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"The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First Vintage books edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of America's civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized African American women for centuries, revealing Rosa Parks's contributions as an anti-rape activist years before her heroic bus protest.
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
xxi, 266 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Klein uncovers the real story behind Hillary's email scandals and the dirty political games that have kept her one step ahead of the law. Klein reveals what the FBI's team of 100-plus investigators really found on Clinton's server and how Comey, the FBI director, personally went to the Oval Office to warn President Obama against any attempt to intervene in the investigation.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing on interviews and archival research to reveal the pivotal role of feminism in shaping her seven-decade story.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First North American Edition.
Physical Desc
314 p.
Language
English
Description
In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of it, she offered a primer on the basics of identifying human remains, plenty of insights into the fascinating processes of death, and a sober, compassionate understanding of its inescapable presence in our existence, all leavened with her wicked sense of humor.
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148) Notes on grief
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father's death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core....
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Publisher
Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Drawing on letters, diaries and contemporary accounts, this history of women's experiences in the Wild West focuses tells the stories of both the women who were brutally exploited as well as those fought incredible odds to forge home and identities.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 337 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Graves and her new husband started their westward journey with the Donner party in April of 1846. When they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes enduring almost unfathomable hardships and horrors.
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charles James, often considered to be America's first couturier, was renowned in the 1940s and 1950s as a master at sculpting fabric for the female form and creating fashions that defined mid-century glamour. Although James had no formal training as a dressmaker, he created strikingly original and complex designs, including intricate ball gowns worn by members of high society in New York and Europe. This lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive...
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Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Professor Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and anatomist. She has lived her life eye-to-eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about her experiences in this award-winning book, which is part primer on the basics of identifying human remains, part frank memoir of a woman whose first paying job as a schoolgirl was an apprenticeship in a butcher shop, and part no-nonsense but deeply humane introduction to...
155) Trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades later, however, she stumbles across a mystery that pulls...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
352 p.
Language
English
Description
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. With courage, guile, and nerves of steel, these “ghetto girls” paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, and helped build systems of underground bunkers....