Washoe County Library System

Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...

"The Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the legends and the everyday heroes that shaped the history, land, and culture of the West. Their powerful stories will fascinate and inspire you. Activist. Scholar. Trailblazer. Before she was old enough to vote, Anne Martin began fighting for women's rights and equality. Traveling across Nevada to every...

Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much - Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene, circulated among feminists and the countercultural underground, charged men money for conversation, despised "daddy's girls," and outlined a vision for radical...

In 1910s San Francisco, typist and suffragette Fremont Jones hunts for the killer of two spirit mediums. The probe takes place against the background of a city rebuilding from an earthquake