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Cover story : a novel / by Rigetti, Susan,author.;
After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing. As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her desperate struggles and lost scholarship. Cat's solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cat's suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Lora's life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true. But as Lora is drawn into Cat's glamorous lifestyle, Cat's perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world. A whip-smart and delightfully inventive writer, Susan Rigetti brilliantly pieces together a perceptive, humorous caper full of sharp observations about scam culture. Composed of diary entries, emails, FBI correspondence, and more, Cover Story is a fresh, fun, and wholly original novel that takes readers deep into the codependency and deceit found in a relationship built on power imbalance and lies.
Subjects: Epistolary fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Swindlers and swindling; Women ghostwriters; Young women;
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Fundamentally : a novel / by Younis, Nussaibah,author.;
"A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following a heartbroken academic as she lands in Iraq to lead a United Nations-backed deradicalization program created to reform ISIS brides When Dr. Nadia Amin, a long-suffering academic, publishes an article on the possibility of rehabilitating ISIS brides, the United Nations comes calling, offering an opportunity to lead a deradicalization program for the ISIS-affiliated women held in Iraqi refugee camps. Looking for a way out of London after a painful, unexpected breakup, Nadia leaps at the chance. In Iraq, Nadia quickly realizes she's in over her head. Her direct reports are hostile and unenthused about taking orders from an obvious UN novice, and the murmurs of deradicalization being inherently unethical and possibly illegal threaten to end Nadia's UN career before it even begins. Frustrated by her situation and the unrelenting heat, Nadia decides to visit the camp with her sullen team, composed of Goody Two-shoes Sherri who never passes up an opportunity to remind Nadia of her objections; and Pierre, a snippy Frenchman who has no qualms about perpetually scrolling through Grindr. At the camp, after a clumsy introductory session with the ISIS women, Nadia meets Sara, one of the younger refugees, whose accent immediately gives her away as a fellow East Londoner. From their first interaction, Nadia feels inexplicably drawn to the rude girl in the diamanté headscarf. She leaves the camp determined to get Sara home. But the system Nadia finds herself trapped in is a quagmire of inaction and corruption. One accomplishment barely makes a dent in Nadia's ultimate goal of freeing Sara ... and the other women, too, of course. And so, Nadia makes an impossible decision leading to ramifications she could have never imagined. A triumph of dark humor, Fundamentally asks bold questions: Who can tell someone what to believe? And how do you save someone who doesn't want to be saved?"--
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Political fiction.; Novels.; IS (Organization); Female friendship; Women college teachers; Women;
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The life and times of Hannah Crafts : the true story of The Bondwoman's Narrative / by Hecimovich, Gregg A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman's Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author's identity remained unknown. Over a decade later, Professor Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author's name and, in The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, he finally tells her story. In this remarkable biography, Hecimovich identifies the novelist as Hannah Bond “Crafts.” She was not only the first known Black woman to compose a novel but also an extraordinarily gifted artist who honed her literary skills in direct opposition to a system designed to deny her every measure of humanity. After escaping to New York, the author forged a new identity--as Hannah Crafts--to make sense of a life fractured by slavery. Hecimovich establishes the case for authorship of The Bondwoman's Narrative by examining the lives of Hannah Crafts's friends and contemporaries, including the five enslaved women whose experiences form part of her narrative. By drawing on the lives of those she knew in slavery, Crafts summoned into her fiction people otherwise stolen from history. At once a detective story, a literary chase, and a cultural history, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts discovers a tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and violence set against the backdrop of America's slide into Civil War."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Crafts, Hannah.; African American women novelists; Enslaved women; Fugitive slaves; Autobiographical fiction, American;
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A Life in Waves. by Whitcomb, Brett,film director.; Cineverse (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Cineverse in 2017.Explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer, Suzanne Ciani. This documentary is a nostalgic look at one woman's journey, and the trials she overcame to succeed in a traditionally male-dominated art form.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Documentary films.; Women's studies.; Artists.; History.; Biography.;
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Parade / by Cusk, Rachel,1967-author.;
Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. The attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. When a woman dies, her children confront her legacy: the stories she told, the roles she assigned to them, the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom. An artist takes on a series of pseudonyms to conceal his work from his mother and father. His brother does the opposite. They share the same parents, but they have inherited different things. Parade is a story that confronts and demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character and plot to tell a true story--about art, family, morality, gender and how we compose ourselves. A writer and a visionary like no other, Rachel Cusk turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Artists; Families; Identity (Psychology); Women;
