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2020., Adult, Signal Call No: Bio M155a Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn’t know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn’t know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named “Sonya.†Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI—and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century—between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy—and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times.
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c2005., HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: CLBio B562c Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1996., Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: Bio B4337w Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2008., Random House Call No: Bio D511f Edition: Random House Trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and founder of the most important political salon of her time. But Georgiana's public success concealed an unhappy marriage, a gambling addiction, drinking, drug-taking, and rampant love affairs with the leading politicians of the day. With penetrating insight, Amanda Foreman reveals a fascinating woman whose struggle against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world make her a vibrant, astonishingly contemporary figure.--From publisher description.
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2010., General, Penguin Press Call No: Bio B562e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogotá, raised in France, Betancourt at age 32 gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and hopelessness. In 2002, while a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted by the FARC. She spent the next six and a half years in the depths of the jungle as their prisoner. Chained day and night for much of her captivity, she succeeded in getting away several times, always to be recaptured. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this very special account, bringing life, nuance, and profundity to the narrative.--From publisher description.
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-- Husband-hunting in the Raj.2012., Weidenfeld & Nicolson Call No: 954.03 D278f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the British went to India to trade and work, the men who left the country knew they would probably not return and married Indian wives or took Indian mistresses. As the East India Company was replaced by government, men were curtailed from doing this by various means. The Company then began to pay passage to India of a number of willing women who were maintained for a year and expected to marry within that time. For young women, unable to make a 'good match' at home, it was a chance to find a husband with prospects, women flocked to India, willing to try to make a go of it. De Courcy brings this forgotten era vividly to life.
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-- Anna Wintour, the cool life and hot times of Vogue's editor-in-chief.2005., St. Martin's Press Call No: Bio W793o Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2012], Harper Perennial Call No: 305.4092 M82h Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with laugh-out-loud funny scenes from her own, from the riot of adolescence to her development as a writer, wife, and mother. With rapier wit, Moran slices right to the truth--whether it's about the workplace, strip clubs, love, fat, abortion, popular entertainment, or childred--to jump-start a new conversation about feminism. With humor, insight, and verve, How To Be a Woman lays bare the reasons why female rights and empowerment are essential issues not only for women today but also for society itself.
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2005., HarperCollins Canada Call No: Bio F832m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: With Lady Franklin's Revenge, bestselling author Ken McGoogan (Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner) delivers another page turning biography that brings a remarkable historical figure vividly to life.Denied a role in Victorian England's male-dominated society, Jane Franklin(1791-1875) took her revenge by seizing control of that most masculine of pursuits, Arctic exploration, and shaping its history to her own ends. Arguably the greatest woman traveller of the 19th century, Lady Franklin rode a donkey into Nazareth, sailed a rat-infested boat up the Nile,climbed mountains in Africa and the Holy Land, and, wearing petticoats, beat her way through the Tasmanian bush. When Sir John Franklin, her husband, disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, she orchestrated an unprecedented 12-year search, contributing more to the discovery of the North than any celebrated explorer. Having failed to rescue the hapless Franklin, she turned failure into triumph by creating a legend. Richly detailed, panoramic in scope, this biography of the unforgettable Jane Franklin is destined to become a classic.
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-- Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII.By Helm, Sarah2005., Nan A. Talese Call No: Bio A873h Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britainœs premiere secret agents during World War II.As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for twelve of her most cherished women spies who had gone missing in action. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Sarah Helm chronicles Atkinsœs extraordinary life and her singular journey through the chaos of post-war Europe. Brimming with intrigue, heroics, honor, and the horrors of war, A Life in Secrets is the story of a grand, elusive woman and a tour de force of investigative journalism.
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2019., 97, Sony Call No: DVD 797.124092 H749m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1989, the Whitbread Round the World Race was considered to be the most dangerous sailing competition on earth. hen 26-year-old Tracy Edwards wanted to participate, she was met with resistance and sexism - no team would take her. Left with no other choice, she started an all-female crew, one who would not only take on the vast and foreboding ocean, but also the doubts and attacks from their male competitors and press. In this incredible true story, watch Edwards ad her crew attempt to turn the impossible into reality as they take on fifty-foot waves, icebergs and all of the dangers of the great and powerful sea. MAIDEN is a stunning, emotional film that is "a cause for celebration"!"--.
![Maiden [DVD] (2019). Directed by Alex Holmes.](/Library/images/~imageCT100633.JPG "Maiden [DVD] (2019). Directed by Alex Holmes.")
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c1990., Juvenile, Julian Messner Call No: Bio T3675m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: In focus biographiesSummary Note: Follows the life and political career of Great Britain's first female prime minister.
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2012., Adult, Bloomsbury Call No: SC 941.081 S955m Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A compelling story of romance and fidelity, insanity, fantasy, and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality, Mrs Robinson's Disgrace brings vividly to life a complex, frustrated Victorian wife, longing for passion and learning, companionship and love.
