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c2004., Routledge Call No: BLK 306.7089 C712b Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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2021., Soho Crime Call No: MYS Fic Mas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Perveen Mistry series Volume: 3Summary Note: November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she's horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince's grand procession is passing by her college. Freny had come for a legal consultation just days before her death, and what she confided makes Perveen suspicious that her death was not an accident. Perveen, who strongly identified with Freny-another young Parsi woman fighting hard against the confines of society's rules and expectations-feels terribly guilty for failing to help her. Perveen steps forward to assist Freny's family in the fraught dealings of the coroner's inquest, and when Freny's death is ruled a murder, Perveen knows she can't rest until she sees justice done. But Bombay is erupting: as armed British secret service march the streets, rioters attack anyone with perceived British connections and desperate shopkeepers destroy their own wares so they will not be targets of racial violence. Can Perveen help a suffering family when her own is in danger?
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c2013., Adult, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Fic Ken Edition: 1st North American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A brilliant literary DEBUT, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard."--Publisher.
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2022., 570 min, BBC Call No: DVD Fic Call 11 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Call the midwife Volume: 11Summary Note: 1967 brings fresh medical and personal challenges to the midwifery and district nursing rounds. Thanks to Matthew2s continued support, things at Nonnatus House are now settled and going well, and Trixie helps Matthew understand the community he is becoming a part of. Doctor Turner faces some changes in his relationship with Timothy now that he is an adult, while Shelagh continues to support community health programs. Across the series, the team faces challenging situations concerning addiction, a baby with a life-threatening condition, breastfeeding difficulties, and a Holocaust survivor.
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c2011., General, Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Tre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1913, a young girl leaves her grandparents' farm in Saskatchewan, to reunite with her mother who abandoned her five years earlier. As she travels to Montreal by train, she makes three stops, and at each of them, a female relative is awaits her. Each reveals to her, one of the roles to which women of the time were confined: the spinster, the mother or the prostitute.
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2009., Chatto & Windus Call No: Fic Nem Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ada grows up motherless in the Jewish pogroms of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century. In the same city, Harry Sinner, the cosseted son of a city financier, belongs to a very different world. Eventually, in search of a brighter future, Ada moves to Paris and makes a living painting scenes from the world she has left behind. Harry Sinner also comes to Paris to mingle in exclusive circles, until one day he buys two paintings which remind him of his past and the course of Ada's life changes once more...
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-- Downton Abbey.By Fellowes, Julian Croucher, Chris, 1981- Neame, Gareth Marchant, Nigel Trubridge, Liz Eaton, Rebecca, 1947- Simpson, Susanne Bonneville, Hugh Carmichael, Laura, 1986- Carter, Jim, 1948- Cassidy, Raquel, 1968- Coyle, Brendan Dockery, Michelle, 1981- Doyle, Kevin, 1961- Fox, Michael. Froggatt, Joanne, 1980- Goode, Matthew, 1978- James, Lily, 1989- James-Collier, R2016., PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Fic Downton 6 Edition: Original UK edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Downton Abbey Volume: 6Summary Note: The year is 1925. Momentous changes threaten the great house, its owners, and its servants, while past scandals continue to loom. Return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season to discover what will finally become of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world. Secrets and rifts threaten the unity of the family, while those below stairs continue to navigate social changes which put their futures in jeopardy.
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c2014., Adult, Tinder Press/Headline Publishing Group Call No: Fic Far Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A compelling story of discipline and disobedience, punishment and the pursuit of passion. Leaving home is one thing. Surviving is another. 1940s Lahore, the Punjab. Two brothers and their two younger sisters are brought up to be "good children," who do what they're told. Beaten and browbeaten by their manipulative mother, to study, honour and obey. Sully, damaged and brilliant, Jakie, irreverent and passionate. Cynical Mae and soft-hearted Lana, outshone and too easily dismissed. The boys escape their repressive home to study medicine abroad, abandoning their sisters to their mother and marriages.
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c2012., Adult, Dundurn Call No: MYS Fic Har Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Meg Harris mysteries Volume: 5Summary Note: After returning home from a trip, Meg Harris discovers that a friend's daughter has been missing from the Migiskan Reserve for more than two months. The police are indifferent, so she takes on the investigation herself, only to discover that her friend's daughter is not the only woman to go missing.
