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- How to Talk to Anyone. by Lowndes, Leil,actor.; LIT Videobooks (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Leil LowndesOriginally produced by LIT Videobooks in 2022.Bestselling author Leil Lowndes offers easy and effective sure-fire communication techniques for big success in relationships.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Documentary films.; Literature.; Arts.; Business.; Leadership.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Authors--Interviews.; Women authors.; Business education.; Authors.; Self-help techniques.; Public speaking.; Art and architecture.;
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- The Castleton Massacre Survivors’ Stories of the Killins Femicide [electronic resource] : by Cook, Sharon Anne.aut; Carson, Margaret.aut; cloudLibrary;
A GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 100 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 • WINNER — ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ALISON PRENTICE AWARD • BRASS KNUCKLES AWARD FOR BEST NONFICTION CRIME BOOK 2023 FINALIST A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims forgotten? On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen’s University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty years and then murder them. Through extensive oral histories, Cook and Carson painstakingly trace the causes of a femicide in which four women and two unborn babies were murdered over the course of one bloody evening. While they situate this murderous rampage in the literature on domestic abuse and mass murders, they also explore how the two traumatized child survivors found their way back to health and happiness. Told through vivid first-person accounts, this family memoir explores how a murderer was created.General adult.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Domestic Partner Abuse; Murder;
- © 2022., Dundurn Press,
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- The islands : stories / by Irving, Dionne,author.;
"Follows the lives of Jamaican women-- immigrants or the descendants of immigrants-- who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one story, a woman and her husband impulsively leave San Francisco and move to Florida with wild dreams of American reinvention only to unearth the horrible cracks in their marriage. In another, the only Jamaican mother at a pricey prep school feels pressure to volunteer at the school's International Day. With locales ranging from 1950s London to 1960s Panama to modern-day New Jersey, author Dionne Irving reveals the intricacies of immigration and assimilation, establishing a new and unforgettable voice in Caribbean American literature. Restless, displaced, and disconnected, these characters try to ground themselves-- to grow where they find themselves planted-- in a world in which the tension between what's said and unsaid can bend the soul"--
- Subjects: Short stories.; Immigrants; Imperialism; Jamaicans; Jamaicans; Women; Women;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The seaside sisters : a novel / by Kelley, Pamela M.,author.;
"Brooklyn-based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book after personal losses. Her older sister, Sara, still lives in Chatham, Cape Cod, where they grew up, and is married with four children. Once a dedicated librarian, Sara dreams of reviving her love affair with literature, but instead, she is stuck with too many family responsibilities and a fizzling marriage. When Hannah gets the chance to retreat to her aunt's oceanfront house in Chatham for the summer, it seems like just the thing to get her creative juices flowing. And she'll be able to spend more time with Sara, who is eager to find her way back into the workforce, to do something rewarding and book-related. The pair will spend the summer making friends, rekindling romance -- especially Spencer, an old acquaintance from high school-turned very hot grump -- and opening themselves up to the magic of books and the beach"--
- Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Beaches; Books and reading; Friendship; Self-realization in women; Sisters; Summer; Women authors;
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- Multipliers. by Wiseman, Liz,actor.; LIT Videobooks (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Liz WisemanOriginally produced by LIT Videobooks in 2023.Learn how to amplify the intelligence and capabilities of your team, resulting in higher productivity and better performance.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Documentary films.; Literature.; Arts.; Business.; Leadership.; Instructional films.; Business education.; Documentary films.; Artists.; Authors--Interviews.; Women authors.; Management.; Authors.; Art and architecture.;
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- No reason to apologize : the resilient legacy of Viola Desmond / by Liberman, W. L.; Jamal, Tajliya.; Guignard, Tommy.;
"In 2018, Viola Desmond's likeness appeared on the Canadian ten-dollar bill, leading many people to wonder about her story. Who was she and why is she an important figure? Viola was a stubborn, entrepreneurial woman who stood up against racial discrimination. Denied a floor seat in the whites-only section at a cinema in 1946, she was forcefully removed, arrested, and convicted of tax evasion. She owed a single penny. Viola fought for her rights in court, even appealing her case to the Supreme Court of Canada, but was unfortunately denied. Her actions sparked controversy among the Black community at the time, and her career, reputation, and relationships were all impacted. In the end Viola chose to leave her family and friends in Nova Scotia and move to New York City to start over. Tragically, it was there that she died, alone and far from her loved ones, at the relatively young age of fifty. It wasn't until the year 2010 that Viola Desmond received a full pardon for her supposed "crimes" and conviction. Today, her struggle for justice and her contribution to the modern civil rights movement is widely recognized."--Publisher.
- Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Nonfiction comics.; Biographical comics.; Desmond, Viola, 1914-1965; Race discrimination; Civil rights; Black people; Women, Black; Businesswomen; Cartoons and comics.;
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- I Want to Die in My Boots A Novel [electronic resource] : by Appleton, Natalie.aut; CloudLibrary;
"A captivating, untold portrait of Belle Jane, a larger than life woman who led a gang of cattle thieves in Saskatchewan in the 1920s — defying social conventions and living a life full of rebellion." —CBC Books A debut novel by an exciting new voice in Canadian literature, I Want to Die in My Boots weaves fact and fiction to tell the true-ish story of horse thief Belle Jane. I Want to Die in My Boots is the untold story of Belle Jane, the woman who ran one of Canada’s largest cattle thieving rings in the 1920s, who brilliantly broke every taboo, took the names of five different husbands, and nearly followed the tragic end of her great hero, the outlaw queen Belle Starr. Dark and daring, meticulously researched and mostly true, I Want to Die in My Boots is a lyrical, unconventional literary novel that gives voice to the unheard in a long-forgotten world. After leaving Montana for a third husband and the ranch she’d always wanted, Belle settles in Saskatchewan, before spending her final years in Penticton, reading tarot cards for strangers. Written a century after her arrest, this fictional tribute to Belle Jane, an unsung hero in Canada’s west, is inventive yet thoughtful, a work of Prairie literary fiction that takes an edgy twist to history. I Want to Die in My Boots will appeal to readers of Annie Proulx, Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, and Maggie O’Farrell, and to viewers of Yellowstone and The Power of the Dog.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Westerns; Contemporary Women;
- © 2025., TouchWood Editions,
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- Impostor syndrome : a novel / by Wang, Kathy,author.;
In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life Balance 2.0); and work in gender equality (transfer the most annoying females from her team), she funnels intelligence back to the motherland. But now Russia's asking for more, and Julia's getting nervous. Alice Lu is a first generation Chinese American whose parents are delighted she's working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). Too bad she's slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial "founder's girlfriend". One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she's burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine's privacy settings aren't as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. The closer Alice gets to Julia, the more Julia questions her own loyalties. Russia may have placed her in the Valley, but she's the one who built her career; isn't she entitled to protect the lifestyle she's earned?
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Satirical literature.; American Dream; Businesswomen; Chief operating officers; Spies; Technology; Women executives; Women in technology;
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- The coming bad days / by Bernstein, Sarah(Literature teacher),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.After leaving the man with whom she'd been living, an unnamed protagonist in an unnamed university city is working unspectacularly on the poet Paul Celan. The abiding feeling in the city is one of paranoia; the weather has been deteriorating and outside her office window she can hear police helicopters circling, looking for the women who have been disappearing. She is in self-imposed exile, hoping to find dignity in her loneliness. But when she meets Clara - a woman who is exactly her opposite - her plans begin to unravel. Reminiscent of Rachel Cusk, Gwendoline Riley and Thomas Bernhard, The Coming Bad Days is a penetrating interior portrait of feminine negation and cruelty.
- Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; University towns; Women;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The unofficial fan guide to Sabrina Carpenter : her life, her songs, her story / by Cather, Hannah.;
Welcome -- Meet Sabrina -- Best red carpet looks -- 10 things you didn't know about Sabrina -- The stories behind the hits -- Which Sabrina look are you? -- Sabrina's top five videos -- Sabrina in numbers -- 10 reasons we love Sabrina -- Sabrina's style evolution -- Short n' Sweet tour -- How it started vs... -- ...How's it going -- Sabrina's idols -- Game: Sabrina, star of the big screen -- Best live show looks -- Songwriting tips and tricks -- Short n' Sweet album -- Cover queen -- Quiz: The triple threat -- Game: Name your own album! -- Sabrina's life hacks -- Quiz: How well do you know Sabrina?"Inside this brand-new book about Sabrina Carpenter, you'll find everything you could ever want to know about the world's hottest new star. Find out about how Sabrina grew up, her early days of stardom with Disney, all about every one of her pop albums, and her amazing success with Espresso, Please Please Please and the Short 'n' Sweet Tour. Find out where her biggest hits came from, read her quotes, and see how you can get her look. You'll also find out about her collabs, her partners, and her super-cute dog Goodwin. You can even discover what might lie in Sabrina's future as she takes over the world of pop. If you're a Sabrina superfan, this book is for you!" --
- Subjects: Biographies.; Illustrated works.; Carpenter, Sabrina; Women singers; Singers; Popular music;
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