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The Wilderness : A Novel. by Flournoy, Angela.;
'The Wilderness' is an era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their 20-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife. From the author of 'The Turner House'. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / African American & Black / Women; FICTION / Friendship; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Psychological; FICTION / Sagas;
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Bad Bad Girl : A Novel. by Jen, Gish.;
'Bad Bad Girl' is a novel about a mother and a daughter forced to reckon with each other across decades of curiosity and ambition, elation and disappointment, intense intimacy and misunderstanding. Spanning continents and generations, this is a heartbreaking portrait of two fierce women locked in a complicated lifelong embrace. From the author of 'The Resisters'.#diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Asian American; FICTION / Biographical; FICTION / Women;
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Bitch : on the female of the species / by Cooke, Lucy,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."It's a tale as old as time: the philandering man wants to chase sex with whomever, wherever, and at all costs-and to avoid supporting his offspring at all costs, too-while leaving a long-suffering wife to clean up his mess. You can find the idea in comedians' routines, inane self-help books, and any number of movies, novels, and television shows. It almost all comes from evolutionary biology and psychology, and the tale boils down to this: Females are naturally submissive, passive, and maternal, while males are necessarily dominant, competitive, and promiscuous. And as Lucy Cooke shows in Bitch, it's almost completely wrong. In its place, Cooke offers a new vision of the female sex: depending on which one you choose, you can find females that are inherently as promiscuous, competitive, strategically cooperative, ardent, aggressive, dominant, dynamic, complex and variable as evolutionary psychology's stereotypical male. So how did the idea of the passive female get so entrenched? Tracing biology from Darwin to today, Cooke shows how the men behind breakthrough theories in evolution have infused their ideas with a massive dose of societal sexism. Cooke surfs the work of two generations of feminist evolutionary biologists, showing how they've pushed back against the blinkered views of evolution's founding fathers to reveal the true diversity of nature. She meets with pioneering scientists--Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Jeanne Altmann, Mary-Jane West-Eberhard, Patricia Gowaty and more--following their work around the globe. From the dominant female lemurs of Madagascar to same-sex female albatross couples in Hawaii to female killer whale elders in the Salish sea, Cooke takes us on a journey through a side of nature that's much less binary, less heterosexual, and less sexist than we have been led to expect. Fierce, funny, and revolutionary, Bitch is a scientific manifesto that shows us an entirely new perspective on what it means to be a female animal, with serious implications for all of us today"--
Subjects: Females; Psychology, Comparative.; Sexual behavior in animals.; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Social behavior in animals.; Women.; Women;
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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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Tough broad : from boogie boarding to wing walking-how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age / by Paul, Caroline,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: from mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age? 'Tough Broad' is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like ninety-three-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, eighty-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, fifty-two-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, sixty-four-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Chasers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren't experts. But their experiences and the scientific studies that back them up offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. 'Tough Broad' is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, in our fifties, sixties, seventies, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Aging; Older women athletes.; Older women; Older women; Outdoor recreation for women.; Aging;
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He said, she said : lessons, stories, and mistakes from my transgender journey / by Lazzarato, Gigi,author.;
"With stunning photography and heirloom snapshots, He Said, She Said takes us back to Gigi's early years as an Olympic-bound diver and high school mean girl, losing her mom at a tragically young age, and her journey of opening up about her sexuality and gender identity. She walks us through her transition, baring it all about dating and heartbreak in her stories of falling in love with both men and women ...".
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Lazzarato, Gigi.; Internet personalities; Transgender women; Lifestyles.;
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Homebodies : a novel / by Denton-Hurst, Tembe,author.;
Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, 'Homebodies' is a debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and her searing manifesto about racism in the industry goes viral. #diversity.
Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Queer fiction.; Novels.; African American lesbians; African American women journalists; Employees; Life change events; Press; Racism against Black people; Sexism;
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When Two Feathers fell from the sky / by Verble, Margaret,author.;
"Louise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: set in 1926 Nashville, it follows a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver who, with her companions from the Glendale Park Zoo, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Cherokee women; Indigenous peoples; Nineteen twenties;
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Sweet Heat : A Novel. by Babalola, Bolu.;
'Sweet Heat' follows Kiki Banjo, a young Black British woman who hosts a podcast about modern love, even though her own love life is in shambles. But when fate throws her back together with her ex, she must decide if shes willing to risk it all for a second chance. From the author of 'Honey and Spice', a Reese's Book Club pick. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / African American & Black / Women; FICTION / Coming of Age; FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy;
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Under my hijab / by Khan, Hena,author.; Jaleel, Aaliya,illustrator.; Delawari, Ariana,1980-narrator.; Container of (expression):Khan, Hena.Under my hijab.Spoken word (Delawari);
Read by Ariana Delawari.Grandma wears it clasped under her chin. Aunty pins hers up with a beautiful brooch. Jenna puts it under a sun hat when she hikes. Zara styles hers to match her outfit. As a young girl observes six very different women in her life who each wear the hijab in a unique way, she also dreams of the rich possibilities of her own future, and how she will express her own personality through her hijab. Written in sprightly rhyme and illustrated by a talented newcomer, Under My Hijab honors the diverse lives of contemporary Muslim women and girls, their love for each other, and their pride in their culture and faith.5-8K-3Accelerated ReaderReading Counts
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Book plus audio.; Dyslexia-friendly books.; Stories in rhyme.; Hijab (Islamic clothing); Clothing and dress; Individuality; Muslims; Stories in rhyme.; Hijab (Islamic clothing); Clothing and dress; Individuality; Muslims; JUVENILE FICTION / Clothing & Dress.; JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women.; JUVENILE FICTION / Religious / Muslim.; JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play.; VOX books.;
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