<div>Finalist Pacific Book Awards 2018: &ldquo;Find motivation in your career and life with the amazing history of women entrepreneurship, activism, and leadership.&rdquo; &mdash;Stylish Southern Mama Women Who Launch is filled with inspiring true stories of women activists, artists, and entrepreneurs who launched some of the most famous companies, brands, and organizations today and changed the world. It is at once a collection of biographies and a testament of female empowerment. Juliette Gordon Low showed what&rsquo;s good for the goose is good for the gander when she created the Girl Scouts of America. Sarah Josepha Hale&mdash;authoress of Mary Had a Little Lamb&mdash;convinced Lincoln to launch a national day of thanks, while Anna Jarvis persuaded President Wilson to initiate a day in tribute of mothers. Est&eacute;e Lauder revolutionized the cosmetics industry. The tradition of these Mothers of Invention continued when, compliments of knitter Krista Suh, the heads of millions were adorned with pink pussy-cat ears in the largest women&rsquo;s march in history. These women who launched prove&mdash;in the words of Rosie the Riveter&mdash;&ldquo;We can do it!&rdquo; In Women Who Launch, readers will find:<ul><li>The stories behind renowned companies, brands, and organizations and the diverse women who launched them.</li><li>Empowering quotes from strong women and those who refused to be kept down.</li><li>Motivation to all women who want to succeed in their careers, launch companies, and change the world.</li></ul> &ldquo;These soaring stories will inspire you to live your dreams!&rdquo; &mdash;Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome Women</div>

Women Who Launch

<div>These inspiring true stories of women who&rsquo;ve made the most of their mature years &ldquo;will get you fired up&rdquo; (Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome Women and Real Life Mindfulness). The amazing women profiled in Great Second Acts refused to be defined by the dates on their birth certificates. Their lives are testimony that one can be feisty after fifty&mdash;and this book says in no uncertain terms to those who think otherwise, in the words of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: &ldquo;I dissent.&rdquo; This isa fascinating collection of biographical sketches of dozens of women of a certain age who have excelled, inspired, and achieved. Learn how these women changed their respective fields of art, politics, science, mathematics, media, literature, business, activism, education, and more. Included are: &middot; Biographies of influential women such as PM Margaret Thatcher, chef Julia Child, Mother Teresa, feminist Gloria Steinem, actress Rita Moreno, inventor Ruth Handler, Judge Judy Sheindlin, and many more &middot; Empowering quotes from strong women who epitomize grit and persistence &middot; Motivational, inspirational, and educational stories of ordinary older women who&rsquo;ve accomplished extraordinary things</div>

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Great Second Acts

<div>Profiles of pioneering women past and present who&rsquo;ve shattered glass ceilings from the author of Women of Means and Women Who Launch. Sexism has kept generations of women on the sidelines of history&mdash;but in every era, there are women who refuse to sit back in the shadows. Fabulous Female Firsts is a celebration of those women&mdash;the role models who proved that with enough daring and tenacity, the impossible can become possible. From the first woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor to the first female candidate for US President (it wasn&rsquo;t Hillary Clinton!) to the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, this collection of biographical profiles celebrates the trailblazers who persisted&mdash;in spite of being labeled stubborn, improper, or worse. This book is written in praise of &ldquo;difficult women&rdquo; who made the world a better place, and offers the inspiring stories of: Aretha Franklin &bull; Sandra Day O&rsquo;Connor &bull; Lucy Walker &bull; Sally Ride &bull; Kathryn Bigelow &bull; Misty Copeland &bull; Viola Desmond &bull; Pauli Murray &bull; Emma Gatewood &bull; Brig. Gen. Anna Hays &bull; Junko Tabei &bull; Gertrude Ederle and many more. &ldquo;Effervescent stories about diverse groups of female creators, entrepreneurs, and dynamos . . . every page gives the motivation to strive for greatness.&rdquo; &mdash;Becca Anderson, bestselling author of The Book of Awesome Women and Real Life Mindfulnes</div>

Fabulous Female Firsts

<div>&ldquo;An incredible book about the strength of women . . . an important book and a read that is nothing if not timely with current politics.&rdquo; &mdash;FangirlNation A #1 Bestseller in 21st Century U.S. History for Teens Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. It embodies the strength of character of the inspiring women profiled. Each chapter will outline the fall and rise of great women heroes who smashed all obstacles, rather than let all obstacles smash them. The book offers hope to those undergoing their own Sisyphean struggles. Intrepid women heroes are the antithesis of the traditional damsels in distress; rather than waiting for the prince, they took salvation into their own hands. Celebrate girl power! Women leaders in history celebrated in this book include: <ul><li>Madame C. J. Walker&mdash;first female American millionaire</li><li>Aung San Suu Kyi&mdash;Burma&rsquo;s first lady of freedom</li><li>Betty Shabazz&mdash;civil rights activist</li><li>Nellie Sachs&mdash;Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize recipient</li><li>Selma Lagerlof&mdash;first woman Nobel Laureate</li><li>Fannie Lou Hamer&mdash;American voting rights activist</li><li>Bessie Coleman&mdash;first African-American female pilot</li><li>Wilma Rudolph&mdash;first woman to win three gold medals</li><li>Sonia Sotomayor&mdash;first Hispanic Supreme Court justice</li><li>Wangari Maathai&mdash;Nobel Prize winner</li><li>Winnifred Mandela&mdash;freedom fighter</li><li>Lois Wilson&mdash;founder of Al-Anon</li><li>Roxanne Quimby&mdash;cofounder of Burt&rsquo;s Bees</li></ul> &ldquo;Inspirational . . . If you need a little encouragement in your life during these difficult times, the lives of these women will give you hope.&rdquo; &mdash;Says Me Says Mom</div>

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