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OverDrive eBooks March 2018
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"It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation." -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg "We don't accomplish anything in this world alone." -- Sandra Day O'Connor
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March is Women's History Month
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The Radium Girls : the Dark Story of America's Shining Women
by Kate Moore
A full-length account of the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to dangerous levels of radium while working factory jobs during World War I describes how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights.
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Red Carpet Reads: Books Made into Oscar-Winning Films
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Best Picture: 1930
The testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I, illuminates the savagery and futility of war.
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From Here to Eternity
by James Jones
Best Picture: 1953
An American classic now available with scenes and dialogue considered unfit for publication in the 1950s, From Here to Eternity is a stirring picture of army life in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Ordinary People
by Judith Guest
Best Picture: 1980
Seventeen-year-old Conrad Jarrett returns to his parents' home and tries to build a new life for himself after spending eight months in a mental institution for attempted suicide.
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Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northup
Best Picture: 2013
"Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve harrowing years of his life as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. After regaining his freedom in 1853, Northup decided to publish this gripping autobiographical account of his captivity. As an educated man, Northup was able to present an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. Indeed, this book is probably the fullest, most realistic picture of the 'peculiar institution' during the three decades before the Civil War." -- Back cover
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