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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
75363) Dodesuka-den
Series
Criterion collection volume 465
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
日本語
Description
This film follows the lives of the people who live in a slum, built in a garbage dump. A mentally disabled boy is obsessed with streetcars, driving an imaginary streetcar around, chanting "Dodes'ka-den! Dodes'ka-den!"--Mimicking the sound of the wheels. Some of the neighbors are a young woman living with her lecherous uncle; a pair of friends who get drunk and swap wives; a possibly mentally ill beggar and his son who live in a deserted car; and a...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi generated an art market in Iran, as Stein encouraged Pahlavi's patronage of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Today, the contemporary section of the Iranian National Collection--most of which continues to languish in storage--is considered one of the most significant collections of modern art outside...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Buffy is resurrected form the dead by Willow, who thought Buffy was in a hell dimension. What the Scoobies don't know is that Buffy believed that she actually was in heaven. After being ripped from a peaceful existence, she now considers herself to be in a hell on earth. The depressed slayer secretly turns to someone who knows about death, the Buffy-obsessed Spike, and the two begin a twisted relationship.
75367) Girl up
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Laura Bates offers an empowering survival guide that provides no-nonsense advice on sex, social media, mental health, and sexism that young women face in their everyday life.
75369) Pride and prejudice
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A simplified version, designed for upper-intermediate readers, of Jane Austen's novel about Elizabeth Bennet's relationship with Mr. Darcy, whom she initially dislikes. Includes an introduction and post-reading activities.
75371) Bubble
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the podcast of the same name and set in the fictional city of Fairhaven, follow the human Morgan as she grows her occasional recreational killing of Imps into a full-time job within her employer's new gig economy called Huntr, taking on monsters, Brush-turned citizens and all manner of mutants from the surrounding alien wilderness known as the Brush.
75372) Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian women as cultural intermediaries and national symbols
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time.
75374) Town bloody hall
Series
Criterion collection volume 1039
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
On April 30, 1971, a standing-room-only crowd of New York₂s intellectual elite packed the city₂s Town Hall theater to see Norman Mailer, fresh from the controversy over his essay ₁The Prisoner of Sex₂ and the backlash it received from leaders of the women₂s movement, tangle with a panel of four prominent female thinkers and activists: Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling.
75375) Madame Bovary
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
With dreams of escaping her provincial upbringing, Emma Rouault marries local doctor Charles Bovary. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life. Ignoring her devoted husband and immersing herself in romantic fantasies, Emma begins a string of affairs. First, a young student, Lon, captures her imagination, but when the dashing aristocrat, Rodolphe, shows Emma the alternatives to married life, she enters into the...
75376) Civil rights for beginners
Author
Pub. Date
©2016.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
Civil Rights For Beginners fills a major gap by placing the modern civil rights movement into a broader historical perspective. It also discusses the civil rights and liberation movements from the 60s to the present that the African American freedom struggles helped to catalyze including the Chicano Movement, the American Indian Movement, the Asian-American Movement, the Women's Movement, and the Gay Liberation Movement. Unlike most civil rights books,...
75378) Northern lights
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Norwegian
Description
"Escape to a place of serenity with Cantus, the choir discovered by Disney producers and featured on the hit film, Frozen. Cantus sing the beautiful traditional music of Norway, composed by Frode Fjellheim."--From the container.
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Shea Fontana) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Katana, Bumblebee, Supergirl, and Batgirl rush to finish their comic about themselves for June Moone's art class, but when Harley Quinn spills Ms. Moone's magic paint on their pages, their art comes to life-and these super dopplegängers are super-villains! As the dastardly doodles cause chaos in Metropolis, Ms. Moone discovers this havoc is a result of her pilfered potions and her out-of-control anger transforms her into...
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