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The vanishing of Carolyn Wells : investigations into a forgotten mystery author / by Barry, Rebecca Rego,1976-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-329) and a bibliography of books written or edited by Carolyn Wells (pages 301-307).Jersey girl(s) -- In the library -- Are women funny? -- Little women: Betty, Patty, Marjorie, and Dorrance -- Miss mystery -- On the big screen -- The bride wore blue -- Bulletproof -- The mermaid -- Whitmania -- "Lost ladies now well lost.""Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) excelled at writing country house and locked-room mysteries for a decade before Agatha Christie entered the scene. In the 1920s, when she was churning out three or more books annually, she was dubbed 'about the biggest thing in mystery novels in the US.' On top of that, Wells wielded her pen in just about every literary genre, producing several immensely popular children's books and young adult novels; beloved anthologies; and countless stories, prose, and poetry for magazines such as Thrilling Detective, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, and The New Yorker. All told, Wells wrote over 180 books. Some were adapted into silent films, and some became bestsellers. Yet a hundred years later, she has been all but erased from literary history. Why? How? This investigation takes us on a journey to Rahway, New Jersey, where Wells was born and is buried; to New York City's Upper West Side, where she spent her final twenty-five years; to the Library of Congress, where Carolyn's world-class collection of rare books now resides; and to many other public and private collections where exciting discoveries unfolded"--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Wells, Carolyn, 1862-1942.; Women authors, American;
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Notable American women writers / by Nicosia, Laura M.,editor.; Nicosia, James F.,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.VOLUME 1 -- Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Complete Table of Contents -- Abigail Adams -- Alice Adams -- Jane Addams -- C. S. Adler -- Ai -- JoAnne Akalaitis -- Zoe Akins -- Louisa May Alcott -- Paula Gunn Allen -- Isabel Allende -- Dorothy Allison -- Julia Alvarez -- Laurie Halse Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- Gloria E. Anzaldua -- Harriette Arnow -- Margaret Atwood -- Varsha Bajaj -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Mary Barnard -- Djuna Barnes -- Andrea Barrett -- Ann Beattie -- Gina Berriault -- Doris Betts -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Amy Bloom -- Judy Blume -- Louise Bogan -- Jane Bowles -- Kay Boyle -- Anne Bradstreet -- Catherine Brady -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Rita Mae Brown -- Pearl S. Buck -- Lois McMaster Bujold -- Eve Bunting -- Octavia E. Butler -- Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- Hortense Calisher -- Bebe Moore Campbell -- Mary Caponegro -- Anne Carson -- Lorene Cary -- Ana Castillo -- Willa Cather -- Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Lan Samantha Chang -- Joan Chase -- Mary Coyle Chase -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Susan Cheever -- Kim Chernin -- Kelly Cherry -- Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Alice Childress -- Kate Chopin -- Sandra Cisneros -- Amy Clampitt -- Michelle Cliff -- Lucille Clifton -- Darrah Cloud -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Wanda Coleman -- Laurie Colwin -- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- J. California Cooper -- Jayne Cortez -- Moira Crone -- Rachel Crothers -- H. D -- Edwidge Danticat -- Lydia Davis -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Thulani Davis -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Mazo de la Roche -- Anita Diamant -- Kate DiCamillo -- Emily Dickinson -- Joan Didion -- Annie Dillard -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Harriet