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1) 3 Faces
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
Persian
Description
Actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl's video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Three women in contemporary North African Islamic country are caught between tradition and modernity as they try to take control of their lives. Youngest of the women is twenty-something Leila who's love for Hassan must be kept hidden from her strict father. A successful doctor in her mid' 40's, Naima studied medicine in Moscow where her hopes for settling with her Russian love were crushed by pressure from her family to enter an arranged marriage....
Author
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Joan, a Chinese Canadian English conversation teacher who is unmoored in Europe, moves to Bratislava for a fresh start. Where the Silver River Ends plumbs the depths of intergenerational relationships, mixed-race identity, and what happens when we gather the courage to step out of the current and make our own way in the world."--
4) Womb City
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a drug-fueled evening causes her to commit a desperate crime, daring to hope she can keep one last secret, Nelah, as the ghost of her victim hunts down the people she loves, must unravel the political conspiracy they were on the verge of exposing--orrisk losing everyone.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Chronicles the astonishing, true story of Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, who is a Quiché Indian woman, as she stood up for her people and helped wage a rebellion in the wake of seemingly unconquerable oppression. Shot at the height of the heated battle between the heavily-armed Guatemalan Military and the nearly defenseless Mayan population.
Author
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: "But what about men?" And at first, TBH, she dgaf. Boys, and men, are fine, right? Feminism doesn't need to worry about them. However, around the time she heard an angry young man saying he was "boycotting" International Women' Day because "It's easier to be a woman than a man these days," she started to wonder: are unhappy...
8) Maggot moon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing. What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell--who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright--sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers."...
9) Praiseworthy
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1585
Physical Desc
662 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their...
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