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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Rachel's Journal	Marissa Moss	In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850.	OL106899W
Mothers of the Prophets	Leonard J. Arrington	x, 290 p. : 24 cm	OL109021W
Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake	Cori Crooks	Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake, is a collection of essays, poetry, vintage images, art, and documents that tell of the complex relationship Crooks had with her dead, drug addict, con-artist mother…	OL11967040W
Vision of Beauty	Kathryn Lasky,Nneka Bennett	A biography of Sarah Breedlove Walker who, though born in poverty, pioneered in hair and beauty care products for black women, and became a great financial success.	OL121871W
A mirror garden	Zara Houshmand,Monir Farmanfarmaian,Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian	In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a g…	OL12374325W
"Socialism is great!"	Lijia Zhang	As China becomes disillusioned with "The Glorious Cause," so does factory-worker Lijia Zhang.	OL12466457W
The destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt	Cecily Mackworth	Born of an aristocratic mother who exchanged loveless marriage for tempestuous exile, Isabelle Eberhardt was no stranger to scandal. Before her twentieth birthday, she flung her dreams in the face of…	OL1253234W
The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe	Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf,Alison Bechdel	After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to foreign diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf’s death in 1941…	OL1347349W
Sonia	Sonia O'Sullivan	Description information pending.	OL13687473W
Not all Black girls know how to eat	Stephanie Covington Armstrong	Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that…	OL13765039W
This Child Will Be Great	Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf	In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—Africa's "Iron Lady"—was sworn in as president, an event that marked a…	OL13780296W
Larry's Kidney	Daniel Asa Rose	The Adventure of a Lifetime (Really): A Madcap Odyssey of the Heart (& a Kidney) on the Far Side of the Earth (Hello, China!?)Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on d…	OL14961878W
Marilyn Monroe	Katherine E. Krohn	A biography of the screen icon, from her early days as an orphan to her rise to stardom; includes discussion of her film career, marriages, and tragic death.	OL15049166W
Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad	Bee Rowlatt	Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry?May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bul…	OL15182896W
Wait for me!	Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish Duchess of	Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents, sh…	OL15455687W
Queen of the Falls	Chris Van Allsburg	GR 3-5. Be transported back to 1901 and meet Annie Edson Taylor. When her charm school closes Annie needs to find a way to earn money. She has a great idea after reading a newspaper article about …	OL15692049W
Marian Anderson	Andrea Broadwater	A biography of the famous opera singer who overcame prejudices to become the first African American to sing a featured role with the New York Metropolitan Opera Company and who later served as a dele…	OL16052768W
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	Alexandra Fuller	Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before th…	OL16086757W
Representation and Black womanhood	Natasha Gordon-Chipembere	"Sarah Baartman's iconic status as the "Hottentot Venus"--as "victimized" African woman, "Mother" of the new South Africa, and ancestral spirit to countless women of the African Diaspora--has led to …	OL16175678W
Baking as biography	Diane Tye	"Hidden among the simple lists of ingredients and directions for everyday foods are surprising stories. In Baking as Biography, Diane Tye considers her mother's recipe collection, reading between the…	OL16413790W