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Women Warriors: An Unexpected History

10 best books like Women Warriors: An Unexpected History (Pamela D. Toler): The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, A Little Light Mischief, Geek Girls Don't Cry: Real-Life Lessons From Fictional Female Characters, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
AuthorAlexis Hall
In this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters.

Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere...
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
AuthorCara Robertson
ISBN1501168371
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August of 1892, the arrest of the couple’s daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known...
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
AuthorChristina Thompson
ISBN0062060872
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

For more than...
A Little Light Mischief
AuthorCat Sebastian
ISBN0062951033
A seductive thief

Lady’s maid Molly Wilkins is done with thieving—and cheating and stabbing and all the rest of it. She’s determined to keep her hands to herself, so she really shouldn’t be tempted to seduce her employer’s prim and proper companion, Alice. But how can she resist...
Geek Girls Don't Cry: Real-Life Lessons From Fictional Female Characters
AuthorAndrea Towers
ISBN1454933399
Geek girls don’t cry . . . they get strong! Using examples from both real life and pop culture, entertainment writer Andrea Towers provides powerful tips on how women can overcome obstacles.

“An enjoyable read for anyone interested in pop culture, with particular relevance to those...
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
AuthorNisi Shawl
ISBN1781085781
Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races

There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E Butler.

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many...
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
AuthorMatti Friedman
ISBN1616207221
Award-winning writer Matti Friedman’s tale of Israel’s first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but it’s all true.

The four spies at the center of this story were part of...
Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free
AuthorWednesday Martin
ISBN0316463612
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will upend everything you thought you knew about women and sex.

What do straight, married female revelers at an all-women's sex club in LA have in common with nomadic...
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
AuthorKara Cooney
ISBN1426219776
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...
Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent
AuthorPearl Witherington Cornioley
ISBN1613744870
One of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told through a series of reminiscences—from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow...
Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
AuthorJason Sizemore
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore
...
Fireside Magazine Issue 52, February 2018
AuthorJulia Rios
https://firesidefiction.com/the-secre...
Nebula 2018, Short story

This one did not work as well for me, consisting as it did of nine little short-short stories about each of George Washington's teeth originating from various Negro people who were slaves. The slaves aren't necessarily...
Lightspeed Magazine, January 2018
AuthorJohn Joseph Adams
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley, 1530-1603
AuthorAnne Chambers
ISBN1567318584
Grace O'Malley (Granuaile) was a legendary Irish pirate chieftain and Gaelic chieftain who was known as such ephitet's as 'The Pirate Queen', A Most Famous Feminine Sea Captain, 'Nurse to All Rebellions' and 'A Notable Traitoress'

This book traces her life. perhaps in too little detail,...
New York
AuthorChristophe Arleston
ISBN2302024362
Ekhö est un monde miroir de la Terre.

On y retrouve nos villes, nos pays, mais legèrement différents: l'électricité n'existe pas, les dragons remplacent les avions de ligne, les wagons du métro sont sur le dos d'étranges mille-pattes...

Mais le plus étonnants sont les preshauns...
No Flight Without the Shatter
AuthorBrooke Bolander
ISBN1250312426


“We were many too, once,” she repeats, barely a whisper. “I really am sorry.”

this is an imaginative, elegiac story, a missive from the place between being and not; a signal from the space between the final breath and whatever comes after.

in this space, a group of...
Mother of Invention
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian American author of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults and a professor at the University at Buffalo, New York. Her works include Who Fears Death, the Binti novella trilogy, the Book of Phoenix, the Akata books and Lagoon....
GlitterShip: Spring 2017
AuthorKeffy R.M. Kehrli
Spring 2017 issue of GlitterShip!

GlitterShip is a science fiction and fantasy magazine devoted to LGBTQIA+ fiction. Spring 2017 is a collection of the stories and poems that are to be published between April and June of 2017.

This issue features fiction by Susan Jane Bigelow, A.C....
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
AuthorEdward Wilson-Lee
ISBN0008146225
Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fraction of one man’s life spent collecting every book on every subject – including antique and modern worlds, science and law, as well as playing cards, pornography, and popular music.

Who was...
Be Angry
AuthorDalai Lama XIV
Simple and accessible wisdom from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on how to use compassionate anger for social transformation In the real world, exploitation exists. In the real world, there is a huge and unjust gap between rich and poor. The question, from a Buddhist perspective, is how should we deal...
The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
AuthorRyan Jacobs
ISBN0451495691
Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft, secrecy, sabotage, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive...
I Am a Story
AuthorDan Yaccarino
ISBN0062411063
Internationally acclaimed author-illustrator Dan Yaccarino presents a powerful picture book that celebrates storytelling—from the past to the present and beyond.

From cave drawings to the invention of the printing press to our digital age, discover how a story has been told in many...
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
AuthorDavid K. Randall
ISBN0393609456
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn’t noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin—a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials...
A Peacock in the Land of Penguins: A Tale of Diversity and Discovery
AuthorB.J. Gallagher
ISBN1576750108
A Peacock in the Land of Penguins brings new insight to an important topic - workforce diversity. Written in a charming, engaging style, it is a contemporary "corporate fable" - a tale for our times. This story echoes one that is unfolding each and every day in organizations all across the country - how...
Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
AuthorParker Curry
ISBN1534451862
A New York Times bestseller!

A visit to Washington, DC’s National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry’s young life when she views First Lady Michelle Obama’s portrait.

When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald’s transcendent portrait of First Lady...
De vieux ennemis
AuthorJulien Hervieux
« À vous qui avez osé attaquer la Mort : nos représailles seront impitoyables. » Un peu partout dans le monde, des imprudences ont récemment coûté la « vie » à des Revenants. S’agit-il de pures coïncidences ou l’Ordre est-il en train d’être attaqué ? Voilà qui complique sérieusement...
The Last Tsar's Dragons
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN1616962879
It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Though the Tsar aims his dragons at his enemies—Jews and Bolsheviks—his entire country is catching fire. Conspiracies suffuse the royal court: bureaucrats jostle one another for power, the...
Gate of Ivrel
AuthorC.J. Cherryh
ISBN0886772575
Scattered about the galaxy were the time-space Gates of a vanished but not forgotten alien race. In their time, long before the rise of the native civilizations, they had terrorized a hundred worlds—not from villainy but from folly, from tampering with the strands that held a universe together.

Now...
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime
AuthorClaire Harman
A gripping investigation into the crime that scandalized literary London, from Dickens to Thackeray.

On a spring morning in 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a household of servants awoke to discover that their unobtrusive master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with...
Nancy Wake
AuthorRussell Braddon
ISBN0330202499
Nancy Wake was an incredible woman. Born in New Zealand, raised in Australia, traveling to various international spots in young adulthood, she ended up in Paris as a European news correspondent. She married a wealthy Frenchman, Henri Fiocca,in November 1939 and settled in Marseilles where she improved...
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