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Pub. Date
2019.
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They're queens wielding scepters and sitting on thrones, they're revolutionaries on the front lines of change, they're presidents and prime ministers leading their nation, or they're CEOs, scientists, sports legends, and artists who are have risen to the top of their fields. Welcome to The Book of Queens, where being a mighty monarch doesn't just mean wearing a crown. Leaders like these come from all over the globe and have different talents. But...
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
"Here is a royal entourage of queens, empresses, prime ministers, presidents, regents, constitutional monarchs, and other women rulers of the world's empires, nations, and tribes. Their readable biographies cover each ruler's victories and defeats, foibles and triumphs, life and times."--BOOK JACKET. "Women Rulers throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide is based on the author's Women Who Ruled. Many entries have been substantially revised, expanded,...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In 2016, Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi became the state counselor of Myanmar. She wasn't always given a say in her country's political affairs. She spent more than fifteen years under house arrest as punishment for speaking out against human rights abuses and promoting democracy. She then became an international symbol of peaceful resistance to oppression. Readers will learn about Suu Kyi's extraordinary struggles and accomplishments....
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Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Profiles the careers of seven women elected to head their respective countries, including Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Corazón Aquino, Benazir Bhutto, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, and Gro Harlem Brundtland.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
If you thought that it was a man's world, think again! 100 Women Who Made History is the exciting story of the women who changed the world, from Anne Frank to J.K. Rowling. Meet the most talented and famous women in history, from politics, science, business, and the arts, from exciting entrepreneurs to clever creative. Discover landmark moments in the lives of amazing historical women from Joan of Arc to Marie Curie, up to and including modern game-changers...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century. Library Journal "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021" Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilization of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. Large swathes of the continent were under the firm hand of a dozen reigning women as queens, regents, mothers, wives, or counselors. From Isabella of Castile, her daughter Katherine of Aragon, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor; from England and France to the Netherlands, and across the Holy Roman Empire, these women wielded enormous...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"In a dystopian magical world, a community's sworn protector struggles to keep a fracture in the populace from breaking out into violence."--
The world is over. All that remains is the Citadel, and the Chancellor who protects it from the hostility and hatred beyond its walls. But what can she do when fearful and angry outsiders are convinced she is the one who brought their lives to ruin, and are determined to make her pay?
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