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Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 10
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mona Ramsey married Lord Teddy Roughton to secure his visa—allowing him to remain in San Francisco to fulfil his wildest dreams—she never imagined she would, by age 48, be the sole owner of Easley House, a romantic country manor in the UK. Now, with her adopted son, Wilfred, Mona has opened Easley’s doors to paying guests to keep her inherited English manor afloat.
As they welcome a married American couple to Easley, Mona and Wilfred discover...
82) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart." —Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets
"Stunning. . . . Full of surprises. . . . A brilliant,
...84) Martyr!
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate objects and the surprising, sometimes shocking stories behind them.
“I adored this book!”—Olivia Colman
This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through...
“I adored this book!”—Olivia Colman
This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular: a single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
“Enlightening, nuanced, and honest.”—Lisa See
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history.
One of Entertainment Weekly's "Books We Are Excited to Read in 2024"
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Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history.
One of Entertainment Weekly's "Books We Are Excited to Read in 2024"
Before...
87) Warrior women
Publisher
Good Docs
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hour, 4 minutes)
Language
English
Description
In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation as a community of extended families. WARRIOR WOMEN is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children--including her daughter Marcy--into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy...
88) The limits
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters--a fifteen-year-old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan--who undergo massive transformation over the course of a single year"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described an alleged sexual assault by the Supreme Court nominee that took place at a high school party in the 1980s. Her words and courage on that day provided some of the most credible and unforgettable testimony our country has ever witnessed. In One Way...
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