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• Mother Teresa

  Come Be My Light : the Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"

  Teresa, Mother, 1910-1997

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  “This collection of her writing and reflections, almost all of which have never been made public before, sheds light on Mother Teresa's interior life in a way that reveals the depth and intensity of her holiness for the first time. A moving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nobel Prize Women in Science

  Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries

  McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch

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  "This book tells the stories of the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project... reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Obsessive Genius

  the Inner World of Marie Curie

  Goldsmith, Barbara

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  “The myth of Marie Curie—the penniless Polish immigrant who, through genius and obsessive persistence, endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills including cancer—has obscured the remarkable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pearl Buck in China

  Journey to The Good Earth

  Spurling, Hilary

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  “She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Telling Times

  Writing and Living, 1954-2008

  Gordimer, Nadine

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  “…represents the full span of her works … from the twilight of white rule in South Africa to the fight to overthrow the apartheid regime, and most recently, her role over the past seven years in confronting the contemporary phenomena of violence and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Twenty Years at Hull House, With Autobiographical Notes

  Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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  Originally published in 1910, this was Jane Addams' most successful book. Now regarded as a classic of American social history, this first annotated edition is issued on the occasion of the Hull-House centennial.

• Unbowed

  a Memoir

  Maathai, Wangari

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  The recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize describes her life as a feminist, political activist, and environmentalist in Kenya, detailing the 1977 establishment of the Green Belt Movement and her role in the transformation of Kenya's government.

• What Moves at the Margin

  Selected Nonfiction

  Morrison, Toni

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  “The commanding voice of Morrison's essays, speeches and reviews offers compelling insights into family, history, other writers and politics. The pieces span from 1971, when Morrison was an editor at Random House, to 2002, the year she won the Nobel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Winners

  Women and the Nobel Prize

  Shiels, Barbara

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  Though copyrighted in 1985, this book still is useful for it contains biographies of eight women who have won the Prize to that date.