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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Jewish American Heritage Month
Lessons in Chemistry Read-alikes
Likeable Characters
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A college student finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club"-- Provided by publisher.
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English
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One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, it was brought to a wider public by the Nobel Prize award to Doris Lessing in 2007. Authoress Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer's block by writing a comprehensive 'golden notebook' which draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook: sources of her creative inspiration in a black book, communism in a red book, the breakdown...
6) Fire and fog
Author
Series
Fremont Jones mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Set during the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the novel features Fremont Jones, a woman who earns her living as a typist and sleuths on the side. She joins the Red Cross and while helping victims she comes across a murder
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE A Guardian Best Book of the Year An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. “The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small,...
Author
Series
Fremont Jones mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In 1908 Utah, lady sleuth Fremont Jones is rescued from a train wreck by a Mormon who decides to make her his sixth wife. She escapes with the aid of the other wives and rejoin Michael Kossoff, her partner, to determine who caused the train explosion.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jen has reached her early thirties and has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when, spurred by the 2008 economic crisis, she takes a poorly defined job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation’s ostensible aim is to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss, the larger-than-life celebrity philanthropist Leora Infinitas....
11) The women I love
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Marcello, an editor and poet, is on the brink of his forties. Like everyone in his life, including his sister-in-law, he's writing a novel. This novel. This novel will be about women. Love. Growing older. Maybe even taking responsibility. But unfortunately for Marcello, the women in his life resist definition. They flit and flicker constantly between archetype and actuality: sirens and saviors, subordinates and savants, vixens and villains. So Marcello...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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T.S. Garp, a man with high ambitions for an artistic career and with obsessive devotion to his wife and children, and Jenny Fields, his famous feminist mother, find their lives surrounded by an assortment of people, including teachers, whores, and radicals.
"Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irving’s breakout novel. The precursor of Irving’s later protest novels, it...
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