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River Mumma : a novel / by Reid-Benta, Zalika,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.'River Mumma' is an exhilarating magical realist novel about a millennial Black woman who navigates her quarter-life-crisis while embarking on a quest through the streets of Toronto. It is a homage to Jamaican storytelling by one of the most invigorating voices in Canadian literature. Zalika Reid-Benta lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'Frying Plantain', which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. A Dewey Diva Pick. #diversity.
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Quests (Expeditions); Young women; Jamaican Canadians;
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Open heart, open mind / by Hughes, Clara,author.;
Told with honesty and passion, Open Heart, Open Mind is Clara's personal journey through physical and mental pain to a life where love and understanding can thrive. This revelatory and inspiring story will touch the hearts of all Canadians. By 2010, she had become a six-time Olympic medalist. But after more than a decade in the gruelling world of professional sports that stripped away her confidence and bruised her body, Clara began to realize that her physical extremes, her emotional setbacks, and her partying habits were masking a severe depression.
Subjects: Hughes, Clara.; Cyclists; Depressed persons; Olympic athletes; Speed skaters; Women Olympic athletes; Women cyclists; Women speed skaters;
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The chai factor / by Heron, Farah,author.;
Thirty-year-old engineer Amira Khan has set one rule for herself: no dating until her grad-school thesis is done. Nothing can distract her from completing a paper that is so good her boss will give her the promotion she deserves when she returns to work in the city. Amira leaves campus early, planning to work in the quiet basement apartment of her family's house. But she arrives home to find that her grandmother has rented the basement to ... a barbershop quartet. Seriously? The living situation is awkward: Amira needs silence; the quartet needs to rehearse for a competition; and Duncan, the small-town baritone with the flannel shirts, is driving her up the wall. As Amira and Duncan clash, she is surprised to feel a simmering attraction for him. How can she be interested in someone who doesn't get her, or her family's culture? This is not a complication she needs when her future is at stake. But when intolerance rears its ugly head and people who are close to Amira get hurt, she learns that there is more to Duncan than meets the eye. Now she must decide what she is willing to fight for. In the end, it may be that this small-town singer is the only person who sees her at all.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; East Indian Canadian women; Man-woman relationships; Women engineers; Barbershop quartets;
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Desperada / by Mostaghimi, Sofia,author.;
In Sofia Mostaghimis sensational debut novel, a young Iranian-Canadian woman quits her job after her younger sister dies, and then flees her family, seeking escape and possibly transformation in travel, sex, and drugs. Mostaghimi lives in Toronto, ON. #diversity.
Subjects: Novels.; Grief; Iranians; Sisters; Travel; Young women;
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The lost city [videorecording] / by Anibal, Hector,actor.; Bullock, Sandra,actor.; Forbes-Johnson, Thomas,actor.; Harrison, Patti,1990-actor.; Lee, Raymond,1987-actor.; Nee, Aaron,film director,screenwriter.; Nee, Adam,film director,screenwriter.; Nuñez, Oscar,actor.; Pitt, Brad,1963-actor.; Radcliffe, Daniel,1989-actor.; Randolph, Da'Vine Joy,actor.; Tatum, Channing,actor.; Paramount Pictures, Inc.,film distributor.;
Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliffe, Patti Harrison, Oscar Nunez, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Raymond Lee, Thomas Forbes-Johnson, Hector Anibal.Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Billionaires; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Jungle survival; Kidnapping victims; Male models; Man-woman relationships; Recluses as authors; Rescues; Women authors;
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Her space, her time : how trailblazing women scientists decoded the hidden universe / by Ghose, Shohini,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Her Space, Her Time shares the stories of women in physics and astronomy whose work expanded scientific understanding yet whose accomplishments are largely overlooked--creating a thrilling account of scientific discovery, inspirational leadership and persistence in the face of overwhelming challenges. In shaping her narrative around the science that fascinated them and the social context in which they worked, award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose champions these remarkable women's contributions, which loom even larger given the misogyny and discrimination they faced. Ghose's canvas stretches from the 19th century to the present and includes many women whose work led to Nobel Prizes that were ultimately awarded to men. Among this list of impressive scientists: Henrietta Leavitt and Margaret Burbidge, who helped discover the big bang and the cosmic calendar; Anigaduwagi (Cherokee) aerospace scientist Mary Golda Ross, who helped make the Moon landings possible; atom splitter Lise Meitner; Bibha Chowdhuri, who discovered two fundamental particles; and Harriet Brooks--a Canadian physicist whose impact on radioactivity research was compared to Marie Curie's, but who felt that marriage, not science, was the choice she had to make. Engaging and inspirational, Her Space, Her Time is threaded through with Ghose's own experiences in science--women in STEM still face the same kind of challenges her subjects encountered--and driven by the imperative to make the invisible visible, ensuring that the names of these women who pursued science against all odds will never be forgotten"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Astronomers; Discoveries in science; Physicists; Sex discrimination in science.; Women astronomers; Women in astronomy.; Women in physics.; Women physicists;
