography of the woman who along with her husband, an Army officer, explorer, and legislator, took part in some of the most important events of nineteenth-century America including the exploration …	OL1804210W
My dear Hamilton	Stephanie Dray	Tells the story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Tells not just as the wronged wife a…	OL19736199W
Malice	Danielle Steel	The compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruellest kind of malice. At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. A y…	OL19779W
American Princess	Stephanie Marie Thornton	"Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color, Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the onl…	OL19863700W
Capital dames	Cokie Roberts	Women keep the Union united as men take to the Civil War battlefield. Readers meet the female journalists, nurses, and relief workers who kept the country strong while women embraced their increased …	OL19998469W
Rebel Yell	Alice Randall	From the bestselling author of "The Wind Done Gone" comes a timely new novel of political intrigue, family secrets, and espionage, steeped in this country's racial history and framing America's uniqu…	OL24191510W
P.S. Passionate supporter and political spouse	White, Andrea	P.S. is Andrea White's collection of personal stories about her time as political spouse and passionate supporter of her husband, Houston Mayor Bill White. Her engaging anecdotes about life both behi…	OL29239711W
The Manchurian candidate	Richard Condon	Sgt Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of an influential senator.…	OL3391067W
Jessie Benton Frémont, Missouri's trailblazer	Ilene Stone	"Chronicles the life of Missouri native Jessie Benton Frémont--firm opponent of slavery and writer of such works as A Year of American Travel and Souvenirs of My Time, daughter of Senator Thomas Har…	OL5850516W
Bringing the house down	David Profumo	David Profumo was just seven when his father resigned from the Macmillan government. Despite the furore that followed, his parents famously stayed together. Now, 40 years on, their son has written th…	OL8115033W