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Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source/Editorial Buenas Letras
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st bilingual ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African slave who was taken in and educated by a Boston couple and became well-known because of the poetry she wrote.
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In the early twentieth century, Mecklenburgh Square, a hidden architectural gem in the heart of London, was a radical address. On the outskirts of Bloomsbury known for the eponymous group who "lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles," the square was home to students, struggling artists, and revolutionaries. In the pivotal era between the two world wars, the lives of five remarkable women intertwined at this one address: modernist...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
xviii, 364 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties, and emerged as beloved by girls today as by their grandmothers. Rehak tells the behind-the-scenes history of Nancy and her groundbreaking creators. Both Nancy and her "author," Carolyn Keene, were invented by Edward Stratemeyer, who also created the...
Author
Publisher
RosenCentral Primary Source
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Primary source documents breakdown the events that led to the Sojourner Truth's speech that stands as an inspiration for justice and equal rights today.
32) Mascaras
Publisher
Third Woman Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
199 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
x, 612 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Una extraordinaria selección de obras esenciales, en su mayoría inéditas, que celebran la fuerza, el talento y la diversidad de las mujeres latinas, y tienden puentes que nos conectan las unas con las otras. Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de la chamana María Sabina; desde las luchas revolucionarias de Audre Lorde, Lolita Lebrón y Berta Cáceres hasta el activismo de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez;...
Publisher
New Press :Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
xiii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of fiction, essays, and poetry by 36 women coming from a wide range of backgrounds and ages, impairments and experiences, dealing with the themes of pain and illness and of overcoming prejudice and unjust legislation.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution -- from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the bisexual Morton Fullerton. Analyzing the novelist's life, letters, and fiction, Erlich reveals several interrelated identity systems -- the filial, the sexual, and the creative--that evolved...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xv, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought at the close of the Civil War. Benfey takes the seemingly arbitrary image of the hummingbird and traces its 'route of evanescence' as it travels in circles to and from the creative wellsprings of the age: from the naturalist writings of abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson to the poems of...
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