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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Marc and Amy Vachon share their parenting strategies and explain how they equally divided all responsibilities, chores, and burdens while making sure they made time for themselves and each other, creating a balanced life that helped their marriage and children thrive.
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Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Poses an argument against stay-at-home motherhood that cites such vulnerabilities as dependency on one's husband and the loss of financial autonomy, explaining how stay-at-home mothers also forfeit the psychological, intellectual, and health benefits of working.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Eon has disguised herself as a boy in order to study Dragon Magic and become a Dragoneye, one of a select group that forms a conduit to the power of energy dragons, but if the secret of her sex comes out, she will be killed.
Sixteen-year-old Eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune and learn to be its main interpreter, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Following a heated argument with her husband, Joy Robertson decides to give him the quiet Christmas he claims to want and go on strike for the holidays--no shopping, baking, decorating, wrapping, or entertaining--and when the members of her knitting group hear her plan, they decide to join in, attracting the attention of the local news media and sparking a war of the sexes in the small town of Holly.
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Future scientist Kimmy eagerly shares information about dinosaurs during a school field trip until classmate Jake tells her "girls aren't scientists," but Mr. Tiffin sets her straight.
14) Birdie and me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Ever since their free-spirited mama died ten months ago, twelve-year-old Jack and her gender creative nine-year-old brother, Birdie, have been living with their fun-loving Uncle Carl, but now their conservative Uncle Patrick insists on being their guardian which forces all four of them to confront grief, prejudice, and loss, all while exploring what 'home' really means"--
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 1
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Titus Fisher, an Amish carpenter, journeys into a Kentucky Amish community where he seeks a new beginning and meets the beautiful and unique Suzanne Yoder. She can't cook but can do woodworking, and she painfully resembles Phoebe, Titus's ex-girlfriend.
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English
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A poet lives for more than three centuries, becomes a woman, and ages only twenty years in this classic fantastical work by the author of Mrs. Dalloway.
Orlando begins their story as a melancholy sixteen-year-old nobleman and poet who spends their days in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, who takes a shine to them. Love, passion, and heartbreak guide Orlando's life through two more kings. In their thirties, Orlando becomes an ambassador to Turkey...
19) The whole woman
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A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Examines the state of womanhood at the end of the twentieth century, arguing that women have been sidetracked and pacified in the quest for liberation, and issuing a call to action.
20) Should I stay or should I go?: a guide to knowing if your relationship can--and should--be saved
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English
Description
A guide to evaluating relationships, with advice and exercises to determine if a relationship is healthy but difficult or unhealthy, and to create a plan to either make the relationship better or to leave it.
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