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Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Follows the stories of three women who discover the power of saying no, including a lawyer who must save a victim of her tyrannical father, a Dakar teacher whose happiness is thwarted by a depressed boyfriend, and a penniless widow desperate to escape homelessness.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
153 p. : chiefly ill.
Language
English
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Description
Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.
5) Getting lost
Author
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
240 pages; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Penelope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness explores how artificial intelligence tampers with love, sex, and the basis of artistic creation in a new future Paris. CASA is a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris. A dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But is this residency a dream or a nightmare? Since moving in, Clarissa Katsef has had ominous discomfort, the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyer's childhood"--
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Juliette Fontaine is an ex-doctor who is a frail and haunted woman. She is a shell of her former self. She has just been released from prison after serving 15 years for murdering her young son. Now she is in on the "outside" with no where to go. She ends up living with her loving but estranged younger sister Léa. Together the two sisters embark on a painful but redemptive journey to bring Juliette back from life's darkest edge.
10) A star is born
Language
English
Description
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive.
Author
Series
In the country of others volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
45 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how a young Pakistani activist was violently targeted by the Taliban for her efforts to secure educational rights for girls.
13) The future
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was murdered. A stranger in a Fort-Detroit neighborhood coping with the ongoing effects of racial and economic injustice, she finds herself surrounded by poverty, pollution, violence--as well as the resilience of the residents,...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (451 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help -- from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...
15) Spanglish
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Flor and her daughter, Christina come to the United States, Flor gets a job as a maid at the home of a successful chef John Clasky, his insecure wife Deborah, their two children, and Deborah's mother. Despite Flor's lack of an English, she does the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has no choice but to bring Christina along....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 164 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Azis on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur.
17) Nancy Drew
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nancy is an iconic girl detective with a passion for mystery and all things old, but she is about to experience a serious case of culture shock as she heads to Hollywood on an extended business trip with her father, Carson Drew. Having promised him that she has given up sleuthing in favor of becoming a "normal" teenager, Nancy tries her best to resist the lure of the age-old mystery of famous actress Dehlia Draycott's death, and living in Dehlia's...
18) Aya of Yop City
Author
Series
Aya volume 2
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
106 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1970s on the Ivory Coast, a group of young woman learn to rely on one another to deal with life's changes, including Adjoua, who does not know for sure who is the father of her baby, Bintou, who is falling in love with a sneaky man, and Aya, who feels as if her friend may be taking advantage of her helpfulness.
19) Harriet
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
[English edition].
Physical Desc
483 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, always moving confidences that casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues share with her. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local police chief--who has come to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It...
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