As American women began to reject Victorian propriety, authorities feared that "oversexed" women could destroy civilization if allowed to reproduce and pass on their defects. In 1934,...
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Author: Farley, Audrey ClareSummary:
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Author: Adler, David A.Summary:
Traces the life of the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicles the years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic
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Author: Cameron, AnneSummary:
Anne, a fourteen-year-old runaway, befriends a prostitute and together they cross the Canadian frontier in search of a home.
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Author: McLeod, CarolSummary:
Studies of famous Canadian women: Emily Carr, E. Pauline Johnson, Maude Abbott, Laura Secord, Mary Pickford, Judy LaMarsh, Karen Kain, L.M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery, Mazo de la Roche and Barbara Ann...
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Author: Benedict, MichaelSummary:
Culled from the archives of Maclean's, these profiles include famous and infamous names from the worlds of politics, sports, business, entertainment and the arts. Covers Canadians from Diefenbaker...
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Author: Crane, Dede, Moore, LisaSummary:
Edited by master storyteller Dede Crane and award-winning author Lisa Moore, both of whom contribute their own stories, Great Expectations is a must-have collection for parents and parents-to-be....
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Author: Poirier, ThelmaSummary:
A Voice of Her Own profiles fifty-two ranch women from Western Canada. With this book, the editors have brought to light a little-discussed aspect of ranching: the valuable contributions of women...
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Author: Mantel, HilarySummary:
Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and...
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Author: Shaw, Carol AnneSummary:
It's spring break, and 14-year-old Hannah Anderson is spending it with the "Coast-Is-Clear" program, a group committed to cleaning Pacific Rim National Park Reserve's beaches of debris that has...
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Author: Shaw, Carol AnneSummary:
In the second volume of the Hannah trilogy, summer has arrived, and fourteen-year-old Hannah Anderson is excited about spending it with Max (who has been giving her stomach butterflies lately)....
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Author: Wermuth, Laurie Ann.Summary:
This book uses a critical theoretical perspective to explore the links between social variables like race, class, and gender, and the health of populations around the world.Global Inequality and...
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Author: Cooper, CatherineSummary:
Physician Richard Berringer, his wife, Ann, and their thirteen-year-old son, Torquil, have abandoned their home in Nova Scotia and moved to Sierra Leone, despite warnings that the West African...
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Author: Smith, Lisa Anne, Rogers, BarbaraSummary:
When a young black man named Seraphim “Joe” Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885, with little to his name, no one could have possibly suspected that one hundred years later he would be voted “...
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Author: Fishburne, Anne Sinkler, LeClercq, Anne Sinkler WhaleySummary:
“Belvidere is underwater too deep for any eye but that of memory to reach,” begins Anne Sinkler Fishburne's reverential recollections of her ancestral home. Located between Santee River and Eutaw...
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Author: Royal, PriscillaSummary:
The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England, except in the village of Tyndal where Martin the cooper has been poisoned at the local inn. Could the murderer be his usual whore who is about...