Amos, Tori
Summary: "Filled with compassionate guidance and actionable advice--and using some of the most powerful, political songs in Amos's canon--Resistance is for readers determined to steer the world back in the right direction."-Dust jacket. "A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AMOS, TORI AMOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult AmosHills, Rachel
Summary: "Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues that we are in the grip of a new brand of sexual control. Cosmopolitan meets Foucault in this full-scale investigation of the role that sex plays in today's culture. Coming of age in the early 2000s,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 HillsMailhot, Terese Marie
Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAIBeaton, Kate
Summary: "Hark! A Vagrant" takes readers on a romp through history and literature -- with dignity for few and cookies for all -- with comic strips about famous authors, their characters, and political and historical figures, all drawn in Kate Beaton's pared-down style. This collection features favorite stories from the webcomic of the same name, as well as new, previously unpublished content. Whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BEAFleiss, Anna
Summary: Trailblazing women take center stage in Feminist Icon Cross-Stitch, a collection of stylish patterns and capsule biographies that celebrates some of our favorite lady heroes. Feminism is back in the spotlight, and powerful women, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Malala Yousafzai to Gloria Steinem and Michelle Obama, have inspired a whole new generation to smash the patriarchy. With an introduction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.443 FLEFlock, Elizabeth
Summary: "Renowned journalist and author of The Furies Elizabeth Flock investigates what few dare to confront, or even the role and necessity of female-led violence in response to systems built against women. In The Furies , Elizabeth Flock examines how three real-life women have used violence to fight back, and how views of women who defend their lives are often distorted by their depictions in media...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "Wall Street Journal" correspondent Asra Nomani chronicles the experiences she had while accompanying other Muslims on the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.352 NOMGalvan, Liz Marie
Summary: "Whether you want to create a cozy winter wonderland in your living room, a blooming summertime welcome on your deck, or an autumn refuge by your fireplace, Liz Marie Galvan's Cozy White Cottage Seasons gives you the inspiring photos, DIY ideas, and fun recipes you need to feel at home on any budget and in every season. DIY interior designer and popular blogger Liz Marie Galvan helps you create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 747 GALCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 GALContents: Panic ("a trip) (Lloyd Green) -- It's nothing to me (Loy Clingman) -- The devil (Ronnie Wolfe) -- Devil get away from me (Roy and Georgia and the SO and SO's) -- Satan's suitcase (Robert Zehm) -- Nightmare (Jack Turner) -- Wild she devil (Lynn Cramer with the Blue Sky Ramblers) -- Eternal life (Burton Family) -- Turn your radio on (the Statesmen Quartet) -- I saw the light (Evangelist Allen...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY HILSummary: "Whether tickled by Hellfire torments or tempted by life's tumults and trespasses, all the troubadours assembled here put voice and strum to the age-old tribulations of damnation and redemption."--Booklet.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY HILMartin, Ricky.