Doerr -- Ellen Douglas -- Rita Dove -- Rikki Ducornet -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Andrea Dworkin -- Margaret Edson -- Gretel Ehrlich -- Deborah Eisenberg -- Margarita Engle -- Nora Ephron -- Louise Erdrich -- Carolly Erickson -- Kathryn Erskine -- Laura Esquivel -- Mari Evans -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Edna Ferber -- Rosario Ferre -- Aileen Fisher -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Zelda Fitzgerald -- Esther Forbes -- Carolyn Forche -- Maria Irene Fornes -- Paula Fox -- Judith Freeman -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Marilyn French -- Jean Fritz -- Alice Fulton -- Mary Gaitskill -- Zona Gale -- Tess Gallagher -- Mavis Gallant -- Cristina Garcia -- Martha Gellhorn -- Sandra M. Gilbert -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Nikki Giovanni -- Ellen Glasgow -- Susan Glaspell -- Louise Gluck -- Gail Godwin -- Frances Goodrich -- Caroline Gordon -- Mary Gordon -- Jorie Graham -- Shirley Ann Grau -- Francine du Plessix Gray -- Joanne Greenberg -- Susan Griffin -- Charlotte L. Forten Grimke -- Rosa Guy -- Marilyn Hacker -- Janet Campbell Hale -- Nancy Hale -- Martha Lacy Hall -- Jane Hamilton -- Virginia Hamilton -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Joy Harjo -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Anne Hebert -- Ursula Hegi -- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun -- Lillian Hellman -- Amy Hempel -- Beth Henley -- Patricia Highsmith -- S. E. Hinton -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Alice Hoffman -- Linda Hogan -- Billie Holiday -- A. M. (Amy) Homes -- Ellen Hopkins -- Pauline Hopkins -- Janette Turner Hospital -- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Pam Houston -- Susan Howe -- Tina Howe -- Josephine Humphreys -- Kristin Hunter -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Rachel Ingalls -- Shirley Jackson -- Harriet Jacobs -- Tama Janowitz -- Gish Jen -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Diane Johnson -- Mary Johnston -- Gayl Jones -- Erica Jong -- June Jordan -- Cynthia Kadohata -- Helen Keller -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Jane Kenyon -- Jamaica Kincaid -- A.S. King -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Carolyn Kizer -- Joy Kogawa -- E. L. Konigsburg -- Maxine Kumin / VOLUME 2 -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Thanhha Lai -- Anne Lamott -- Nella Larsen -- Margaret Laurence -- Wendy Law-Yone -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Meridel Le Sueur -- Andrea Lee -- Harper Lee -- Joan Leegant -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Denise Levertov -- Yiyun Li -- Clarice Lispector -- Anita Loos -- Bette Bao Lord -- Beth Lordan -- Audre Lorde -- Amy Lowell -- Lois Lowry -- Marie Lu -- Alison Lurie -- Paule Marshall -- Jane Martin -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Mary McCarthy -- Jill McCorkle -- Carson McCullers -- Alice McDermott -- Terry McMillan -- Sandra McPherson -- Louise Meriwether -- Eve Merriam -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Isabel Miller -- Anchee Min -- Margaret Mitchell -- L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery -- Marianne Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Thylias Moss -- Anna Cora Mowatt -- Lisel Mueller -- Bharati Mukherjee -- Alice Munro -- Gloria Naylor -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- Lorine Niedecker -- Marsha Norman -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Flannery O'Connor -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Sharon Olds -- Tillie Olsen -- Julie Orringer -- Mary Pope Osborne -- Rochelle Owens -- Cynthia Ozick -- ZZ Packer -- Grace Paley -- Sara Paretsky -- Dorothy Parker -- Suzan-Lori Parks -- Linda Pastan -- Ann Patchett -- Katherine Paterson -- Edith Pearlman -- Ann Petry -- Tamora Pierce -- Marge Piercy -- Andrea Davis Pinkney -- Sylvia Plath -- Carlene Hatcher Polite -- Mary Helen Ponce -- Connie