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I recommend reading the following:

Pitch Like A Girl: How A Woman Can Be Herself And Still Succeed by Ronna Lichtenberg

She explains the “pink” and “blue” styles of absorbing information, and how you can have females with blue stripes and males with pink stripes.  What I really like is that she gives not only annadoctal stories for each, but backs up her assertions with studies and statistics.  In other words, she gives something for the pink and something for the blue.

Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

This is a part of history we were never taught in school.  What did the women of these early presidents do?  Would those men have been presidents if it weren’t for the counsel or support of their wives?  Their letters reveal the story and Cokie tells it beautifully.  It really is inspirational and rounds out history.

The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan

Like the Da Vinci Code, this fictional account revolves around the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.  It is interesting that the author claims in the afterword that much of it is true and that she is a part of that bloodline.  Fiction?  Interesting read.

Roma by Steven Saylor

This book reminds me of the Rutherford books that span many generations in one geographical location.  Here, obviously, the book describes the beginings of Rome to about the time of Christ.  Saylor has written a number of books on Rome and its Empire.