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The leader of contemporary feminist theory discusses such issues as racism, self-acceptance, and mother- and woman-hood.
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle...
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Penguin Books
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2020.
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"At once a searing indictment of a racist, patriarchal society and a manual for claiming an intersectional identity, Sister Outsider is a comprehensive collection of the lauded poet and writer Audre Lorde's most famous and influential works of nonfiction prose. Sister Outsider depicts the idea of "difference"--Whether through race, gender, or sexuality--as a powerful tool for empowerment that can be used as a catalyst for change. Throughout the fifteen...
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She Writes Press
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2021.
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From an author of the best-selling women's health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves
comes a bracingly forthright memoir about a life-long friendship across
racial and class divides. A white woman's necessary learning, and a
Black woman's complex evolution, make These Walls Between Us a "tender, honest, cringeworthy and powerful read." (Debby Irving, author, Waking Up White.)
In the mid-1950s, a fifteen-year-old...
In the mid-1950s, a fifteen-year-old...
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Gods and warriors volume 2
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"In his search for his sister Issi, Hylas is kidnapped and sold into slavery and must escape the Crows with the help of his friend Pirra and a lion cub"--
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"A definitive selection of prose and poetry from the self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," for a new generation of readers. Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. Her incisive essays and passionate poetry-alive with sensuality, vulnerability, and rage-remain indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical...
8) 100 Quotes About Authenticity in Self-Care That Will Transform Your Life - Nurturing the Soul Thr
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100 QUOTES ABOUT
AUTHENTICITY IN SELF-CARE
THAT WILL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE
NURTURING THE SOUL THROUGH GENUINE CARE
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Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery with "100 Quotes About Authenticity In Self-Care That Will Transform Your Life - Nurturing The Soul Through Genuine Care." In a world often fraught with expectations, pressures, and societal norms, the quest to uncover one's true identity can be both...
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Confident and carefree, Salm can speak with dolphins, but he hasn't managed to talk his way into getting his own ship. At eighteen, he wants to protect the Windborne coast and waters, but to sail the rough seas ahead, he needs a partner-one his hyper magic gets along with.Luna keeps the beacon burning in her family lighthouse to guide sailors safely along the windswept Scotland sea cliffs, but she feels as lost as the orphaned gull she rescued. How...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 America loves sassy Black women, but sass is just a more palatable form of rage. Black women use sass to express their anger, but they are often dismissed as irrational, crazy, and out of touch.
#2 Black women have the right to be angry. We have been dreaming of freedom and carving out spaces for liberation since we arrived on these shores. We understand what it means to love ourselves...
11) Tellan
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It was only supposed to be a social media quiz.Enjoying a family Sunday dinner was always a good time. Mum's great food, the antics of her niece and nephews, and getting time to hang out with her sister outside of the work they both did at the family's Caribbean-Chinese fusion restaurant in Birmingham. When her sister encourages her to take the social media quiz she shared so they could compare results, Laurel thought nothing of it. So it was about...
12) Balance
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Eyrie Cedrela lives in a small village with her aunt and sister outside of the capital city of Tulvan. She leads an ordinary life, when an altercation with her sister unleashes a dormant power insider her. Power that was inherited through her parents and coveted by the kingdoms of the world. She is able to keep her abilities a secret, until an attempted robbery leads to an unlikely friendship with a noble elf, Nyarriku, from the ancient Aldevera Forrest....
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde celebrates the undeniable voice of a woman who wrote, in the words of Adrienne Rich, "poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity ... a poetry which extends beyond white Western politics, beyond the anger and wisdom of Black America ... These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page."
"Collected here for the first time are more than three hundred poems from one of this country's major and...
14) Little women
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Medfield - Cozy Reads for Adults - Bookish Characters
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
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"Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law, delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters. From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom the world might just describe as truly odd. But the...
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"One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two sisters, eight and eleven, go missing. In the ensuing months the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. Social and ethnic tensions have long simmered...
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It is 1970 in a small town in California: 'Bean' Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving the girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that has been in Charlotte's family for generations....
19) Sisters
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"'One of her generation's most intriguing authors' (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a...
20) Juniper & Thorn
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"Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside...
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