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A Place to Belong: Deb­bie Fried­man Sings Her Way Home
Deborah Lakritz; Julie Castano, illus. 
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A Per­fect Fit: How Lena ​“Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion
Mara Rockliff; Juana Martinez-Neal, illus.
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Zel­da Pop­kin: The Life and Times of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Woman Writer
Jere­my D. Popkin
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Onto Cen­ter Stage: The Bib­li­cal Woman
Sara Reguer
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Visu­al Arts
Women Hold­ing Things
Maira Kalman
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Sal­ly Opened Doors: The Sto­ry of the First Woman Rabbi
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Margeaux Lucas, illus. 
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One Hun­dred Sat­ur­days: Stel­la Levi and the Search for a Lost World
Michael Frank
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The Thread Col­lec­tors: A Novel
Alyson Rich­man
Shaunna Edwards
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I Kept Walk­ing: The Unlike­ly Sto­ry of a Per­sian Woman with Polio
Minou Mich­lin
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Rahel Varn­hagen: The Life of a Jew­ish Woman
Hannah Arendt; Clara Winston and Richard Winston, trans.
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