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Language
English
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For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. Women We Buried, Women We Burned is her own story. Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and home at age 16. Living out of her car and relying on strangers,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a male journalist has been killed in the backyard of the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Detective Louise Rick is put on the case of the young girl, but very soon becomes entangled in solving the other homicide too when it turns out her best friend, journalist Camilla Lind, knew the murdered man. Louise tries to keep her friend from getting too involved, but Camilla's never been one to miss out on an interesting...
3) Sometimes you have to lie: the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation after generation of readers. Harriet is an erratic, unsentimental, and endearing prototype--someone very like the woman who dreamed her up, author and artist Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in a wealthy home in segregated Memphis, and she escaped her cloistered world and made a beeline...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyère region of Switzerland lasted a whole year, from July 1989 to July 1990. A year of work and festivities in the family of Conrad and Louise Bapst, their children and grandchildren who live in La Roche (canton of Fribourg).
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because Bobbi Gibb is a girl, she's not allowed to run on her school's track team. But after school, no one can stop her--and she's free to run endless miles to her heart's content. She is told no yet again when she tries to enter the Boston Marathon in 1966, because the officials claim that it's a man's race and that women are just not capable of running such a long distance. So what does Bobbi do? She bravely sets out to prove the naysayers wrong...
9) Roberta Gibb
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life and achievements of the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1966.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Beulah Louise Henry, a girl with a knack for problem-solving who grew up to be a world-famous inventor, in this captivating picture book biography. When Beulah Louise Henry spotted a problem, she fixated on it until, AHA! She had a hunch. That's what Beulah called the inventions she came up with to solve the problems she saw all around her. Beulah's brain worked differently. She had hyperphantasia, which meant she saw things in extreme detail...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Louise Bourgeois was a world-famous artist who told stories of her life through her art until she was 98 years old. She drew, wove, and sculpted pieces inspired by her experiences, often using everyday objects that reminded her of her family and her past. Her famous giant spiders fascinate-and sometimes terrify-art-lovers to this day, but the truth behind the inspiration for these towering sculptors is not as scary as it may seem"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James's soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR's All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After many decades of struggle, women have attained a strong presence in today's art world, as evidenced by the many exhibitions devoted to their work. Loosely based on the two-part Bad girls exhibition at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan, Reclaiming the body goes beyond the scope of the exhibition to include other significant contributors to feminist art. The film spans three generations of artists, from Louise Bourgeois to Janine...
16) Reds
Language
English
Formats
Description
Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "REDS" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war puts an end...
17) The chaperone
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"--
Author
Publisher
Acclaim Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As a record 73 million viewers watched the Beatles' American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show a half-century ago, the audience was largely unaware of the behind-the scenes efforts in the preceding weeks and months that made the historic February 9, 1964 performance a reality. Those efforts were spearheaded by Louise Harrison, sister of guitarist George Harrison, from her home in a small town in southern Illinois. In My Kid Brother's Band a.k.a. The Beatles...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A fictional retelling of the life of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who redefined the role of a princess in Victorian England"--
"Based on the true story of the free-spirited daughter of Queen Victoria. As a young woman, Princess Louise is considered the most beautiful and talented daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is also strong-willed and resists following the queen's rigid rules...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Spring comes to Acorn Hill, a close-knit community tucked away in the Pennsylvania countryside. The Howard sisters--Jane, Alice, and Louise--are once again in the middle of something odd and always interesting in their small community. So welcome to the place where spring-time breezes waft through the trees as the townfolk relax on their porch swings, and where good advice is served up with the best blackberry pie.
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