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1) Bitching
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Language
English
Description
In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood-single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes-were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always refracted through the lens of talking to men about men. Little was shared about the chats happening behind closed doors where everyday women talked to women without the threat of men listening in. But, all that changed...
2) Exhibit
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At a lavish party in the hills outside of San Francisco, Jin Han meets Lidija Jung and nothing will ever be the same for either woman. A brilliant, young photographer, Jin is at a crossroads in her work, in her marriage to college sweetheart Phillip, in who she is and who she wants to be. Lidija is a glamorous, injured world-class ballerina on hiatus from her ballet company under mysterious circumstances. Drawn to each other by their intense artistic...
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English
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"Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old son, Aiden, who refuses to speak. At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it's off-season with most...
4) Golda
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
עברית
Description
Shortly before her passing, Golda Meir was interviewed by Israeli television. After shooting ended, the cameras kept rolling, recording an intimate talk with the first and only woman to ever rule Israel. As she lit one cigarette after another, she spoke freely, pleading her case for her term as Prime Minister: five turbulent years that secured her place in history, albeit at a high personal cost.
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Someday Valley volume 2
Language
English
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The trees that circle Someday Valley near Honey Creek are dressed in their fall finest, providing a pretty backdrop for the local businesses--including the little bookshop loved by schoolteacher Cora Lee Buchanan. There, under the watchful eye of owner Noah O'Brien, Cora Lee and her sister, Katherine, meet each Wednesday. Their talk mostly revolves around one subject: their father, known to everyone in town as Bear. Both Cora Lee and Katherine worry...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Better, a guide to navigating a second pregnancy when the first did not go as planned-with Dr. Nathan Fox, Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist. In Expecting Better, Emily Oster revolutionized the pregnancy landscape with her data-driven approach. In the years since, she kept hearing questions from readers on how to approach a second pregnancy when the first has not gone as planned. The Unexpected...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sparks fly between two women pitted against each other in this delectable new romantic comedy by Taleen Voskuni, author of Sorry, Bro. Twenty-seven-year-old Nazeli "Ellie" Gregorian enjoys the prestige of her tech marketing job but hates the condescending Patagonia-clad tech bros, her micromanaging boss, and her ex-boyfriend, who she's forced to work with every day. When Ellie's lovingly overbearing parents ask her to attend PakCon-a food packaging...
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and needed collection of essays by accomplished women writers on violence and injustice toward Black men. The catalyst for a national conversation, this book shines a new light on the dangers Black men face daily, and the emotional toll anti-Black violence takes on the women who love them, casting a vision for future activism"--
9) Pillow talk
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Language
English
Description
When college freshman Grace Mendes reluctantly attends her first pillow fight match, she falls in love with the surprisingly gritty sport. Despite her usually shy, introverted, and reserved nature, Grace decides to try out for the Pillow Fight Federation (PFF), a locally famous league of fighters with larger-than-life personas like Pain Eyre, Miss Fortune, and champion Kat Atonic. They may battle with pillows, but there is nothing soft about these...
10) Joyland
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Urdu
Description
The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes smitten with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
11) Fake flame
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Series
First Responders (Adele Buck) volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin, Afterglow Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"To an observer, hauling a baby grand piano onto a college quad to publicly serenade an ex might seem like a romantic gesture. To literature professor Eva Campbell, it's the latest manipulative move by a cheating jerk who won't take a hint. Plus, she never liked that song anyway. Setting the piano on fire might be an overreaction, but Eva's at the end of her rope, at least until hot young firefighter Sean Hannigan talks her down. And that's not all...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender. When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one -- aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who se was and what she did. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek literature as one of gender, arguing that the ways the...
Author
Publisher
Kogan Page
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"How do female entrepreneurs overcome hurdles, redress power imbalances and create a business with coveted unicorn status? High growth enterprises and tech unicorns are those companies with a value of more that £1billion. But building a unicorn is not an easy task. And its even more difficult for female-led enterprises than it is for male-led start-ups.Female Founders' Playbook brings together the experiences of the leading women entrepreneurs and...
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Best of Easy English news volume 1
Publisher
Eardley Publications
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
Are you a newcomer to the United States? Are you worried about American manners? Don't worry anymore; with this book you will learn polite things to say and do in hundreds of daily interactions with Americans, it's written in "easy English" and the difficult words are explained at the bottom of each page. For interaction each chapter has questions to use in your classroom or to discuss with your friends. The text contains dozens of activities to help...
15) The sea cloak
Author
Publisher
[Comma Press]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from her own experiences growing up in a Syrian refugee camp, as well as her current life in Gaza, these stories stitch together a patchwork of different perspectives into what it means to be a woman in Palestine today. Whether following the daily struggles of orphaned children fighting to survive in the rubble of recent bombardments, or mapping the complex, cultural tensions between different generations of refugees in wider Gazan society,...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Toni Morrison declares that she 'can't wait for the ultimate liberation theory to imagine its practice and do its work,' she raises an issue at the heart of modern political thought: How should we understand freedom? And what does freedom mean in the shadow of racial slavery and colonialism? In this study of Toni Morrison's writing, Lawrie Balfour explores Morrison's reflections on the idea of freedom in her novels and nonfiction. While Morrison's...
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