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January 2023: Science Fiction Day
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October 2023: Leif Erikson Day
December 2023: Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
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January 2022: Honoring MLK
February 2022: Black Joy
February 2022: Lunar New Year
February 2022: Love or Something Like It
March 2022: Write Down Your Story
March 2022: Women In STEAM
March 2022: Freedom of Information
April 2022: Library Week
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June 2022: Asteroid Day!
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July 2022: International Chess Day
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September 2022: Banned Book Week
September 2022: Celebrating Graphic Artist Denys Cowan
October 2022: Hispanic Heritage Month
October 2022: LGBTQ+ History Month
November 2022: Folklore and Fairy Tales
November 2022: World Philosophy Day
December 2022: The World Cup
December 2022: National Day of Joy
2021 Book Lists
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January 2021: Literary Escapes
February 2021: Contemporary Black Authors
March 2021: The Food that Cultivates Us
April 2021: Financial Literacy
May 2021: The Next Chapter
November 2021: Veterans
December 2021: Native American Hertiage
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April 2020: Libraries in Books
May 2020: Mental Health Awareness
June 2020: Reading the Second World War
June 2020: LGBTQ+ Pride
July 2020: Anti-Racism + Allyship
July 2020: Americans with Disabilities Act
August - September 2020: Back to School
September - October 2020: Hispanic Heritage Month
October 2020 Gothic Lit + Ghosts Galore
November 2020: Elections + American Politics
December 2020: In the Snow and Ice
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." -- Marie Skłodowska-Curie
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Grace Hopper
by
Kathleen Broome Williams
ISBN: 9781612512655
World Women in Mathematics 2018: Proceedings of the First World Meeting for Women in Mathematics
by
Carolina Araujo, Georgia Benkart, Cheryl E. Praeger, Betül Tanbay, editors.
ISBN: 9783030211707
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
by
Anna Reser & Leila McNeill
ISBN: 9780711248984
Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Double Blind in Higher Education
by
Bevelry Irby, Nahed Abdelrahman, Barbara Polnick, Julia Ballenger
ISBN: 9781648023712
Making Marie Curie
by
Eva Hemmungs Wirten
ISBN: 9780226235844
Diversifying STEM
ISBN: 9781978805675
A Woman in Engineering
by
Monique Aubry-Frize
ISBN: 9780776628608
Gender and Science: Studies Across Cultures
ISBN: 9788175969254
Molecular Feminisms
by
Deboleena Roy
ISBN: 9780295744117
Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880-1914
by
Claire G. Jones
ISBN: 9780230555211
Sex, Gender, and Engineering: Harassment at Work and in School
by
Jennifer VanAntwerp. Denise Wilson.
ISBN: 9781527577657
Alliances for Advancing Academic Women
by
Penny J. Gilmer (Volume Editor); Berrin Tansel (Volume Editor); Michelle Hughes Miller (Volume Editor)
ISBN: 9789462096028
Ada's Legacy
by
Robin Hammerman; Andrew L. Russell
ISBN: 9781970001488
Ichthyosaurus and Little Mary Anning
by
Brooke Hartzog
ISBN: 9780823953264
Rebels, Scholars, Explorers
by
Annalisa Berta; Susan Turner
ISBN: 9781421439709
Women and Science, 17th Century to Present
by
Donna Spalding Andrèolle; Veronique Molinari
ISBN: 9781443829182
The Bold and the Brave
by
Monique Aubry-Frize
ISBN: 9780776607252
Madame Chien-Shiung Wu
by
Caijian Jiang; Tsai-Chien Chiang
ISBN: 9789814374842
Sisters in Science
by
Diann Jordan
ISBN: 9781429461405
Women Spacefarers
by
Umberto Cavallaro
ISBN: 9783319340487
Publication Date: 2016-12-19
Clipped Wings
by
Molly Merryman
ISBN: 9781479805785
Broad Band
by
Claire L. Evans
ISBN: 9780735211759
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
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Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine
by
Laurie Wallmark; April Chu (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781939547200
