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Wayfaring stranger [sound recording] / by Burke, James Lee,1936-; Patton, Will.;
Read by Will Patton.A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Antisemitism; Audiobooks.; Jewish women; Oil industries;
© p2014., Simon & Schuster Audio,
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Girls with guts! : the road to breaking barriers & bashing records / by Gonzales, Debbie.; Gibbon, Rebecca.;
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Subjects: United States.; Sports for women; Sex discrimination in sports;
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Bird cloud [sound recording] / by Proulx, Annie.; Allen, Joan,1956-;
Read by Joan Allen, featuring the author.
Subjects: Proulx, Annie; Proulx, Annie.; Audiobooks.; Natural history; Women authors, American;
© p2011., Simon & Schuster Audio,
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The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel / by Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne,1967-author.;
The 2020 National Book Awardnominated poet makes her fiction debut with this magisterial epic - an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of 'Homegoing', 'Sing, Unburied, Sing', and 'The Water Dancer' - that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era. A Dewey Diva Pick. #OwnVoices.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; African American women; African American families; African Americans; Identity (Psychology);
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Love and fury : a novel of Mary Wollstonecraft / by Silva, Samantha,author.;
"Midwife Parthenia Blenkinsop has delivered countless babies over the course of her career, and when she arrives at Mary Wollstonecraft's door, everything appears normal. But after the baby girl is delivered, the women will spend the next harrowing days together, fighting for the survival of both mother and daughter. Over those eleven days, Mary Wollstonecraft recounts the life she dared to live amidst the impossible constraints and prejudices of the late 18th century, rejecting the tyranny of men and marriage, risking everything to demand equality for herself and all women. She weaves her riveting tale to keep her fragile daughter alive and give her a reason to fight, even as her own strength wanes. Wollstonecraft's urgent story of loss and triumph forms the heartbreakingly brief intersection between the lives of a mother and daughter who will change the arc of history and thought for centuries to come. In radiant, emotionally gripping prose, Samantha Silva delivers an ode to the dazzling life of Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the world's most influential thinkers and mother of the famous novelist Mary Shelley. But at its heart, Love and Fury is a story about the power of a woman reclaiming her own narrative and passing along that legacy to her daughter"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797; Mothers and daughters; Women;
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Women Make Film. by Cousins, Mark,film director.; Cousins, Mark,actor.; Cohen Film Collection (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Mark CousinsOriginally produced by Cohen Film Collection in 2018.This epic exploration of filmmaking by women offers an essential and celebratory revisionist history of cinema told through the lenses of the world’s greatest female directors. Researched, shot, and edited by Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey), 700 clips from 183 filmmakers both well-known and forgotten—from Agnès Varda (France) to Sarah Maldoror (Angola), Ava DuVernay (U.S.A) to Binka Zhelyazkova (Bulgaria)—illuminate the scope and impact of women's contributions to the art form.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Motion pictures.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Artists.; History.;
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The wife's tale : a personal history / by Aida Edemariam,author.;
"One remarkable woman--caught in the tumult of an extraordinary century in Ethiopia's history. Told by her granddaughter, Canadian journalist Aida Edemariam, Yetemegnu's story is of courage, struggle and survival. The wife's tale has the sweep and lyrical power that captivated readers of Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone, and of Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family. Born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar in about 1916, and a child bride at eight years old, Aida Edemariam's grandmother once stood, shaking, as fascists searched her home for guns she knew were there; in the late 1930s and early 1940s she fled both Italian and Allied bombardment. When her husband was imprisoned, in the 1950s, Yetemegnu--a woman who had hardly left her own compound for three decades--managed to gain audiences with Emperor Haile Selassie I in Addis Ababa, to argue for justice, for revenge, and for the futures of her seven children. Widowed, she fought for thirteen years through courts unaccustomed to a woman determined to defend her assets. A feudal landlord herself, she felt the first tremors of the coming revolution, then, in the early 1970s, watched it burst into flower: night after night she listened, praying desperately, to the firing squads of the Red Terror doing their work next door, and endured yet more soldiers tramping through her home. In her sixties she learned to read, and eventually made a longed-for pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Told from Yetemegnu's own point of view, The wife's tale features a rich cast of characters--emperors and empresses, archbishops and slaves, priests and scholars, monks and nuns, Marxist revolutionaries and wartime double agents. But above all, there is Yetemegnu herself, grand and haughty and sometimes difficult but also vulnerable and incredibly generous and who, despite everything--the toil, the deaths, the cruelties and the many, many tears--retains an infectious sense of mischief and joy."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Yetemegnu Mekonnen.; Women;
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The sediments of time : my lifelong search for the past / by Leakey, Meave G.,author.; Leakey, Samira,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir-written with her daughter Samira-encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Leakey, Meave G.; Paleoanthropologists; Women anthropologists; Paleoanthropology;
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The snow hare / by Lichtarowicz, Paula,author.;
"Lena has lived a long, quiet life on her farm in Wales, with her husband and child at her side. But as her end approaches, memories long buried begin to return. Of her childhood in 1930s Poland, when she was determined to become a doctor. Of the first days of her marriage, reluctant wife to an army officer. Of the birth of her daughter, whose arrival changed everything. Memories less welcome return to her, too. Her Polish town, transformed overnight by the Soviets, and the war that doomed her family to the frigid work camps of the Siberian tundra. And buried in that blinding snow, amongst the darkness of survival, the most fragile memory of all: that of an unspeakably tender new love"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Memory; Older women; World War, 1939-1945;
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Colosseum [videorecording] / by Beattie, Ian,1965-actor.; Cargill, Robert R.,1973-narrator.; Mariotti, Alexander,actor.; Reiné, Roel,television director.; Scott, Campbell,actor.; History Channel (Television network),production company,broadcaster.; Lions Gate Home Entertainment,publisher.;
Narrated by Robert R. Cargill ; Alexander Mariotti, Ian Beattie, Campbell Scott.This eight-part documentary vividly brings to life the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the lens of one of the most exhilarating and brutal arenas in the history of humanity-the Colosseum. From the savage truth of a gladiator's life as a slave-warrior to the fascinating ways Rome's Emperors used the vast amphitheater to demonstrate total power, “Colosseum” offers a unique and personal look inside history's most iconic empire.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Nonfiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Television mini-series.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Commodus, Emperor of Rome, 161-192.; Colosseum (Rome, Italy); Church history; Gladiators.; Hand-to-hand fighting.; Human-animal relationships.; Women gladiators.;
For private home use only.
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