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Women's Lives & History

Women's lives, work, and organizations.

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Bright and tender dark: a novel

Pearson, Joanna · 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing

Decades after the murder of nineteen-year-old college student Karlie Richards, her former roommate, now middle-aged and divorced, becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth amidst online conspiracy theories, speculation…

Saving the Eno River

Thomson, Julie J. · 2023 · [Eno River Association?]

The Eno River starts in Orange County, North Carolina, and flows through the town of Hillsborough and then into Durham County. In the 1960s the city of Durham proposed a dam along the river. Saving the Eno River tells t…

Bloodmarked

Deonn, Tracy · 2022 · Simon & Schuster BFYR

"When the leaders of the Order reveal that they will do everything in their power to keep the approaching demon war a secret, Bree and her friends go on the run so she can learn how to control her devastating new powers…

Fair-skinned Brunette With the Porcelain Shine

Bare, John · 2021 · Wisdom House Books, Inc

"On a Monday night in October, Lassie James sits in Pig Farm Tavern in Chapel Hill when Dr. Holly Pike appears. She electrifies the room, but all Lassie can think about is how she ran out on him when they were going to …

Ella Baker's catalytic leadership: a primer on community engagement and communication for social justice

Parker, Patricia Sue · 2020 · University of California Press

Preface -- Introduction -- Translating Ella Baker's legacy of social justice leadership into everyday praxis -- "People under the heels of oppression should be the ones leading" : entering into community partnerships --…

Legendborn

Deonn, Tracy · 2020 · Margaret K. McElderry Books

Anna Burwell and the business of being a Presbyterian minister's wife in North Carolina, 1835-1857

Sylvia D. Hoffert · 2019 · Historical Research Office, Office of Archives and History

UNC

Last girl gone

J.G. Hetherton. · 2018 · Crooked Lane

UNC

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