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1. The woman they could not silence: one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear

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Moore, Kate (Writer and editor)
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English
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"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions...

2. The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back

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Author:
Moore, Kate
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today.

"Moore has written a masterpiece of nonfiction."—Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the

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3. Katie, big and strong: the true story of the mighty woman who could lift anything

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Author:
Cooper, Jennifer
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AD: Adult Directed 610L
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English
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"Even from a young age, Katie Brumbach was BIG and STRONG. She could lift heavy weights, bend steel bars, and lift several men at once. She boldly named herself "Katie Sandwina" after Eugen Sandow, the world's strongest man, and her women's record for an overhead lift of 296 pounds remained unbroken for over 75 years. In 1912, at the height of her American fame, she publicly rallied with her fellow circus performers for women's suffrage. Hailed as...

4. The Woman Who Could Not Forget

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Author:
Chang, Ying-Ying
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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The poignant story of the life and death of world-famous author and historian Iris Chang, as told by her mother. Iris Chang's bestselling book, The Rape of Nanking, forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She...

5. The woman who could not forget: Iris Chang before and beyond the rape of Nanking

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Chang, Ying-Ying
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Pegasus Books
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2011
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The mother of Iris Chang shares a portrait of her daughter that reveals the discoveries that inspired the writing of "The Rape of Nanking," describes her daughter's struggles with an autistic son and remembers her tragic suicide.

6. The Uncrowned Queen Reclaims Her Throne: When a Black Woman Breaks the Silence

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Author:
Mcclendon, Ahmondra
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Multifaith Diversity Education
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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I offer The Uncrowned Queen Reclaims Her Throne -When a Black Woman Breaks the Silence as a tribute to my sistahs from the African Diaspora-those who cry silent tears while handling all that comes with being a Black woman existing in a racist society. Sistahs who veil their screams of pain within a Legacy of Silence. Those whose hearts break every time they see another mother's child killed. Women who feel the hot anger emanating from the secrets...

7. Hello beautiful: a novel

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Author:
Napolitano, Ann
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"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three...

8. A tale of two cities

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Dover large print classics
Greenwich House classics library
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870L
Language:
English
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3.4 stars
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When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody rebellion, when triumph leads to savage vengeance - does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. Lucie struggles desperately to restore the health of a father driven mad by years of...

9. The scarlet letter

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Author:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
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John Harvard library
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1420L
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English
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Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.

10. Shattered

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Author:
Patterson, James, 1947-
Series:
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 14
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English
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Nothing could tear #1 New York Times bestseller Detective Michael Bennett away from his new bride--except the murder of his partner and best friend. NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and top FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker have a history. Working case after case, each can predict the other's next move. So when she fails to show at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, Bennett risks venturing far outside his jurisdiction. The investigation...

11. The woman in the library: a novel

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Author:
Gentill, Sulari
Series:
Thorndike Press large print thriller adventure and suspense
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English
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"The beautifully ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is completely silent one weekday morning, until a woman's terrified scream echoes through the room. Security guards immediately appear and instruct everyone inside to stay put until they determine there is no threat. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers who had been sitting in the reading room get to chatting and quickly become friendly. Harriet, Marigold, Whit, and Caine...

12. Untamed

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Doyle, Glennon, 1976-
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English
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...

13. The ideal man

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Author:
Garwood, Julie
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Thorndike large print basic
Buchanan-Renard
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English
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A woman’s life and love are compromised in this pulse-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood.
Dr. Ellie Sullivan has witnessed the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of a ruthless modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. The only person to see the shooter’s face, Ellie is suddenly thrust into the center of a criminal investigation spearheaded by the no-nonsense, by-the-book, and tantalizingly handsome...

14. The silhouette girl

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Author:
Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)
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Pru Dunning has everything she ever wanted: a successful boyfriend, a thriving nursing career, and a truly comfortable life. But then the strange voicemails start. Scarletta, the woman calls herself. She seems to know Pru, although Pru certainly doesn't know that name, nor does she recognize the glamorous voice leaving her poisonous messages. Is this the work of jealous revenge from someone at work? An old enemy she has forgotten about? Pru begins...

15. Everything to lose

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Author:
Gross, Andrew, 1952-
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English
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While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Cantor, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead-- and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars. That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an...

16. Kiss the girls and make them cry: a novel

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Clark, Mary Higgins
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"When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a "CRyan" describing her "terrible experience" while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment "and I'm not the only one," Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a jet ski accident while on holiday. Meanwhile, REL counsel Michael Carter finds himself in a...

17. The alienist

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Author:
Carr, Caleb, 1955-2024
Series:
Dr. Laszlo Kreizler volume 1
Wheeler large print book
Dr. Lazlo Kreizler
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English
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"The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt,...

18. The story of my life

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Author:
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968
Series:
Tantor unabridged classics
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English
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In this autobiography, initially published in 1903, Helen Keller recalls her remarkable life as a blind and deaf woman taught to communicate by Ann Sullivan. Here among other memories, Keller describes her epiphany at the water pump when she connected the physical world with its linguistic counterpart. Keller was eventually educated at Radcliffe University, where she graduated with honors.

19. How to say Babylon: a memoir

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Author:
Sinclair, Safiya
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Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs
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English
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"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him, a woman's highest virtue was her obedience. Safiya's extraordinary mother, though loyal to her father, gave her the...

20. Never tell: a novel

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Author:
Gardner, Lisa
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Thorndike Press large print core
Detective D.D. Warren novel volume 10
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English
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A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun. D.D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman - Evie Carter. Evie's father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident. But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many. Flora Dane sees the murder of Conrad Carter on the TV news and immediately knows his face. But D.D....
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