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2023., Adult, Random House Call No: NEW Fic Gan Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers, swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences. She must ask herself: is it possible for anyone to move through life without doing harm? Sashi begins working as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers, and the arrival of Indian peacekeepers brings further atrocities, she turns to one of her professors, a feminist and dissident who invites her to join in a dangerous, secret project of documenting human rights violations as a mode of civil resistance to war. In gorgeous, fearless writing, Ganeshananthan captures furious mothers marching to demand news of their disappeared sons; a young student attending the hunger strike of an equally young militant; and a feminist reading group that tries to side with community and justice over any single political belief. Set during the early years of Sri Lanka's thirty-year civil war, and based on over a decade of research.
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c2009., Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: BLK Fic Sto Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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2009., Adult, Penguin Audio Call No: CD Fic Sto Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
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By Green, Brunson Columbus, Chris Barnathan, Michael Taylor, Tate Howard, Bryce Dallas, 1981- Tyson, Cicely Stone, Emma Chastain, Jessica, 1977- Vogel, Mike Spencer, Octavia Davis, Viola, 1965- Spacek, Sissy Janney, Allison Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945- Winborne, Hughes Newman, Thomas, 1955- Stockett, Kathryn Dreamworks Pictures Reliance Entertainment (Firm) Participant[2011]., Touchstone Home Entertainment Call No: BLK DVD Fic Help Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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c2009., Penguin USA, Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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2009., Adult, Thorndike Press Call No: LP Fic Sto Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
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2022., Halban Call No: Bio A316h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The fifth daughter in a patriarchal society, and an indigenous Bedouin in Israel, Amal came into this world fighting for her voice to be heard in a community that did not prize girls. At birth it was only her father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I want to call her Amal [hope] in the hope that Allah will give us boys after her." Five brothers were indeed to follow. Hope is a Woman's Name is a rare look at Bedouin life form the even rarer perspective of a Bedouin girl. Amal challenged authority from birth, slowly learning where her community's boundaries lay and how to navigate them. As a shepherd at the age of 6, Amal led her flock of sheep across the green mountains of Laqiya, her village in the Negev in southern Israel. Given such responsibility, though rarely recognition, Amal came to understand her community and forge her skills as a leader. Aged 13 and frustrated by the constraints put on her education as a girl, Amal set up literacy classes for the adult women in her village. She aimed to teach them not only how to read, but to value education itself: "I wanted them to taste an education so that they would never again deprive their daughters of one." This was the beginning of a lifelong career initiating projects that would help create change for the Bedouin - a minority within Israel's Palestinian minority - and for their women in particular. She established economic empowerment programmes for marginalised women, helped found an Arab-Jewish school, and created organisations to promote a shared society. At every turn she had to face the challenges of tradition - as well as the prejudices of Israeli society - to create new possibilities that would allow women to empower themselves. Amal has learnt to embrace every aspect of her complicated identity - Bedouin, Arab, woman, Palestinian and Israeli citizen - to help create social change, build bridges with other communities and inspire hope.
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2017., Adult, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Post Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the government, exposing a cover-up that has spanned four different American presidencies.