Margaret Sanger; pioneer of the future. by Douglas, Emily Taft, 1899-1994

Table of Contents: “…As the twig was bent -- School and romance -- Marriage and crises -- Finding herself -- The die is cast -- The search -- The Comstock walls -- The woman rebel -- Exile -- The background of the movement -- "The sage of sex" -- Visit to the future -- Homecoming -- Telling her story -- New tactics -- The Brownsville clinic -- The ordeal -- Learning while serving -- War casualties and victories -- The sexual revolution -- Once more advancing -- The gentlemen's paradise -- Malthusian nightmares -- Era of achievement -- The bitter with the sweet -- Research and the tides of public opinion -- The unlikely victory -- New horizons -- Belonging to the world.…”


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Scribbles, sorrows, and russet leather boots : the life of Louisa May Alcott by Rosenberg, Liz

Table of Contents: “…Duty's child arrives -- The cast of characters -- The Temple School -- Concord and Dove Cottage, the peaceful days -- Bronson across the sea and back -- Wild oats -- Hillside and a room of her own -- Heaven's so far away -- The door is opened -- Well at last -- Turned nurse -- Union Hotel Hospital -- Tribulation periwinkle -- A little romance -- Said I'd try -- Hard times over forever -- Traveling about, doing just as they like -- Marmee -- Illness and charity -- The coming of Lulu -- Glimpse of Heaven.…”


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Joan of Arc a history by Castor, Helen

Table of Contents: “…Cast of characters -- Family trees -- Introduction: 'Joan of Arc' -- Prologue: The field of blood -- Part one: Before. …”


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All for her; the autobiography of Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C. by Peyton, Patrick, 1909-1992

Table of Contents: “…These were my parents -- A boy becomes a man -- Welcome a new world -- Lifted up to be cast down -- I call and Mary hears -- Decision for a lifetime -- I shoot for the stars -- "Family Theatre of the Air" takes shape -- The diocesan Crusade is born -- Rosary Crusade girdles the earth -- Rosary films create a new dimension -- I finally reach Latin America -- Vatican Council endorses family prayer -- The aggiornamento of the Family Rosary Crusade -- The key to the future.…”


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The stone mason of Tor House : the life and work of Robinson Jeffers by Bennett, Melba Berry

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Lawrence Clark Powell --The young Robin -- Family background -- Material for biography -- School abroad -- First poems -- Robin meets Una -- Thedosia -- "I and my loved are one" -- "We had found our place" -- Influences -- Tor House -- Recognition -- Jeffers defends his philosophy -- Can Jeffers be distracted -- More stones and more poems -- Fiftieth Birthday -- The prophet speaks -- "Failure cannot cast down nor success make proud" -- The witch bewitches -- The hurt hawk -- Dearest, good-bye -- Sunset.…”


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You can't touch my hair and other things I still have to explain by Robinson, Phoebe

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- From Little Rock Nine to nappy hair, don't care in eighteen and a half-ish years -- A brief history of Black hair in film, TV, music, and media -- My nine favorite not-so-guilty pleasures -- Welcome to being Black -- Dear future female president : my list of demands -- How to avoid being the Black friend -- Uppity -- Casting calls for people of color that were not written by people of color -- The angry Black woman myth -- People, places, and things that need to do better -- Letters to Olivia.…”


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Joan of Arc : a history by Castor, Helen

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Cast of characters -- Family trees -- Introduction: "Joan of Arc" -- Prologue: The field of blood -- Part One. …”


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Joan of Arc : her story by Pernoud, Régine, 1909-1998, Clin, Marie-Véronique

Table of Contents: “…Part I : The drama ; Her story begins -- Joan meets her Dauphin -- Joan and the victory at Orleans -- Her Dauphin anointed King at Reims -- Intrigue, frustration, and capture -- Joan the prisoner -- Joan's trial and execution at Rouen -- The verdict of Rouen nullified -- Joan as memory -- Part II : The cast of principal characters (in three alphabetical lists) ; The three noble princes -- Their subjects -- Her judges at Rouen -- Part III : Issues and images -- Appendix 1. …”


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A Black woman's odyssey through Russia and Jamaica : the narrative of Nancy Prince by Prince, Nancy, 1799-

Table of Contents: “…Petersburg -- Her voyage home -- Her voyage and business to the West Indies -- Her errand home, and success -- Her return back, and state of things at that time -- Description of the country -- Embarkment again home, and deception of the captain -- Cast away at Key West -- Arrival at New Orleans, --scenes witnessed while there -- Departure from New Orleans, and arrival at New York.…”


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With Kennedy by Salinger, Pierre

Table of Contents: “…-- An independent lady -- Uproar in Vietnam -- After Kennedy -- The flight of the carpetbagger -- Central casting wins.…”


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The Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft by Lurie, Jonathan, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Taft and his court in 1921 : the cast of players -- Arrival and beginnings, 1921- 1922 -- New arrivals, ongoing litigation, and new statutes -- The judges' bill, 1922-1925 -- 1924-1925 : a final appointment amid emerging judicial trends -- 1926 : lengthening shadows, and litigation of significance -- 1927-1928, part I : civil rights, civil wrongs, and some apparent cracks in classical legal thought -- 1927-1928, part II : battle lines harden, and planning for the future -- 1928-1929, part I : the fissures deepen -- 1928-1929, part II : the Taft court in decline.…”


