Conejos Library District

Essays cover a variety of issues surrounding abused women in the United States, including such topics as the nature of domestic violence, violence in teenage relationships, battered immigrant women, and social services.

Plastic surgeon Jackson Maebry finds his life unraveling when his lover is brutally attacked and the San Francisco police suspect he is responsible.

"Micky Knight, a hard-hitting, touch-talking dyke detective, has been hired to provide security for a party at an old country club. It should have been easy - a perfect Spring evening, mild weather, and women everywhere. Suddenly another woman shows up - brutally murdered, left to die in the surrounding woods. Why murder crash this perfect party? The police find a convenient suspect when the body of yet another victim is found in the clinic of Dr....

Three women in fairly happy marriages, question the sacrifices they make, the choices to support their spouses, to take control of their own needs, and settle for the humdrum lifestyle they are accustomed to. Together they bond and make the changes in their lives that afford everyone some happiness and empowerment.

A biography of the slave who won her freedom in a California courtroom, and bought a house that she used to help people in need as an ex-slave, nurse, and midwife, who started many philanthropic projects.

In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.

The author continues her quest for the perfect lover and for the perfect house, in a memoir about love, friendship, sex, home, and growing older.

Discover the compelling stories of the brave and adventurous women whose lives were forever changed by the Klondike gold rush. When the steamship Portland docked in Seattle's harbor in 1897, a group of scruffy men and women walked down the gangplank. There was nothing remarkable about them, except they were dragging sacks stuffed with half a million dollars? Worth of gold. Among them was Ethel Berry, who helped mine one of the richest claims in the...

"Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female 'volunteers' of childbearing age-orphans, prisoners, and mental patients-to be shipped to New Orleans. Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year...

Very clear and well-written account of Harriet Tubman's life. The author does a great job of keeping the language simple and readable for children without sugarcoating the realities of slavery and the Underground Railroad. The photos that accompany the text help bring the historical time period to life. An excellent classroom tool for teaching about slavery, the Civil War, and emancipation.