REGISTERED NURSE TO REAR ADMIRAL
A FIRST FOR NAVY WOMEN
by Estelle McDoniel
In 1945, Lieutenant Alene B. Duerk, registered nurse, stood on the deck of the USS Benevolence, one of the Navy’s large hospital ships. It had taken many years of hard work for her to become a capable nurse and an independent woman, as her mother had hoped. Now she was headed for the coast of Japan in a fleet of 600 ships. It was wartime, and the future looked uncertain.
But Alene Duerk’s dedication would lead to a long and productive career with the Navy, and her efforts in caring for patients and training other nurses and corpsmen would make her a trailblazer. In 1972, when she officially became the Navy’s first woman rear admiral, she said, “There is no men’s Navy and no women’s Navy, but one Navy. Young women can now see that the sky’s the limit.”

Breaking Free
The Story of a Feminist Baptist Minister
By Jann Aldredge-Clanton
Jann Aldredge-Clanton  became one of the first women ever to be ordained as a Baptist minister in the South.
It has not been an easy road. She almost lost her job as a professor at a Baptist university because she refused to sign a fundamentalist statement of beliefs. She was labeled a “heretic” for calling God “She” and “Mother.” Others said she couldn’t be an ordained minister because it would be “unbiblical.” 
Called “Waco’s Give ‘Em Hell Minister” for her outspoken opinions and action on social issues, Jann divulges in Breaking Free how she discovered her mission of freeing people, including herself, from sexism and other injustices. Breaking Free is a remarkable memoir that shows the liberating power of faith combined with feminism. It will inspire readers of all ages to find the freedom to become all God created them to be.

 RED BOOTS & ATTITUDE
The Spirit of Texas Writers
Edited by: Diane Fanning
Susie Kelly Flatau
RED BOOTS & ATTITUDE speaks to every Texas woman. It echoes her spirit, her strength and her indomitable will. This unique collection, edited by Texas authors Diane Fanning and Susie Kelly Flatau, showcases the fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry of established and emerging Texas Women Writers.
Featuring the creative non-fiction of Liz Carpenter (award-winning author of Starts With a Laugh) and Farnoosh Moshiri (Bartheleme Memorial Fellowship for non-fiction, 1996), the poetry of Teresa Palomo Acosta (Voertman Award for Poetry, 1993) and Vicky Charleston (Best Texas Poet-Austin International Poetry Festival, 1995), and the short fiction of Suzy Spencer (New York Times Bestseller) and Ruth Pennebaker (finalist for the Book Publishers of Texas Award for Best Book for Children and Young People, Texas Institute of Letters) and many others. A portion of the royalties from this book are earmarked as a contribution to the Breast Cancer Resource Center to aid them in their valuable work.

           HEARTFELT
A Memoir of Camp Mystic Inspirations
By Claudia Sullivan
Heartfelt offers spiritual insights for the present through sayings from the past. These sayings come from a unique place: Camp Mystic for girls, a private girls' camp nestled in the Texas Hill Country.
Heartfelt is not only for those with a camping past, it is for anyone interested in daily inspiration.