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|  | | Go To Liberty
Four women come together to defend their community's park.
Eva Kaufman, a teen, and Amanda Walters, a middle-aged woman, both enjoy Liberty Park. But Liberty Park is in danger. The B & L Foundation is eager to cut down the big trees and cover the green lawns of the park with a sports complex, a hotel and a botanical garden. The nature lovers of this over-built community prefer trees, grass and birds to concrete structures. Eva and Amanda, together with their friends, join the battle to defend their park. Public hearings turn into intense arguments. Propaganda campaigns turn into threats. Espionage, sabotage | |  | | Making Changes
Sick and tired of low pay and boring work, some women office workers decide it's time for making changes.
Join the women office workers of the American Empire Insurance Company in a union organizing drive. Experience it for yourself by reading Making Changes. See if you want to start making changes at your job. Author Patricia Hilliard, based this book on her experience as an “in shop” union organizer.
"Women have tried everything to improve their lives, but much of it fails to bring about the increase in pay and respect that we need," author Patricia Hilliard declares. | |  | | Mystery of Quercus Gardens
A fear of being killed, dying in your own home, just because you tried to make things better. This is what haunts Beth Murphy.
The heat has gone out of her apartment. And it's Friday afternoon. If Beth Murphy doesn’t take action now, she and her husband Bob will have to wait until next week before the furnace is fixed. She makes a call to the building superintendent. But will he answer? Will he come to fix the problem? A neighbor knocks at the door. It’s going to take many steps to get a solution, some of them could be risky. Beth does what she can, but faces the fact that someone has been murdered for breaking the rules. Why should getting | |  | | One Pledge Unspoken
It's 1969 and some high school students in a small town decide to oppose a war that makes no sense and promises to set their lives on a different path against their wishes.
It's 1969, the yippies have just run a pig as a presidential candidate, the Civil Rights movement has witnessed assasinations, and the war in Vietnam is expanding. More dead bodies are coming home every week. The students of Kensington High School decide to do something to stop the war before it ruins their lives.
The values and culture of those times is depicted by the author who lived during that era and based her story on her own experiences as a high school student who protested the war in Vietnam. Determined to put an end to the war, the stu |
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