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LGBTQ+ rights / by Loh-Hagan, Virginia.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What is LGBTQ+ activism? -- End violence and celebrate pride -- Use pronouns -- Support gender-neutral bathrooms -- Fight for same-sex marriage."Learn all about LGBTQ+ activism, from gender-neutral bathrooms to legalizing same-sex marriage. Get a global look at the history of the movement, meet the activists involved, and celebrate some of the legal victories! Each chapters end with a call to action, so kids can feel inspired to get involved in their own communities. This high-interest book is written at a lower reading level for struggling readers. Considerate text and engaging art and photographs are sure to grab even the most reluctant readers. Series includes a table of contents, sidebars, bibliography, glossary, index, and author biography"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Sexual minorities; Sexual minorities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The eating instinct : food culture, body image, and guilt in America / by Sole-Smith, Virginia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Food habits.; Body image.;
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The marsh queen / by Hartman, Virginia,1959-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Loni Mae Murrow's life in Washington, DC is tidy, if a trifle constrained. Single and in her mid-thirties, she's a bird artist at the Smithsonian who spends her days at a desk, making elaborate drawings of belted kingfishers and scrub-jays and purple gallinules. Then she's abruptly summoned back home to the wetlands of northern Florida, where she grew up. Her mother, critical and difficult, has grown frail and been resentfully consigned to assisted living, and her younger brother, Phil, juggling a job and a wife and two young children, needs her help. Loni may not be her mother's only child, but there are some things only a daughter can do. Although Florida, with its suffocating heat and difficult memories, is a place she thought she'd managed to get away from, Loni soon discovers that home is not so easily forgotten. Going through her mother's things, she finds a cryptic note from a woman whose name she doesn't recognize: "There are some things I have to tell you about Boyd's death," it reads. Boyd is her father, a man who drowned in a boating accident out on the marsh when Loni was twelve and Phil just a baby. The circumstances of his death, long presumed a suicide, turn out to be murkier than anyone thought. Against her better judgment, Loni finds herself drawn into a quest to discover the truth about how he died. Against the mottled landscape of her youth, she is led both away from and toward the truth about the past and its betrayals. One by one, the forces keeping her in Florida become stronger. Someone begins to threaten her as she uncovers pieces of her father's story, but she can't figure out who. In the midst of this danger, she struggles to reconnect with her mother through the remnants of their past and to reconcile with her brother and his pushy, provincial wife. And she fights an attraction to a man who encourages her to stay in the South even as she determines to return to her job in Washington. At last moved to avenge the wrongs done to her family, Loni has to decide whether to join the violence or end it"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Artists; Families; Mothers and daughters; Secrecy;
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Fat talk : parenting in the age of diet culture / by Sole-Smith, Virginia,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about the motives and morals of people in larger bodies. And parents today, having themselves grown up in the confusion of modern diet culture, worry equally about the risks of our kids caring too much about being "thin" and about what happens if our kids are fat. Sole-Smith shows how the reverberations of this messaging and social pressures on young bodies continue well into adulthood--and what we can do to fight them. Fat Talk argues for a reclaiming of "fat," which is not synonymous with "unhealthy," "inactive," or "lazy." Talking to researchers and activists, as well as parents and kids across a broad swath of the country, Sole-Smith lays bare how America's focus on solving the "childhood obesity epidemic" has perpetuated a second crisis of disordered eating and body hatred for kids of all sizes. She exposes our society's internalized fatphobia and elucidates how and why we need to stop "preventing obesity" and start supporting kids in the bodies they have. Continuing conversations started by works like Girls & Sex, Under Pressure, and Essential Labor, Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and groundbreaking book that will help parents learn to reckon with their own body biases, identify diet culture messaging, and ultimately empower their kids to navigate this challenging landscape. Sole-Smith offers an alternative framework for parenting around food and bodies, and a way for us all to work toward a more weight-inclusive world--because it's not our kids, or their bodies, who need fixing"--
Subjects: Body image in children.; Obesity in children.; Parent and child.; Weight loss;
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Fall walk / by Snow, Virginia Brimhall.;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Fall foliage; Leaves; Trees;
© c2013., Gibbs Smith,
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Watch us shine : a novel / by De los Santos, Marisa,1966-author.;
Marisa de los Santos returns to the world of her beloved, bestselling novels 'Love Walked In' and 'Belong to Me' in this standalone novel. Alternating between two timelines - Cornelias story in the present, and that of the young Eleanor Campbell in the 1960s - 'Watch Us Shine' explores the complicated bonds between sisters, the impossible demands of motherhood, and the power of human love to save us again and again.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Mothers and daughters; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Watch us shine [text (large print)] : a novel / by De los Santos, Marisa,1966-author.;
Marisa de los Santos returns to the world of her beloved, bestselling novels 'Love Walked In' and 'Belong to Me' in this standalone novel. Alternating between two timelines - Cornelias story in the present, and that of the young Eleanor Campbell in the 1960s - 'Watch Us Shine' explores the complicated bonds between sisters, the impossible demands of motherhood, and the power of human love to save us again and again
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Mothers and daughters; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A room of one's own ; by Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941.; Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941.Three guineas.;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC
Subjects: Classics; Literary; Women.; War.;
© 2001., Vintage,
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To the lighthouse / by Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941,author.; Lee, Hermione,writer of introduction.; Lockwood, Patricia,writer of foreword.; McNichol, Stella,editor,writer of supplementary textual content.;
Includes bibliographical references."The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; English; Lighthouses; Loss (Psychology); Married people; Mothers; Summer resorts; Widowers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pretty birds : 18 simple projects to sew and love / by Lindsay, Virginia Keleher,1975-;
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Subjects: Soft toy making.; Sewing.; Birds in art.; Handicraft.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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