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Everything and nothing at all : essays / by Wills, Jenny Heijun,author.;

Includes bibliographical references."From Hilary Weston Prize-winning author Jenny Heijun Wills comes a new collection of piercing, breathtaking essays on beauty, identity, and language -- as well as the grey zones that exist between and within these notions of self. As an adoptee, Jenny Heijun Wills has spent her life navigating the spaces of race and ethnicity. As a polyamorous, pansexual femme, she occupies a liminality between family -- adopted, biological, chosen -- and "freedom;" queerness and heteronormativity; monogamy and a constellation of love. As a person who self-harms to cope with mental illness, she moves between the desire to be beautiful and the urge to make herself ugly, preening in the limelight while daily wishing her body would disappear. And as a parent with a lifelong eating disorder, her love language is to feed, but she finds it near-impossible to consume anything herself. These facets of Jenny's personhood have served as both the anchors she has clung to, in the time before self-discovery and understanding, and the harsh parameters of what others now imagine she can be. Everything and Nothing At All weaves together literary criticism, cultural context, and personal history into a staggering tapestry of knowledge. Yet Jenny is acutely aware of the cost of this knowledge: the more she uncovers, the more parts of herself she must reconcile. And though she is guided by those who came before -- her Korean grandmother, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, even Emily Brontë, when read with intention -- and the lovers she has sewn into her life, they cannot shield her from the combined weight of this knowledge. It feels at once like everything she has been seeking in order to set herself free, and that which threatens to extinguish her, one day, into nothing at all. Devastating, illuminating, and beautifully crafted, these essays breathe life into the ambiguities and excesses of Jenny's life, where she lingers always at the intersections within the intersections of identity."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Wills, Jenny Heijun.; Body image.; Pansexual people; Self-perception.; Authors, Canadian (English);

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Misbehaving at the Crossroads : Essays & Writings. by Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne.;

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers makes her non-fiction debut with this thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times. From the author of 'The Love Songs of W.E. B. Dubois', which was a NYT bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Goodreads Giveaway.Library Bound Incorporated

Subjects: HISTORY / African American & Black; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies;

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The Ruth Rendell mysteries. [videorecording] / by Baker, George.; Butler, Josephine.; Callis, James.; Ravenscroft, Christopher.; Acorn Media (Firm); Blue Heaven (Firm); Granada International Media Limited.;

Volume 1. Simisola.Volume 2. Road rage.James Callis, Josephine Butler, George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Barbara Ewing, David Daker, Jerome Flynn, Sadie Frost, Serena Evans, Simon Chandler.In these two Inspector Wexford specials, the kindly, compassionate detective investigates the disappearance of his doctor's daughter and an environmental protest that goes horribly wrong. As always, award-winning writer Ruth Rendell weaves incisive social observation into her compelling plots, showing why critics and fans regard her as the reigning queen of the British literary mystery.14A.DVD ; full screen presentation.

Subjects: Rendell, Ruth, 1930-; Criminal investigation; Detective and mystery television programs.;

© c2009., Acorn Media,

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Wonderworks : the 25 most powerful innovations in the history of literature / by Fletcher, Angus,1976-author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--

Subjects: Literature;

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Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary Cold War / by White, Duncan,1979-author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War. During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to exile, imprisonment or execution if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union had secret agents and vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the battles were personal, too: friends turning on each other, lovers cleaved by political fissures, artists undermined by inadvertent complicities. In Cold Warriors, Harvard University's Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book has at its heart five major writers--George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene and Andrei Sinyavsky--but the full cast includes a dazzling array of giants, among them Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carr, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, Arthur Koestler, Vaclav Havel, Joan Didion, Isaac Babel, Howard Fast, Lillian Hellman, Mikhail Sholokhov--and scores more. Spanning decades and continents and spectacularly meshing gripping narrative with perceptive literary detective work, Cold Warriors is a welcome reminder that, at a moment when ignorance is celebrated and reading seen as increasingly irrelevant, writers and books can change the world.

Subjects: Biographies.; Cold War in literature.; Politics and literature.; Authors; Literature, Modern;

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Small Things Like These [electronic resource] : by Keegan, Claire.aut; Kelly, Aidan.nrt; cloudLibrary;

The landmark new novel from award-winning author Claire Keegan It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

Subjects: Audiobooks.; Literary;

© 2021., HighBridge Audio,

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Animal farm : a fairy story / by Orwell, George,1903-1950,author.;

This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.A satire against totalitarianism and the corrupting influence of power.

Subjects: Allegories.; Fables.; Political fiction.; Satirical literature.; Banned book sanctuary.; Classics; Literary; Domestic animals; Totalitarianism;

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Gently to Nagasaki / by Kogawa, Joy,author.;

Includes bibliographical references."Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an account of a remarkable life. As a child during WWII, Joy Kogawa was interned with her family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians by the Canadian government. Her acclaimed novel Obasan, based on that experience, brought her literary recognition and played a critical role in the movement for redress. Kogawa knows what it means to be classified as the enemy, and she seeks urgently to get beyond false and dangerous distinctions of "us" and "them." Interweaving the events of her own life with catastrophes like the bombing of Nagasaki and the massacre by the Japanese imperial army at Nanking, she wrestles with essential questions like good and evil, love and hate, rage and forgiveness, determined above all to arrive at her own truths. Poetic and unflinching, this is a longawaited memoir from one of Canada's most distinguished literary elders."--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Kogawa, Joy.; Kogawa, Joy; Japanese Canadians; Japanese Canadians; Authors, Canadian (English);

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Adult drama : and other essays / by Beach, Natalie,author.; Beach, Natalie.Essays.Selections.;

Natalie Beach became an internet sensation when her essay on her toxic friendship with Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway went viral. Now, for the first time, and in her own indelible voice, Beach offers a revelatory glimpse into her own life alongside a broader cultural criticism of the world today. Through stories of heartbreak, odd jobs, political activism, existential crises and low-rise jeans, Natalie Beach explores the high stakes and absurdist comedy of coming of age in a world gone mad. Effervescent, hilarious and unflinchingly self-aware, Adult Drama marks the arrival of an electrifying new literary voice.

Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Beach, Natalie.; Adulthood.; Authors, American;

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Small Things Like These [electronic resource] : by Keegan, Claire.aut; cloudLibrary;

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century  "A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. An international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.General adult.

Subjects: Electronic books.; Holidays; Literary; Small Town & Rural; Family Life;

© 2021., Grove Atlantic,

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