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2015., Adolescent, Chicago Review Press Call No: WWII Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of action series (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: World War II resistance fighter Pearl Witherington Cornioley describes her experiences as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE).
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2015., Adolescent, Chicago Review Press Call No: WAR Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of action series (Chicago, Ill.).Summary Note: World War II resistance fighter Pearl Witherington Cornioley describes her experiences as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE).
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[2013], Adolescent, Chicago Review Press Call No: 921 CORNIOLEY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of actionSummary Note: World War II resistance fighter Pearl Witherington Cornioley describes her experiences as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE).
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2016., Adolescent, Chicago Review Press Call No: Biography NF CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: "In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Canada. With the men was a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son. Conditions soon turned dire for the team when they were unable to kill enough game to survive. Three of the men tried to cross the frozen Chukchi Sea for help but were never seen again, leaving Ada with one remaining team member who soon died of scurvy. Determined to be reunited with her son, Ada learned to survive alone in the icy world by trapping foxes, catching seals, and avoiding polar bears. After she was finally rescued in August 1923, after two years total on the island, Ada became a celebrity, with newspapers calling her a real "female Robinson Crusoe.""--Provided by publisher.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Chicago Review Press Call No: BIOGRAPHY NF URE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: A biography of World War II pilot Gertrude Tompkins, a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots who disappeared in October 1944, covering her childhood, her pilot training, her disappearance, and the search for her remains.
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[2015], Juvenile, Chicago Review Press Call No: B 920 Ros Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Women of actionSummary Note: Presents portraits of sixteen girls and women from the late 1800s through today who have championed important issues and tried to create lasting change in the world.
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-- Women heroes of World War 1[2016]., Juvenile, Chicago Review Press Call No: B 920 ATW Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: Profiles sixteen women who played key roles in World War I, including spies, organizers, surgeons, nurses, soldiers, and journalists.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Chicago Review Press Call No: 940.53 Atw Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: Examines the lives of fifteen women who experienced extreme situations of resistance, sabotage, rescue, and survival in the Pacific Theater of World War II--like glamorous American singer Claire Phillips who used her nightclub in Manila to help starving American POWs and also to spy on the Japanese.
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[2016], Juvenile, Chicago Review Press Call No: JNF025190 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: Explores true stories of thirteen women who lived during the colonial period of the United States, exploring their hardihood in an unforgiving environment and how they asserted themselves into a world run mostly by men--includes the stories of Elizabeth Ashbridge, an indentured servant turned Quaker preacher, Anne Bradstreet the poet and mother of eight, Sarah Kemble Knight the businesswoman, and Eve, a Virginia slave who escaped twice to freedom.
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-- Women of steel & stone2017., Adolescent, Chicago Review Press Call No: WOMEN'S STUDIES Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: Profiles of female builders and designers, focusing on the strengths, passions, and interests each woman had growing up, where those traits took them, and what they achieved.
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c2013., Adolescent, Chicago Review Press Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF MIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women of action series (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: Uses letters and journal entries to present first-hand accounts from sixteen pioneer women living in the Wild West.