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1) Take my hand
Author
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in New York that set the tone for the nation. A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against sterilization abuse, which happened disproportionately in communities...
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Survivor Injustice shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a "private matter" perpetrated by individual bad actors and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics"--
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.
Ivy can't entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. Now, instead of spending the summer in her small Texas town working at the local drugstore and swooning over her boyfriend, Lorenzo, she's planning a cross-country road trip to her grandmother's house on the West Coast, where...
Author
Publisher
37 Ink/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider--one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama--draws from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to reveal how he came to believe that helping women in need, without judgment, is precisely the Christian thing to do.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of the fight for reproductive rights in the United States. Tracing the path to the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade and the continuing battle for women's rights, Blumenthal examines the root causes of the current debate around abortion and repercussions that have affected generations of American women. This book intends to facilitate difficult discussions and awareness of a topic that is rarely touched on in school but affects each and...
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