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21) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life, until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors series. Canadian literature volume TWAS 887
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Margaret Atwood.
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors series. Canada volume TWAS 591
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Margaret Laurence.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Tells the compelling story of the author's life. Through dramatic reenactments and interviews with top Mitchell scholars, Margaret Mitchell emerges as a complex and fascinating woman who had much in common with her iconic creation, Scarlett O'Hara
26) Margaret Atwood
Author
Series
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Margaret Atwood.
Author
Publisher
TLS Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"The story of slavery in America is not over. It lives on in how we speak to one another, in how we treat one another, in how our societies are organised. In Giving a Damn, the legal scholar Patricia Williams finds that when you begin to unpick current debates around immigration, freedom of speech, the culture wars and wall-building, beneath them lies the unexamined history of enslavement in the West. Our ability to dehumanize one another can be traced...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Blighted offers a unique insider perspective of the political, human, and economic challenges of delivering equitable housing in a market fueled by inflationary prices, insatiable demand, and competing and often dubious agendas. [Stagmeier's success with Summerdale apartments] is a bright model of how affordable housing, education, healthcare, and social capital can interconnect to build a vibrant, sustainable equitable housing communities, nearby...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Margaret Cavendish, then Lucas, was born in 1623 to an aristocratic family. In 1644, as England descended into civil war, she joined the court of the formidable Queen Henrietta Maria at Oxford. With the rest of the court she went into self-imposed exile in France. Her family's wealth and lands were forfeited by Parliament. It was in France that she met her partner, William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a marriage that made her the Duchess...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013-2016
Language
English
Description
"With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century. Moore has had unique access to all of Thatcher's private and governmental papers, and interviewed her and her family extensively for this book. Many of her...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Immersed in radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes, this is the fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century."--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman-aka "Canopy Meg"-takes us on an adventure into the "eighth continent" of the world's treetops, along her journey as a tree scientist, and into climate action"--
As a graduate student exploring the rain forests of Australia, Lowman sewed a harness from an old seat belt, gathered hundreds of feet of rope, and found a tool belt for her pencils and rulers. Up she went, into the trees, in order to be...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the bright buzzing room, it is time to power down. Here is a modern bedtime story about bidding our gadgets goodnight. Don't worry, though. They'll be waiting for us, fully charged, in the morning
35) The iron lady
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world
36) Defiant brides: the untold story of two revolutionary-era women and the radical men they married
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
37) Big eyes
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician...
Series
Publisher
Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Presents full-text literary criticism on writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, monographs, reviews, and scholarly papers.
40) The King's Curse
Author
Series
Cousins' war volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII's stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England. Regarded as yet another threat to the volatile King Henry VIII's claim to the throne, Margaret Pole, cousin to Elizabeth of York (known as the White Princess) and daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, is married off to a steady and kind Lancaster supporter--Sir Richard Pole. For his loyalty, Sir Richard is entrusted with...
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