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1) Tootsie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
An out-of-work actor makes himself up as a woman in order to land a role in a popular soap opera.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Poses an argument against stay-at-home motherhood that cites such vulnerabilities as dependency on one's husband and the loss of financial autonomy, explaining how stay-at-home mothers also forfeit the psychological, intellectual, and health benefits of working.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Eon has disguised herself as a boy in order to study Dragon Magic and become a Dragoneye, one of a select group that forms a conduit to the power of energy dragons, but if the secret of her sex comes out, she will be killed.
Sixteen-year-old Eon hopes to become an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune and learn to be its main interpreter, but to do so will require much, including keeping secret that she is a girl.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Following a heated argument with her husband, Joy Robertson decides to give him the quiet Christmas he claims to want and go on strike for the holidays--no shopping, baking, decorating, wrapping, or entertaining--and when the members of her knitting group hear her plan, they decide to join in, attracting the attention of the local news media and sparking a war of the sexes in the small town of Holly.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Future scientist Kimmy eagerly shares information about dinosaurs during a school field trip until classmate Jake tells her "girls aren't scientists," but Mr. Tiffin sets her straight.
14) Birdie and me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ever since their free-spirited mama died ten months ago, twelve-year-old Jack and her gender creative nine-year-old brother, Birdie, have been living with their fun-loving Uncle Carl, but now their conservative Uncle Patrick insists on being their guardian which forces all four of them to confront grief, prejudice, and loss, all while exploring what 'home' really means"--
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating and often-funny look into Romans’ private (or not-so-private) lives, exploring the truth behind the empire’s salacious reputation. From emperors to empresses, poets to prostitutes, slaves to plebs, ancient Rome was a wealth of different experiences and expectations--nowhere more so than around the subject of sex and sexuality. The image of ancient Rome that has come down to us is one of sexual excess: emperors gripped by perversion...
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 1
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Titus Fisher, an Amish carpenter, journeys into a Kentucky Amish community where he seeks a new beginning and meets the beautiful and unique Suzanne Yoder. She can't cook but can do woodworking, and she painfully resembles Phoebe, Titus's ex-girlfriend.
19) The whole woman
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Examines the state of womanhood at the end of the twentieth century, arguing that women have been sidetracked and pacified in the quest for liberation, and issuing a call to action.
20) Should I stay or should I go?: a guide to knowing if your relationship can--and should--be saved
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A guide to evaluating relationships, with advice and exercises to determine if a relationship is healthy but difficult or unhealthy, and to create a plan to either make the relationship better or to leave it.
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