Jenna Lamia
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Language
English
Description
"Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a slave in early-nineteenth-century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke's daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, she is given ownership of ten-year-old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. In their remarkable...
2) The help
Author
Language
English
Description
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
Author
Series
Jenna Fox chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
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Description
*Winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture*
*Winner of the 2018 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director*
Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking audiobook.
The Shape of Water is set in Cold War-era Baltimore at the Occam Aerospace Research Center, which has recently
6) Purity
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A huge-canvased novel about identity, the internet, sexual politics, and love from the author of Freedom and The Corrections"--
"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom. Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous....