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"This inspiring ... collection honors one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world"--Back cover.
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
920.93 DE 2018
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920.93 DE 2018
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"A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so...
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
811.54 OLI 2017
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811.54 OLI 2017
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet"...
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
616.027 SKL
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616.027 SKL
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616.027 SKL 2009
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616.027 SKL 2009
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 362.196 SKL
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LARGE PRINT 362.196 SKL
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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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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
363.738 FON 2020
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363.738 FON 2020
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"In the fall of 2019, frustrated with the obvious inaction of politicians and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda moved to Washington, DC to lead weekly climate change demonstrations on Capitol Hill. On October 11, she launched Fire Drill Fridays (FDF), and has since led thousands of people in non-violent civil disobedience, risking arrest to protest for action. In her new book, Fonda weaves her deeply...
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
364.152 MUR 2020
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364.152 MUR 2020
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"When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared...
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 363.179 MOO 2017
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LARGE PRINT 363.179 MOO 2017
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The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger
The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.
Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories....
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
362.883 NOT 2018
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362.883 NOT 2018
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"In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are 'routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied' for speaking out."--
29) Untamed
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Biography
B DOYLE, GLENNON
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B DOYLE, GLENNON
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
306.893 DOY 2020
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306.893 DOY 2020
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Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Adult Biography
B DOYLE, GLENNON
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B DOYLE, GLENNON
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
30) The four winds
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"Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she...
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Handmaid's tale volume 1
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F ATWOOD
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F ATWOOD
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F ATWOOD, MARGARET
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F ATWOOD, MARGARET
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GN ATWOOD
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GN ATWOOD
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The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
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F BENNETT
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F BENNETT
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"It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance--and the subsequent cover-up--will have an impact...
33) Americanah
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F ADICHIE
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F ADICHIE
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F ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
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F ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
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Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Large Print
LARGE PRINT ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
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LARGE PRINT ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
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"Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in...
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"Set in 1989 Danvers, Massachusetts, where a high school field hockey team discovers that the witchcraft of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season. In this tour de female force, the Danvers High School Falcons Varsity is on an unaccountable streak. ...The individual and collective journeys of this enchanted team: the quiet, husky goalie Mel Boucher, who signs her name to a pledge of darkness in a notebook with heartthrob Emilio Estevez...
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F FOWLER
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F FOWLER
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A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera.
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F KUPERSMITH, VIOLET
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F KUPERSMITH, VIOLET
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''Two young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge. 1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed. 2011: A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. The fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past...
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F LEMMIE, ASHA
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F LEMMIE, ASHA
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"From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with...
38) Blue ticket
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F MACKINTOSH, SOPHIE
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F MACKINTOSH, SOPHIE
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"Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And, once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back.But what if the life you're given is the wrong one? Blue Ticket is a devastating enquiry into free will and the fraught space...
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40) Beloved
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Everyman's library volume 268
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F MORRISON, TONI
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F MORRISON, TONI
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...