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Gal’s Guide Recommended Reads (and Views) About LGBTQ Pride

  While there are several exceptional options for books, movies, and comedy specials that showcase LGBTQ pride we have narrowed it down to a mix of our top recommendations for June. OUR RECOMMENDED READS: Nazimova: A Biography by Gavin Lambert The Color Purple by Alice Walker Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress […]

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Seeking LGBTQ Pride Books

Gal’s Guide is building an independent women’s history library and is seeking works by women and about women. This month we have a list of books by and about LGBTQ pride. UPDATE: The Gal’s Guide Library opened March 6, 2020. Each link goes to our Amazon Smile Charity Wish List. If you have these books and would like […]

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Gal’s Guide Podcast – Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas was a trailblazer for women in the White House Press Core serving from the Kennedy administration until the Obama Administration. Katie tells the story of the rise and fall of this fierce journalist that dared JFK to be better, found her own voice, and how she upset George Bush Jr so much she […]

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Gal’s Guide Podcast – Women Who Made the Internet

Step aside Al Gore, because Bonnie read a book with a pun in the title all about how so many women made the internet! Learn about the women who invented computer programming and hyperlinks. Learn who decided early computers would be oatmeal color and why we use the term “computer bug” Spoilers! It’s all women!!! […]

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Gal’s Guide Recommended Books By And About Women Journalists

While there are several exceptional options for books written about and by women who are journalists, we have narrowed it down to a mix of our top recommendations for May. OUR RECOMMENDED READS: Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One […]

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Seeking Books About Women Journalists

Gal’s Guide is building an independent women’s history library and is seeking works by women and about women in various career fields. This month we have a list of books by and about women journalists. UPDATE: The Gal’s Guide Library opened March 6, 2020. Each link goes to our Amazon Smile Charity Wish List. If you have these […]

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We Need Women’s History Books

Gal’s Guide is building the first independent women’s history library and is seeking works by women and about women in various career fields. This month we have a list of 20 books that showcase a variety of women in one book. UPDATE: The Gal’s Guide Library opened March 6, 2020. Each link goes to our Amazon Smile […]

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Our 13 Recommended Reads for Women’s History Month

For one of our favorite months of the year, Women’s History Month, we have chosen 13 books that give you the most variety for your time. These are books that showcase many women who share an occupation, time period, geography, or general badassery. Each link goes to our Amazon Smile Charity page to support our independent women’s history […]

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Fantastic Books About First Ladies

As of 2019, there have been 44 different men serve as President of the United States. If you’re wondering why that number seems to be off by one, remember that Grover Cleveland served twice and was the 22nd & 24th President of the United States. But as Abigal Adams wrote to John when he was […]

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Our 10 Recommended Reads For Black History Month, Plus 5 Documentaries

Our 10 recommended reads that include fiction and non-fiction, science and sci-fi, poetry and a play, plus a few documentary films.