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Summary: "For fifty years the women of the Banks family have been the most successful thieves in Chicago by following one simple rule: never get greedy. But when the youngest Banks stumbles upon the heist of a lifetime, the potential windfall may be enough to bring three generations of thieves together for one incredible score and the chance to avenge a loved one taken too soon."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TKO Studios LLc 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 GAYGay, Roxane
Summary: From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, womens rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 GAYGay, Roxane
Summary: Mireille Duval Jameson is a rich and self-assured Haitian woman who is kidnapped by a gang of heavily armed men. Held captive by a man who calls himself the Commander, Mireille must endure his torment until her unwilling father pays up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2014
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Summary: "Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYGay, Roxane
Summary: "Follow the journey of two young adults, Joshua and Claire, each individually shaped by the day the sky went dark, but drawn to each other because of it. Coming of age in this new landscape, they will be forced to confront and challenge notions of identity, guilt, and survival as the darkness grows around them. When fear threatens to envelop all hope they have left, the two discover that love,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archaia, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 GAYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA GRAPHIC GAYGay, Roxane
Summary: In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAY, ROXANE GAYGay, Roxane.
Summary: A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 GAYSummary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power : Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival is a collection of original, nonfiction comics drawn by more than 60 female cartoonists from around the world. Featuring such noted creators as Emil Ferris, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, MariNaomi, Liana Finck, and Ebony Flowers the anthology's contributors comprise a diverse group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.883 DRASummary: "In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are "routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 NOTMillman, Debbie
Summary: Over the course of her popular podcast's fifteen-year reign, Debbie Millman has interviewed more than 400 creative minds. In those conversations, she has not only explored what it means to design a creative life, but has, as Millman's wife, Roxane Gay, assesses in her foreword, "created a gloriously interesting and ongoing conversation about what it means to live well, overcome trauma, face...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Design 2021
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 124 MILKunz, Anita
Summary: "A stunning collection of 150 portraits of groundbreaking women throughout history--many of whom are unsung or forgotten--by one of the best illustrators working today. In early March 2020, Covid19-locked down in her Toronto home-studio and longing for inspiration, artist Anita Kunz began researching women on the Internet. She wasn't sure what she was looking for, but soon found an array of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 920 KUNLorde, Audre
Summary: "A definitive selection of prose and poetry from the self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," for a new generation of readers. Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. Her incisive essays and passionate poetry-alive with sensuality, vulnerability, and rage-remain indelible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LORSaunders, Claire
Summary: Takes a look at different types of power, what it means to have power, and what you can do with your own power to create positive change in the world, no matter who or how old you are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ivy Kids 2019