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Sisterhood / by Kelly, Cathy,author.;
In just one night, Lou's world has imploded. Her mother has kept a secret hidden all her life that changes everything. Along with her sister, Toni, who is facing her own crisis, the two women set out on a life-changing journey, one that will take them through Ireland's wildest coastline and to Sicily's sun-baked rocky shores. It will also take Lou deep into her relationships with her mother, her sister, and her daughter to figure out how to stop pleasing everyone else - and carve out who she really wants to be.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Interpersonal conflict; Mothers and daughters; Secrecy; Sisters; Voyages and travels;
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The sisterhood : the secret history of women at the CIA / by Mundy, Liza,1960-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated workplace in Eisenhower America, the growing intelligence agency needed women to type memos, send messages, manipulate expense accounts, and keep secrets. Despite discrimination--even because of it--these clerks and secretaries rose to become some of the shrewdest, toughest operatives the agency employed. Because women were seen as unimportant, they moved unnoticed on the streets of Bonn, Geneva, and Moscow, stealing secrets under the noses of the KGB. Back at headquarters, they built the CIA's critical archives--first by hand, then by computer. These women also battled institutional stereotyping and beat it. Men argued they alone could run spy rings. But the women proved they could be spymasters, too. During the Cold War, women made critical contributions to U.S. intelligence, sometimes as officers, sometimes as unpaid spouses, working together as their numbers grew. The women also made unique sacrifices, giving up marriage, children, even their own lives. They noticed things that the men at the top didn't see. In the final years of the twentieth century, it was a close-knit network of female CIA analysts who warned about the rising threat of Al Qaeda. After the 9/11 attacks, women rushed to join the fight as a new job, "targeter," came to prominence. They showed that painstaking data analysis would be crucial to the post-9/11 national security landscape--an effort that culminated spectacularly in the CIA's successful efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden and, later, Ayman al-Zawahiri. With the same meticulous reporting and storytelling verve that she brought to her New York Times bestseller Code Girls, Liza Mundy has written an indispensable and sweeping history that reveals how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Espionage, American; Intelligence service; Women intelligence officers; Women spies;
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The superpower sisterhood / by Hager, Jenna Bush,1981-; Bush, Barbara,1981-; Wojciechowski, Cyndi.;
When two sets of sisters move into Emma's neighborhood they all form a club celebrating their individual talents, which turn out to be almost superhero-like when the girls work together.Ages 4-8.LSC
Subjects: Friendship; Sisters; Cooperativeness;
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The bonobo sisterhood : revolution through female alliance / by Rosenfeld, Diane L.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Gender violence expert and law professor Diane L. Rosenfeld pulls from the natural world, specifically bonobo society, to present a roadmap for ending gendered violence through female allyship"--
Subjects: Bonobo; Women; Women; Women;
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The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück : How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp. by Olson, Lynne.;
'The Sisterhood of Ravensbruck' is the true story of a small group of Frenchwomen, all Resistance members, who banded together in a notorious all female concentration camp to defy the Nazis. Ravensbruck is now better known since it became the setting of Martha Hall Kellys bestselling novel, 'Lilac Girls'. From the author of 'Madam Fourcade's Secret War' (a RADD pick) and 'Empress of the Nile'. Goodreads Marketing Campaign.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Europe / Germany; HISTORY / Military / World War II; HISTORY / Women;
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Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood [videorecording (DVD)] by Khouri, Callie; Wells, Rebecca; Bullock, Sandra; Burstyn, Ellen,1932-; Judd, Ashley;
8 additional scenes -- Cast commentary with Ashley Judd and Callie Khouri -- Filmmaker commentary with Callie Khouri, Lisa Stewart, Bonnie Bruckheimer, Hunt Lowry, Andrew Marcus and T Bone Burnett -- "Unlocking the Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" and "Ya-Ya Sisterhood Scrapbook" featurettes -- Theatrical trailer -- Cast/director film highlights.Based on the novels "Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya sisterhood" and "Little altars everywhere" by Rebecca Wells.Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd. A number of friends try to mend the growing rift between one of their number and her daughter.14A.DVD.
