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Pillars of the Earth volume 5
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"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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ix, 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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"Palestinian youth and the fight for their village Silwan is a Palestinian village located just outside the ancient walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Determined to Stay: Voices of Silwan is a moving story of a village and its people. As Silwani youth and community members share their lives with us, their village becomes an easily accessible way to understand Palestinian history and current reality. Written with young people in mind, the richly illustrated...
Pub. Date
2023.
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xxvii. 415 pages ; 22 cm
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"In this book, editors Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin, curate voices of resistance and hope from 2000 to the present, inspired by the original Voices of a People's History of the United States. The book features speeches, essays, songs, and documents from Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, indigenous struggles, the environmental movement, disability justice organizers, and frontline workers during the global pandemic who spoke out against the life-threatening...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"This powerful, honest, hilarious, and furious memoir from journalist and advocate Lucy Webster looks at life at the intersection: the struggles, the joys, and the unseen realities of being a disabled woman. From navigating the worlds of education and work, dating, and friendship to managing care, contemplating motherhood, and learning to accept your body against a pervasive narrative that it is somehow broken and in need of fixing, The View From...
Pub. Date
2022.
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xx, 401 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge strengths-based resource to the subject of Indigenous resilience. Indigenous Peoples demonstrate considerable resilience despite the social, health, economic, and political disparities they experience within surrounding settler societies. This book considers Indigenous resilience in many forms: cultural, spiritual, and governance traditions remain in some communities and are being revitalized...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xxxv, 220 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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Lebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. For this extraordinary book, journalist Dalal Mawad conducted a series of searing interviews with women in Lebanon - weaving an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity.--
Lebanon and the wider Middle East is in crisis. For this extraordinary book, journalist Dalal Mawad conducted a series of searing interviews with women in Lebanon - weaving an extraordinary story of survival, corruption...
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"Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly out of the kitchen. In this electrifying, innovative memoir, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a vital source of knowledge and revelation....
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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National Geographic highlights the efforts of heroic Afghans who have refused to allow their culture to be destroyed. Marvel at the priceless treasures that have re-emerged, and listen to the stories of people who risked death to defy extremists threatening to obliterate Afghanistan's past and of others with deep roots in the country who can finally come home now that the conflict has subsided.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
406 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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"What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization? In this sharply drawn, immersive portrait of Egyptian society, veteran reporter Leslie T. Chang follows three women as they establish businesses and careers in a country that throws up obstacles at every step, from economic upheaval to conservative marriage expectations to a failing education system. Working in...
11) A red death
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Pub. Date
[2002]
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309 pages ; 21 cm.
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"It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of 'the hurting business' and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin."--Provided by...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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xxii, 431 pages ; 25 cm
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"Taming the Street tells the epic story of the FDR's battle to regulate Wall Street for the very first time in the wake of the Crash of 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression. Deeply reported and vividly told, it provides a trip back to a time when the power of concentrated wealth in America arguably exceeded that of the federal government. Roosevelt's campaign to curb the excesses of the market, end reckless speculation, and mitigate the disastrous...
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"A posthumous collection of journalism and other writings by Hilary Mantel, revealing in spectacular breadth the beloved writer's cutting wit and singular voice on books, films, the royals, and her own life"--
"In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains....
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
180 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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"Brandon-Croft appraises popular opinion through nine distinct women in constant dialogue. From diets to daycare to debt to the dreaded microaggressions of everyday racism, no issue is off-limits"--
"Few Black cartoonists have ever entered national syndication, and before Barbara Brandon-Croft, none of them were women. From 1989 to 2005, Brandon-Croft brought Black women's perspectives to an international audience with her trailblazing comic strip...
16) Black butler: VI
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Series
Black butler volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
173 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
The cheer of the holidays has passed, but the Noah's Ark traveling circus has been making the rounds, bringing fun and joy to children of all ages. However, as the ringmaster's cries fade away, a disturbing trend begins to surface in the wake of the colourful entourage. Children seem to disappear whenever the circus packs up for its next destination, and there are no clues---or corpses---to be found. But when the situation calls for Ciel and Sebastian...
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Entre 1992 y 2013, Martín Weber preguntó a personas por toda América Latina que escribieran sus sueños en una pizarra de madera. Una década después, buscó a las mismas personas para ver si sus sueños se hicieron realidad.
DVD-R. Between 1992 and 2013, Mart̕n Weber asked people throughout Latin America to write their dreams on a wooden blackboard. A decade later, he searched for the same people to see if their dreams came true.
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Series
Show me a sign volume 3
Description
"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries'...
Pub. Date
2007
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1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1738 in Paris, a baby is born under a fishmonger's bloody table in a marketplace and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something about the tiny infant that is unsettling. No one will look after him; he is somehow too demanding and, even more disturbing, something is missing: he doesn't smell the way a baby should; indeed, he has no scent at all. Yet Jean-Baptiste Grenouille clings stubbornly to life,...
20) The sea in you
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
210 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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In a dark fantasy retelling of "The Little Mermaid," a young girl barely escapes an encounter with a deadly mermaid, and the two quickly form a romantic bond that threatens all of their social ties on land and beneath the sea.
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