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It Will Only Hurt for a Moment A Novel [electronic resource] : by Dawson, Delilah S..aut; Brentan, Carlotta.nrt; cloudLibrary;

In this highly atmospheric thriller from the Bram Stoker Award–nominated author of The Violence, a young woman hopes to reinvent herself at an isolated artists’ colony . . . only to be drawn into its dark, twisted past. “Filled to the brim with righteous fury and fright that cannot be quelled, this novel solidifies Dawson as an unstoppable force.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters Sarah Carpenter is starting over. She’s on the run—leaving behind her unsupportive, narcissistic ex-boyfriend and alcoholic, abusive mother—and headed for a new beginning at Tranquil Falls, a secluded artists’ colony on the grounds of a closed hotel. There, with no cell signal or internet to distract her, she hopes to rediscover her love for pottery and put the broken pieces of her life back together. But when Sarah uncovers the body of a young woman while digging a hole for a pit kiln, things start to fall apart. Her fellow artists begin to act in troubling ways. The eccentric fiber artist knits an endless scarf. The musician plays the same carousel song over and over until his fingers bleed. The calligrapher grins with ink-stained teeth. Not to mention the haunting dreams Sarah has night after night. When she discovers glass shards in her clay, Sarah wonders if someone is out to get her—or if she’s losing her grip on reality out here in the wilds, where the pounding of the waterfall never, ever fades. As she investigates the beautiful valley and the crumbling resort looming over them all, she unearths a chilling past that refuses to remain buried . . .

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Supernatural; Contemporary Women; Psychological;

© 2024., Penguin Random House,

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Good morning, monster : five heroic journeys to recovery / by Gildiner, Catherine,1948-author.;

"Catherine Gildiner is a bestselling memoirist, a novelist, and a psychologist who practiced privately for 25 years. This book focuses on five brave men and women who overcame enormous trauma--in her view, heroes who should be celebrated. With a novelist's storytelling gift, Gildiner recounts the details of her patients' struggles and their paths to recovery and weaves in her own tale of her growth as a psychologist. In therapy, patients have to become vulnerable by stripping away their defenses, but so do therapists, who cannot hide behind a title, a desk, or even their specialized knowledge. The five cases described include a successful but lonely musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman who, at the age of eight, had looked after her two siblings after her father, likely a murderer, abandoned them in a rural cottage; a glamorous workaholic whose wealthy, hideously negligent mother had greeted her each morning with "Good Morning, Monster"; an indigenous man who'd suffered greatly at a residential school; and a young woman whose abuse at the hands of her father led to a severe personality disorder. Each patient presents a mystery at first, one that will only be unpacked over years. They arrive, sometimes unwillingly, to try to overcome an immediate challenge in their lives, but discover that the source of their suffering is an entirely different matter. It will take courage to face those realities, and it requires creativity and resourcefulness from their therapist. Each patient embodies the virtues of self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they confront the real source of their problems and work unflinchingly to face the truth. Gildiner's account of her journeys with them is moving and insightful and sometimes humorous. It offers a behind-the-scenes look into the therapist's office and explains how the process can heal even the most unimagineable wounds."--

Subjects: Psychotherapy.; Psychotherapy; Psychologists.; Psychologists;

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Hemingway's widow : the life and legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway / by Christian, Timothy J.,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."A stunning portrait of the complicated woman who was Ernest Hemingway's fourth wife, exploring the tumultuous years of their marriage, and evoking her merry widowhood as she shapes Hemingway's literary legacy. Mary Welsh, a celebrated wartime journalist during the London Blitz and the liberation of Paris, meets Ernest Hemingway in May 1944. He becomes so infatuated with Mary that he asks her to marry him the third time they meet-although they are married to other people. Eventually, she succumbs to Ernest's campaign, and in the last days of the war joined him at his estate in Cuba. Through Mary's eyes, we see Ernest Hemingway in a fresh light. Their turbulent marriage survives his cruelty and abuse, perhaps because of their sexual compatibility and her essential contribution to his writing. She reads and types his work each day-and makes plot suggestions. She becomes crucial to his work and he depends upon her critical reading of his work to know if he has it right. We watch the Hemingways as they travel to the ski country of the Dolomites, commute to Harry's Bar in Venice; attend bullfights in Pamplona and Madrid; go on safari in Kenya in the thick of the Mau Mau Rebellion; and fish the blue waters of the gulf stream off Cuba in Ernest's beloved boat Pilar. We see Ernest fall in love with a teenaged Italian countess and wonder at Mary's tolerance of the affair. We witness Ernest's sad decline and Mary's efforts to avoid the stigma of suicide by claiming his death was an accident. In the years following Ernest's death, Mary devotes herself to his literary legacy, negotiating with Castro to reclaim Ernest's manuscripts from Cuba, publishing one-third of his work posthumously. She supervises Carlos Baker's biography of Ernest, sues A. E. Hotchner to try and prevent him from telling the story of Ernest's mental decline, and spends years writing her memoir in her penthouse overlooking the New York skyline. Her story is one of an opinionated woman who smokes Camels, drinks gin, swears like a man, sings like Edith Piaf, loves passionately, and experiments with gender fluidity in her extraordinary life with Ernest. This true story reads like a novel-and the reader will be hard pressed not to fall for Mary."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986; Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986.; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961; Authors' spouses; Journalists; Women journalists;

