Social Science, Women's Studies
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Women Thriving in Leadership
Practices for Cultivating Wholeness and Community by Dr. Kathy Toogood
Women Thriving in Leadership is for all women who lead, aspire to lead, or wonder if they can lead. Dr. Toogood takes a holistic approach to leadership development, encouraging the reader to reflect on their experience and question assumptions...
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Sex, Tears, and Orgasms
Sweet, Gentle and Yet Strong Within by Lawrelynd Bowin
Sex, Tears, and Orgasms is the true story of an African Canadian woman’s journey to become whole several decades after suffering the trauma of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and sexual violence as a child in Guinea, West Africa....
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A Will within a Wheel
Women Racers of the 1890s by T.R. Ormond
Six-day races, record-breaking rides, and renegade leagues are at the heart of this fascinating short fiction collection that explores women’s competitive cycling in the late Victorian era. Each of the stories contained in this meticulously...
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Sharing a Glass
Inspirational Memoirs & Memories of the Women Who Shaped Ontario’s Grape & Wine Industry by Jennifer Wilhelm
Even if you’re not an oenophile, chances are you know that Ontario’s wine industry produces some of Canada’s best bottles. In just a few decades, the wines crafted in the province have begun to claim their rightful place on the world stage,...
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Escaping My Predator
by Mary J Schalla
Spousal abuse is all too common, and there are many—too many—families that are irreparably damaged. This book is a first-person account of what it takes to survive sexual assault, emotional abuse, and long-term harassment by an intimate partner....
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Mirrors & Reflections
Knowing Your Power: From One Muslim Immigrant Sister to Another by Khulood Agha Khan
This guidebook peeks into the lives of Muslim immigrant women in Canada from around the world. The book begins with a land acknowledgement in an immigrant style where we recognize the stolen land that is being forced to share. It mentions some...
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Beautiful Brilliant and Brave
An homage to girls and women around the world who choose to think for themselves; to be trailblazers and to celebrate their greatness, with no apology. by Sophie Lazarou
“THE BUILDING OF MOUNTAINS and wondrous structures becomes a whole lot easier, and extensively more sustainable, when we commit to celebrating each other’s successes, rather than expending time and energy tearing them down.”
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Mouths Full Of Dawn
by Angel Adu-Gyamfi
Mouths full of dawn is the first series of poetry from the author's Colors of the Millennium Collection. It is a collection of prose written in response to the social injustice and stigmatization of those who are marginalized and misplaced in...
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Hornets in the Office
by Marie E. Rickwood
Elly Thomas is young, beautiful, and very well-trained to be a housewife. She fills this position above and beyond anyone’s expectations; however, after ten years of marriage and the birth of twin sons, now eight years old, Elly has become bored...
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Swarm Before Me
The Tragic Case of Becker v Pettkus by Samuel Schwisberg
On November 5, 1986, Rosa Becker, the estranged common law partner of a successful beekeeper in Eastern Ontario, shot herself in the head and died. That fatal shot reverberated throughout the Canadian legal system when her suicide note revealed...
