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"In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest--Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas across the country, an experiment in cooperative living...
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A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and revenge porn were all considered...
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"An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller--America's first feminist and the pioneering journalist who inspired a generation of writers and activists. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, a role model...
4) Whale
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Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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364 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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"The Whale, set in a remote Jeju village in the 1950s, follows the lives of three mythical characters: Geumbok, an extremely ambitious woman who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who communicates with elephants; and a one-eyed woman who controls honeybees with a whistle. Brimming with surprises and wicked humor, The Whale is a rare, cinematic satire about modernity...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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259 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of times and migrations past are intimately linked to our exclusion and demonization of migrants in the present. When and how did migration become a crime? Why did "Greek ideals" become foundational to the West's idea of itself? How have our personal migration myths -and our nostalgia for a lost world of clear borders and values - shaped our troubling new realities? In 2020, Lauren...
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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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678 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women"--
"Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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277 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"In this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife's mysterious pregnancy, and a post-Earth colonist struggling to maintain her faith in humanity as she travels to "Planet B." Whether they exist in the grounded realism of a college dance studio or the speculative world of Deep Space, these women push against social norms and family expectations to reclaim...
8) How to find a four-leaf clover: what autism can teach us about difference, connection, and belonging
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Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
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ix, 270 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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A special-education teacher with thirty years of experience working with autistic people gives readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community and looks at ways we can develop more meaningful connections with others.
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Greenwich Entertainment
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[2024]
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Arabic
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A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws. This thriller from the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival is Jordan's Official Entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards.
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Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
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xv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life--the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago--is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry,...
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Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
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xiv, 145 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Adolph L. Reed Jr.-- New Orleanian, political scientist, and, according to Cornel West, 'the greatest democratic theorist of his generation'-- takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South"--
12) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
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385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....
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St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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viii, 262 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at fifteen, her parents were forced back to Mexico in this galvanizing yet tender memoir. Born to Mexican immigrants south of the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips as she entered her freshman year of high school as the number one student. But suddenly, Elizabeth's own country took away the...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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v, 277 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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A pioneering scholar offers this new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works and how we can fight back, revealing how hard-to-see systemic connections function to disproportionately contain, exploit and punish Black people and showing us how to create a more just America for us all.
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2013
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26 unnumbered pages: color illustrations ; 32 cm.
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English
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Razia dreams of getting an education, but in her small Afghan village, girls have not been allowed to attend school for many years. When a new girls' school opens in the village, Razia must convince her family to let her attend.
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University of Chicago Press
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1998, ©1996
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xi, 228 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the...
18) Servants
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Slovak
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In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. This film follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government...
19) Hoop dreams
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Criterion collection volume 289
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
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2 videodiscs (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert.
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English
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This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
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St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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328 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned generation. Kate is a pop culture commentator and host of the popular millennial-focused podcast Be There in Five. Part-funny, part-serious,...
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