Publication Date: 2015-10-13
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
by
Kurt W. Beyer
ISBN: 9780262013109
Publication Date: 2009-07-10
Improbable Warriors
by
Kathleen Broome Williams
ISBN: 1557509611
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Hidden Figures
by
Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780062363596
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
Born Curious
by
Martha Freeman; Katy Wu (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781534421530
Publication Date: 2020-02-18
The Madame Curie Complex
by
Julie Des Jardins
ISBN: 9781558616134
Publication Date: 2010-03-01
Women Pioneers of Medical Research
by
King-Thom Chung; Hubert Arthur Lechevalier (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780786429271
Publication Date: 2009-12-01
Black Women Scientists in the United States
by
Wini Warren
ISBN: 0253336031
Publication Date: 2000-02-22
Marie Curie
by
Susan Quinn
ISBN: 0201887940
Publication Date: 1996-04-10
Hidden Figures
by
Margot Lee Shetterly; Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062742469
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science
by
Diane Stanley; Jessie Hartland (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481452496
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
Ada's Ideas
by
Fiona Robinson
ISBN: 9781419718724
Publication Date: 2016-08-02
Journeys of Women
by
Susan Ambrose
ISBN: 1566395275
Publication Date: 1997-06-02
Women Pioneers of Medical Research
by
King-Thom Chung; Hubert Arthur Lechevalier (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780786429271
Publication Date: 2009-12-01
Rosalind Franklin
by
Brenda Maddox
ISBN: 0060184078
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Gender and Scientific Authority
by
Barbara Laslett (Editor); Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (Editor); Helen Longino (Editor); Evelynn Hammonds (Editor)
ISBN: 0226469174
Publication Date: 1996-07-08
Sex and Scientific Inquiry
by
Sandra Harding (Editor); Jean F. O'Barr (Editor)
ISBN: 0226316270
Publication Date: 1987-05-15
Zora Neale Hurston
by
Carla Kaplan; Robert Hemingway (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0385490356
Publication Date: 2002-10-08
Almost Astronauts
by
Tanya Lee Stone; Margaret A. Weitekamp (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780763636111
Publication Date: 2009-02-24
Astronaut Mae Jemison
by
Allison Lassieur
ISBN: 9781512407914
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
Sally Ride: a Photobiography of America's Pioneering Woman in Space
by
Tam O'Shaughnessy
ISBN: 9781596439948
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Promised the Moon
by
Stephanie Nolen
ISBN: 1568582757
Publication Date: 2003-07-29
Amelia Earhart's Daughters
by
Leslie Haynsworth; David Toomey
ISBN: 9780688152338
Publication Date: 1998-08-01
Daredevil
by
Meghan McCarthy (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781442422629
Publication Date: 2013-06-04
Hedy's Folly
by
Richard Rhodes
ISBN: 9780385534383
Publication Date: 2011-11-29
Hypatia of Alexandria
by
Maria. Dzielska; F. Lyra (Translator)
ISBN: 9780674437753
Ada, Countess of Lovelace
by
Doris L. Moore
ISBN: 9780060130121
Hypatia Reborn
by
Azizah Al-Hibri (Editor); Margaret A. Simons (Editor)
ISBN: 9780253205858
Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science
by
Miriam P. Cooney (Editor); Kevin Chadwick (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0873534255
The Bold and the Brave
by
Monique Aubry-Frize
ISBN: 9780776607252
The Mind Has No Sex?
by
Londa Schiebinger
ISBN: 9780674576230
Obsessive Genius
by
Barbara Goldsmith
ISBN: 9780393051377
A Feeling for the Organism
by
Evelyn F. Keller; W. H. Freeman
ISBN: 9780716714330
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
by
Brenda Maddox
ISBN: 9780006552116
Math Equals
by
Teri Perl
ISBN: 9780201057096
Philosophy of Science after Feminism
by
Janet A. Kourany
ISBN: 9780199732616
Connecting Girls and Science
by
Elaine V. Howes
ISBN: 0807742104
The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology
List of female scientists in the 20th century
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