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An Illuminated Life

An Illuminated Life

Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege

By
Heidi Ardizzone
Heidi Ardizzone
2007 • 580 pages

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73 books

Race

Renee
Renee
Before the Mayflower
How to Be an Antiracist
Assata: An Autobiography
Between the World and Me
I'm Still Here
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
On the Come Up

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99 books

Women

Renee
Renee
Mrs. Everything
The Island of Sea Women
The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it
Year of Yes
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Silent Patient

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33 books

History

Renee
Renee
The Whispers of War
Isaac's Storm
The First Conspiracy
Madame Fourcade's Secret War
City of Thieves
The Lost Girls of Paris
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

List

1,331 books

Books Written By Women

leeleeski
Ash
Bohemian Manifesto
Fear of Fighting
Falling in Love with Natassia: A Novel
Russian Lover and Other Stories
College Girls
The PowerBook

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200 books

Nonfiction

leeleeski
Ash
500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
Virgin : The Untouched History
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
Pink Think
Flow
Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame Cumming Gordon
Bachelor Girl