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Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"If your child is questioning their gender identity, you may have questions of your own. The Conscious Parent's Guide to Gender Identity helps answer those questions, providing a relationship-oriented approach to supporting your child's journey. Conscious parenting means being present with your children and taking the time to understand their point of view. Using this mindful method, you can support and guide your children as they discover their authentic...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
-- Praise for -- —Cheryl Strayed “Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this profound book. Ariel Levy has taken grief and made art out of it.”—David Sedaris “Beautifully crafted . . . This book is haunting; it is smart and engaging. It was so engrossing that I read it in a day.”—The New York Times Book Review “Levy has the rare gift of seeing herself with fierce, unforgiving clarity. And she deploys...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two of the country's leading child psychologists identify the social and emotional challenges that boys encounter in school and show how parents can help boys cultivate emotional awareness, giving them the support to navigate the social pressures of youth.
205) Crane
Author
Series
Five ancestors. Original series volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In China in the mid-seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Hok, disguised as a boy for most of her life, must now assume her proper identity as a girl and try to save her brothers' lives by entering the notorious Jinan City Fight Club.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
304 pages
Description
"In her new book, bestselling author Elizabeth Lesser looks to the stories told about women over the ages and how they contribute to persistent misogyny and gender inequality, and offers a path towards framing new stories that honor all people"--
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"This book is a history of first ladies beginning with Lou Henry Hoover and ending with Michelle Obama, discussing how they defined their role with a focus on how they related to women's issues and how they participated in politics. Hummer explores the intersection of personality and the first ladies' personal ambition and relationship with their presidential spouse, with the social and political context of the time as these women found their place...
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
191 pages : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly out of the kitchen. In this electrifying, innovative memoir, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a vital source of knowledge and revelation....
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 1
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
341 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
Shevek, a brilliant physicist attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In this provocative book, author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic connects the dots and asks a powerful question: what if the reason for the lack of women at the top--and the presence of so many incompetent leaders who also happen to be men--is not that there are too many obstacles slowing women's advancement, but that there aren't enough career-testing obstacles for men? Marshalling decades of rigorous research on leadership to build his case, Chamorro-Premuzic...
213) Throw like a girl
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When high school junior Liv Rodriquez is kicked off her private school's softball team and loses her scholarship she must join her new school's football team to prove she can be a team player, all while falling for the star quarterback"--
214) These shallow graves
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
487 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
A young woman in nineteenth-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide, and she believes there is more than meets the eye, so in order to uncover the truth she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
215) Boys don't fry
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 23 cm
Description
"Jin wishes his family would ask him to help prepare the Lunar New Year feast. But boys, or Babas, never get asked—only Nyonyas, the girls. It's the eve of Lunar New Year, and Jin can't wait for the big family reunion dinner. He loves the aromas and the bubbly chatter coming from the kitchen. His grandmother, Mamah, is cooking up a storm! As his aunties dice, slice, and chop, there's nothing Jin wants more than to learn about the history...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
"Pickett's Charge, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, is the climax of this Civil War adventure, told from the perspective of three girls: a Union loyalist, a free Black, and a girl from Virginia who disguised herself as a boy to fight in theConfederate Army"--
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