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1) My Antonia
Author
Language
English
Description
A haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest
This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers,...
2) O pioneers!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska country of the 1880s. John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother alng to a new zest...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
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"America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits...
Author
Publisher
Timbuktu Labs, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A lavishly photographed motivational treasury of true bedtime tales shares events in the lives of 100 diverse women who have shaped the world, from Asma Khan and Madeline Albright to Rihanna and Josephine Baker.
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Language
English
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In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy.
Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There's been a fatal car crash, and one of them is dead.
In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's daughter, Zain E. Asher, tells
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Your heart will break...then soar" (Redbook) when, far from the neon lights of the Vegas strip, three lives collide in a split-second mistake and a child's fate hangs in the balance.
Avis thought her marriage had hit a temporary rut. But with a single confession in the middle of the night, her carefully constructed life comes undone. After escaping a tumultuous childhood and raising a son, she now faces a future without the security...
Avis thought her marriage had hit a temporary rut. But with a single confession in the middle of the night, her carefully constructed life comes undone. After escaping a tumultuous childhood and raising a son, she now faces a future without the security...
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Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Language
English
Description
The second volume in Larry McMurtry's four-part historical epic featuring the Berrybender family as they continue their journey through the West during the 1830s.
In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of exploration, beset by difficulties, tragedies, the desertion of trusted servants, and the increasing...
In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of exploration, beset by difficulties, tragedies, the desertion of trusted servants, and the increasing...
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In this tale of high-spirited and terrifying adventure, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow's River is an epic in its own right with the return of the formidable, young Tasmin Berrybender.
At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the "Sin Killer" and mother to their young son, Monty. By Sorrow's...
At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the "Sin Killer" and mother to their young son, Monty. By Sorrow's...
Author
Series
Pays des autres volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale of generations of Dominican women. Graciela is an adventuress who comes of age during the U.S. occupation but is too poor to live her dreams. Her daughter Mercedes grows up to manage a shop during the Trujillo dictatorship and emigrates to New York with her husband and granddaughter Leila. Leila has inherited Graciela's recklessness, but her freedom carries its own obligations and dangers.
12) The spice box
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
13) My ℓntonia
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Series
Publisher
Canterbury Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back at the times of greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-first century American dream, having won...
16) Brooklyn
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Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
18) Paper wife
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband's first wife--a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Gold Rush fever gripped the globe in 1849, thousands of Chinese came through San Francisco to seek fortune. In The Poker Bride, Christopher Corbett uses a legend of one extraordinary woman as a lens into this experience. Before 1849, the Chinese in the United States were little more than curiosities. But as word spread of gold in California, San Francisco's labyrinthine Chinatown sprang up, a city-within-a-city full of exotic foods and strange...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
405 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A chance airport encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--as both couples await the arrival of an adopted daughter from Korea, prompts an examination about what it means to be an American.
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