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Summary: "An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America. Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 MILMiles, Tiya
Summary: "Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.3 MILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MILMiles, Tiya
Summary: The Cherokee Rose, written by Tiya Miles, award-winning historian and recipient of a recent MacArthur "Genius Grant," explores territory reminiscent of the works of Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, and Louise Erdrich. This luminous but highly accessible work examines a little-known aspect of America's past slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees and its legacy in the lives of three young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair, Publisher 2015