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The immigrant [videorecording] / by Gray, James,1969-film director,screenwriter,film producer.(CARDINAL)343364; Menello, Richard,screenwriter.; Shapiro, Greg,film producer.; Woodrow, Christopher,1977-film producer.; Katagas, Anthony,film producer.(CARDINAL)849065; Cotillard, Marion,1975-actor.(CARDINAL)848781; Phoenix, Joaquin,actor.; Renner, Jeremy,actor.(CARDINAL)357074; Sarafyan, Angela,1983-actor.; Axelrad, John,editor of moving image work.(CARDINAL)343354; Khondji, Darius,cinematographer.(CARDINAL)343355; Norris, Patricia,costume designer.; Massee, Happy,production designer.; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)340087; Keep Your Head Productions,production company.; Kingsgate (Firm),production company.; Weinstein Company,presenter.(CARDINAL)340085; Wild Bunch (Firm),presenter.(CARDINAL)848540; Worldview Entertainment,presenter.;

Editor, John Axelrad ; director of photography, Darius Khondji ; costume designer, Patricia Norris ; production designer, Happy Massee.Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Angela Sarafyan.Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces her into prostitution.MPAA rating: R; for sexual content, nudity and some language.DVD, NTSC region 1, anamorphic wide screen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Women immigrants; Prostitutes;

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Wayward lives, beautiful experiments : intimate histories of social upheaval / by Hartman, Saidiya V.,author.(CARDINAL)205852;

A note on method -- Cast of characters -- Book One. She makes an errant path through the city. The terrible beauty of the slum -- A minor figure -- An unloved woman -- An intimate history of slavery and freedom -- Manual for general housework -- An atlas of the wayward -- A chronicle of need and want -- In a moment of tenderness the future seems possible -- Book Two. The sexual geography of the Black Belt. 1900. The tenderloin. 241 West 41st Street -- 1909. 601 West 61st Street. A new colony of colored people, or Malindy in Little Africa -- Mistah beauty, the autobiography of an ex-colored woman, select scenes from a film never cast by Oscar Micheaux, Harlem, 1920s -- Family albums, aborted futures : a disillusioned wife becomes an artist, 1890 Seventh Avenue -- Book Three. Beautiful experiments. Revolution in a minor key -- Wayward : a short entry on the possible -- The anarchy of colored girls assembled in a riotous manner -- The arrested life of Eva Perkins -- Riot and refrain -- The socialist delivers a lecture on free love -- The beauty of the chorus -- The chorus opens the way.Traces a time of radical transformation of black life in early twentieth-century America, revealing how a large number of black women forged relationships, families, and jobs that were more empowered and typically indifferent to moral dictates."A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them--domestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty--and whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires."Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-418) and index.

Subjects: African American young women; African American young women; African American young women; Single women; Single women; Urban women; Urban women; Sex customs; Prostitution; Man-woman relationships.; Sexual practices.; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.;

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The pocket : a hidden history of women's lives, 1660-1900 / by Burman, Barbara,author.; Fennetaux, Ariane,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-257) and index.Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, yards of stolen ribbon, thimbles, snuff boxes, a picture of a lover, two live ducks: these are just some of the fascinating things carried by women and girls in their tie-on pockets, an essential accessory throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This first book-length study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives-from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen-and explore their consumption practices, work, sociability, mobility, privacy, and identity. The authors draw on an unprecedented study of surviving pockets in museums and private collections to identify their materials, techniques, and decoration; their use is investigated through sources as diverse as criminal trials, letters, diaries, inventories, novels, and advertisements. Richly illustrated with paintings, satirical prints, and photographs of artifacts in detail, this innovative book reveals the unexpected story of these deeply evocative and personal objects.

