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81) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
During the nineteen sixties, a bouncer, whose nightclub closes for renovations, finds a temporary employment as a driver for black pianist Don Shirley going on a tour into the Deep South states.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xx, 393 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"... this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth's England, taking us inside the homes and minds of ordinary citizens as well as luminaries of the period, including Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake. Organized as a travel guide for the time-hopping tourist, Mortimer relates in delightful (and occasionally disturbing) detail everything from the sounds and smells of sixteenth-century England...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a young Pakistani man graduates from Princeton and embarks on his career on Wall Street, he finds himself stuck in the midst of a struggle between his own dream, a hostage crisis, and the calls of his family back home.
85) The insect woman
Series
Criterion collection volume 473
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Portrays 45 years in the life of a woman and her struggles to survive. The story progresses from her life as a country girl to her years as a successful and ruthless madam in Tokyo and back again to her native village.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
vii, 374 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans--tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions--tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome...
89) Tailspin: the people and forces behind America's fifty-year fall--and those fighting to reverse it
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some individuals and organizations are laying the foundation for real, lasting change. In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us...
90) His only wife
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Afi knows who he is, of course-Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she is moved from her small hometown of Ho to...
92) Alice Adams
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Social climber Alice tries to push her clodhopper family to the background and assumes airs to win the love of an amiable, wealthy young man.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Gender violence expert and law professor Diane L. Rosenfeld pulls from the natural world, specifically bonobo society, to present a roadmap for ending gendered violence through female allyship"--
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people's experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
392 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Chronicles the friendship between an American girl and her pen pal from Zimbabwe, discussing how a class assignment was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives.
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A tale set at the height of Europe's belle époque era follows the experiences of a young tutor in the household of one of Amsterdam's most prominent families who transforms his employers' lives through his charm and sensuality.
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"Acclaimed author Kent Nerburn creates an incisive character study of a Native American elder, against the unflinching backdrop of contemporary reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas. Nerburn draws us deep into the world of this elder, identified only as Dan, as we journey to where the vast Dakota skies overtake us and the whisperings of the wind speak of ancestral voices. As this spellbinding story unfolds, Dan speaks eloquently...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female...
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