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Woman at war [videorecording] / by Benedikt Erlingsson,1969-producer,screenwriter,film director.; Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir,actor.; Jóhann Sigurðarson,1956-actor.; Jörundur Ragnarsson,actor.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Jörundur Ragnarsson.When a determined environmental activist waging a war against the local aluminum industry receives news that her application to adopt a child from Ukraine has been approved, she faces the problem of reconciling her eco-terrorist activities with her dream of becoming a mother.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Icelandic.; Foreign films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Adoption; Ecoterrorism; Environmentalism;
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Unfinished woman : a memoir / by Davidson, Robyn,1950-author.;
In 1977, while she was in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. A life of almost constant travelling followed-from the Outback to Sydney's underworld; from sixties street life, to the London literary scene; from migrating with nomads in India and Tibet, to marrying an Indian prince. The only territory she avoided was the past. In Unfinished Woman, she ventures into that unknown, unearthing an ache for a lost but barely remembered mother and an unmet desire to feel at home in her freedom. Adventurous but guarded, fearless yet broken, Davidson asks: how can we live with pain and uncertainty, to find beauty in the strangeness of being? Unfinished Woman is a stunning literary achievement, inviting readers in as a world-famous wandering spirit is, for the first time, laid truly bare.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Travel writing.; Davidson, Robyn, 1950-; Davidson, Robyn, 1950-; Davidson, Robyn, 1950-; Authors, Australian; Travel writers; Women authors, Australian;
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Funny woman. [videorecording] / by Arterton, Gemma,actor.; Banks, Morwenna,screenwriter.; Everett, Rupert,actor.; Hornby, Nick,screenwriter.; Parker, Oliver,television director.; Schlessinger, Paul,television producer.; Threlfall, David,actor.; Williams, Ross,television producer.; television adaptation of (work):Hornby, Nick.Funny girl.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Gemma Arterton, David Threlfall, Rupert Everett, Arsher Ali, Tom Bateman, Matthew Beard, Leo Bill, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Alexa Davies, Rosie Cavaliero, Alistair Petrie, Morwenna Banks."It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara finds herself in unfamiliar territory--an audition for a TV comedy show. Barbara's uncompromising northern wit proves to be the X-factor that the show has been missing. She gets the part and becomes part of a groundbreaking new sitcom. Being a woman in a largely male environment has its own challenges, but as Barbara 'finds her funny' she re-defines the prevailing attitude to funny women--and in the process, reinvents herself." --container.14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television comedies.; Television programs.; Nineteen sixties; Women television personalities; Women; Popular culture;
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Invisible woman : a novel / by Lief, Katia,1959-author.;
"In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net. Now they've recently transplanted to Brooklyn so that Paul can launch a major East Coast production studio, when a scandal rocks the film industry and forces Joni to revisit a secret from long ago involving her friend Val. Joni is adamant that the time has come to tell the story, but Val and Paul are reluctant, for different reasons. As the marriage frays and the friends spar about whether to speak up, Joni's struggles with isolation in a new city, and old resentments about the sacrifices she made on her family's behalf start to boil over. She takes solace, of sorts, in the novels of Patricia Highsmith--particularly the masterpiece Strangers on a Train, with its duplicitous characters and their murderous impulses--until the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred. Invisible Woman is at once a literary thriller about the lies we tell each other (and ourselves), and a powerful psychological examination of friendship, marriage, and motherhood"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Best friends; Friendship; Marriage; Motion picture industry; Scandals; Secrecy; Sexual harassment of women; Women;
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Woman, eating : a novel / by Kohda, Claire,author.;
"Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside--the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London--where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time--is much more difficult than she'd anticipated. Then there are the humans--the other artists at the studio space, the people at the gallery she interns at, the strange men that follow her after dark, and Ben, a boyish, goofy-grinned artist she is developing feelings for. Lydia knows that they are her natural prey, but she can't bring herself to feed on them. In her windowless studio, where she paints and studies the work of other artists, binge-watches Buffy the Vampire Slayer and videos of people eating food on YouTube and Instagram, Lydia considers her place in the world. She has many of the things humans wish for--perpetual youth, near-invulnerability, immortality--but she is miserable; she is lonely; and she is hungry--always hungry. As Lydia develops as a woman and an artist, she will learn that she must reconcile the conflicts within her--between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans--if she is to find a way to exist in the world. Before any of this, however, she must eat"--
Subjects: Vampire fiction.; Novels.; Artists; Hunger; Racially mixed people; Vampires; Women;
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Wonder Woman. [graphic novel] / by Bellaire, Jordie,author.; Ganucheau, Paulina,illustrator.; Goode, Kendall,colorist.; Carey, Becca,letterer.;
The world may know her as Wonder Woman, but once upon a time she was Diana, the young princess of Themyscira. Trapped in her role as a royal and shielded from the harsh realities of Man's World, Diana yearned for adventure, or at least a purpose. So when ancient texts portraying her home's history go missing, she gets both. How far will our hero go to find the texts and the truths they're hiding?
