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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1820-1906 Fiction Antislavery movements Fiction Grimké, Sarah Moore 1792-1873 Fiction Sex role Fiction Sisters Fiction Slavery Fiction Women Suffrage Fiction Women's rights Fiction Women's rights Juvenile fiction Women's rights United States Juvenile fictionRosen, Renée
Summary: 1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, wives turn a blind eye to husbands' infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independence. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor-- The Mrs. Astor. Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families, but what good is money when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSAllende, Isabel
Summary: "Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Because of her father's prescience, the family will come...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ALLMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC AMEMcDonald, Megan.
Summary: In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2007
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCDKlages, Ellen
Summary: In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KLAGrimes, 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 GRIRobbins, 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 ROBAlikhan, Salima
Summary: In 1970 thirteen-year-old Marika dreams of going to Harvard to study economics, but her parents both believe that a woman's place is in the home; Marika does not understand why they are so attached to "traditional values," especially since they defied convention when they were married at a time when interracial marriages were illegal in many states--so Marika defies her parents and joins her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALIMonir, Alexandra
Summary: Dinah Lance was seven years old when she overheard the sound of a girl singing. It was something she was never meant to hear, not in Gotham City, taken over by the Court of Owls. The sinister organization rules Gotham as a patriarchal dictatorship, all the while spreading their influence like a virus across the globe. Diane is beginning to discover that her own voice is just as powerful. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MONGlaze, Amanda
Summary: Seventeen-year-old twins--and powerful mediums--Edie and Violet Bond are part of a Spiritualist show, a tight-knit group of young women who express unladylike talents and opinions under the guise of communing with spirits, but when the dark spirit responsible for their mother's death crosses into the land of the living, the twins race against time to uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square & Co. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GLALane, Rose Wilder
Summary: In Old Home Town, Rose Wilder Lane has recreated small-town society of pre-World War I America with a precise feeling for decorum, dress, and kitchen dialogue. Like Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg, Ohio, she describes a community through the stories of certain memorable citizens. The overlay of nostalgia cannot hide some sharp observations about marriage and women's rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1985
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANKirkpatrick, Jane
Summary: "Based on a true story, pioneer Abigail Scott denies herself the joys of a simpler life to achieve her dream of securing rights for women. But running a controversial newspaper and leading suffrage efforts in the Northwest carry a great personal cost. A tender, powerful story of a woman's conflicts--with society and herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIRCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kirkpatrick 2020Massey, Sujata
Summary: "Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay. Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2018
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Summary: "The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2014
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIDWatson, Renée
Summary: Frustrated by the way women are treated--even at their progressive New York City high school--two best friends start a Women's Rights Club, post their essays and poems online, and watch it go viral, attracting positive support as well as trolls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATBanghart, Tracy E
Summary: Nomi Tessaro joins her sister, Serina, on the volcanic prison island of Mount Ruin for a fight to usher in a new age of freedom for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: The first book in Deborah Elliss riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Talibans rule in Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistans capital city. Parvanas father a history teacher until his school was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2000
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Banghart, Tracy E.
Summary: In an alternate world where women have no rights, two sisters face very different fates after an attempt to win the favor of the heir to the throne--one in the palace, the other on a volcanic prison island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BANElsbai, Hadeer
Summary: In a novel set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, two young women--Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants, and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing--find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Kidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten-year-old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next 35 years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other's destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIDKidd, Sue Monk.
Summary: "The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014