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Out of darkness : Rumana Monzur's journey through betrayal, tyranny and abuse / by Chong, Denise,author.;
"From the outside, Rumana seemed an unlikely victim of domestic abuse: well educated, married to a man of her own choosing, and progressing in her career as a professor of international relations at Dhaka University. But in 2011, on return from graduate studies at the University of British Columbia, her husband attacked and blinded her in front of their young daughter. As Rumana's horrifying story garnered international headlines, and connections brought her to Vancouver in an attempt -- ultimately futile -- to restore her sight, her plight underscored the fact that there are no typical victims of intimate-partner violence. Denise Chong goes behind the headlines to reveal the devolution of a love story into a tale of tyranny behind closed doors, and the pursuit of justice that proved all the more elusive during the rise of social media. Out of Darkness tells a globe-spanning narrative of loyalty, perseverance and a woman's determination to face the future and rebuild a life with meaning."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Monzur, Rumana.; Abused wives; Family violence; Women social reformers; Women; Women; Women; Bangladeshi Canadians;
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Antebellum [videorecording] / by Huston, Jack,1982-actor.; Malone, Jena,1984-actor.; Monáe, Janelle,actor.; Sidibe, Gabourey,actor.; Renz, Christopher,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; Bush, Gerard,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; Richardson, Marque,1985-actor.; Chirisa, Tongayi Arnold,actor.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Music by Nate Wonder and Roman Gianarthur ; editor, John Axelrad ; director of photography, Pedro Luque Briozzo.Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston, Kiersey Clemons, Gabourey Sidibe, Marque Richardson, Tongayi Chirisa.Eden (Janelle Monáe) came to understand the worst degradation that a plantation slave in the Confederate South could know. African-American academic Veronica Henley (Monáe, again), on the road in Louisiana to promote her latest book, lived a happy and comfortable modern-day existence. Their fates would indeed prove to be intertwined--but in the last way you'd expect--in this socially charged shocker.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror films.; Feature films.; Women authors; Kidnapping; Slavery; Women slaves; Plantations;
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Knight of cups [videorecording] / by Bale, Christian,1974-actor.; Banderas, Antonio,actor.; Bentley, Wes,1978-actor.; Blanchett, Cate,1969-actor.; Dennehy, Brian,actor.; Malick, Terrence,1943-film director,screenwriter.; Pinto, Freida,1984-actor.; Portman, Natalie,1981-actor.; Broad Green Pictures (Firm),publisher.; Waypoint Entertainment (Firm);
Music, Hanan Townshend ; editors, Geoffrey Richman, Keith Fraase, A.J. Edwards ; director of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki.Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Wes Bentley.The story follows writer Rick on an odyssey through the playgrounds of Los Angeles and Las Vegas as he undertakes a search for love and self. Even as he moves through a desire-laden landscape of mansions, resorts, beaches and clubs, Rick grapples with complicated relationships with his brother and father. His quest to break the spell of his disenchantment takes him on a series of adventures with six alluring women.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Authors; Man-woman relationships; Self-actualization (Psychology);
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The role I played : Canada's greatest Olympic hockey team / by Small, Sami Jo,author.;
"Three-time Olympic medalist shares behind-the-scenes insight into the beloved Canadian National Women's Hockey Team. Men's hockey in Canada may hog the limelight, but interest in women's hockey has never been higher. The Role I Played is a memoir of Sami Jo Small's ten years with Canada's National Women's Hockey Team. Beginning with her experience as a rookie at the first-ever women's Olympic hockey tournament in Nagano in 1998 and culminating with Canada's third straight Olympic gold medal in Vancouver in 2010, the veteran goaltender gives the reader behind-the-scenes insight into one of the most successful teams in sports history. Small offers insider access, writing with unflinching honesty about the triumphs of her greatest games and the anguish of difficult times. This book honors the individuals who sacrificed so much of their lives to represent Canada on a world stage and celebrates their individual contributions to the team's glory. While bringing the personalities of her teammates to life, Small takes the reader into the dressing rooms and onto the ice for an up-close glimpse into the ups and downs of athletes pursuing a sport's highest achievement."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Small, Sami Jo.; Hockey players; Hockey; Olympic athletes; Women hockey players; Women Olympic athletes;
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