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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"'Tender, unsparing, poignant. . . . [A] love story that braids together intimate self-revelation with a rich meditation on the literature of aging.'-- Stephen Greenblatt. On Susan Gubar's seventieth birthday, she receives a beautiful ring from her husband, a gift that startles her into an appreciation of their luck. As she contemplates their sustaining relationship, Susan considers how older lovers differ from their youthful counterparts--and from...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of the Wild Wisdom series and The Night School comes the enchanted story of Maia Toll's own magical awakening, blending memoir and mysticism to empower and inspire readers to uncover their own inner magic"--
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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"A picture biography of educator and politician Shirley Chisholm, who in 1968 was the first Black woman elected to Congress and in 1972 was the first Black candidate from a major political party (the Democratic party) to run for the United States presidency. An afterword with additional information, photographs, and source lists are included"--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"A picture book biography celebrating the life and contributions of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress, who sought the Democratic nomination to be the president of the United States"--
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Series
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"bell hooks was a prolific, trailblazing author, feminist, social activist, cultural critic, and professor. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, bell used her pen name to center attention on her ideas and to honor her courageous great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. hooks's unflinching dedication to her work carved deep grooves for the feminist and anti-racist movements. In this collection of 7 interviews, stretching from early in her career until her last interview,...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong in school and society -a powerful role model for young adults with a passion for activism"--
Heumann was only five years old when she was first denied her right to attend school. Paralyzed from polio and raised by her Holocaust-surviving parents in New York City, she had a drive for equality that was instilled early in life. In this young...
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Series
Publisher
Greenwood,an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Elena Kagan can be considered a "wild card" in terms of how she will vote and affect Supreme Court decisions. While largely considered a liberal, her lack of a judicial "track record" and previous work as Solicitor General lend an air of uncertainty as to how she will react to upcoming cases that have proven highly divisive and controversial. This full-length biography sheds light on Elena Kagan's life, covering her college years at Princeton and...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, "If This Were Fiction" engages topical issues such as violence against women, trauma, motherhood, and recovery, focusing a feminist lens on Jill Christman's first fifty years and sending out a message of love, power, and hope"--
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly makes friends with many of the townspeople, but is soon ostracized when she not only befriends the local Indians but also falls in love with one.
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of letters to and from the American academic and writer Joseph Campbell; includes correspondence with notable thinkers such as Thomas Mann, Carl Gustav Jung, Margaret Mead, Mircea Eliade, Alan Watts, and Gary Snyder"--
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband dies, she is so devastated she can barely get out of bed. To make matters worse, her son, Zach, has abruptly quit his job in Silicon Valley and been out of contact for seven...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a devoted teacher comes under pressure for her progressive curriculum and a helicopter mom goes viral on social media, two women at odds with each other find themselves in similar predicaments, having to battle back from certain social ruin. Isobel Johnson has spent her career in Liston Heights sidestepping the community's high-powered families. But when she receives a threatening voicemail accusing her of Anti-Americanism and a liberal agenda,...
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary career, death seems to be the only remaining option. But his suicide attempt fails, halted at the last moment by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition. During Pendleton's long convalescence, Adi discovers a novel hidden in his basement: a brilliant, semi-autobiographical...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Betsey Stockton's Odyssey is a remarkable saga of one woman's journey from slavery to freedom--and to leadership. Once the property of Princeton University president Ashbel Green, Stockton embarked on a remarkable life after Green emancipated her. She traveled as far as the Sandwich Islands as a missionary and teacher, eventually returning to Princeton in those roles, helping to found both the First Presbyterian Church of Colour and the town's public...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Voice Lessons is the story of one younger sister growing up in the shadow of a larger-than-life older sister--looking up to her, wondering how they were alike and how they were different and, ultimately, learning how to live her own life and speak in her own voice on her own terms."--Amazon.com.
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