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The Gold Diggers. by Potter, Sally,film director.; Laffont, Colette,actor.; Gale, David,actor.; Christie, Julie,actor.; Women Make Movies (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Colette Laffont, David Gale, Julie ChristieOriginally produced by Women Make Movies in 1983.THE GOLD DIGGERS is the ground-breaking, exquisitely photographed early feminist film by Sally Potter, director of Orlando and The Tango Lesson."Drawing from the same well of avant-garde anti-structure as enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard and playwright Bertolt Brecht, Sally Potter’s whip-smart THE GOLD DIGGERS is brimming with cultural and political signifiers that combine to form a singular work in the feminist counter cinema space. Employing an all-female crew to shoot, compose, and design this proto-Lynchian world of romantic surrealism, the British filmmaker establishes herself as a trailblazer in this “search for the secret of [her] own transformation.” Babette Mangolte’s career-best cinematography elucidates a visual and thematic sendup of silent comedies, Depression-era musicals, and European arthouse cinema in an elegant, non-narrative ode to — and critique of — traditional Hollywood moviemaking."- UCLA Film & Television ArchiveMode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Musicals.;
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Valentine in Montreal : a novel / by O'Neill, Heather,author.; O'Neill, Arizona,illustrator.;
"A young woman who works at a Montreal metro station looks up and sees her doppelganger and is thrown into an unexpected adventure, in this playful and surprising novel, first serialized in the Montreal Gazette and now beautifully illustrated. In the tradition of the serialized novels of Charles Dickens, Armistead Maupin, Tom Wolfe, Stephen King, and Michael Chabon, Heather O'Neill brings us Valentine in Montreal. Originally published in weekly installments in the Montreal Gazette as "Mystery in the Metro," this is the story of Valentine, a lonely and orphaned girl, who, while working at the dépanneur of a Montreal metro station, spots her look-alike. Following this seeming twin on to the subway and out into the city, Valentine's world is changed -- she meets gangsters, composers, ballet dancers, a cricket playing a mournful tune and she meets the city, in all its teeming energy. Valentine in Montreal is a playful, moving and surprising story of a young woman finding both connection and the courage to break free of what has been holding her back. It's also a portrait of Montreal and its artistry and vibrancy both above and below ground. Illustrations by graphic artist Arizona O'Neill run throughout."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; City and town life; Doppelgängers; Young women;
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Patti Cake$ [videorecording] / by MC Lyte,actor.; Athie, Mamoudou,actor.; Binnick, Jason,composer.; Columbus, Chris,film producer.; Dhanahjay, Siddharth,actor.; Everett, Bridget,actor.; Gottwald, Michael,film producer.; Iannicelli, Ray,actor.; Janvey, Dan,film producer.; Jasper, Geremy,film director,screenwriter,composer.; Lombardi, McCaul,actor.; Lundberg, Daniela Taplin,film producer.; MacDonald, Danielle,actor.; Moriarty, Cathy,actor.; Ngaujah, Sahr,actor.; Ramos, Anthony,actor.; Sandow, Nick,actor.; Sherman, Daniel Stewart,1970-actor.; Stahl, Noah,film producer.; Stevens, Wass,1970-actor.; Teixeira, Rodrigo(Motion picture producer),film producer.; Department of Motion Pictures (Firm),production company.; Fox Searchlight Pictures,production company.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc,film distributor.;
Director of photography, Federico Cesca ; editor, Brad Turner ; music, Geremy Jasper, Jason Binnick.Danielle MacDonald, Bridget Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie, Sahr Ngaujah, McCaul Lombardi, Wass Stevens, Nick Sandow, Anthony Ramos, Ray Iannicelli, Daniel Stewart Sherman, MC Lyte, Cathy Moriarty.Female rapper Patti Cake$ takes advantage of every opportunity in her New Jersey hometown as she chases her dreams of music stardom.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language throughout, crude sexual references, some drug use and a brief nude image.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Musical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fame; Women rap musicians;
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Agatha Raisin. [videorecording] / by Bangura, Roberto,1962-television director.; Barnett, Jason,actor.; Glover, Jamie,actor.; Gregson-Williams, Rupert,composer.; Harcourt, Stewart,screenwriter.; Harrison, Paul,television director.; Horne, Mathew,1978-actor.; Jensen, Ashley,actor.; McCooey, Matt,actor.; Mulot, Matthew,television producer.; Niel, Chris,screenwriter.; Sax, Geoffrey,television director.; Willis, Christopher,1978-composer.; Wix, Katy,1979-actor.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher,production company.; Free at Last TV Limited,production company.; Mammoth Screen (Firm),production company.; Sky Television,broadcaster.;
Music, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Christopher Willis.Ashley Jensen, Mathew Horne, Katy Wix, Jamie Glover, Matt McCooey, Jason Barnett.Based on the beloved character created by M.C. Beaton. Agatha, public relations specialist, moves from London to the small village of Carsley, hoping for a quieter, simpler life. She soon finds her dreams dashed when she becomes a murder suspect after entering a quiche-making competition.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Raisin, Agatha (Fictitious character); Crime; Murder; Women detectives; Cotswold Hills (England);
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Mamma mia! [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Cher,1946-actor.; Andersson, Benny,composer,lyricist.; Baranski, Christine,actor.; Brosnan, Pierce,actor.; Cooper, Dominic,1978-actor.; Craymer, Judy,film producer.; Firth, Colin,1960-actor.; Garcia, Andy,actor.; James, Lily,1989-actor.; Johnson, Catherine,1954-screenwriter.; Parker, Ol,1969-screenwriter,film director.; Seyfried, Amanda,actor.; Skarsgård, Stellan,actor.; Streep, Meryl,actor.; Ulvaeus, Björn,composer,lyricist.; Walters, Julie,1950-actor.; Littlestar (Firm),production company.; Playtone (Firm),production company.; Relativity Media,production company.; Universal Pictures Corporation,production company.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Lily James, Colin Firth, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgard, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Cher, Andy Garcia.Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began. Ten years later, come back to the magical island of Kalokairi in this sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna, she'll need to take risks.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.40:1 aspect ratio) ; Dolby Atmos, 2.0 DVS ; Dolby digital Plus 7.1, Dolby digital 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Musical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Fathers and daughters; Man-woman relationships; Mothers and daughters; Pregnant women;
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