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Women's History Month 2023: Adult Titles
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When we had wings by Ariel LawhonBased on the true experiences of nurses dubbed the "Angels of Bataan," this sweeping story follows three nurses in the Philippines in 1941 enduring captivity as the first female prisoners of World War II, striving to keep their hope -- and their fellow inmates -- alive.
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The house of Eve : a novel by Sadeqa Johnson1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.
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Prize women by Caroline LeaToronto, 1926. Knowing that he will die without an heir, childless millionaire Charles Millar leaves behind a controversial will: the recipient of his fortune will be decided in a contest that will become a media sensation and be known as the Great Stork Derby. His money will go to the winner: the woman who bears the most children in the ten years after his death. It is a bequest that will have dramatic consequences for the lives of two women--allies and close friends.
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The woman with the cure by Lynn CullenA riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world's best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god. But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure.
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Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters -- each more beautiful, brilliant, and eccentric than the next -- dominate the English political, literary, and social scenes. Though they've weathered scandals before, the family falls into disarray when Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows her sister's lead all the way to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitler's mistress.
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In defense of witches : the legacy of the witch hunts and why women are still on trial by Mona CholletCenturies after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed?
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The devil's half acre : the untold story of how one woman liberated the South's most notorious slave jail by Kristen GreenBestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands. She was forced to have the children of a brutal slave trader and live on the premises of his slave jail, known as the "Devil's Half Acre." When she inherited the jail after the death of her slaveholder, she transformed it into "God's Half Acre," a school where Black men could fulfill their dreams. It still exists today as Virginia Union University, one of America's first Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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Code name Blue Wren : the true story of America's most dangerous female spy--and the sister she betrayed by Jim PopkinFor nearly 17 years, Ana Montes succeeded in two high-stress jobs. By day, she was one of the U.S. government's top Cuba experts, a buttoned-down GS-14 with shockingly easy access to classified documents. By night, she was on the clock for Fidel Castro, listening to coded messages over shortwave radio, passing U.S. secrets to handlers in local restaurants, and slipping into Havana wearing a wig. Code Name Blue Wren is a thrilling detective tale, an insider's look at the clandestine world of espionage, and an intimate exploration of the dark side of betrayal.
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Proving ground : the untold story of the six women who programmed the world's first modern computer by Kathy KleimanAfter the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into ballistics and computing, begun during the war to aid those on the front lines, continued across the United States as engineers and programmers rushed to complete their confidential assignments. Among them were six pioneering women, tasked with figuring out how to program the world's first general-purpose, programmable, all-electronic computer--better known as the ENIAC-- even though there were no instruction codes or programming languages in existence. While most students of computer history are aware of this innovative machine, the great contributions of the women who programmed it were never told -- until now.
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Ordinary equality : the fearless women and queer people who shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment by Kathleen KellyOrdinary Equality digs into the fascinating and little-known history of the Equal Rights Amendment and the lives of the incredible--and often overlooked--women and queer people who have helped shape the U.S. Constitution for more than 200 years. From before the Constitution was even drafted to the modern day, author Kathleen Kelly examines how and why constitutional equality for women and Americans of all marginalized genders has been systematically undermined for the past 100-plus years, and then calls us all to join the current movement to put it back on the table and get it across the finish line.
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