Social Science, Women's Studies
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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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Eight Billion Reasons Population Matters
The Defining Issue of the 21st Century by Valorie M. Allen
Have you been wondering why our environmental progress has been so disappointing? The world is about to hit a staggering population level of EIGHT BILLION people living on one small planet. In this provocative and critically acclaimed must-read, ...
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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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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. It ...
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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 and ...
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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 she ...
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The Beekeeper's Wife
by Shanda Hansma Blue
The Beekeeper’s Wife is inspired by Herbert Scott’s poem of the same name. It is an attempt to imagine the life of the woman behind the poem. Shanda Hansma Blue’s The Beekeeper’s Wife is a brilliant poetic argument between nature and ...
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