Contents: She bangs (4:40) -- Saint Tropez (4:48) -- Come to me (4:33) -- Loaded (3:52) -- Nobody wants to be lonely (5:04) -- Amor (3:27) -- Jezabel (3:48) -- Touch (4:27) -- One night man (3:47) -- She bangs (Spanish version) (4:36) -- Are you in it for love (4:05) -- Ven a mi (Come to me) (4:32) -- If you ever saw her (3:49) -- Dame mGas (Loaded) (3:52) -- Cambia la piel (5:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN MARContents: The world is a monster (Doug Tubb) -- The devil made a masterpiece (Johnny Horton) -- The visit (Frank Dycus) -- Daddy's sick again (Arkey Blue) -- Mammoth Cave secret (Charlie Stewart) -- Room 333 (Ben Wasson and The Hardtimes) -- Let Jesus turn you on (Lonnie Glosson) -- Yodelling heart (Selwyn Cox) -- Jesus loved the devil out of me (The Kingsmen) -- There ain't no grave gonna hold my body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY HILCopaken, Deborah
Summary: "Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. The source of life, right? Well, for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, it turned out to be just the opposite--almost. Between escaping from an abusive marriage, facing down the challenge of single-parenthood, and attempting to find love again, getting her bearings after everything she knew fell to pieces proved more slippery than she ever could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COPAKEN, DEBORAH COPClein, Emmeline
Summary: "A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought. In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein tells the story of her own disordered eating alongside and through other women from history, pop culture and the girls she's known and loved. Tracing the medical and cultural history of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Orthorexia,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Contents: Introducing James Bond: Ian Fleming and his feminine mystique -- Justifying James Bond: Taking 007 and Ian Fleming seriously -- The James Bond novels: women in print -- Before the Bond girl: women on film -- Introducing an archetype: Dr. No and From Russia with love -- A mystique of femininity: marriage, conformity, and a new voice -- Reinforcing an archetype: Goldfinger and Thunderball --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 CAPSummary: In this compelling program, world-renowned author Toni Morrison candidly answers questions regarding how she became a writer, the pain of empathizing with her characters, the sensual nature of her novels, and how it felt to win the Nobel Prize. In addition, she pulls no punches discussing how she first became aware of her racial otherness, how writing for a black audience has kept her work from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Merberg, Julie
Summary: Rhyming text presents the argument that girls and boys are equal, offering such lessons as "no means no" and "women's rights are human rights."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Bookworks 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MERAnthony, David
Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTFour Bitchin' Babes (Musical group)
Contents: Changing (3:17) -- Don't mess with me (I'm somebody's mother) (3:25) -- Bob Dylan's poetry (4:54) -- New Age swing (2:35) -- I'll be the one (4:05) -- The doctor (2:48) -- These ruby shoes (4:44) -- I don't think I'm gonna like it (2:49) -- Spear carrier: a life in the theater (3:48) -- True love's gonna come along (3:32) -- He believed in me (3:10) -- Nobody beats my BOB (2:53).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shanachie 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FOUVivas, Esther
Summary: "¿Es posible ser mamá y feminista al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay alguna salida al dilema «carrera vs. familia»? Si hemos elegido se madres, ¿hasta que punto podemos decidir sobre nuestra maternidad? En Mamá desobediente, la periodista, socióloga y madre feminista, Esther Vivas aborda éstas y otras interrogantes cuando explora la maternidad con emancipación y sin imposiciones. Con un tono fresco pero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Español 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VIVFour Bitchin' Babes (Musical group)
Contents: Prisoners of their hairdos -- Wake up and dream -- Not bad for a broad -- Ladies lunch -- Good thing he can't read my mind -- Painless love -- Dave's holiday -- Home is where the heart is -- She moved through the fair -- Junk food -- Sensitive new age guys -- But still he loved her so (The ballad of Harry and Esther) -- I'm fine -- Every living thing -- These boots are made for walkin'.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philo 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK FOURSarsour, Linda
Summary: "An inspiring and empowering young readers edition of We Are Not Here to be Bystanders, the memoir by Women's March coorganizer and activist Linda Sarsour.You can count on me, your Palestinian Muslim sister, to keep her voice loud, keep her feet on the streets, and keep my head held high because I am not afraid. On January 17, 2017, Linda Sarsour stood in the National Mall to deliver a speech...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SARCoomer, Sarah Hays
Summary: "Even as a wave of renewed feminism swells, too many women continue to starve, stuff, overwork, or neglect our bodies in pursuit of paper-thin ideals. "Fitness" has been co-opted by the beauty industry. We associate it with appearance when we should associate it with power. Grounded in advocacy with a rowdy, accessible spirit, Physical Disobedience asserts that denigrating our bodies is, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 COOArtist Not Provided
Summary: Follows the travels and travails of Ibn Battuta as he set out from Morocco in 1325 to journey to Mecca for his first Hajj and on to other Asian and African cities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2011