Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures

By
Margot Lee Shetterly
Margot Lee Shetterly
2016 • 384 pages

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333 books

Biography Memoir

Pierke
Pierke
Jane Austen at Home
Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life
Made in Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country
Churchill's Bestiary

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Prologue

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Pierke
C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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153 books

United States

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Pierke
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year
The imperial cruise
The Monuments Men
The Candy Bombers
Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969
A measureless peril

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186 books

Women

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Nothing daunted the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
Millions Like Us
Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
Call the Midwife
The Girls of Atomic City
The art of acquiring

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140 books

Borrowed

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Dry
Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Don't Hold My Head Down
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World

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30 books

Biography

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Melanie
Ten Steps to Nanette
The Less People Know About Us
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism

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108 books

Historical Fiction

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Melanie
Outlander
In the Unlikely Event
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Wonder
Lady of Hay
Lord John and the brotherhood of the blade
The Heart's Invisible Furies

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71 books

Non Fiction

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Melanie
Sociopath: A Memoir
If You Tell
Whose Boat Is This Boat?
Food Rules
Vogue® Knitting The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary: More Than 800 Stitch Patterns
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail

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183 books

Short Reads 250 Or Less

Cokidoki
Corrine
Galatea
Big Bad
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
Everything My Mother Taught Me

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229 books

Non Fiction

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At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Understanding Comics
The Knitter's Book of Yarn
Free-Range Knitter
Knitting in Plain English

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Status Own

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Mission of Honor
The Hittite
Heir of Novron
Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty

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250 books

Audiobook

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1776
Runemarks
Around the World in Eighty Days
Outliers: The Story of Success
Blink
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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389 books

Non Fiction

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Christopher and His Kind
Every Song Ever
The Talent Code
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography

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58 books

Science

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
I Am Legend
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
Periodic Tales

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30 books

Technology And Gaming

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Hidden Figures
Otaku
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Play Anything
Playing at the World, 2E, Volume 1
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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73 books

History

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The Bloody History of the Croissant
Veil of Lies (Crispin Guest, #1)
Serpent in the thorns
The demon's parchment
Shadow of the alchemist

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199 books

Memoirs And Biographies

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The Year of Magical Thinking
Passport through darkness
I Said Yes: My Story of Heartbreak, Redemption, and True Love
Love Warrior
The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl
Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

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28 books

Based On True Story

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The Aviator's Wife
Lilac Girls
Hidden Figures
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Euphoria
A Long Way Home

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48 books

Nonfiction

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ladyoogy
The Vanishing Triangle
The Son and Heir: A Memoir
Letters to a Young Poet
Who Were the Celts? Everything you ever wanted to know about the Celts 1000 B.C. to the present
The Secret Lives of Colour
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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175 books

Own Kindle

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ladyoogy
The Death of Bees
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Time Machine
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Fellowship of the Ring

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218 books

Non Fiction

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Dear Girls
Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide
Em defesa de Cristo
Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You
Becoming
Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace
Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life

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959 books

Have

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Patrick Stoneburner
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
How To
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Crisis in the Red Zone
A Warning

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134 books

Owned

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A Little History of the United States
Watching the English
1000 Years of Annoying the French
Paris Revealed: The Secret Life of a City
How To Be Right in a World Gone Wrong

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115 books

At Home To Read

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Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson
Une fille comme elle
L'Américaine
C'est arrivé la nuit

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167 books

Non Fiction

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Vishwesh
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
Nadishta
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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