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2014., General, HarperCollins Publishers Limited Call No: Fic Tho Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: London, 1885: A challenging place for a young, beautiful woman of limited means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling, if respectable, conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artist's model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil Wix. With self-styled impresario Devil at the helm of the Palmyra Theatre, acrobats and illusionists astonish audiences with their death-defying stunts and the magic of mysterious new inventions--like electricity. Backstage, secret romances, box-office dramas, and power struggles inevitably simmer, and intermittently boil over.
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By Barnes, Kimc2012., General, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Bar Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries hometown hero Mason McPhee. Raised in a two-room shack by her Oklahoma grandfather, a strict Methodist minister, Gin never believed that someone like Mason, a handsome college boy, the pride of Shawnee, would look her way. And nothing can prepare her for the world she and Mason step into when he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia. In the gated compound of Abqaiq, Gin and Mason are given a home with marble floors, a houseboy to cook their meals, and a gardener to tend the sandy patch out back. Even among the veiled women and strict laws of shariah, Ginœs life has become the stuff of fairy tales. She buys her first swimsuit, she pierces her ears, and Mason gives her a glittering diamond ring. But when a young Bedouin woman is found dead, washed up on the shores of the Persian Gulf, Ginœs world closes in around her, and the one person she trusts is nowhere to be found. Set against the gorgeously etched landscape of a country on the cusp of enormous change, In the Kingdom of Men abounds with sandstorms and locust swarms, shrimp peddlers, pearl divers, and Bedouin caravansa luminous portrait of life in the desert. Award-winning author Kim Barnes weaves a mesmerizing, richly imagined tale of Americans out of their depth in Saudi Arabia, a marriage in peril, and one womanœs quest for the truth, no matter what it might cost her.
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2020. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: The runaway bestseller that has sold over one million copies internationally, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the most important book to have come out of South Korea since Han Kang's The Vegetarian. Kim Jiyoung is the most common name for Korean women born in the 1980s. Kim Jiyoung is representative of her generation: At home, she is an unfavoured sister to her princeling little brother. In primary school, she is a girl who has to line up behind the boys at lunchtime. In high school, she is a daughter whose father blames her for being harassed late at night. In university, she is a good student who doesn't get put forward for internships by her professor. In the office, she is an exemplary employee who is overlooked for promotion by her manager. At home, she is a wife who has given up her career to take care of her husband and her baby. Kim Jiyoung is depressed. Kim Jiyoung has started to act out. Kim Jiyoung is her own woman. Kim Jiyoung is insane. Kim Jiyoung's husband sends her to see a psychiatrist. This is his clinical assessment of the everywoman in contemporary Korea.
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2012., Bloomsbury Call No: Fic Joi Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1923, devout Eva English and her not-so-religious sister Lizzie embark on a journey to be missionaries in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar.
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c2013., Adult, Cormorant Books Call No: Fic Rut Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so.
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2011., Adult, Éditions L'Interligne Call No: QWF FR Fic Maz Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Il y a des romans dont la fibre même, ou l'écriture, est une clé magique qui ouvre comme un sésame sur un monde de mystères qui font peur et que l'on n'ose pas approcher parce que les vérités qu'ils recèlent sont invisibles à cause de nos préjugés de Nord-Américains. Je parle ici du roman de Monia Mazigh qui met en scène des femmes immigrantes venues d'Afrique du Nord, du Moyen-Orient et d'Asie avec leur culture, leurs espoirs, leurs différences et surtout leur religion musulmane. Ce sont des mères gardiennes des us et coutumes, maîtresses des secrets de l'Orient qui souhaitent pour leurs filles une émancipation dans le respect des valeurs de l'islam, mais en faisant aussi leurs, la modernité de l'Occident et toutes ses opportunités de bonheur. Ce sont des filles qui étudient à l'Université, spontanées, ouvertes d'esprit, qui se questionnent sur la façon de vivre leur foi dans cet Ottawa des tentations. De prime abord, les relations sont tendues entre les générations, la sacrifiée qui vit par procuration et la dépositaire d'un héritage fait de croyances et de découvertes qui remet tout en question. Il est difficile pour ces femmes de s'adapter, mais elles trouvent des complices et des amies. Leur vie leur semble alors moins cloisonnée et la lumière naît de ces échanges. Leurs destinées s'entrecroisent multipliant à l'infini les facettes de l'immigrante musulmane. Elle n'est plus seulement un voile, un niqab ou un accent qui chante, mais elle devient, sous la plume d'expérience de Monia Mazigh, un être humain doué de sensibilité et de majesté.
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-- Mister Muo's travelling couch.2005., Knopf Call No: Fic Dai Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library