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2024., Adult, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Color Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryPurchased with the Russell T. Tutt Library Book Fund Summary Note: A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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By Spielberg, Steven, 1946- Kennedy, Kathleen, 1954- Marshall, Frank Jones, Quincy, 1933- Meyjes, Menno Glover, Danny Caesar, Adolph, d. 1986 Avery, Margaret Chong, Rae Dawn Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950- Winfrey, Oprah Daviau, Allen Riva, J. Michael Kahn, Michael, 1935- Walker, Alice, 1944- Warner Bros Warner Home Video (Firm)[2003], p1985., General, Warner Home Video Call No: BLK DVD Fic Color Edition: Two-disc special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who's forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.
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2021., HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Bio S769c Edition: First HarperCollins edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A French memoir in the age of #metoo. A literary sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent weaves her personal narrative of a relationship during her childhood with a famous, much older writer into a stunning and forceful indictment of the literary world that allowed sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked.
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By Mina, Denise2011., McArthur & Company Publishing Limited Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Garnethill series Volume: bk. 2Summary Note: The last time Maureen O'Donnell saw Ann Harris, she was sitting in her office in the Glasgow Women's Shelter smelling of a long binge on cheap drink. A month later Ann's mutilated body is washed up on the banks of the Thames. No one, except for Maureen and her best mate, Leslie, seems to care about what has happened to her, and Maureen is the only person who thinks Ann's husband is innocent. But solving Ann's murder comes as light relief for Maureen. Her father is back in Glasgow, living in an area overlooking her bedroom window; Leslie is sloping about like a nervous spy; and then there's Angus - Maureen's old therapist - who's twice as bright as she is and making her play a dangerous game with the police. In the long tradition of Scots in trouble, Maureen runs away to London. Looking for answers to the mystery surrounding Ann's death, she becomes embroiled in a seedy world of deceit and violence. Alone and vulnerable in a strange city, Maureen starts to piece together Ann's final days. But time is not on her side, and Maureen needs twelve more hours, just twelve, to put things right, and she doesn't care what it costs...
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By Rebick, Judy2018., General, Anansi Call No: Bio R289h Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryView an interview with Judy Rebick from CBC Radio's The Current website. Summary Note: Renowned Canadian feminist Judy Rebick tells the story of the eleven personalities she developed in order to help her cope with, and survive, childhood sexual abuse. Rebick chronicles her struggle with depression in the 1980s, when she became a high-profile spokesperson for the pro-choice movement during the fight to legalize abortion. It was in the 1990s, when she took on her biggest challenge as a public figure by becoming president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, that her memories began to surface and became too persistent to ignore. Rebick reveals her moment of discovery: meeting the eleven personalities; uncovering her repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse; and then communicating with each personality in therapy and on the page in a journal - all of this while she is leading high-profile national struggles against a Conservative government. With courage and honesty, Rebick lays bare the public and private battles that have shaped her life. Judy Rebick is now a frequent commentator on CBC Radio and Television. She lives in Toronto.
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-- Summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.2015., General, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers Call No: IND 971.004 T874h Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Summary Note: The Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens.
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2014., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Rob Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gilead Volume: 3Summary Note: Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only available shelter from the rain - and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security.
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2014., Macmillan Audio Call No: CD Fic Rob Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lila, homeless and alone, steps inside a small-town Iowa church and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.
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[2015]., Doubleday Call No: Fic Yan Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Moving to New York to pursue creative ambitions, four former classmates share decades marked by love, loss, addiction, and haunting elements from a brutal childhood.
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c1998., Delacorte Press Call No: Fic Ste Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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2008., Ebury Publishing Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it. Illegitimate and unwanted, Celine was forced by her foster mother into prostitution. Her bones were broken, her nose was crushed and she ate candle wax to stay alive. Celine was finally rescued and sent to an industrial school, where she picked up the pieces of her shattered life. She also began the search for her parents. But what she found gave her battered survival instincts the hardest knock of all ... Full of the most heartbreaking tragedy but ultimately survival and hope, No One Wants You is the remarkably honest and compelling memoir of a woman triumphing over her brutal past.
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By Jenkins, Tamara, 1962- Trask, Stephen Carey, Anne Hope, Ted Westheimer, Erica Linney, Laura Hoffman, Philip Seymour, 1967-2014 Bosco, Philip Friedman, Peter Zayas, David Akinnagbe, Gbenga Seymour, Cara Fox Searchlight Pictures Lone Star Film Group (Firm) This is That (Firm) Ad Hominem Enterprises (Firm) Cooper's Town Productions (Firm) Twentieth Century Fox Home Enter2008., Adult, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Savages Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: Jon and Wendy Savage (Hoffman and Linney) are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from their abusive father, Lenny (Bosco). Suddenly, a call comes in that Lenny's girlfriend has died and he cannot care for himself. Lenny suffers from dementia and her family dumps Lenny on his children. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him. Now together, brother and sister must come to terms with the new and painful responsibilities with their father. The siblings are forced to face the struggle with their own personal demons.