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2019. | First Scribner hardcover edition. | Scribner | v, 374 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
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[2019] | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster Audio | 11 audio discs (13 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Audio CD 1 available Book on Disc Fiction See |
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Checked Out
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Ilsley Public Library - Large Print 1 available
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2019. | Large print edition. | Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 641 pages ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
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"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their villages all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
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Uses poems, essays, letters, photographs and more to present the actions and achievements of women in the United States, from its beginnings up through the twentieth century.
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WomenSafe Feminism Kristof
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2009 | 1st ed. | Alfred A. Knopf | xxii, 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Reference 1 available WomenSafe Feminism Kristof |
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OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | HighBridge Company | English | Available Online
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Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential.
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2014 | OverDrive/Libby | Haymarket Books | English | Checked Out
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2014 | Haymarket Books | English | Checked Out
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"Despite years of feminism and such activist groups as Women Strike for Peace, much of the female population in the world is often powerless, forced to remain voiceless and subjugated to acts of extreme violence in the home, on school campuses and anywhere men deem they should dominate. "Rape and other acts of violence, up to and including murder, as well as threats of violence, constitute the barrage some men lay down as they attempt to control some...
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Reckless Daughter tells the story of Mitchell and also of the fertile, exciting musical time of which she was an integral part, one that had a profound effect that can still be felt today on American music and the industry.
"Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl...
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"A bold and profound work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and understanding...
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Ilsley Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction 1 available
741.5 Lepore
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2014. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | xiv, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction 1 available 741.5 Lepore |
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2014 | OverDrive/Libby | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2014 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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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.
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[2017] | First edition. | Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights | 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Teen Area 1 available Teen Biog Paul |
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Alice Paul reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. Kops introduces readers to this relatively unknown leader of the...
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974.7 Wickenden
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2021. | First Scribner hardcover edition. | Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc | xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction 1 available 974.7 Wickenden |
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"Harriet Tubman--no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient, and strategically brilliant--was one of the most important conductors on the underground railroad and hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basement kitchens of Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances Seward, wife of Governor, then Senator, then Secretary of State William H. Seward. Harriet worked for the Union Army in South Carolina as a nurse and spy, and...
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Ilsley Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction 2 available
305.26 Pipher
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2019. | Bloomsbury Publishing | 262 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction 2 available 305.26 Pipher |
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"As women grow older, they contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter,...
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2014. | Viking | 373 pages ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Kidd |
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Ilsley Public Library - Audio Book Shelves 1 available
Book on Disc Fiction Kidd
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Penguin Audio | 12 audio discs (13.5 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Audio Book Shelves 1 available Book on Disc Fiction Kidd |
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2014 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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2014 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2014 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
15) Violeta
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2022 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España | Español | Checked Out
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2022 | Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España | Español | Checked Out
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La épica y emocionante historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos históricos más relevantes del siglo XX.
Desde 1920 -con la llamada «gripe española»- hasta la pandemia de 2020, la vida de Violeta será mucho más que la historia de un siglo.
Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará
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c2010 | 1st ed. | Crown Publishers | x, 369 p., [8] p. of plates ill. (some col.) 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Biography 1 available Biog Lacks |
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Book on Disc Biog Lacks
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p2010 | Random House Audio | 10 sound discs (12 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Audio Book Shelves 1 available Book on Disc Biog Lacks |
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2010 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2010 | OverDrive/Libby | Crown | English | Available Online
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Ilsley Public Library - Large Print 1 available
Large Print Biog Lacks
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2010 | Large print ed. | Thorndike Press | 619 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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Fiction Benedict
Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available
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315 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available SP Fiction Benedict | |
254 pages ; 24 cm | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Fiction 1 available Fiction Benedict |
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Sourcebooks | English | Checked Out
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2019 | Sourcebooks | English | Checked Out
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Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...
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Text and photographs tell the story of pioneer women: schoolmarms, ranchers, shopkeepers, doctors, mail-order brides, as well as, Native American women.
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The author of "How to Be a Woman" presents a humorous confessional memoir that reflects on the lighter side of the patriarchy while exploring topics ranging from middle age, parenting, and marriage to feminism and existential crises.