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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A new, conversation-shifting book that encourages women to own their anger and use it as a tool for positive change, written by one of today's most influential feminist thinkers"--
"A transformative book urging twenty-first-century women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change. Women are angry, and it isn't hard to figure out why. We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough....
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"There are burglaries and heists and robberies, but few thefts in history can match what Baby Boomers have done to millenials since 2008: they stole their children's economic futures right out from under them. Millenials should have everything going for them. America has never been so prosperous, the world has never been so interconnected, and no generation has ever been as educated or resourceful as today's young adults. Yet when the finanical crisis...
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If we allow the pieces of our culture to lie scattered in the dust of history, trampled on by racism and grief, then yes, we are irreparably damaged. But if we pick up the pieces and use them in new ways that honor their integrity, their colors, textures, stories, then we do those pieces justice, no matter how sharp they are, no matter how much handling them slices our fingers and makes us bleed." This book, part tribal history, part lyric and intimate...
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Boys and men are struggling. Profound economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom, the workplace, and in the family. While the lives of women have changed, the lives of many men have remained the same or even worsened. Our attitudes, our institutions, and our laws have failed to keep up. Conservative and progressive politicians, mired in their own ideological warfare, fail to provide thoughtful solutions....
88) Cockfight
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Cockfight is the debut short story collection by Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero. Over thirteen stories, Cockfight explores the brutality and everyday violence contained in the structures of home, family, gender, and class in twenty-first-century Latin America"--
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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2023 DMPL Reading Challenge July Bonus Category: Disability Pride Month
2024 Reading Challenge: Collection of essays or short stories
2024 Reading Challenge: Collection of essays or short stories
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Description
"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible,...
Author
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In today's interconnected global village, Iran remains a mystery to much of the rest of the world -- especially to those living in the United States and the west. While the country is often synonymous with rogue behavior on the world stage, there is also another, rarely seen side to this nation of 80 million, including being home to the greatest number of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel, and having the largest transsexual population in the...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
An Iranian-American journalist, who grew up as a California girl living in two worlds, returns to Tehran and discovers not only the oppressive and decadent life of her Iranian counterparts who have grown up since the revolution, but the pain of searching for identity between two cultures, and for a homeland that may not exist. The landscape of her Tehran--ski slopes, fashion shows, malls and cafes--is populated by a cast of young people whose exuberance...
Author
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
Español
Description
"Dylan ha escapado ilesa de un horrible accidente ferroviario. Pero, en realidad, no es así. El paisaje sombrío que la rodea no es Escocia. Es un páramo donde merodean espectros en busca de almas humanas. Y el extraño que está esperándola no es un chico común y corriente. Tristan es un barquero, cuya tarea consiste en transportar su alma al más allá, un viaje que ya ha hecho miles de veces. Pero esta vez hay algo diferente. Indecisa entre...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains....
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child. Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters: Lusabilo, a determined waste picker; Kapula,...
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