Wollstonecraft, Mary
Summary: First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman created a scandal in its day, largely, perhaps, because of the unconventional lifestyle of its creator. Today, it is considered the first great manifesto of women’s rights, arguing passionately for the education of women: "Tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark, because the former want...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1996
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Summary: "Indra Nooyi, the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo, offers clear-eyed insight and a call to action for how our society can really blend work and family-and advance women-in the twenty-first century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021
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Summary: "From the author of Lailah's Lunchbox and Unsettled comes a powerful picture book biography about Maryam Faruqi, the founder of the Happy Home Schools, which provided education to thousands of girls across Pakistan at a time when girls weren't encouraged to go to school. Milloo lives in a time when school is considered unnecessary for girls. But to Milloo, education is essential. When Milloo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 FARThompson, Gare.
Summary: A biography of the woman who, with the assistance of her devoted teacher Annie Sullivan, achieved success and fame despite being blind and deaf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET KELLERTerp, Gail
Summary: Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rabbit Books 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE TERYousafzai, Malala
Summary: "Yo soy Malala, de Christina Lamb y Malala Yousafzai, es el excepcional relato de una familia desterrada por el terrorismo global, de la lucha por la educaci?n de las niñas, de un padre que, mismo propietario de una escuela, apoya su hija y la alenta escribir y a ir al colegio, y de unos padres valientes que quieren a su hija por encima de todo en una sociedad que privilegia a los hijos...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alianza Editorial 2015
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Summary: "Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation 2024
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Summary: "In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event--one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. The Exceptions is the story of the women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.133 ZEMWollstonecraft, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 WOLNimura, Janice P.
Summary: "In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors-- Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda-- grew up as typical American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 952 NIMBunge, Nancy L.
Contents: Preparation for the journey -- The reality of mission life -- Building a home alone in the forest -- Standing with the Ojibwe against removal and smallpox -- Struggling against sickness -- Harriet's children -- Life without a mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BUNStone, Katherine
Summary: Haunted by a lifetime of unusual memory lapses, Ana begins a new life as librarian of a Denver girls' school, until an encounter with Pierce Rourke brings her face to face with the man who can free her from the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KELPorges, Marisa
Summary: ""A powerful book about how we can raise girls to become bold, ambitious women." --Adam Grant A former White House strategist and fighter jet pilot now at the helm of one of the premier schools for girls in the country illuminates the ways parents and educators can support audacity and ambition in girls everywhere What do girls really need to succeed? As a student at the all-girls Baldwin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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Summary: When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 371.822 YOUYousafzai, Malala
Summary: "When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, & Company 2013
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Yousafzai, Malala
Summary: Describes the life of the young Pakistani student who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley, survived an assassination attempt, and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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Nagoski, Emily
Summary: "A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski's game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
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Summary: "A biography of Malala Yousafzai as part of the She Persisted series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 YOUClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Narrowly escaping an abduction attempt, a young woman wonders if serial kidnappings taking place throughout the country are related, a suspicion that compels her to join the investigation and pit herself against a dangerous adversary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLAClark, Mary Higgins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAWhitmarsh, Cindy.
Summary: "Cindy Whitmarsh shows you step-by-step 101 exercises with weights for your upper and lower body"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fair Winds Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.71 WHICooper, Becky
Summary: "1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020