Ensler, Eve
Summary: "Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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Summary: Explores the anguish, obsessions, and vulnerabilities of women as they reflect on their bodies, from an aging magazine executive and her desperate pursuit of youth to a woman being surgically reconstructed by her plastic surgeon spouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2004
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Summary: Playwright Eve Ensler writes fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe. Moving through a world of topics and emotions, these voices are fierce, alive, tender, complicated, imaginative, and smart. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to society's expectations in an attempt to please. This book is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2010
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Summary: A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The vagina monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities all across America and at hundreds of college campuses, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement--V-Day--to stop violence against...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2001
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 ENSHanson, Jason
Summary: "When Jason Hanson joined the CIA in 2003, he never imagined that the same tactics he used as a CIA officer for counter intelligence, surveillance, and protecting agency personnel would prove to be essential in every day civilian life. In addition to escaping handcuffs, picking locks, and spotting when someone is telling a lie, he can improvise a self-defense weapon, pack a perfect emergency...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2015
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Summary: Reveals high-stakes techniques and survival tactics from intelligence officers who have employed the same measures in life-or-death situations throughout the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TarcherPerigee 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 HANEngler, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2013
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC AARSummary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINJason
Summary: A scientist hires an assassin to travel back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before he can rise to power, but the plan backfires when Hitler survives the attack and uses the time machine to travel to the twenty-first century, leaving the hired killer stranded in time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JASGreene, Jayson
Summary: "As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immediately rushed to the hospital. But although it begins with this event and with the anguish Jayson and his wife, Stacy, confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GREENE, JAYSON GRESummary: Chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit Broadway solo show 'The Vagina Monologues' grew into V-Day, an international grassroots movement dedicated to stopping violence against women and girls. Has been widely recognized as "a celebration of women's sexuality and a condemnation of its violation" and praised as "frank, humorous and moving."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC VDALanier, Jaron.
Summary: Silicon Valley visionary Jaron Lanier was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, Lanier offers this cautionary look at the way the Web is transforming our lives, for better and for worse. The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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Summary: "The fastest way to indestructible relationships is to become good at working through conflict, together. Conflicts in our closest relationships are scary because so much is at stake. If the conflict doesn't go well, we could lose our marriage, our familyor our job, all connected to our security and survival. So we do just about anything not to lose those relationships, including avoid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Go Hachette Books 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1993
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Summary: Learn the techniques for making tables and chairs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1992
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Summary: Presents a graphic novel adaptation of the first three episodes of "Gravity Falls," which follows twins Dipper and Mabel's summer vacation working at their Gruncle Stan's mystery shack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joe Books, Inc 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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Summary: "Johnson takes us on a journey and each poem serves as a guide to understanding black life in America... Ain't never not been black is a healing salve, a sonic ointment that soothes the wounds of white supremacy and daily pricks of antiblack racism, reminding us of the beautiful bounty that blackness always has been and always will be"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1969
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Press 1995