Gubar, Susan
Summary: "'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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUBAR, SUSAN GUBAdler, Laure.
Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704 ADLLove, Loni
Summary: The Emmy Award-winning cohost of Fox's The Real and SiriusXM's Cafae Mocha presents a laugh-out-loud memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity while unlocking personal potential through self-acceptance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVE, LONI LOVWeisser, Susan Ostrov.
Summary: The Glass Slipper is about the persistence of a familiar Anglo-American love story into the digital age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers Univ Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.385 WEIHertog, Susan.
Summary: A dual portrait of the influential British and American journalists draws on previously sealed archival sources to examine their personal and creative lives as well as the close, four-decade friendship they shared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HEROtsuka, Tracy
Summary: Drawing on the latest research, expert interviews and personal stories, a certified ADHD coach debunks misinformation about ADHD in women and explores how the condition manifests itself differently in the female brain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis's accomplishments and follies, exploring in detail his intimate relationships with women. The king's mother, Anne of Austria, had been in a childless marriage for 22 years before she gave birth to Louis XIV. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOUSearcey, Dionne
Summary: "In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper's West Africa bureau chief, landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, where she found their lives turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEARCEY, DIONNE SEAEdwards, Susan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Element 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.332 EDWOrenstein, Peggy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 OREGoldstein, Bill
Summary: "A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GOLStewart, Dianne M.
Summary: "According to the 2010 US Census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried today. Sweeping in scope and expansively researched, Black Women, Black Love reveals how four hundred years of the laws, policies, and customs have createdthat crisis for Black women in America today. Stewart begins her investigative analysis in the earliest years of the slave state, showing that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 STEOgden, Gina.
Contents: Portrait of a feminist sex researcher -- Alice : lust and connectedness -- Maya : pleasure, orgasm, and ecstasy -- Iris and company : adventures beyond the jade gate -- Dr. Suzanne : thinking off and other thoughts on sexual imagination -- Molly : sexualnurturing : the dance of give and take -- Rosa : slouching toward intimacy -- Reflections on self, spirit, and social change -- Afterword.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trumpeter Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7082 OGDIsenberg, Sheila
Summary: "Thirty years after she first asked, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?," Sheila Isenberg answers the question anew in the age of smartphones, mass shootings, celebrity worship of murderers, and modern prison dating. Through research and interviews with women who seek relationships with convicted killers via snail and email, and through conversations with psychiatrists, social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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Summary: More than 75 million people fought in World War II nearly all of them men. Who was going to produce the weapons and the food, and do countless other vital jobs? The answer was women. Millions stepped forward to take on work they had rarely done before, such as fighting fires, ploughing fields and cracking codes. These are the stories of four trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Heinemann Library 2015
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Summary: In Girl, Arise!, Swinarski reconciles the two identities by demonstrating the strength and abilities women have to share with the Body of Christ, the importance of women throughout the history of the faith, and how the love you experience through Christ and the Church can change you and the world around you.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ave Maria Press 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carnegie Mellon University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BROMartin, Wednesday
Summary: From ancient Greek tragedies, to the latest Netflix series, cheating women are portrayed as dangerous and damaged. Why, in this age of female empowerment, do we continue to judge them so harshly? Martin takes us on a fascinating journey to reveal the unexpected evolutionary legacy and social realities that drive female faithlessness, while laying bare our motivations to contain women who step...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Conari Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 KNIRicketts, Rachel
Summary: "Thought leader, racial justice educator, and sought-after spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level. Includes culturally informed, secular spiritual exercises, such as guided meditations, transformative breathwork, and journaling prompts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.8009 RICObomsawin, Diane
Summary: "On loving women is a collection of stories about first love and sexual identity. Diane Obomsawin shares her friends' and lovers' personal accounts of coming into their queerness or first finding love with another woman."--page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OBOFleming, Crystal Marie
Summary: Half-truths and misconceptions have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Our nation was founded on genocide, settler colonialism, and slavery-- and today white supremacy and racial injustice are more visible than ever before. Fleming draws upon critical race theory, as well as her own experiences as a queer black millennial college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 FLEJohnson, E. Patrick
Summary: "Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society. Using methods of oral history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2018