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19901) Battered women
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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.
19902) Jamestown : Season 3
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1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
19903) Ghost image
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Plastic surgeon Jackson Maebry finds his life unraveling when his lover is brutally attacked and the San Francisco police suspect he is responsible.
19905) Deaths of Jocasta
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"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....
19906) Vasquez
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Even before the doomed mission to Hadley's Hope, Jenette Vasquez had to fight to survive. Born to an immigrant family with a long military tradition she looked up to the stars, but life pulled her back down to Earth. The Colonial Marines proved to be Vasquez's way out, but she was forced her to give up her twin children. Raised by Jenette's sister Roseanna, those children--Leticia and Ramón--have been forced to discover their own ways to survive....
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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.
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Here is the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author as well as the heroine of the beloved Little House books. This narrative biography describes more than the details of the young Laura's real life - as a pioneer and homesteader with a zest for adventure and new challenges - and points out the difference from the fiction.
19911) Keeping corner
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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.
19915) Women of the Klondike
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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...
19917) Pelican girls: a novel
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"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...
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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.