Summary: It₂s 1905 in Stockholm, and Swedish lives are changing rapidly because of the introduction of new food safety technologies. Miss Friman believes firmly in equal rights for women. She and her friends set out to open Swedish Homes, a grocery cooperative with unspoiled food at affordable prices. It₂s a store for women, run by women, and a revolutionary idea for its time. When the all-male board of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIS

Lewis, Mike

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.927 LEW

Chute, Carolyn

Summary: When journalist Ivy Morelli sets out to investigate the mysterious leader of the nearby homeschool, known as "The Prophet," she is drawn into the life of his self-sufficient countercultural community called the Settlement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHU

Chute, Carolyn.

Summary: The school on Heart's Content Road spirals out from the story of Mickey Gammon, a disaffected fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from his home by his overwrought half-brother. With the help of his new friend, Rex York, the captain of the local militia, Mickey is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement. Run by a man known to many as 'The Prophet,' the Settlement is a rural...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2008

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Stevenson, Douglas

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 STE