Books by Lydia Reeder and Complete Book Reviews

Dust Bowl Girls: A Team’s Quest for Basketball Glory
Dust Bowl Girls: A Team’s Quest for Basketball Glory
Lydia Reeder. Algonquin, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61620-466-2
Reeder, a former editor at Whole Life Times, tells the inspiring story of Oklahoma Presbyterian College basketball coach Sam Babb’s efforts to create and maintain a championship women’s team, the Cardinals, amidst the hardships of the Dust Bowl...
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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever
Lydia Reeder. St. Martin’s, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-28445-7
Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906), the second woman to graduate from the Sorbonne medical school, played a forgotten but critical role in feminist history, according to this brilliant account. Reeder (Dust Bowl Girls) describes how over the course of...
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Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team that Barnstormed its Way to Basketball Glory
Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team that Barnstormed its Way to Basketball Glory
Lydia Reeder, read by Virginia Wolf. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 7 CDs, 8.5 hrs., $34.99 ISBN 978-1-6816-8198-6
In her comfortable, slightly husky voice, actor Wolf offers a warm, earnest narration of this inspiring story about a championship women’s basketball team during the Great Depression. The coach of a tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College sought out poor
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