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Summary: Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for her time as First Lady of the United States, but she also made important contributions to women's rights before, during, and after her husband's presidency. Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights examines her efforts from multiple perspectives, including those of Roosevelt herself, her husband, Franklin, and later feminist activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, An Imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.917 HARCaputo, Philip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPButler-Ngugi, Anitra
Summary: "It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing their jobs. So, children are protesting in their place. As Nina prepares for her day, she knows she will likely be arrested and put in jail, but it's a price she is willing to pay so that all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BUTWoodard, Bellen
Summary: "The very first Crayon Activist presents this picture book in which she spreads a message of inclusivity, empowerment and the importance of inspiring the next generation of leaders through The Peach Project and crayons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOSummary: Sarah Moss is an ambitious new recruit at an elite private intelligence firm. Her first undercover assignment is to infiltrate 'The East,' an elusive activist collective that terrorizes corporate leaders who commit crimes against humanity. The more involved she gets, the more Sarah's life is in danger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EASGlick, Alison
Summary: Following the death of her father, Becky Klein, an adventurous, naive young woman from the Midwest, sets out for the Middle East, in search of her Jewish roots. In a Gaza garden near a refugee camp by the sea, she befriends a Palestinian activist who has served time in Israeli jails. As their relationship grows, Rebecca finds herself drawn into a story of roots unlike the one she had imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLIWalter, Jess
Summary: The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar, and who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WALBailey, Tessa
Summary: When she develops feelings for her best friend, construction worker Russell Hart, high-powered corporate exec--and virgin--Abby Sullivan, as he tries to keep her a safe distance, sees through his tough-talking exterior and is determined to turn the friendzone into foreplay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAIGrimes, Nikki.
Summary: In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction GrimesGrimes, Nikki
Summary: In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRIMurrin, Alan
Summary: "A poignant debut novel about the lives of women, set in a claustrophobic coast town. How can they find independence in a society that seeks to limit it?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Winters are long on the windswept coast of Connemara, where Tara Doherty has come to live after the death of her husband. The isolation is all but unbearable until a mysterious tenant moves into the house at the bottom of the hill. James Dunford has come from America but he won't say why. He spends his days fixing up the old cottage and walking the beach with a stray dog that showed up on his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liquid Mind Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CullenSummary: After their mother is burned at the stake for withchcraft, Margit and her sister, Katla, flee across Iceland. Reaching a remote farm, Katla casts a spell on its young widower, Johann, and soon the two are wed, to the dismay of his suspicious son, Jonas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JUNSummary: When Anna's four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy to Dublin to propose to him. But after landing on the wrong side of Ireland, she must enlist the help of Declan, a handsome and carefree local man, to get her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEAOndaatje, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONDProse, Francine
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRORobbins, Dean
Summary: This story imagines what it was like when Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass got together for a cup of tea and discussed their struggle for civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ROBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBSummary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Constant 2006Summary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CONStrohmeyer, Sarah
Summary: "Jane Ellison is a 'super recognizer' able to identify strangers by the slightest facial details ... When she spies human rights activist and heiress Bella Valencia in a crowded Boston airport, Jane's convinced she's found the person responsible for her sister Kit's disappearance ... Jane is ready to risk everything for the chance to publicly expose Bella's crimes at her upcoming celebrity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRKidd, Ronald
Summary: Hoping that the arrival of Freedom Riders in her town will help her community shed its antiquated views, thirteen-year-old Billie is forced to confront her own mindset when things turn tragic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIDDee, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Large Print 1993
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEESummary: An adventure set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful U.S. mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. His romance with the boss's daughter only complicates matters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TYCRankin, Ellan
Summary: Inspired by a true story, a remarkable friendship between a baby elephant and her keeper shows that kindness is never forgotten. Includes a note about the zookeeper named Denise Weston Austin who protected the baby Asian elephant named Sheila during World War II in Belfast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024