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1. Woman, life, freedom

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Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date:
[2024]
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"On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread through the whole country, and crowds adopted the slogan...

2. Woman Life Freedom

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Anonymous
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Independently Published
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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This book uncovers the narratives of Iranians, mainly women, who lead Iran's fight for liberation. Their firm pursuit of justice compelled me to capture their extraordinary journey, transcending borders and beckoning worldwide attention. I remain anonymous, this choice isn't about seeking recognition; it's driven by necessity, stemming from threats to my family in Iran. This cloak of anonymity shields my dedication to truth, safeguarding my loved...

3. Woman life freedom: voices and art from the women's protests in Iran

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Saqi Books
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"Jina Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of Iran’s Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. Women took to the streets, uncovering their hair, burning headscarves and chanting ‘Woman Life Freedom’ – ‘Zan Zendegi Azadi’ in Persian and ‘Jin Jîyan Azadî’ in Kurdish – in mass demonstrations. An explosion of creative resistance followed as...

4. Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

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Author:
Jang, Lucia
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally crossing the river to China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice. After...

5. The Black woman's guide to overcoming domestic violence: tools to move beyond trauma, reclaim freedom, & create the life you deserve

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Author:
Moore-Lobban, Shavonne J.
Publisher:
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
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©2022
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English
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"Black women experience domestic violence and abuse at a disproportionately high rate. Grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this first-of-its-kind book addresses the unique struggles faced by Black women who have experienced domestic violence,and empowers them to understand and heal their trauma, leave harmful situations, and regain a sense of safety and freedom"-- "Your journey to healing and wholeness after domestic violence begins here.Domestic...

6. All fours

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Author:
July, Miranda, 1974-
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English
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"A semifamous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to New York. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect...

7. By any other name: a novel

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Author:
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
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English
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"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard -- one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright...

8. Jane Eyre

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
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Oxford world's classics
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Lexile measure:
840L
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English
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4.8 stars
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This is a story of a woman of passion and intelligence who refuses to be satisfied with her "place" in society, and asserts her identity and aspirations with defiance and dignity. In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

9. A Room with a view

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Author:
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
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Dover thrift editions
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English
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"A Room with a View, written by E.M. Forster and originally published in 1908, tells the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman on holiday in Italy with her cousin Charlotte Bartlett. Lucy finds herself torn between the conventions of her upbringing and the passionate desires of her heart, as she discovers a new way of looking at the world. A Room with a View captures the beauty of Florence and the Italian countryside, as well as the humor...

10. The woman in me

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Spears, Britney
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English
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The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...

11. The portrait of a lady

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Author:
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Series:
Everyman's library volume 39
Oxford world's classics
Modern Library college editions volume T47
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Lexile measure:
940L
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English
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5 stars
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When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates...

12. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
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Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Lexile measure:
1230L
Language:
English
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3.8 stars
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

13. The awakening and other stories

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Author:
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904
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Oxford World's Classics
Modern Library classics
Literary classics
Lexile measure:
1030L
Language:
English
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4.3 stars
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Edna Pontellier, a young married woman with two small children in this story from 1899, gradually awakens to her individuality and sexuality and experiences love outside of her passionless marriage

14. A tale of two cities

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Dover large print classics
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Lexile measure:
870L
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English
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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...

15. Mrs. Dalloway

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Series:
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Harvest book
Everyman's library volume 157
Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
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4 stars
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....

16. Orlando: a biography

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Series:
Everyman's library volume 414
Harvest book
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English
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"A hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's classic novel about a gender-swapping English aristocrat who lives for centuries. With a new introduction by Jeanette Winterson, a selected bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times"--

17. City of girls

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Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
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English
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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College,...

18. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave

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Author:
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Bedford series in history and culture
John Harvard library
Unabridged classics
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Lexile measure:
1080L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Born into slavery on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglass doesn't know the year of his birth. Separated from his mother in infancy, he sees her only a few times, always at night, before she dies. At the age of seven or eight, Douglass is sent to Baltimore where, for the first time, he is fully clothed and has enough to eat. His new mistress starts teaching him to read, until her furious husband forbids it. Douglass realises then that reading...

19. V for Vendetta

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Warner Home Video
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English
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Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she also discovers...

20. Room: a novel

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Author:
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
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HL: High-Low 730L
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English
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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
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