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The road out a teacher's odyssey in poor America / by Hicks, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…Ghost Rose speaks -- Elizabeth discovers her paperback -- We're sisters! -- My life as a girl -- Girl talk -- A magazine is born -- Mrs. Bush visits (but not our class) -- A Saturday at the bookstore -- Jessica finds Jesus, and Elizabeth finds love -- Blair discovers a voice -- Leavings -- At sixteen -- Girlhood interrupted -- I deserve a better life -- The road out.…”
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After the Girls Club how teenaged Holocaust survivors built new lives in America / by Ford, Carole Bell, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…A meeting with Holocaust survivors -- Introduction: The women and the Girls Club -- Lodz : a path to the ghetto -- Growing up : coming of age in a nightmare -- Sh'erit ha-Pletah : the "Surviving Remnant" -- America : a home at the Girls Club -- After the Girls Club : settling in, settling down -- Betty and Lucy : different forks in the road -- Child survivors in old age : the aging women.…”
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The road to martyrs' square a journey into the world of the suicide bomber / by Oliver, A. M.

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Incidents in the life of a slave girl / by Jacobs, Harriet

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The best school in Jerusalem : Annie Landau's school for girls, 1900-1960 / by Strumingher, Laura S.

Table of Contents: “…Annie Landau's road to Jerusalem -- An English girls' school in Ottoman Jerusalem -- Rebuilding in British Jerusalem -- Return to Frutiger House -- School magazine: the girls speak out -- Transitions: 1940/1960 -- Epilogue: Lessons learned.…”
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Chasing Lolita how popular culture corrupted Nabokov's little girl all over again / by Vickers, Graham

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Fast cars, cool rides the accelerating world of youth and their cars / by Best, Amy L., 1970-

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Go west, young women! the rise of early Hollywood / by Hallett, Hilary A., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Along the road to Hollywood: landscapes "in motion-picture land". …”
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Kodak elegy a Cold War childhood / by Decker, William Merrill

Table of Contents: “…Leaving Walden Road -- Whitewood Lane -- Brothers -- Camp -- School -- City -- Urban paths -- Crossings -- Girl at the lake -- False positions -- Home and away and home again -- Home and away.…”
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Out behind the desk workplace issues for LGBTQ librarians /

Table of Contents: “…A small town start / Ryan Donovan -- Sexuality, students, and disclosure / Johnnie Gray -- Girl meets girl, girl works with girl, girl falls in love with girl / Brenda Linares and Emily Vardell -- It's okay to be gay : a librarian's journey to acceptance and activism / Jason D. …”
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Granny D's American century by Haddock, Doris

Table of Contents: “…Book I -- Full Measure -- Steaming into Life : 1928 -- The Birthplace of Liberty, Including My Own -- Castles and Princes -- At Sea -- Bubbles Burst -- Jim's Girl -- The Bohemians -- Surviving by Our Wits -- The Main Course of Life -- Back to Harvard -- Book II -- On the Road Again -- Alligators, Mermaids, Etcetera -- Wake Up and Live -- From the Very Balcony -- Finding Life Everywhere -- The Wind Shifts -- Shared Courage -- A Campaign from Our Town -- Lessons from My Century -- Last Delivered Speech -- Last Undelivered Speech -- Closing Note to the Reader.…”
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Literary Cash unauthorized writings inspired by the legendary Johnny Cash /

Table of Contents: “…Lewis / Don Cusic ; Nothin' short of dyin' half as lonesome as the sound / Laurel Snyder ; Ring of fire / Alison Stine ; Saul (and Cash) on the road to Damascus / Edward J. Rielly ; The man in black on DVD / Robert G. …”
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On norms and agency conversations about gender equality with women and men in 20 countries /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / RACHEL KYTE -- Foreword / JUDITH RODIN -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Introduction: the norms of power and the power of norms -- The study approach -- Methodology of the study -- Discussing and researching gender equality : a brief introduction to the primary study concepts -- Creating and enforcing gender through norms, roles and beliefs -- Changing norms -- Overview of chapters -- References -- Gender norms -- The rules we live by : gender norms and ideal images -- Normative frameworks for household gender inequalities -- The good girl, the good boy -- Community-level views of gender norms -- References -- Negotiating the norms that bind : a winding road -- The quiet relaxing and changing of norms -- Timing is all: negotiating opportunities and gender-specific responsibilities -- Intergenerational transmission of the possibility of change -- Gender norms in transition -- "A woman should be beaten if she deserves punishment" -- A. extent and forms of domestic violence -- B. causes and consequences of domestic violence -- References -- Having and making choices -- Strategic life decisions : who has the final say? …”
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West of 98 : living and writing the new American West /

Table of Contents: “…Box -- The conceit of girls / Teresa Jordan -- Pinus contorta / Beth Loffreda -- Where the burn meets the dead / Gretel Ehrlich -- Illustrations of the west : the first being second-hand, the second first / Stephen Graham Jones -- Cowboy up, cupcake? …”
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Tales from the expat harem foreign women in modern Turkey /

Table of Contents: “…A heartbroken Michigan girl finds closure in Bursa at an ancient Ottoman bath, nurtured by her would-be Turkish sister-in-law -- The goddess metamorphosis / Karen-Claire Voss. …”
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