Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways & Sailors' Wives
6 best books like Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways & Sailors' Wives (David Cordingly): Ninth House, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, The Black God's Drums, The Widow of Pale Harbor, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, White Bird
| Author | Leigh Bardugo |
| ISBN | 1250313074 |
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor...
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
| Author | Kara Cooney |
| ISBN | 0307956768 |
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power in a man’s world.
Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king’s son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was...
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to soar, and her sights are set on securing passage aboard the smuggler airship Midnight Robber. Her ticket: earning Captain Ann-Marie’s trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious...
| Author | Hester Fox |
| ISBN | 1488036624 |
A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can save Pale Harbor from itself?
Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale...
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
| Author | Kara Cooney |
| ISBN | 1426219776 |
This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.
Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in...
Wow! I borrowed this today from the library. I was going to concurrently read it with the other two library books I have at home and other reading material too. I had three phone calls I meant to make today. I picked up the book to start it, and I didn’t put it down until I finished it. I did not expect that....
