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Ladies of Harper's Station volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Men are optional. That was the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts taught her and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive the women out, Emma is forced to admit they might need a man after all. One who can fight. And there is only one she trusts enough to ask. Malachi Shaw has finally earned the respect he's always craved by becoming an explosives expert for...
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English
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The love of Tess Meredith,the orphaned suffragette daughter of a frontier doctor, for Raven Following, theSioux warrior she befriended as a child, seems doomed when he abandons his heritage and builds a new life for himself as a detective in turn-of-the-century Chicago. Then she arrives back into his world, bringing the past with her.
3) Suffragette
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the 19th century, a working-class laundress in London becomes involved with a group of women organizing to obtain the vote for women.
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Language
English
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"In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James...
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Series
Daniel Pitt novels (Anne Perry) volume 6
Language
English
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"Daniel Pitt prosecutes a beloved philanthropist whose good deeds may hide dark-and dangerous-secrets in this gripping mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Working his way up at London law firm fford Croft and Gibson, Daniel Pitt is named second prosecutor on a fraud case with the potential to make or break his-and the firm's-reputation. The trouble is, Malcolm Vayne, the man on trial, has deep pockets, and even deeper connections....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An account of the 1920 ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted voting rights to women traces the culmination of seven decades of legal battles and cites the pivotal contributions of famous suffragists and political leaders.
Author
Language
English
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Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
Alice Paul returns to New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain, determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already...
12) City of betrayal
Author
Series
Counterfeit lady volume 7
Language
English
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"A year has passed since Elizabeth Bates ran her last con. Life has been simpler, although not nearly as exciting, but she has thrown herself into working to get the 19th Amendment ratified by thirty-six states to become the law of the land. Since every other Southern state has already rejected the amendment, it seems unlikely Tennessee will be an exception . . . but it's their only hope, so the suffragists descend on Tennessee for the final battle....
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"1928. Riffling through a cupboard, Matilda Simpkin comes across a small wooden club--an old possession that she hasn't seen for more than a decade. Immediately, memories come flooding back to Mattie--memories of a thrilling past, which only further serve to remind her of her chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign, she was a militant who was jailed five times and never missed an opportunity to return to the fray. Now in...
14) Catching Katie
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Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Katie Jones is committed to fighting for the cause of women's suffrage. She has no time for romance, especially not with her best friend Ben Rafferty. But when her column in Ben's newspaper stirs things up, sparks begin to fly. He's set on winning her over, but she's just as determined to stay true to her 1916 feminist ideals. With such strong obstacles in the way, their relationship can't possibly progress. Unless somehow love finds a way...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the story of how women won the right to vote, and what happened next. Told by historian Bridget Quinn and illustrated throughout by 100 women artists"--
From the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation to the first woman to wear pants on the Senate floor, Quinn shines a spotlight on the women who broke down barriers. She shows how, in the hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, women have continued...
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Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of the 19th Amendment and the nearly eighty-year fight for voting rights for women, covering not only the suffragists' achievements and politics, but also the private journeys that led them to become women's champions.
"For nearly 150 years, American women did not have the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, they won that right, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified at last. To achieve that victory, some of the...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For too long the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the visionary adventures of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born, who spearheaded a national movement. In this essential reconsideration, Susan Ware uncovers a much broader and more diverse history waiting to be told. Why They Marched is the inspiring story of the dedicated women--and occasionally men--who carried the banner in communities across the nation,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its leaders and activists, including Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sojourner Truth, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
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Language
English
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"Reluctant socialite Coraline Baxter longs to live a life of significance and leave her mark on the world. When her local suffragette group asks her to climb Mount Rainier to raise awareness of their cause, she jumps at the chance, even though she has absolutely no climbing experience. If she can do it, any woman can do it. And after her mother issues an ultimatum--that Cora marry the man of her mother's choosing if she is not successful--Cora must...
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