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1. Woman life freedom

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Author:
Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
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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: voices and art from the women's protests in Iran

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Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
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...

3. Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women's Protests in Iran

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Author:
Various Authors
Publisher:
Saqi Books
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Mahsa Jina 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 art and photography shared online went viral and people around the world...

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
Language:
English
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Hoopla eAudiobook, Manuscript
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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
Pub. Date:
©2022
Language:
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. The woman in me

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Author:
Spears, Britney
Language:
English
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3 stars
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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...

7. All fours

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Author:
July, Miranda, 1974-
Language:
English
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3 stars
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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...

8. Jane Eyre

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Broadview literary texts
Signet classic
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Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
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. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Series:
Little women collection volume 1
Puffin in bloom
Children's library
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Lexile measure:
1230L
Average Rating:
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...

10. The book woman's daughter: a novel

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Author:
Richardson, Kim Michele
Series:
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...

11. A Room with a view

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Author:
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
Series:
Borzoi book
Tantor unabridged classics
Language:
English
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3 stars
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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...

12. The tattooist of Auschwitz: a novel

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Author:
Morris, Heather (Screenwriter)
Series:
Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 1
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 760L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....

13. My Antonia

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Author:
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Everyman paperback
Great Plains Trilogy volume 3
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl. After the death of her immigrant father, Antonia works as a servant for neighbors in the farmlands of Nebraska. She leaves for an unfortunate affair with an Irish railway conductor, but returns home, eventually marries and raises a large family in true pioneer style.

14. City of girls

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Author:
Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
Language:
English
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3.5 stars
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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,...

15. Room: a novel

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Author:
Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 730L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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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.

16. The awakening and other stories

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Author:
Chopin, Kate, 1850-1904
Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Capricorn books
Literary classics
Lexile measure:
1030L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Over one long, languid summer Edna Pontellier, fettered by marriage and motherhood gradually awakens to her individuality and sexuality and experiences love outside of her passionless marriage. But as she discovers emotional freedom so she comes to realise the true extent of her psychological and social confinement and its terrible consequences for her future.

17. The mill on the Floss

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Author:
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
Series:
Tantor audio and ebook classics
Signet Classics
Lexile measure:
1240L
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A woman ahead of her time faces a choice between loyalty and love in marrying a childhood friend or her true passion, her cousin's fiance.

18. Madame Bovary

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Author:
Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Series:
Thalia Book Club
Tantor unabridged classics
Great illustrated classics
Lexile measure:
1030L
Average Rating:
3 stars
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An ordinary woman's unfulfilled dreams of romantic love lead her to a series of desperate acts, including adultery, in a classic novel set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century bourgeois France.

19. The underground railroad: a novel

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Author:
Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
Lexile measure:
890L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...

20. The Count of Monte Cristo

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Author:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Enriched classics
Classic literature with classical music
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Lexile measure:
930L
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Paris, 1844-45), by French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas, is one of the most popular novels ever written. This book presents a tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era. Edmond Dantes, a nineteen-year-old sailor from Marseilles, is soon to be captain of his own ship and to marry his beloved, the beautiful Mercedes. But spiteful enemies provoke his arrest on his wedding day, and he is condemned to...
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