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2014., Scribner Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st Scribner hardco Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "[A story] about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early in twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were too unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine, a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to college. She wants a career and to find true love. Eighty-five-year-old Addie tells the story of her life to her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, who has asked her 'How did you get to be the woman you are today.'"--Provided by publisher.
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1997., Picador Call No: Literature FIC DIAMANT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah.
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c1997., Picador Call No: Historical Fic Diamant Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, is told from her point of view, beginning with the story of her mothers, Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah. These wives of Jacob give her the gifts that are to sustain her through a damaged youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land.
