Bad Girls
Looks at twenty-six infamous females from throughout history, including Bloody Mary, Calamity Jane, and Bonnie Parker among others.
920
year: 2015
copies: 16
call number/section: 920
lexile: 800
Tess Of The D'urbervilles
Thomas Hardy's classic novel about a young woman who finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England; and contains explanatory notes and introduction.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1110
subjects: england, young women, wessex (england), england, country life, pastoral fiction, fate and fatalism, fiction, triangles (interpersonal relations), man-woman relationships, children of the rich, children of clergy, women household employees, women murderers [X], poor families, didactic fiction, 1800-1899, great britain, fiction, history
Alias Grace
Fact-based story of Grace Marks, a sixteen-year-old girl who received a life sentence in 1843 for allegedly taking part in the murder of her employer and his lover, but whose case continued to stir debate throughout her prison stay, resulting in her release in 1872.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
White Oleander
Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women murderers [X], mothers and daughters, foster children, mother-daughter relationship, fitch, janet, mother-daughter fiction
Slammerkin
Mary Saunders, daughter of a poor seamstress and a father who died in jail, allows her desire for fine things to lead her into prostitution at a young age, and though she tries repeatedly to turn her life around, the lure of money and freedom proves difficult to resist.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: saunders, mary, women, women murderers [X], murder, homicide, great britain, london (england), monmouth (wales)
Perfect Match
Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: sexually abused children, public prosecutors, mothers and sons, women murderers [X], married women, maine
Tess Of The D'urbervilles
Presents Thomas Hardy's novel about a young woman who attempts to restore her family's fortunes, is seduced by a heartless aristocrat, and is punished by society's double standards when she gets a chance at real love; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 69
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1160
subjects: hardy, thomas, triangles (interpersonal relations), man-woman relationships, children of the rich, children of clergy, women domestics, wessex (england), young women, england, didactic fiction, women household employees, social classes, pastoral fiction, women murderers [X], country life, pastoral fiction, didactic fiction, historical fiction, electronic books
Burial Rites
Historical fiction novel based on the story of Anna Kristine Magn?sd?ttir.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Girls Of Murder City
Discusses the surge of murders by women in Chicago in 1924, highlighting the killers who inspired the play "Chicago" and its subsequent movie and musical adaptations, and introduces girl reporter Maurine Watkins who became embroiled in the cases and dedicated herself to exposing the tendency of the all-male juries to go easy on women--especially the pretty ones.
364.15
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:
The Angel Makers
When the men of a remote Hungarian village go off to war in 1916, the women left behind realize their lives are much better without them.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women, self-realization in women, world war, 1914-1918, women murderers [X], self-realization, historical fiction, historical fiction
No Faith In Cats
"Julien Fraye is a simple creature with simple desires: all she wants is everything.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women murderers [X], murder, poisons, homicide, criminal investigation, poisons and poisoning, detective and mystery fiction
White Oleander
Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women murderers [X], mothers and daughters, foster children, video recordings for the hearing impaired, mother-daughter relationship, closed caption video recordings, homicide
Maplecroft
Taking up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea, Lizzie Borden, a suspect in the brutal deaths of her father and stepmother, waits with an axe to stop the evil that is rising from the ocean's depths to consume her.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Murder In Matera
A writer goes deep into the heart of Italy to unravel a century-old family mystery in this spellbinding memoir that blends the suspenseful twists of Making a Murderer and the emotional insight of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: