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Campbell, Olivia

Summary: "In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they frequently avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness - a negative diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs, or be received in polite society. Motivated by personal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 920 CAM

Alikhan, Salima

Summary: During World War II, Germany's Nazi forces stormed across Europe, committing horrific crimes against Jewish people and others. In 1942, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl formed a student-led, anti-Nazi organization called the White Rose. Their goal: distribute informational pamphlets to draw public attention to Nazi crimes--and, ultimately, stop them. Scholl's activism and resistance eventually led to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCH

Goldstein, Margaret J.

Summary: "Forward Sophia Smith is one of soccer's rising stars. In 2022, she led the Portland Thorns to the NWSL championship and won the league's MVP award. Learn more about her life and career"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SMI

Paige, Robin.

Summary: Kathryn Ardleigh tries to adapt to high-society life with her newly lorded husband, Charles, and she discovers a new friend in Jennie Churchill, who is embroiled in a scandal involving claims that Jack the Ripper is the father of her son, the future leader Winston Churchill.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2000

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Svenson, Sally E.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dog Ear Pub. 2012

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Snow, Richard

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 SNO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 SNO

Wurst, Spencer F. (Spencer Free)

Contents: Enlistment and premobilization training, 112th infantry, Pennsylvania Army National Guard -- Mobilization, basic, and small unit training -- Company, battalion, regimental, and First Army maneuvers, 1941 -- Units in turmoil: Pearl Harbor, Southern training camps, and war-time expansion -- From the 112th infantry to parachute school, Fort Benning -- First assignment: 507 Parachute Infantry...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Casemate 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WUR

Bardoe, Cheryl

Summary: "A biography of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GER

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J921 GER

Wilson, Kip

Summary: Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WIL

Smith, Matthew Clark

Summary: Shares the life of the first female to work as a professional balloonist, making more than sixty ascents until 1819, she became the first woman to die in an aviation accident.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLA

Hale, Kathleen

Summary: "The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022

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Ireland, Josh

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Summary: "The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 IRE

Benoit, Sophia

Summary: "From GQ columnist and Twitter sensation, this hilarious, clever, and eye-opening memoir-in-essays explores the ins and outs of modern womanhood-from finding feminism, the power of pop culture, and how to navigate life's constant double standards-perfectfor fans of Shrill and PEN15. Like so many women, Benoit spent her formative years struggling to do the "right" thing-to make others...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BENOIT, SOPHIA BEN

Noyes, Deborah

Summary: "Before Amelia Earhart, there was Sophie Blanchard, the first woman to earn her living in the air. While no one knows the fate of Earhart, a terrified crowd of thousands looked on as French aeronaut Sophie Blanchard met her end in a tragic blaze of glory over the streets of Paris in 1819. But first, Blanchard made nearly 70 spectacular flights, survived a revolution, and become a court favorite...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BLA

Baker, Deborah

Summary: "John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers--W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender--achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest's summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain's struggle to maintain...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BAK

Spender, Matthew.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.5 SPE

Anand, Anita

Summary: Follows the princess who, at the age of thirty-one, secretly went to India and returned as a revolutionary to fight for Indian Independence, the welfare of Indian soldiers in World War I, and, above all, women's suffrage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DULEEP SINGH, SOPHIA ANA

Lacey, Garland Howard

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.H. Lacey 1995

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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R GEN 929.2 LACEY, Lacey

Marshall, Megan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MAR

Meltzer, Brad

Summary: This volume of ordinary people change the world features Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. She is proof that with opportunity comes justice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SOT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am Sotomayor

Richman, Sophia

Summary: A New York psychoanalyst relates her experiences in surviving the Holocaust as a young child, her life as a refugee, her immigration to the United States, and her efforts to cope with the trauma through relationships and writing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Haworth Press 2002

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.53 Richm

Sebba, Anne.

Contents: Just plain Jennie -- I love her better than life itself -- I have placed all my hopes of future happiness in this world on you -- Jennie is quite satisfied with Randolph just now -- I quite forget what it is like to be with people who love me -- rather a relief to get Winston off my hands -- Lord Randolph Churchill will probably always retain a great power of mischief -- All that you are to me...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHURCHILL, JENNIE Seb

Foreman, Amanda

Summary: Traces the life of eighteenth-century British aristocrat Lady Georgiana Spencer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GEO

Foreman, Amanda

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 DEV

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