Porter -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Dawn Powell -- Francine Prose -- E. Annie Proulx -- Ayn Rand -- Jean Rhys -- Anne Rice -- Adrienne Rich -- Laura Riding -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Marilynne Robinson -- Roxana Robinson -- Judith Rossner -- Susanna Rowson -- Gabrielle Roy -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Joanna Russ -- Sonia Sanchez -- Mari Sandoz -- May Sarton -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Evelyn Scott -- Olive Senior -- Mary Lee Settle -- Anne Sexton -- Ntozake Shange -- Carol Shields -- Bapsi Sidhwa -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Marisa Silver -- Mona Simpson -- Elsie Singmaster -- Agnes Smedley -- Jane Smiley -- Betty Smith -- Lee Smith -- Laurel Snyder -- Cathy Song -- Susan Sontag -- Elizabeth Spencer -- Jean Stafford -- Gertrude Stein -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Susan Straight -- Elizabeth Strout -- Ruth Suckow -- May Swenson -- Amy Tan -- Mildred D. Taylor -- Sheila Ortiz Taylor -- Megan Terry -- Joyce Carol Thomas -- Jean Thompson -- Sophie Treadwell -- Anne Tyler -- Luisa Valenzuela -- Mona Van Duyn -- Helena Maria Viramontes -- Paula Vogel -- Cynthia Voigt -- Kate Walbert -- Alice Walker -- Margaret Walker -- Wendy Wasserstein -- Mary Yukari Waters -- Eudora Welty -- Jessamyn West -- Edith Wharton -- Phillis Wheatley -- Marianne Wiggins -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Joy Williams -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Ethel Wilson -- Harriet E. Wilson -- Sarah E. Wright -- Elinor Wylie -- Anzia Yezierska -- Jane Yolen -- Marguerite Young -- Glossary of Literary Terms -- Notable American Women Writers by Date of Birth -- Notable American Women Writers by Region -- Notable American Women Writers by Form -- Notable American Women Writers by Theme -- Notable American Women Writers by Achievement or Award.
Subjects: Women authors, American; American literature; Women in literature; Women;
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Notable American Women Writers / by Nicosia, Laura M.,editor.; Nicosia, James F.,editor.;
Provides a two volume set that examines hundreds of American women writers, from Colonial America to present day, concentrating on women writers of literature, including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama.Includes bibliographical references.Volume 1 -- Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Complete Table of Contents -- Abigail Adams -- Alice Adams -- Jane Addams -- C. S. Adler -- Ai -- JoAnne Akalaitis -- Zoe Akins -- Louisa May Alcott -- Paula Gunn Allen -- Isabel Allende -- Dorothy Allison -- Julia Alvarez -- Laurie Halse Anderson -- Maya Angelou -- Gloria E. Anzaldua -- Harriette Arnow -- Margaret Atwood -- Varsha Bajaj -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Mary Barnard -- Djuna Barnes -- Andrea Barrett -- Ann Beattie -- Gina Berriault -- Doris Betts -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Amy Bloom -- Judy Blume -- Louise Bogan -- Jane Bowles -- Kay Boyle -- Anne Bradstreet -- Catherine Brady -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Rita Mae Brown -- Pearl S. Buck -- Lois McMaster Bujold -- Eve Bunting -- Octavia E. Butler -- Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- Hortense Calisher -- Bebe Moore Campbell -- Mary Caponegro -- Anne Carson -- Lorene Cary -- Ana Castillo -- Willa Cather -- Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Lan Samantha Chang -- Joan Chase -- Mary Coyle Chase -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Susan Cheever -- Kim Chernin -- Kelly Cherry -- Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Alice Childress -- Kate Chopin -- Sandra Cisneros -- Amy Clampitt -- Michelle Cliff -- Lucille Clifton -- Darrah Cloud -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Wanda Coleman -- Laurie Colwin -- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- J. California Cooper -- Jayne Cortez -- Moira Crone -- Rachel Crothers -- H. D -- Edwidge Danticat -- Lydia Davis -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Thulani Davis -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Mazo de la Roche -- Anita Diamant -- Kate DiCamillo -- Emily Dickinson -- Joan Didion -- Annie Dillard -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Harriet Doerr -- Ellen Douglas -- Rita Dove -- Rikki Ducornet -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Andrea Dworkin -- Margaret Edson -- Gretel Ehrlich -- Deborah Eisenberg -- Margarita Engle -- Nora Ephron -- Louise Erdrich -- Carolly Erickson -- Kathryn Erskine -- Laura Esquivel -- Mari Evans -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Edna Ferber -- Rosario Ferre -- Aileen Fisher -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Zelda Fitzgerald -- Esther Forbes -- Carolyn Forche -- Maria Irene Fornes -- Paula Fox -- Judith Freeman -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Marilyn French -- Jean Fritz -- Alice Fulton -- Mary Gaitskill -- Zona Gale -- Tess Gallagher -- Mavis Gallant -- Cristina Garcia -- Martha Gellhorn -- Sandra M. Gilbert -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Nikki Giovanni -- Ellen Glasgow -- Susan Glaspell -- Louise Gluck -- Gail Godwin -- Frances Goodrich -- Caroline Gordon -- Mary Gordon -- Jorie Graham -- Shirley Ann Grau -- Francine du Plessix Gray -- Joanne Greenberg -- Susan Griffin -- Charlotte L. Forten Grimke -- Rosa Guy -- Marilyn Hacker -- Janet Campbell Hale -- Nancy Hale -- Martha Lacy Hall -- Jane Hamilton -- Virginia Hamilton -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Joy Harjo -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Anne Hebert -- Ursula Hegi -- Carolyn Gold Heilbrun -- Lillian Hellman -- Amy Hempel -- Beth Henley -- Patricia Highsmith -- S. E. Hinton -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Alice Hoffman -- Linda Hogan -- Billie Holiday -- A. M. (Amy) Homes -- Ellen Hopkins -- Pauline Hopkins -- Janette Turner Hospital -- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston -- Pam Houston -- Susan Howe -- Tina Howe -- Josephine Humphreys -- Kristin Hunter -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Rachel Ingalls -- Shirley Jackson -- Harriet Jacobs -- Tama Janowitz -- Gish Jen -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Diane Johnson -- Mary Johnston -- Gayl Jones -- Erica Jong -- June Jordan -- Cynthia Kadohata -- Helen Keller -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Jane Kenyon -- Jamaica Kincaid -- A.S. King -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Carolyn Kizer -- Joy Kogawa -- E. L. Konigsburg -- Maxine Kumin. Volume 2 -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Thanhha Lai -- Anne Lamott -- Nella Larsen -- Margaret Laurence -- Wendy Law-Yone -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Meridel Le Sueur -- Andrea Lee -- Harper Lee -- Joan Leegant -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Denise Levertov -- Yiyun Li -- Clarice Lispector -- Anita Loos -- Bette Bao Lord -- Beth Lordan -- Audre Lorde -- Amy Lowell -- Lois Lowry -- Marie Lu -- Alison Lurie -- Paule Marshall -- Jane Martin -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Mary McCarthy -- Jill McCorkle -- Carson McCullers -- Alice McDermott -- Terry McMillan -- Sandra McPherson -- Louise Meriwether -- Eve Merriam -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Isabel Miller -- Anchee Min -- Margaret Mitchell -- L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery -- Marianne Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Thylias Moss -- Anna Cora Mowatt -- Lisel Mueller -- Bharati Mukherjee -- Alice Munro -- Gloria Naylor -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- Lorine Niedecker -- Marsha Norman -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Flannery O'Connor -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Sharon Olds -- Tillie Olsen -- Julie Orringer -- Mary Pope