Bernards Township Library
32 S. Maple Avenue
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
The following purchases were made possible with a generous donation from
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Somerset Hills Branch
2015 - 2016
Two hundred one books were added to the library catalog and are available for borrowing. Each of
these titles has a strong connection to women and girls. Biographies, memoirs, women's health
materials, creative arts and crafts, games, food and cooking, and theatre arts are all included.
This donation is greatly appreciated, as is the ongoing support of the Somerset Hills AAUW Chapter
members.
BOOKS
25 Women: Essays on their Art
8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well-being
A Different Kind of Daughter: the Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight
A Girl Called Vincent: the Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life
A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls
A Very Dangerous Woman: the Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy
A Widow's Guide to Healing: Gentle Support and Advice for the First 5 Years
A Woman in Arabia: the Writings of the Queen of the Desert
About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
Alex Morgan
All Better Now: a Memoir
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
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An Improbable Friendship: the Remarkable Lives of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian Raymonda Tawil and Their Forty-Year
Peace Mission
Anchor & Flares: a Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service
Angels of the Underground: the American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II
Anything but Ordinary Addie: the True Story of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic
Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much
Astronomy: Cool Women in Space
Bald Is Better with Earrings: a Survivor's Guide to Getting Through Breast Cancer
Bastards: a Memoir
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years that Changed American Women's Lives at Work
Becoming Grandma: the Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting
Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
Beer Money: a Story of Privilege and Loss
Behind the Mask: the Life of Vita Sackville-West
Behind the Smile: a Story of Carol Moseley Braun's Historic Senate Campaign
Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held on to Hope, and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope
Boys in the Trees: a Memoir
Broad Influence: How Women are Changing the Way America Works
Broadcasting Happiness: the Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change
Capital Dames: the Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Careers for Tech Girls in Video Game Development
Carli Lloyd
Celebrate
Clementine: the Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Cleo Edison Oliver, Playground Millionaire
Cloth Lullaby: the Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist
Cooking as Fast as I Can: a Chef's Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness
Coretta Scott King
Crush: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush
Daisy Turner's Kin: an African American Family Saga
Daughters of the Samurai: a Journey from East to West and Back
Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives
Dolley Madison
Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth
Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
Dumped: Stories of Women Unfriending Women
Elizabeth: the Forgotten Years
Elizabeth Started All the Trouble
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: a Memoir
Everyday Sexism
Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose
Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word
Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World
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Find a Way
First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
First Women: the Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies
First, Kill All the Marriage Counselors: Modern-day Secrets to Being Desired, Cherished, and Adored for Life
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: the Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Getting Real
Hannah Arendt: a Life in Dark Times
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World
Heart of Glass: a Memoir
Hillary
Hillary Rodham Clinton: a Woman Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead
How Kate Warne Saved President Lincoln: a Story About the Nation's First Woman Detective
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: a Memoir
I Blame Dennis Hopper: and Other Stories from a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies
I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time
I Will Find You
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
In Search of Buddha's Daughters: a Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Irrepressible: the Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham
Isabel Feeney: Star Reporter
It's All Easy: Delicious Weekday Recipes for the Super-Busy Home Cook
Joan of Arc: a History
Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis
Judith Kerr's Creatures
Judy Blume
Kill the Silence: a Survivor's Life Reclaimed
Lady Bird and Lyndon: the Hidden Story of a Marriage that Made a President
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
Loretta Lynch: First African American Woman Attorney General
Louisa: the Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Love, Loss, and What We Ate
Lucy Tries Short Track
Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
Maggie Smith: a Biography
Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: the Private Lives of Science's First Family
Mary Cassatt: Extraordinary Impressionist Painter
Mary McGrory: the First Queen of Journalism
Mary Todd Lincoln
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
Me, My Hair, and I
Million Dollar Women: the Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big
Miss Mary Reporting: the True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber
Missing Millie Benson: the Secret Case of the Nancy Drew Ghostwriter and Journalist
Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty
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My Badass Book of Saints
My Journey
My Life on the Road
My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today
Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
North Woods Girl
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution
Peggy Guggenheim: the Shock of the Modern
Playing Scared: a History and Memoir of Stage Fright
Plenty Ladylike
Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: a Biography of Princess Louise
Radioactive!: How Irene Curie & Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
Rebel with a Cause: the Daring Adventure of Dicey Langston, Girl Spy of the American Revolution
Reporting Always: Writings from The New Yorker
Rosemary: the Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Iconic Supreme Court Justice
Sacajawea
Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist
Sisters In Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor
Sonia Sotomayor
Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song
Stalin's Daughter: the Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
Suffrage Sisters: the Fight for Liberty
Suffragette: My Own Story
Swan: the Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider
Taking Charge of Your Fertility: the Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive
Health
Tattered and Mended: the Art of Healing the Wounded Soul
Technology: Cool Women Who Code
Ten Days a Madwoman: the Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly
Terrible Typhoid Mary: a True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
The Anatomy of a Calling: a Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose
The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu
The Bridge Ladies: a Memoir
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: a Biography
The Confidence Myth: Why Women Undervalue Their Skills and How to Get Over It
The Detective's Assistant
The Doctor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre
The Drummond Girls: a Story of Fierce Friendship Beyond Time and Chance
The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: a Colonial Woman on the Frontier
The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
The Girl Who Buried Her Dreams in a Can
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The Girl with Nine Wigs: a Memoir
The Goddess Pose: the Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West
The Irish Countrywomen's Association Book of Crafts: 40 Projects to Make at Home
The Kid from Diamond Street: the Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton
The Last Goodnight: a World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal
The Light of the World: a Memoir
The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life
The Longevity Book: the Science of Aging, the Biology of Strength, and the Privilege of Time
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs from the National Gallery of Art
The Missing Kennedy: Rosemary Kennedy and the Secret Bonds of Four Women
The Mommy Group: Freaking Out, Finding Friends, and Surviving the Happiest Time of Our Lives
The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys' Club
The Original Cowgirl: the Wild Adventures of Lucille Mulhall
The Pregnancy Encyclopedia: All Your Questions Answered
The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: a Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
The Rose Hotel: a Memoir of Secrets, Loss, and Love from Iran to America
The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
The Social Sex: a History of Female Friendship
The Soul Searcher's Handbook: the Modern Girl's Guide to the New Age World
The Story of My Life
The Whole Life Fertility Plan: Understanding What Affects Your Fertility to Help You Get Pregnant When You Want To
The Woman's Wakeup: How to Shake Up Your Looks, Life, and Love After 50
There's a Woman in the Pulpit: Christian Clergywomen Share Their Hard Days, Holy Moments & the Healing Power of Humor
To the Stars!: the First American Woman to Walk in Space
Turn Your Mate into Your Soulmate: a Practical Guide to Happily Ever After
U Chic: College Girls' Real Advice for Your First Year (and Beyond)
Under the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run Over
Underground in Berlin: a Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany
Undivided: a Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace
Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family
Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
US Women Win the World Cup
Warrior: a Memoir
We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope
We Were Feminists Once
What's Your Story, Wilma Rudolph?
When the Slave EsperanÇa Garcia Wrote a Letter
When Women Win: Emily's List and the Rise of Women in American Politics
Where Are the Women Architects?
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
Wildflower
Woman-Powered Farm: Manual for a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle from Homestead to Field
Women Chefs of New York
Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories
Women Who Read are Dangerous
Young Elizabeth: the Making of the Queen
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