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Young and damned and fair : the life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII by Russell, Gareth

Table of Contents: “…The hour of our death -- "Our fathers in their generation" -- Lord Edmund's daughter -- The Howards of Horsham -- "Mad wenches" -- "The King's highness did cast a fantasy" -- "The charms of Catherine Howard" -- "The Queen of Britain will not forget" -- "All these ladies and my whole kingdom" -- The Queen's brothers -- The return of Francis Dereham -- Jewels -- Lent -- "For they will look upon you" -- The errands of Morris and Webb -- The girl in the silver dress -- The chase -- Waiting for the King of Scots -- "Being examined by my lord of Canterbury" -- A greater abomination -- The King has changed his love into hatred -- Ars moriendi -- The shade of Persephone.…”


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Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian feminist movement : the biography of an insurgent woman by Wright, Maureen S.

Table of Contents: “…'The song of the insurgent women' -- Introduction -- The making of a feminist : 1833-61 -- Headmistress : the education campaign, 1862-67 -- The 'parliamentary watchdog' : 1868-Spring 1874 -- Calvary to resurrection : Summer 1874-82 -- The 'great mole' of the women's movements : 1883-90 -- The Women's Emancipation Union, 1891-July 1899 : 'no mere suffrage society' -- 'The cold dark night is past' : August 1899-May 1906 -- 'At eventide there will be light' : June 1906-March 1918 -- Conclusion : women ... will never know how much they owe to her -- Poem 'New Year's Day 1900' -- Cast of characters.…”


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Emma Goldman in America by Wexler, Alice, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Youth -- "My lone and woeful childhood" -- "The distant specter of revolution" -- "A great ideal, a burning faith" -- Into the movement -- Education of an anarchist -- Attentat: "The consciousness of guilt" -- "The strength to stand alone" -- Anarchist activist -- "The spirit of revolt" -- Czolgosz -- "Mother earth" and "Mommy" -- Toward a new anarchist community -- "The sublime madness of sex" -- Celebrity -- "More of a public than a private person" -- Anarchism, feminism, and the intellectuals -- "A great inner conflict" -- "The question of capitalist wars" -- "My one great love-my ideal" -- "Cast out and a stranger everywhere".…”


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Simón Bolívar : history and myth by Zeuske, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Dimensions of the Bolívar myth -- Historical foundations: constructions of a nation : Elites without a nation or a myth ; Discourses of the nation, slave revolts, and caste society ; Caudillos and Bolívar revenants: nineteenth-century experiments with the state ; The conservative and the revolutionary Bolívar in the "age of extremes" -- Simón Bolívar: the man and the myth : The glorious Bolívar family ; In search of the ancestors ; The Bolívars' fortune ; The conservative-romantic Bolívar myth ; From the "Marxist" to the "Democratic" Bolívar and back -- Excursus: "Humboldt and Bolívar": on a conversation that may never have taken place : Postscript, April 2012 -- Instead of a conclusion : The "Chavist Bolívar."…”


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The loudest voice in the room : how the brilliant, bombastic Roger Ailes built Fox News-- and divided a country by Sherman, Gabriel

Table of Contents: “…-- Searching for a new cast -- Comeback -- Trouble on Main Street -- The last campaign.…”


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In sensorium : notes for my people by Islam, Tanwi Nandini

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Growing up untouchable in India : a dalit autobiography by Moon, Vasant

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Changemakers : twenty women transforming Bollywood behind the scenes by Shah, Gayatri Rangachari, Kapur, Mallika

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction -- Charu Khurana : the make-up artist -- Judi Chaturvedi : the scriptwriter -- Guneet Monga : the producer -- Anaita Shroff Adajania : the stylist -- Deepa Bhatia : the editor -- Gauri Shinda : the director -- Geet tandon : the stunt artist -- Kiran Rao : the multitasker -- Anvita Dutt : the lyricist -- Anupama Chopra : the journalist -- Shanoo Sharma : the casting director -- Priya Seth : the cinematographer -- Rohini Iyer : the reputation manager -- Geeta Kapur : the choreographer -- Sneha Khanwalkar : the music director -- Amrita Pandey : the studio executive -- Shikha Kapur : the marketing executive -- Amrita Mahal Nakai : the production designer -- Shubha Ramachandra : the script supervisor -- Hetal Dedhia : the gaffer.…”


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The price of loyalty : Tory writings from the Revolutionary era by Crary, Catherine S.

Table of Contents: “…The Rubicon : independence makes the difference -- Raids, retaliation, and refuge -- Cruelties, imprisonments, and executions -- Loyalists on the New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont frontiers -- The Southern theater -- Loyalists' reactions to the events of the war -- pt. 3. Casting accounts, December 1782-1800. The onset of peace -- Displaced persons : evacuation, flight, and dispersal -- Expectations soured, hopes fulfilled.…”


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