Osborne -- Rochelle Owens -- Cynthia Ozick -- ZZ Packer -- Grace Paley -- Sara Paretsky -- Dorothy Parker -- Suzan-Lori Parks -- Linda Pastan -- Ann Patchett -- Katherine Paterson -- Edith Pearlman -- Ann Petry -- Tamora Pierce -- Marge Piercy -- Andrea Davis Pinkney -- Sylvia Plath -- Carlene Hatcher Polite -- Mary Helen Ponce -- Connie Porter -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Dawn Powell -- Francine Prose -- E. Annie Proulx -- Ayn Rand -- Jean Rhys -- Anne Rice -- Adrienne Rich -- Laura Riding -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Marilynne Robinson -- Roxana Robinson -- Judith Rossner -- Susanna Rowson -- Gabrielle Roy -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Joanna Russ -- Sonia Sanchez -- Mari Sandoz -- May Sarton -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Evelyn Scott -- Olive Senior -- Mary Lee Settle -- Anne Sexton -- Ntozake Shange -- Carol Shields -- Bapsi Sidhwa -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Marisa Silver -- Mona Simpson -- Elsie Singmaster -- Agnes Smedley -- Jane Smiley -- Betty Smith -- Lee Smith -- Laurel Snyder -- Cathy Song -- Susan Sontag -- Elizabeth Spencer -- Jean Stafford -- Gertrude Stein -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Susan Straight -- Elizabeth Strout -- Ruth Suckow -- May Swenson -- Amy Tan -- Mildred D. Taylor -- Sheila Ortiz Taylor -- Megan Terry -- Joyce Carol Thomas -- Jean Thompson -- Sophie Treadwell -- Anne Tyler -- Luisa Valenzuela -- Mona Van Duyn -- Helena Maria Viramontes -- Paula Vogel -- Cynthia Voigt -- Kate Walbert -- Alice Walker -- Margaret Walker -- Wendy Wasserstein -- Mary Yukari Waters -- Eudora Welty -- Jessamyn West -- Edith Wharton -- Phillis Wheatley -- Marianne Wiggins -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Joy Williams -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Ethel Wilson -- Harriet E. Wilson -- Sarah E. Wright -- Elinor Wylie -- Anzia Yezierska -- Jane Yolen -- Marguerite Young -- Glossary of Literary Terms -- Notable American Women Writers by Date of Birth -- Notable American Women Writers by Region -- Notable American Women Writers by Form -- Notable American Women Writers by Theme -- Notable American Women Writers by Achievement or Award.
Subjects: Women authors, American; American literature; Women in literature; Women;
On-line resources: https://libproxy.kirtland.edu/login?url=https://online.salempress.com/doi/book/10.3331/AWWrite -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Take the cannoli : stories from the New World / by Vowell, Sarah,1969-;
Subjects: American essays.; Autobiography;
© c2000., Simon & Schuster,
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Modernist women poets : an anthology / by Hass, Robert,editor.; Ebenkamp, Paul,editor.;
"The 20th century was a time of great change, particularly in the arts, but seldom explored were the female poets of that time. Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp have put together a comprehensive anthology of poetry featuring the poems of Gertrude Stein, Lola Ridge, Amy Lowell, Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Adelaide Crapsey, Angelina Weld Grimke, Anne Spencer, Mina Loy, Hazel Hall, Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Djuna Barnes, and Hildegarde Flanner. With an introduction from Hass and Ebenkamp, as well as detailed annotation through out to guide the reader, this wonderful collection of poems will bring together the great female writers of the modernist period as well as deconstruct the language and writing that surfaced during that period"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-370).Lola Ridge -- Gertrude Stein -- Amy Lowell -- Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven -- Florence Wheelock Ayscough -- Adelaide Crapsey -- Angelina Weld Grimke -- Anne Spencer -- Mina Loy -- Frances Gregg -- Hazel Hall -- H.D. -- Marianne Moore -- Djuna Barnes -- Hildegarde Flanner -- Laura Riding -- Afterword by Robert Hass.
