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Women’s History Month Nonfiction Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life Jane Sherron De Hart Fiction Hannah’s War Jan Eliasberg Nonfiction The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia Rachel Manekin Children's No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan Jeff Gottesfeld, Shiella Witanto (illus.) Children's The Lady with the Books: A Story Inspired by the Remarkable Work of Jella Lepman Kathy Stinson, Marie Lafrance (illus.) Nonfiction A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz Dita Kraus Nonfiction The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects Laura Arnold Leibman Nonfiction From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History Nancy Sinkoff Nonfiction Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation Anne Frank; Ari Folman, adapt.; David Polonsky, illus. Fiction Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love Miriam Karpilove, Jessica Kirzane (trans.), Deborah Manion (ed.) Nonfiction Emma Lazarus Esther Schor Nonfiction America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today Pamela S. Nadell Fiction Florence Adler Swims Forever Rachel Beanland Nonfiction The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein, Maira Kalman (illus.) Nonfiction Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty Michèle Fitoussi; Kate Bignold and Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer, trans. Nonfiction Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt Robert Gottlieb Children's Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi Sigal Samuel; Vali Mintzi, illus. Nonfiction Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel Francine Klagsbrun Nonfiction Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis Jeffrey H. Jackson Fiction Cosella Wayne Jonathan D. Sarna,Cora Wilburn Fiction The Weight of Ink Rachel Kadish Nonfiction The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Lucette Lagnado Nonfiction Sontag: Her Life and Work Benjamin Moser Nonfiction Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector Benjamin Moser Nonfiction Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life William Roy; Sylvain Dorange, illus. Visual Arts Edith Halpert, The Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art Rebecca Shaykin Nonfiction The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood Donna Rifkind Children's Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice Debbie Levy (auth.), Whitney Gardner (illus.) Nonfiction Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank; Susan Massotty, trans. Nonfiction Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power Neal Gabler Nonfiction The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City Scott D. Seligman Fiction The Nesting Dolls: A Novel Alina Adams Children's Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of Helaine Becker, Kari Rust (illus.) Nonfiction Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa Susan Gilson Miller Visual Arts The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago Judy Chicago Nonfiction To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah Dvora Hacohen Nonfiction From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family June Cummins, Alexandra Dunietz Fiction Woman on Fire Lisa Barr Children's Tía Fortuna's New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey Ruth Behar; Devon Holzwarth, illus. Children's Dear Mr. Dickens Nancy Churnin, Bethany Stancliffe (Illustrator) Nonfiction The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Judy Batalion Poetry The Book of Anna Joy Ladin Nonfiction The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Lucy Adlington Children's RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone Nadine Epstein Children's The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music Debbie Levy; Sonja Wimmer, illus. feminism identity comics new york immigration refugees
Children's No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan Jeff Gottesfeld, Shiella Witanto (illus.)
Children's The Lady with the Books: A Story Inspired by the Remarkable Work of Jella Lepman Kathy Stinson, Marie Lafrance (illus.)
Nonfiction The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects Laura Arnold Leibman
Nonfiction From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History Nancy Sinkoff
Nonfiction Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation Anne Frank; Ari Folman, adapt.; David Polonsky, illus.
Fiction Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love Miriam Karpilove, Jessica Kirzane (trans.), Deborah Manion (ed.)
Nonfiction Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty Michèle Fitoussi; Kate Bignold and Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer, trans.
Children's Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World's First Female Rabbi Sigal Samuel; Vali Mintzi, illus.
Nonfiction The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn Lucette Lagnado
Nonfiction The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood Donna Rifkind
Children's Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice Debbie Levy (auth.), Whitney Gardner (illus.)
Nonfiction The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City Scott D. Seligman
Children's Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of Helaine Becker, Kari Rust (illus.)
Nonfiction Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa Susan Gilson Miller
Nonfiction From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family June Cummins, Alexandra Dunietz
Nonfiction The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Judy Batalion
Nonfiction The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Lucy Adlington
