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National Military Appreciation Month!

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Memoirs and History

The amazing experiences of America’s proud Marines, from the birth of the U.S. Marine Corps to today’s operations around the globe.

This is the story of how America’s first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army.

“A fresh, well-researched contribution to military and gender history.” —Kirkus

“Narrator Susan Ericksen is the perfect choice for this gem of overlooked history, which tells the story of America’s first female soldiers.” —AudioFile

John Lewis Barkley’s memoir, first published in 1930 as No Hard Feelings and long out of print, provides a vivid ground-level look at World War I through the eyes of a soldier whose exploits rivaled those of Sergeant York.

David Brown’s life has been one of perseverance, tenacity, and achievement. And Goliath is his story through military life and what comes after—the good and the bad.

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant’s choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young.

“Jonathan Davis gives a splendid narration . . . [his] baritone is resonant, his pacing deliberate but by no means plodding, and his pronunciation clear and precise.” —AudioFile

Women’s History Month

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And Yet They Persisted traces agitation for the vote over two centuries, from the revolutionary era to the civil rights era, excavating one of the greatest struggles for social change in this country and restoring African American women and other women of color to its telling.

An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories.

In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York’s most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney, and the like—carried enormous public value.

The award-winning history of the women who went West to work in Fred Harvey’s restaurants along the Santa Fe railway—and went on to shape the American Southwest.

Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement—the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, altering America’s gender landscape forever.

Mary Sherman Morgan’s crucial contribution to launching America’s first satellite and the author’s labyrinthine journey to uncover his mother’s lost legacy—one buried deep under a lifetime of secrets political, technological, and personal.

The life of trailblazing physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, who expanded our understanding of the physical world.