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Women of steel and stone

22 inspirational architects, engineers, and landscape designers
Presents the stories of twenty-two different women architects, engineers, and landscape designers, from the nineteenth century to the present. Profiles each woman and how their childhoods led them to become architects later in life.

I'll Walk Alone

2012
Thirty-two year old Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her successful life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met. Or has she?.

Where'd you go, Bernadette

a novel
2013
When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.

The inhabited woman

1995
Story of a successful woman architect who seems to be living the dream life but when she feels inhabited by the spirit of an Indian woman warrior, Livinia abandons her life of privilege and joins a revolutionary movement planning the overthrow of a harsh dictator.

What can she be? An architect

1974
Introduces the various aspects of a career in architecture through a description of a woman architect's projects and daily work.

Women in American architecture

a historic and contemporary perspective : a publication and exhibition organized by the Architectural League of New York through its Archive of Women in Architecture
1977

I'll walk alone

2011
Thirty-year-old interior designer Alexandra Moreland, struggling to deal with the disappearance of her son, fights to uncover who is behind a plot to destroy her sanity and life after she is indicted for identity theft and suspected of murder.

Katherine Stinson

the flying schoolgirl
2000
Chronicles the life of Katherine Stinson, discussing how she became one of the first female precision flyers, how she invented night skywriting, how she managed to succeed in a field dominated by men, and other related topics.

Where'd you go, Bernadette

a novel
2012
When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.

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