Subjects: Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Mothers and daughters; Friendship; Family;
© 2002., Warner Home Video,
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My beautiful black hair : 101 natural hair stories from the sisterhood / by Detrick-Jules, St. Clair,author.; Elle, Alexandra,writer of foreword.;
"My Beautiful Black Hair celebrates the beauty of Black natural hairstyles through personal stories of joy, compassion, affirmation, and collective wisdom"--
Subjects: African American women; African American women; Hairstyles; Self-acceptance in women; Women, Black; Hairdressing of Blacks;
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Three girls from Bronzeville : a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood / by Turner, Dawn,author.;
"The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their "Thing Finder box," and hiding under the dining room table, eavesdropping as three generations of relatives gossiped and played the numbers. The girls spent countless afternoons together, ice skating in the nearby Lake Meadows apartment complex, swimming in the pool at the Ida B. Wells housing project, and daydreaming of their futures: Dawn a writer, Debra a doctor, Kim a teacher. Then they came to a precipice, a fraught rite of passage for all girls when the dangers and the harsh realities of the world burst the innocent bubble of childhood, when the choices they made could-- and would-- have devastating consequences. There was a razor thin margin of error -- especially for brown girls. With a keen investigative eye and intimate detail, Dawn chronicles the dramatic turns that send their lives careening in very different -- and shocking -- directions over the decades. The result is a powerful tour de force on the complex interplay of race and opportunity, class and womanhood and how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Trice, Debra.; Turner, Dawn; Turner, Dawn.; Turner, Kim, 1968-1994; African American women; African Americans; Journalists; Women;
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Still, I cannot save you : a memoir of sisterhood, love, and letting go / by Thompson, Kelly S.,author.;
"With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship with her older sister, Meghan. Tested by addiction, abuse, and illness, the sisters' relationship crumbles, only to be rebuilt into an everlasting bond. Kelly Thompson, and her older sister, Meghan, are proof that sisterhood doesn't always equate to friendship. While they were mostly temperamental opposites, growing up in a military family forged their connection--Kelly, an anxious child, looked to her big sister for protection, and Meghan, who was being treated for kidney cancer, adored her younger sister. But when, as a teenager, Meghan becomes addicted to cocaine and opioids, putting the family under new strain, Kelly is forced to reevaluate her family role as her relationship with Meghan is torn apart. As time passes, the distance between the sisters only increases as Meghan slips deeper into addiction and chooses a series of abusive partners. Meanwhile, Kelly sets her own course, enrolling in the military at eighteen, moving across the country and marrying the love of her life, while pursuing her dream of becoming a writer. It's only when Meghan becomes a mother that she and Kelly tentatively begin to face past hurts and reexamine what sisterhood really means. Just as they reunite, Meghan is diagnosed with terminal cancer the day after the birth of her second child. Now, as the family reels at the prospect of the biggest loss, Kelly and Meghan will draw on their mutual dark sense of humour and deep understanding of each other, to share all they can in the time that they have. At once funny, inspiring, and heartbreaking, Still, I Cannot Save You is a story about addiction, abuse, tragedy, and illness, but above all, it is a powerful portrait of an enduring love between two sisters."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Thompson, Kelly S.; Thompson, Meghan, -2018.; Cancer; Drug addicts; Mothers; Sisters;
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If you tell : a true story of murder, family secrets, and the unbreakable bond of sisterhood / by Olsen, Gregg,author.;
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle's talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother's dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders. Harrowing and heartrending, If You Tell is a survivor's story of absolute evil--and the freedom and justice that Nikki, Sami, and Tori risked their lives to fight for. Sisters forever, victims no more, they found a light in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today--loving, loved, and moving on.
Subjects: Sisters; Child abuse; Murder; Psychological abuse; Torture.;
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