Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britains factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: In the Great War, arsenals hired women to build the weapons. Joining them is Lucy Dempsey, who also joins the ladies' football club, the Thornshire Canaries, the one place where class distinction and fears for their men dissolve.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. On March 3, 1913, a glorious march commences, but negligent police allow vast crowds of belligerent men to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already granted women voting rights, but only a constitutional amendment will secure the vote...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work, but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2019

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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