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Summary: "The Outside Thing argues for the significance of literary and affective romance in shaping the work of three major modern lesbian writers: Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 ROCTetrault, Lisa.
Summary: "The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 TerSummary: As the late CBS News correspondent Harry Reasoner sardonically warns, this program is unabashedly a "broadcast prepared by men and makes no claim to being fair." In this cinematic essay produced in 1967, Reasoner takes the liberty to speak on behalf of men, offering a reassessment of the way they regard women and women regard themselves. Given developments of the Feminist movement at the time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In a survey conducted for this special in 1967, a majority of Americans considered homosexuality more harmful to society than adultery, abortion, or prostitution. In this program, CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace presents the dilemma of gay men at that time: regarded as sick by the medical profession, criminals to the law, shunned by employers, and rejected by heterosexual society. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: When you look at a family photo, the resemblances, even across several generations, can be striking. What role do genes play, and why aren't siblings identical (and why are some)? This program explains how the formation of sex cells, from the first gamete to chromosome pairs, determines our genetic makeup. Deviations such as cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, achondroplasia, Klinefelter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Our body is composed of billions of cells, but how does each cell know what to become? This program starts with the nucleus of a single cell and then explains the other components the cell needs to function: chromosomes, genes, DNA, and ribosomes. From hair color to height, our genes determine who we are. This program explores, through animated graphics, all of the basic genetic building blocks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: "Ballyhoo! is a history of professional wrestling's formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the "sport" as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2023
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Summary: Discusses various Norse myths, with background information describing the history, geography, religious beliefs, and values of the culture that created the mythology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 293.13 REDBartal, Israel
Summary: "In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940 BARSanders, Clinton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 SAUThaggert, Miriam
Summary: "Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THAHolden, Vanessa M.
Summary: "The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOLBingham, Jane.
Summary: Looks at the art of Africa including pottery, baskets, and wood carving and explains what we can learn about the culture of Africa while examining these art forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.6 BINBingham, Jane.
Summary: Examines the art and culture of the Indian subcontinent, discussing architecture, painting, textiles, music, writing, and other forms of artistic expression, and including photographs, a glossary, and resources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.54 BINSummary: The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. 'Trap Door'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 TRABlack, Lisa
Summary: The scene of the crime is lavish but gruesome. In a luxurious mansion on the outskirts of Cleveland, a woman's body lies gutted in a pool of blood on the marble floor. The victim is Joanna Moorehouse, founder of Sterling Financial. The killer could be any one of her associates. Only Maggie recognizes the blood-soaked handiwork of a killer who has committed the most heinous of crimes--and will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Lisa
Summary: Cleveland Police Department forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner investigates a female teenage victim that no one has reported missing, and a killer with a unique sense of justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Lisa
Summary: Forensics expert Maggie Gardiner is swept up in a dangerous web of lies when detective Jack Renner's investigation into a university student's death violently converges with a suspicious overdose case being overseen by Maggie's homicide detective ex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Lisa
Summary: Cleveland forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and her partner, Jack Renner, investigate after two young people turn up dead at a secure facility for juvenile offenders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY BLAKelly, Evelyn B.
Summary: Describes what scientists currently know about alzheimer's and the relationship between genes and disease, touching on technologies and experimental methods that have led to this understanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.831 KELBlack, Lisa
Summary: Three days before a key election, U.S. Senator Diane Cragin is electrocuted on her own doorstep--a shocking twist in an already brutal political race. Cragin's chief of staff is quick to blame rival Joey Green, a city development director who's had his hand in every till in town for over twenty years. Maggie and Jack have their own theories, especially after discovering a fortune in cash in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Lisa
Summary: Forensic expert Maggie Gardiner continues her uneasy partnership with vigilante homicide detective Jack Renner to investigate the murder of a newspaper copy editor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAGranted, Trish
Summary: Jeanie and Willow pinkie-promise not to make or grant any wishes when they go camping together, but when Willow meets Jeanie's camping friends, the genie-in-training wishes the bossy twins would just go away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE GRASummary: More Doctor Who and Philosophy is a completely new collection of chapters, additional to Doctor Who and Philosophy (2010), by the same editors. Since that first Doctor Who and Philosophy, much has happened in the Whoniverse: a new and controversial regeneration of the Doctor, multiple new companions, a few creepy new enemies of both the Doctor and planet Earth. New questions have been raised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Court 2015