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Raising Ourselves
Into the Wild
A Thousand Trails Home
America's First Daughter
Writing Creativity and Soul
March: Book One
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation―Untold True Stories of Extraordinary Women Who Shaped American History
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father

Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era—but not about his love life. Poor Richard’s Women reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years.…

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