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Atwood, Margaret Kunkel, Caitlin Petersen, Anne Helen Runyan, Aimie K. Sebba, AnneSummary: Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Home 2015Summary: Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Distribution 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED NRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Home 2017Runyan, Aimie K.
Summary: "Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband, a sensitive artist who fears for her safety,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNRunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: This novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RUNRunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: Germany, 1939. After her mother's death, Hanna Rombauer is unwillingly matched with an SS officer. The independence her mother fostered in her is considered highly inappropriate as the future wife of an up-and-coming officer, and she is sent to a "bride school." Hanna is taught how to be a "proper" German wife, but the lessons of hatred, prejudice, and misogyny disturb her, and she is desperate...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUNSummary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAISebba, Anne
Summary: "Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 SEBPetersen, Anne Helen
Summary: A popular BuzzFeed columnist examines the phenomenon of popular provocative womanhood to discuss the rise of such counterculture stars as Amy Schumer, Nicki Minaj, and Caitlyn Jenner, exploring why they are popular in spite of negative behaviors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 PETAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ATWSummary: When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JULAtwood, Margaret
Summary: This sequel to The Handmaid's Tale picks up the story fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2019
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATWKunkel, Caitlin
Summary: "Imagine a world where erotica was written by feminists: Their daydreams include equal pay, a gender-balanced Congress, and Tom Hardy arriving at their doorstep to deliver a fresh case of LaCroix every week. Both light-hearted and empowering, New Erotica for Feminists is a sly, satirical take on all the things that turn feminists on. From a retelling of Adam and Eve to tales of respectful...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2018