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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
"Over the past twenty years, Alice Fulton has emerged as one of the most honored poets of her generation. Cascade Experiment, a selection from five books, charts the evolution of a poetics that revises the limits of language, emotion, and thought. Few poets have Fulton's prodigious range; few have been so consistently and successfully intrepid in their metamorphoses."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Last year J. Randy Taraborrelli wrote a bestselling book entitled The Secret Life of Marilyn. His is the most recent of dozens written since Marilyn's death in August of 1962 and yet the appetite for information about Marilyn is insatiable. No matter whether sensational or flawed, as most of these biographies have been, the fans always come out, in best-selling numbers. This time, with Lois Banner's An Uncommon Woman, Marilyn's fans won't be disappointed....
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the first known female firefighter, Molly Williams, an African American cook for New York City's Fire Company 11, who one winter day in 1818 with many volunteers sick with influenza jumped into action to stop a house fire.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The year has just begun. But even in January, with the snow still falling, a little girl is already imagining the great big vegetable garden of her dreams. Month by month, this little gardener describes all the different stages of her garden, and the hard work and careful planning that must go into it before she can reap the juicy rewards. In January, she dreams about the day that the first shoots will push through the surface of the soil. In February,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women's suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would not let anything keep them from spreading the word about...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1980. Ronald Reagan has been elected president, John Lennon has been shot, and a little girl in New Jersey has been hauled off to English classes. Her teachers and parents and tias are expecting her to become white--like the Italians. This is the opening to A cup of water under my bed, the memoir of one Colombian-Cuban daughter's rebellions and negotiations with the women who raised her and the world that wanted to fit her into a cubbyhole....
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here--some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two women. One shocking wartime secret. And a family mystery just waiting to be discovered... Berlin Zoo, 1943: Ten-year-old Adelaide and her newborn sister are orphaned after a devastating night of bombing. Heartbroken and frightened, Adelaide runs to her mother's closest friend, Katharina Heinroth, and the kind zookeeper takes the two little girls under her protection. As the bombing intensifies, Adelaide tries to shut out the horrors of war by...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, covering her Stanford education, her inspirational relationship with her sister Rosemary, her advocacy on behalf of disabled citizens, and her role as founder of the Special Olympics.
"Pulitzer Prize-winner Eileen McNamara brings Eunice Kennedy Shriver out from her brothers' shadows to reveal an officious, cigar-smoking, fast-driving, indefatigable woman who was a shrewd player in the careers of Jack,...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Each of the 100 books chosen has played a critical role in the development of books in all their forms and with all that they bring: literacy, numeracy, technological progress and the expansion of scientific knowledge, religion, political theory, entertainment, and more.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century"--
Best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry had an unflinching commitment to social justice which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians; though she married a man, she identified as a lesbian. Perry...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A sweeping novel spanning 100 years & the lives of a heroic mother & daughter; inspired by real events. Annotation. In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another. Camila Henriquez Urena is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this book, author Sue DiCicco and Sadako's older brother Masahiro tell her complete story in English for the first time--how Sadako's courage throughout her illness inspired family and friends, and how she became a symbol of all people, especially children, who suffer from the impact of war. Her life and her death carry a message: we must have a wholehearted desire for peace and be willing to work together to achieve it. Sadako Sasaki was two years...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 24 autobiographical essays, the author presents her Dominican childhood, her family's immigration to the United States, her college years, writing, marriages, & return trips to her homeland. In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez takes us behind the scenes and shares the lessons she's learned on her way to becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist. In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her family fled the Dominican Republic. Her...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"As we approach the centenary of [Jackson's] birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six pieces--more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson's children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mothers paper's at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion"--Dust jacket flap.
Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years....
Publisher
Flea Market Music
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
"All arrangements feature melody, lyrics and uke chord grids and are in ukulele-friendly keys that are particularly suited for groups of one to one hundred to play and sing ... Also features a tips and techniques section, complete chord chart, ukulele history overview and vintage ukulele-themed photos and art throughout."--Publisher description.
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