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  • A History of New Zealand Women

    by Barbara Brookes ...
    What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of view of wives, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts? That considered their lives as distinct ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Abortion in England 1900-1967

    by Barbara Brookes ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    Over the decades from 1900 to 1967 abortion was transformed from an important female-centred form of fertility control into a medical event, closely monitored by the State. This transition, the author argues here, took place against a background of debate over fertility control and its implications for women’s maternal role.The book, originally published in 1988, suggests that the inter-war years ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Feminist Perspectives on the Body

    by Barbara Brook ...
    Series series Feminist Perspectives
    Feminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world's construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Civil War on the Mississippi

    Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River

    by Barbara Brooks Tomblin ...
    The naval historian presents a "well-written, fast-paced" study of Civil War riverine combat based on the personal accounts of officers and sailors (Civil War News).As one of the most important transportation systems in the country, the Mississippi River became a strategically vital asset to both sides of the Civil War. The Confederacy relied on the river for cotton exportation as well as food and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peppermints in the Parlor

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner, and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Ghosts in the Gallery

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    Narrated by Christina Moore ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 26 min

    Even though her family has very little money, 11-year-old Jenny loves her life in China. But after her stepfather dies unexpectedly, and her mother falls ill with a deadly lung disease, Jenny's world unravels. Suddenly she finds herself on a long ocean voyage to America--to live with a grandfather she has never seen. Jenny wonders what it will be like living with her rich grandfather. But when she ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Twin in the Tavern

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    Narrated by Jeff Woodman ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 1 min

    Outside the wind is howling. Inside the empty house Taddy is shivering beneath a ragged blanket. He has been alone ever since his aunt and uncle died suddenly from a terrible fever. As his uncle was taking his final breath, he warned of danger in nearby Alexandria. Now Taddy is hiding, afraid of the unknown.When two rough-sounding men sneak in to steal the furniture, they force Taddy into their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • G.I. Nightingales

    The Army Nurse Corps in World War II

    by Barbara Brooks Tomblin ...
    Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches of Alaska and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • With Utmost Spirit

    Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945

    by Barbara Brooks Tomblin ...
    Nineteen months before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, Allied assault forces landed in North Africa in Operation TORCH, the first major amphibious operation of the war in Europe. Under the direction of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, AUS, Adm. Andrew B. Cunningham, RN, Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN, and others, the Allies kept pressure on the Axis by attacking what Winston Churchill dubbed "the soft ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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    The Trouble with Miss Switch

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    Narrated by Jeff Woodman ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 58 min

    Rupert P. Brown III is a scientist. In his room he has an aquarium experiment, a turtle experiment, and a nutrition experiment (two guinea pigs). But when he starts fifth grade, things happen that he has to label, "No known way to prove scientifically." The new teacher, Miss Switch, has eyes in the back of her head. She can control spitballs and water fountains. Eventually, Rupert discovers her ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Cousins in the Castle

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    Eleven-year-old Amelia Fairwick is eagerly waiting for her widowed father to return from his business trip. But a letter arrives with shattering news - Papa has been lost in a terrible hotel fire. Now Amelia must leave her London home to live in America with a relative she has never met. Amelia thinks things can't get much worse when stern Cousin Charlotte travels with her on the voyage across the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Hello, Claudia!

    by Barbara Brooks Wallace ...
    Narrated by Christina Moore ...
    Series series Claudia

    Unabridged

    3 hours 45 min

    In this prequel to Claudia, aged eleven and in the sixth grade, Barbara Brooks Wallace introduces us to a Claudia aged nine and in the fourth grade. She and her best friends are like twins, even to the same number of scabs on their knees! But her friend leaves, the letters between them fade, and Claudia desperately looks for a replacement—in all the wrong places, it seems, until she realizes that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus