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A Woman of the People (Texas Tradition Series)

by Benjamin Capps

Published: 1999-03

Paperback: 248 pages

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This story of the Texas frontier dramatizes the capture by a Comanche band of a ten-year-old white girl and her five-year-old sister from the upper reaches of the Brazos River a decade before the Civil War.

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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

by Ellen Chesler

Published: 2007-10-16

Paperback: 672 pages

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Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights. Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of ...

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Woman on the Edge of Time

by Marge Piercy

Published: 1985-11-12

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons...

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Woman on the Verge of Wyoming

by Catharine Bramkamp

Published: 2006-01-18

Paperback: 260 pages

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As you drive to work what would happen if you simply turned the car around and traveled directly out of town? What would happen if you just drove straight out of the state? One average, typical Tuesday morning Jane turns her Volvo right instead of left and briskly drives away; from her job, her husband,...

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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

by Maxine Hong Kingston

Published: 1989-04-23

Paperback: 209 pages

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“A classic, for a reason” – Celeste Ng via TwitterIn her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form—an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has b...

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The Woman Who Walked into Doors

by Roddy Doyle

Published: 1997-01-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. Paula recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage...

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The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception

by Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr.

Published: 2012-04-03

Hardcover: 304 pages

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 It was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. Tania Head's astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001?from crawling through the carnage and chaos to escaping the seventy-eighth-floor sky lobby of the burning south tower to losing h...

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Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

by Sue Townsend

Published: 2012

Paperback: 400 pages

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Woman, Child for Sale: The New Slave Trade in the 21st Century

by Gilbert King

Published: 2004-08-31

Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages

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Every year, there are more than 4 million victims of human trafficking around the world, from forced prostitution and pornography, to sweatshop and migrant labor. Some estimates put the figure at 50,000 human slaves living in the United States, through fraud, coercion and outright kidnapp...

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The Woman

by David Bishop

Published: 2013-11-19

Kindle Edition: 342 pages

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* #1 BEST SELLING MYSTERY AMAZON eBOOK (MARCH 2012) * MANY MONTHS ON THE AMAZON LIST OF BEST-SELLING MYSTERY SERIES There are approximately one-hundred-and-sixty million women living in America. This is a story of just one woman. As the story unfolds Linda gradually learns that some ...