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Amazons; Princesses; Women superheroes; Young women; Themyscira (Imaginary place);
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Woman, watching : Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the songbirds of Pimisi Bay / by Simonds, Merilyn,1949-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman -- a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds. Referred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks, she refused her Swedish privilege and joined the Canadian Red Cross, visiting her northern Ontario patients by dogsled. When Elzire Dionne gave birth to five babies, Louise became nurse to the Dionne Quintuplets. Repulsed by the media circus, she retreated to her wilderness cabin, where she devoted herself to studying the birds that nested in her forest. Author of six books and scores of magazine stories, de Kiriline Lawrence and her "loghouse nest" became a Mecca for international ornithologists. Lawrence was an old woman when Merilyn Simonds moved into the woods not far away. Their paths crossed, sparking Simonds's lifelong interest. A dedicated birder, Simonds brings her own songbird experiences from Canadian nesting grounds and Mexican wintering grounds to this deeply researched, engaging portrait of a uniquely fascinating woman."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Lawrence, Louise de Kiriline, 1894-1992.; Naturalists; Ornithologists; Songbirds; Women naturalists;
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Wonder Woman. [graphic novel] / by Cloonan, Becky,author.; Bonvillain, Tamra,colourist.; Brosseau, Pat,letterer.; Conrad, Michael W.,author.; Filardi, Nick,colourist.; Lupacchino, Emanuela,illustrator.; MacDonald, Andy(Artist),illustrator.; Moore, Travis,illustrator.; Von Grawbadger, Wade,illustrator.;
"Wonder Woman just woke up in the middle of a battle all around her! Just another day ... in Valhallah?! The warriors here spend their days fighting and their nights drinking, but why is no one surprised to see Wonder Woman? It's up to Diana to find out what is going wrong in the Sphere of the Gods...and how it landed her in the Norse afterlife. Now she must face warriors and beasts of mythic proportions...can our Amazon Princess survive?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Wonder Woman (Fictitious character);
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Wonder Woman. [graphic novel] / by King, Tom,1978-author.; Cowles, Clayton,letterer.; Morey, Tomeu,colorist.; Sampere, Daniel,1985-illustrator.;
"After a shocking alleged crime, the U.S. government moves to keep all Amazons out of the country. What will Wonder Woman discover when she goes on a quest to uncover the truth? And what new enemies will reveal themselves? After a mysterious Amazonian is accused of mass murder, the U.S. Congress passes The Amazon Safety Act, barring all Amazons from American soil. To carry out its new law, the government sets up the Amazon Extradition Entity (AXE) task force to remove those who don't comply by any means necessary. In her search for the truth behind the killing, Wonder Woman now finds herself an outlaw in the world she once swore to protect"--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Wonder Woman (Fictitious character); Amazons; Women superheroes;
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Wonder Woman. [graphic novel] / by Wilson, G. Willow,1982-author.; Merino, Jesús,illustrator.; Derenick, Tom,illustrator.; Xermanico,illustrator.; Fajardo, Romulo,colourist.; Brosseau, Pat,letterer.;
"Wonder Woman's journey through the broken realm has reached its end--but who waits for her there? And what exactly created this place between dimensions in the first place? The answer will shock Diana and provide the missing piece of a puzzle that's defined her entire life! But in the wake of Ares' escape from his prison, who among the Amazons could possibly change the course of history? Only one: Diana's long-lost aunt, Antiope! Plus, Lex Luthor visits fellow Legion of Doom member Cheetah and gives everything she needs to slake her thirst with Diana's blood ... once and for all! But for Diana, even though her fabled bracelets are shattered, her will broken, is Wonder Woman ... defeated? Must a world without love be one without our hero? Wonder Woman is forced to discover a new way to fight"--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Wonder Woman (Fictitious character); Women superheroes; Superheroes;
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