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CRRL Picks: She Persisted

Read one of these biographies or autobiographies about women who were pioneers in their fields and how they made impacts on the world.

Central Rappahannock Regional Library

16 items

  • Attention Is Discovery

    the Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt

    Von Mertens, Anna, 1973-
    BookCambridge, Massachusetts :: MIT Press, 2024. — 921 Leavi
  • Becoming Ella Fitzgerald

    the Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

    Tick, Judith
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2024] — 921 Fitzg
  • Behind the Seams

    My Life in Rhinestones

    Parton, Dolly
    BookCalifornia : Ten Speed Press, [2023] — 781.642 Pa
  • Brave the Wild River

    the Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

    Sevigny, Melissa L., 1986-
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] — 920 Se
  • Daughter of Daring

    the Trick-riding, Train-leaping, Road-racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman

    O'Meara, Mallory
    BookNew York, NY : Hanover Square Press, [2025] — 921 Gibso
  • Empress of the Nile

    the Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples From Destruction

    Olson, Lynne
    BookNew York : Random House, [2023] — 921 Desro
  • Fierce Ambition

    the Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins

    Conant, Jennet
    BookNew York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2023] — 921 Higgi
  • The Girls Who Fought Crime

    the Untold True Story of the Country's First Female Investigator and Her Crime-fighting Squad

    Eder, Mari K.
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2023] — 921 Foley
  • Hedy's Folly

    the Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

    Rhodes, Richard, 1937-
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2011], ©2011. — 921 Lamar
  • Book[New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023] — 921 Strei
  • Proving Ground

    the Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer

    Kleiman, Kathy
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, 2022. — 920 Kl
  • The Rulebreaker

    the Life and Times of Barbara Walters

    Page, Susan, 1951-
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — 921 Walte
  • Undaunted

    How Women Changed American Journalism

    Kroeger, Brooke, 1949-
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — 070.4 Kr
  • BookNew York : Gallery Books, 2023. — 921 Spear