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The diary of a young girl: the definitive edition
By Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Susan Massotty, Otto Frank. 1997
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Movie and television tie-insBiography, Women biography, Lifestyle, Philosophy, World War II
Automated braille
This notebook kept by a German-born Jewish girl includes material that was omitted from the first edition in 1947. Begun…
on her thirteenth birthday, the diary is a personal, sometimes humourous, account of years spent with her family in a Dutch attic hiding from the Nazis. After Anne heard a radio appeal about the importance of such papers, she expanded the scope of her entries. High school and older. Uniform title: Achterhuis.The diary of a young girl
By Anne Frank. 1952
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Movie and television tie-insBiography, Journals and memoirs, Women biography, Lifestyle, Philosophy, World War II
Human-narrated audio
In a remarkable account begun on her thirteenth birthday in 1942, a Jewish girl in German-occupied Amsterdam records her hopes,…
fears, and growing pains during two years of close confinement with her family, hiding from the Nazis in a secret apartment. 1952, c1947. Uniform title: Achterhuis.Hardboiled and High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture
By Linda Mizejewski. 2004
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Women sleuthsGeneral non-fiction, Lifestyle
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Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors…
and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeled examines the meteoric rise of the female detective in contemporary film, television, and literature. Richly illustrated and written with a fan's love of the genre, Hardboiled and High Heeled is an essential introduction to women in detective fiction, from past to present, from pulp fiction to blockbuster films.