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2) Ghost world
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Thirteenth softcover edition.
Physical Desc
80 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of eight interconnected stories following the friendship between two teenaged girls, Enid and Rebecca.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A successful television writer describes her friendship with a neurodiverse middle-aged woman who helps her confront her own issues with mental illness and feelings of inadequacy while coming to peace with the choices she has made.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1933, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the First Lady with dread. Putting her deep disappointment in her marriage behind her, she had developed an independent life which was threatened by her new public role. A lifeline came to her in the form of a feisty campaign reporter for the Associated Press, Lorena Hickok. Over the next thirty years, until Eleanor's death, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
A. J. Verdelle became an overnight sensation, winning critical acclaim and competing for prestigious literature prizes. But for Verdelle, the most unexpected consequence was the friendship she formed with the legendary Toni Morrison. Receiving an advance copy of the book, the Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning author-notorious for never giving early praise-called The Good Negress, "Truly Extraordinary." It was a writer's dream come true-a dream that...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not five miles from the mother she spent decades avoiding....
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
222 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women's bonds. Nancy K. Miller describes her friendships with three well-known scholars and literary critics: Carolyn Heilbrun, Diane Middlebrook, and Naomi Schor. Their relationships were simultaneously intimate and professional, emotional and...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 454 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did, taking stands for justice and freedom, "--NoveList.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her. Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to explain the 'signs' to Gigi. Meanwhile, having just left Gigi,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, stepping outside the domestic sphere and shaping the course of feminism in ways that still resonate today. In 1960, at the height of an era that expected women to focus solely on raising families, Radcliffe College announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, offering fellowships...
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