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In honor of Women's History Month, explore these fascinating her-stories.

No walls and the recurring dream : a memoir

Divided we stand : the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics

Rabble rousers : 20 women who made a difference

Radioactive! : how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world

I'm supposed to protect you from all this : a memoir

Beerspit night and cursing : the correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967

She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world

We who are sisters : 150 years of the P.E.O. Sisterhood

Graffiti women : street art from five continents

Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment

Extraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of family

The three Graces of Val-Kill : Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the place they made their own

She caused a riot : 100 unknown women who built cities, sparked revolutions, & massively crushed it

The extra woman : how Marjorie Hillis led a generation of women to live alone and like it

Suffrage : women's long battle for the vote

She the people : a graphic history of uprisings, breakdowns, setbacks, revolts, and enduring hope on the unfinished road to women's equality

A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights

Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary

Unmentionable : the Victorian lady's guide to sex, marriage, and manners

Award-winning adult fiction

Djinn patrol on the purple line : a novel

Peace talks : a novel of the Dresden files

New suns : original speculative fiction by people of color

Can't wait to see your friends again? Us neither.

Without her : a novel / Rosalind Brackenbury.

Check out these comics released in 2020

The Crow : Hack/Slash, She wears shadows

Justice League of America, the nail : the complete collection

Slaughterhouse-five : or the children's crusade : a duty-dance with death

The phantom of the opera : the graphic novel

Wonder Woman and the Justice League Dark : the witching hour

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The lost carnival : a Dick Grayson graphic novel

Award-winning nonfiction, 2018-2020

The mastermind : drugs, empire, murder, betrayal

Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait

Grace will lead us home : the Charleston Church Massacre and the hard, inspiring journey to forgiveness

Haben : the Deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law

Volume control : hearing in a deafening world

Midnight in Chernobyl : the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster

The uninhabitable earth : life after warming

The queens of animation : the untold story of the women who transformed the world of Disney and made cinematic history

Shakespeare in a divided America : what his plays tell us about our past and future

Desert notebooks : a road map for the end of time

The crowded hour : Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the dawn of the American century

A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century

She said : breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement

The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations

Beneath the tamarind tree : a story of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of Boko Haram

The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age

This is all I got : a new mother's search for home

The dreamt land : chasing water and dust across California

The British are coming : the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA

Black wave : Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the forty-year rivalry that unraveled culture, religion, and collective memory in the Middle East

Late migrations : a natural history of love and loss

Go ahead. Dig in that dirt.

Private edens : beautiful country gardens

Start with the soil : the organic gardener's guide to improving soil for higher yields, more beautiful flowers, and a healthy, easy-care garden

Gardening with prairie plants : how to create beautiful native landscapes

The tree doctor : a guide to tree care and maintenance

Growing bonsai : a practical encyclopedia : the complete guide to a classic art with essential techniques, step-by-step projects and over 800 photographs

The unexpected houseplant : 220 extraordinary choices for every spot in your home

Growing, older : a chronicle of death, life, and vegetables

Garden secrets for attracting birds : a bird-by-bird guide to favored plants

Indoor plants for beginners : plant care basics, choosing houseplants, suggested plants for every location

Home outside : creating the landscape you love

The gardener's A-Z guide to growing organic food

The container gardener's bible : a step-by-step guide to growing in all kinds of containers, conditions, and locations

Gardening for the birds : how to create a bird-friendly backyard

Inside outside : a sourcebook of inspired garden rooms

The spirit of stone : 101 practical & creative stonescaping ideas for your garden

The organic lawn care manual : a natural, low-maintenance system for a beautiful, safe lawn.

Glorious shade : dazzling plants, design ideas, and proven techniques for your shady garden

Lawn geek : tips and tricks for the ultimate turf from the guru of grass

How not to kill your houseplant : survival tips for the horticulturally challenged

Landscape planning : practical techniques for the home gardener

Prick : cacti and succulents : choosing, styling, caring

Looking to hole up with some DVDs? These movies have award-winning chuckles that will warm your soul.

Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

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