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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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2023 New York Times Notables
2024 Hugo Awards
2024 Nebula Awards
Speculative Fiction from Marginalized Voices
2024 Hugo Awards
2024 Nebula Awards
Speculative Fiction from Marginalized Voices
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"The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and...
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Fleet
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex. Professor Kathleen Stock surveys the philosophical ideas that led to this point, and closely interrogates each one, from De Beauvoir's statement that, 'One is not born, but rather becomes a woman' (an assertion she contends has been misinterpreted...
4) Girl Model
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. GIRL MODEL follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambivalent model scout who scours the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with...
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The Video Project
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Are you Male or Female? For the four fearless young transgender adults featured in the film this is not a simple question. These four defy societal norms to be their true selves and become more visible. No transition is easy, but for some it is easier than for others.. Sean is a trans male comedian from a small affluent town in upstate New York. Katherine is a Bangladeshi trans girl from a family steeped in their cultural traditions. Olivia had to...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
From the largest gathering of women in history emerges images of an awe-inspiring global movement of women working to improve their communities. The Beijing Conference produced the strongest consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever endorsed by governments.. To Empower Women is a moving tribute to the multitude of actions women everywhere are taking right now..
9) Black bags
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On a lonely Greyhound bus, a chance encounter between Sara and Tess, both with identical black travel bags, sets off a deadly game of cat and mouse.
11) Sell/Buy/Date
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Executive Produced by Meryl Streep, Tony-winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones explores her own personal relationship to an often misunderstood issue: the sex industry and the diverse range of people whose lives it touches.
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Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Intimate, personalized portrait of women of the 1960s through the eyes of one colorful class that graduated in 1969 - same year as Hillary Clinton - and recently turned 65, starting to explore the New Old Age. At a time when these Boomers' parents were asking less of themselves, many of these distinguished citizens are asking more, feeling a Third Wind. Where will it take them? Some are determined to keep making waves. The trigger for these revelations/reminiscences...
13) Experiencing America: A Smithsonian Tour through American History: Episode 17,Women Making History
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Explore the struggle for an inclusive role for women in American society. Chart the history of the women's suffrage movement, witness Helen Keller's miraculous story, follow Amelia Earhart's heartbreaking career in the air. and get a glimpse into Julia Child's life as a television pioneer and cultural icon.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 21
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English
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Eleven-year-old Mallory finds a real challenge in babysitting for the troublesome Arnold twins.
15) My name is Iris
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens"--
16) 100 Vaginas
Publisher
TVF
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
100 women have their vulva photographed to reveal the reality of their bodies and how this body part has shaped their lives. In a provocative documentary, artist Laura Dodsworth photographs and interviews 18 of the women – from teenager to pensioner (19 to 77 years old) – as they tell frank and funny stories of periods, pubic hair grooming and the joys of orgasm. The film’s subjects explore the secrets of the clitoris and the wonders of birth,...
17) Cat Daddies
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Man has a new best friend in this heartwarming portrait of nine men whose lives have been forever changed by their proud love of cats.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Hindi
Description
A university student in India writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.
Publisher
Press 2 Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the lifestyle of contemporary women that emulate the makeup, fashion and vintage style of women in the 40’s & 50’s. These ladies champion freedom of self-expression, self-confidence, diversity, and total body acceptance - no matter what size or shape - while competing to be crowned Miss Viva Las Vegas in the largest and most heralded Pinup contest in the world.
20) Tiger!
Author
Publisher
Pow!
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: After watching a nature documentary, Saira comes to believe that she is part tiger, a fact she is not at all ashamed to reveal to friends and family. When the children at school tell her she's wrong, she roars at them. At home she slinks from room to room, hunting and protecting her territory. Getting her fed and into bed is a challenge for mom until she reveals a shocking truth. She's a tiger, too! Every page is colorful, eye-popping...
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