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Serena Burdick's The Girls with No Names is set amidst a quiet yet fierce swell of social unrest that builds as we move towards the book's climax. Though the official inception of the US suffrage movement is typically traced back to a women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in , it reached a fever pitch in the early s. The Girls with No Names audiobook written by Serena Burdick. Narrated by Emily Lawrence, Nancy Peterson, and Amy McFadden. Get instant access to all your favorite books. No monthly commitment. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Try Google Play Audiobooks today! Serena Burdick is the Toronto Star, Publishers Weekly and international bestselling author of The Girls with No Names, now out in the US, Canada and www.doorway.ru is forthcoming in Portugal, Spain, Lithuania and Russia. She is the International Book Award Winner for Historical Fiction for her novel Girl in the www.doorway.ruk studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence, holds a Bachelors.
The Girls with No Names is certainly not a thriller in the conventional sense, but well-placed twists, heavy emotional beats, and an ever-quickening pace lend the book the gripping feel of a page-turner. The same is also true of Burdick's prose. serena burdick is the Toronto Star, Publishers' Weekly and international bestselling author of THE GIRLS WITH NO NAMES. She is the author of the novel FIND ME IN HAVANA (January, ) and the International Book Award Winner for Historical Fiction for her novel GIRL IN THE AFTERNOON. The Girls With No Names by Serena Burdick takes place in New York City. This was a time when women were mostly powerless. Several homes for wayward women were established. The women could be placed in the homes either by a court order or by a parent.
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