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Candace Pert : genius, greed, and madness in the world of science / by Ryckman, Pamela,author.;

Includes bibliographical references."Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women's movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and "wellness" took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift in medicine. Deepak Chopra credits her with creating his career, and he said as much in his eulogy at her funeral. Candace began her career as an unbridled maverick. In 1972, as a 26-year-old graduate student at Johns Hopkins, she discovered the opiate receptor, revolutionizing her field and enabling pharmacologists to design new classifications of drugs from Prozac to Viagra to Percocet and OxyContin. The tragic irony of her breakthrough, touted as the first step to end heroin addiction, is that it helped spawn a virulent epidemic of drug dependence. Facing the largest public health crisis of the 21st century, Candace was incensed that the Hippocratic oath-"first, do no harm"--would succumb to greed, and as witness to this abuse of power, she was one of few scientists courageous enough to protest. Later, as Chief of Brain Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace created Peptide T, the non-toxic treatment for HIV featured in Dallas Buyers Club. As the AIDS pandemic raged, triggering panic across Reagan-era America, the U.S. government poured massive amounts of money into finding a cure, sparking a battle among scientists for funding and power. Bested by rivals with competing drugs yet desperate to help, Candace went rogue, becoming a lynchpin in the black market for Peptide T. After a scandalous departure from her tenured position at the NIH, Candace launched a series of private companies with Michael Ruff, her second husband and collaborator. Naïve to the world of business, she was manipulated by investors keen to wrest control of her discoveries. But Candace too became tainted, believing that her noble ends would justify devious means. Like a mythic hero, she succumbed to a fatal flaw, and her greatest strengths--singularity of purpose and blind faith in her own virtuosity--would prove to be her undoing"--

Subjects: Biographies.; Pert, Candace B., 1946-2013.; Feminists; Integrative medicine; Psychopharmacologists;

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Brigitte Bardot : 5-film collection. French with English subtitles [3 DVD - 7.5 hr. ] / by Bardot, Brigitte,actress.; Bretonnière, Jean,actor.; Vidal, Henri,1919-1959,actor.; Hossein, Robert,actor.; Terzieff, Laurent,actor.; Ronet, Maurice,1927-1983,actor.; StudioCanal Image (Firm);

Disc 1: Naughty girl / screenplay, adaptation and dialogue by Vadim ; directed by Michel Boisrond (approximately 83 minutes) -- Come dance with me / Francis Cosne presents a film by Michel Boisrond ; co-production, Franco-Italienne, Francos Films-Sofradis, Vides ; produced by Francis Cosne ; screenplay by Annette Wademant ; screenplay adaptation by Gerard Oury, J.C. Tacchella, L.-C. Thomas, M. Boisrond, A. Wademant, F. Cosne ; directed by Michel Boisrond (approximately 91 minutes).Disc 2: Love on a pillow / S.P.A. Incei Film, a Francos Film-Incei Film production ; produced by Francis Cosne ; directed by Vadim (approximately 102 minutes) ; Two weeks in September / Kenwood Films Ltd. ; produced by Francis Cosne and Bob Zagury ; dialogue by Pascal Jardin ; original screenplay by Vahé Katcha ; directed by Serge Bourguignon (approximately 92 minutes).Disc 3: The vixen / Ascot Cineraid, a Lira Films/Ascot Cineraid production ; produced by Raymond Danon ; screenplay and adaptation by Cecil Saint-Laurent and Jean Aurel ; directed by Jean Aurel (approximately 87 minutes) ; Featurette.Naughty girl: Brigitte Bardot, Jean Bretonnière, Françoise Fabian, Mischa Auer, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Marcel Charvey, Jean Lefebvre, Bernard Lancret, Raymond Bussières, Darry Cowl.Come dance with me: Brigitte Bardot, Henri Vidal, Dawn Addams, Dario Moreno, Georges Descrières.Love on a pillow: Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Jean-Marc Bory, James Robertson Justice, Jean-Marc Tennberg, Michel Serrault, Macha Méril.Two weeks in September: Brigitte Bardot, Laurent Terzieff, Jean Rochefort, James Robertson Justice, Mike Sarne, Georgina Ward.The vixen: Brigitte Bardot, Maurice Ronet, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Annie Duperey, Christina Holm, Joelle Latour, Tanya Lopert.Naughty girl: A sexy teenager moves in with the entertainer at her father's nightclub.Come dance with me: A wife turns detective to prove her husband is innocent of murder.Love on a pillow: An innocent young woman clings to the abusive alcoholic whose life she saved.Two weeks in September: A wife is torn between two lovers, her older husband and a much younger man.The vixen: A secretary is seduced by her womanizing boss.Not Rated.DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) or widescreen (1.66:1) presentations; Dolby Digital mono, digitally remastered.1

Subjects: Foreign films; Feature films.; Comedy films.; Romantic comedy films.; Teenagers; Nightclubs; False imprisonment; Murder; Abused women; Alcoholics; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Married women; Secretaries; Seduction;

© [2007], Lionsgate,

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Under the Sky of Damascus. by Wajeeh, Ali,film director.; Khaled, Heba,film director.; Derki, Talal,film director.; Journeyman Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by Journeyman Pictures in 2023.A tight-knit group of young Syrian women embark upon on a radical project: producing a play that lays bare the culture of misogyny and sexual abuse that has blighted the lives of females in their country for generations. Farah, Eliana, Inana, Souhir and Grace want to blow the whistle on women's oppression, though they know their production will make it even harder for them to get work.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Literature.; Arts.; Criminal law.; Social sciences.; Foreign study.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Middle East.; Women's studies.; Artists.; Current affairs.; Theater.;

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Runaway. by Longinotto, Kim,film director.; Mir-Hosseini, Ziba,film director.; Royal Anthropological Institute (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by Royal Anthropological Institute in 2001.This film is set in a refuge for girls in Tehran and follows the stories of five girls who arrive there. These girls, in leaving a situation that has become intolerable, show incredible courage and resourcefulness. The film explores their experience of male authority, their longing for respect and freedom, and their hopes for a brighter future. The centre is run by the dynamic and charismatic Mrs Shirazi, who protects the girls from their families and helps them to renegotiate their relationships. The film shows how Iranian women are learning to challenge the old rules, and how rapidly their country is changing.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Social sciences.; Child welfare.; Sociology.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Middle East.; Current affairs.; Families.; Teenagers.; Child abuse.; Refugees.; Abuse.; Iran.;

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Writing Hawa. by Noori, Najiba,film director.; Noori, Rasul,film director.; Icarus Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by Icarus Films in 2024.Filmed over five years, WRITING HAWA follows three generations of Hazara women from the same family in Afghanistan. With unique access and empathy, director Najiba Noori films her mother Hawa and niece Zahra in their aspirations to free themselves from patriarchal traditions. Forced into marriage at the age of 13 to a much older man, the now 52-year-old Hawa spends her time confined to the home to care for her ailing husband. Fed up with the drudgery and isolation of her daily life, Hawa sets out to open a small textile business. We follow her as she searches for traditional embroideries and turns them into modern dresses to sell in Kabul. She is eventually reunited with her granddaughter Zahra, having escaped an abusive father in the countryside. Both denied access to an education as children, Hawa takes Zahra under her wing as the two study together. But the looming takeover of the Taliban hovers in the background on TV screens and news reports, threatening to turn their lives upside down. WRITING HAWA is an essential testimony of women’s resilience in the face of oppression and the dreams cut short by the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; Foreign study.; Gender identity.; Documentary films.; Middle East.; Women's studies.; Current affairs.; Biography.; Afghanistan.; Sex role.; Taliban.; Islam.; Motion pictures--Asia.;

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