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Summary: "1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PACKARD, E.P.W. MOOMoore, Kate
Summary: "Now adapted for young readers! The incredible true story of the young women exposed to the "wonder drug" radium and their struggle for justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks eXplore 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 MOOMoore, Kate
Summary: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2017