Subjects: American poetry; American poetry; Modernism (Literature); Women;
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The hurting kind : poems / by Limón, Ada,author.;
"An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"--
Subjects: Poetry.; Interpersonal relations; Animals; American poetry; American poetry;
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Pioneer girl : the annotated autobiography / by Wilder, Laura Ingalls,1867-1957; Hill, Pamela Smith,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-379) and index.Introduction: "Will it come to anything?": The story of Pioneer Girl / Pamela Smith Hill -- The Pioneer Girl manuscripts / Pamela Smith Hill -- Editorial procedures / Nancy Tystad Koupal & Rodger Hartley -- Pioneer Girl: Kansas and Missouri, 1869-1871 ; Wisconsin, 1871-1874 ; Minnesota, 1874-1876 ; Iowa, 1876-1877 ; Minnesota, 1877-1879 ; Dakota Territory, 1879-1880 ; Dakota Territory, the hard winter of 1880-1881 ; Dakota Territory, 1880-1885 ; Dakota Territory, 1881-1888 -- Conclusion: "I don't suppose anyone will take the trouble" / Pamela Smith Hill -- Appendixes: Facsimile of "Juvenile Pioneer Girl" ; The Benders of Kansas ; The Gordon party ; The singing school.Follows the Ingalls family's journey through Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, back to Minnesota, and on to Dakota Territory, examining sixteen years of travels, unforgettable experiences, and the everyday people who became immortal through Wilder's fiction. Using additional manuscripts, letters, photographs, newspapers, and other sources, Wilder biographer Pamela Smith Hill adds context and leads readers through Wilder's growth as a writer.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.; Women authors, American; Women pioneers; Frontier and pioneer life;
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My prison, my home : one woman's story of captivity in Iran / by Isfandiyārī, Hālāh.;
On December 31, 2006, Isfandiyārī's life changed. It was believed she was part of an American conspiracy for "regime change" in Iran. After weeks of interrogation, she was detained at the notorious Evin Prison, where she spent 105 days in solitary confinement.The "robbery" -- An Iranian childhood -- A career interrupted -- The interrogation -- "Things will get worse" -- The lull -- The arrest -- Evin Prison -- The release -- Freedom -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Isfandiyārī, Hālāh.; Women political prisoners; Political prisoners; Iranian American women; Iranian American authors; Islam and politics;
© c2009., Ecco,
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I know why the caged bird sings / by Angelou, Maya.;
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance LearningSent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. -- provided by publisher.
Subjects: Angelou, Maya; Authors, American; Angelou, Maya; Authors, American; Entertainers; African American families; African American authors; African American women authors;
© 2009., Random House Trade Paperbacks,
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Louisa on the front lines : Louisa May Alcott in the Civil War / by Seiple, Samantha.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228) and index."Louisa on the Frontlines is the first narrative nonfiction book focusing on the least-known aspect of Louisa May Alcott's career - her time spent as a nurse during the Civil War. Though her service was brief, the dramatic experience was one that she considered pivotal in helping her write the beloved classic Little Women. It also deeply affected her tenuous relationship with her father, and inspired her commitment to abolitionism. Through it all, she kept a journal and wrote letters to her family and friends. These letters were published in the newspaper, and her subsequent book, Hospital Sketches, spotlighted the dire conditions of the military hospitals and the suffering endured by the wounded soldiers she cared for. To this day, her work is considered a pioneering account of military nursing. Alcott's time as an Army nurse in the Civil War helped her find her authentic voice--and cemented her foundational belief system. Louisa on the Frontlines reveals the emergence of this prominent feminist and abolitionist--a woman whose life and work has inspired millions and continues to do so today" --Introduction: The heroine's journey -- Part one: The war at home. Wayward daughter ; Stitches ; A soldier's story ; Help wanted ; Georgetown or bust ; Burnside's blunder ; The hurly-burly house ; A bitter pill ; Duty's faithful daughter ; A gift -- Part two: Where glory waits. Unfulfilled destiny ; The chariot of glory ; Still on the front lines.Seiple focuses on the least-known aspect of Louisa May Alcott's career: her time spent as a nurse during the Civil War. Though her service was brief, the dramatic experience was one that she considered pivotal in helping her write the beloved classic Little Women. It also deeply affected her tenuous relationship with her father, and inspired her commitment to abolitionism. Through it all, she kept a journal and wrote letters to her family and friends. To this day, her book, Hospital sketches, is considered a pioneering account of military nursing. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.; Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888; Women authors, American; Military nursing; Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.; Military Nursing.; American Civil War.;
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