Subjects: History.; Dress accessories; Dress accessories; Dress accessories; Pockets.; Women's clothing; Women's clothing; Women's clothing;

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City of the beast : the London of Aleister Crowley / by Baker, Phil,1961-Author(DLC)n 96098205 ;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-317) and index.A work that combines biography and pyschogeography to trace Aleister Crowley's life in London. "I dreamed I was paying a visit to London," Aleister Crowley wrote in Italy, continuing, "It was a vivid, long, coherent, detailed affair of several days, with so much incident that it would make a good-sized volume." Crowley had a love-hate relationship with London, but the city was where he spent much of his adult life, and it was the capital of the culture that created him: Crowley was a post-decadent with deviant Victorian roots in the cultural ferment of the 1890s and the magical revival of the Golden Dawn. Not a walking guide, although many routes could be pieced together from its pages, this is a biography by sites. A fusion of life-writing with psychogeography, steeped in London's social history from Victoria to the Blitz, it draws extensively on unpublished material and offers an exceptionally intimate picture of the Great Beast. We follow Crowley as he searches for prostitutes in Hyde Park and Pimlico, drinks absinthe and eats Chinese food in Soho, and find himself down on his luck in Paddington Green--and never quite losing sight of the illumination that drove him: "the abiding rapture," he wrote in his diary, "which makes a 'bus in the street sound like an angel choir!"

Subjects: Crowley, Aleister, 1875-1947; Occultism;

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Point zero / by Matsumoto, Seichō,1909-1992,author.(CARDINAL)510985; Kawai, Louise Heal,translator.(CARDINAL)399690;

"A triumph by Seicho Matsumoto, the master of Japanese mystery writing. A beautifully written crime novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation. First published in Japanese in 1959, the novel abandoned the template of closed-room mysteries so popular in pre-war Japan to embrace social criticism. In a radical departure from tradition, the novel has a female protagonist, a housewife seeking to find her missing husband. Respectful of the proprieties expected of a Japanese woman of the time, but stubborn, intrepid and a naturally intuitive sleuth. Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to investigate his disappearance. When Kenichi's brother comes to help her, he is murdered, poisoned in his hotel room. Soon, Teiko discovers that her husband's disappearance is tied up with the so-called "pan-pan girls", women who worked as prostitutes catering to American GIs after the war. Now, ten years later, as the country is recovering, there are those who are willing to take extreme measures to hide that past." --

Subjects: Novels.; Missing persons; Married people; Japanese fiction; Married people.;

Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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The lucky star [large print] / by Vollmann, William T.,author.(CARDINAL)752349;

"In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves, and who has to love them all back. After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard, the introverted, alcoholic, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much, Judy's retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction. Crafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture, gender identity, incest, Christian sacrifice and, most of all, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way, and stand up for who they are"--

Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Witches; Marginality, Social; Interpersonal relations; Bars (Drinking establishments);

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Jesus / by Gansky, Alton.(CARDINAL)395638;

teachings about our relationship to Him -- Jesus' teachings about His death and resurrection -- Jesus' teachings about His Second Coming -- Private sermons to the disciples -- Jesus' final message -- Friends and enemies -- Mary Magdalene and other women who followed Jesus -- Supporters and followers : Mary, Martha and Lazarus -- Joseph of Arimathea and the body of Jesus -- Out of the shadows, Nicodemus and Jesus' burial -- Those who hated Him most, the Pharisees -- Those who challenged Jesus, the Sadducees -- Those who tried to outsmart Jesus, the scribes -- The end of the beginning -- The triumphal entry into Jerusalem -- The Lord's supper : portraying His own death -- Alone in the Garden of Gethsemane -- Jesus unanswered prayer -- Jesus on trial -- The Barabbas mystery -- The death Jesus died -- Buried in a tomb -- The first Easter : Resurrection -- The lesson of angels at the tomb -- The twelve resurrection appearances of Christ -- Jesus ascent to heaven -- How Jesus changed the world -- Working through the apostles -- Working through the church -- The persecutor who met Jesus -- From Jerusalem to the world the message continues -- Personal and knowable.Introduction -- Discovering Jesus in the pages of the Bible -- How the Bible reveals Jesus -- What makes the Gospels so great? -- Why we can trust the Gospels -- Gospel differences -- The men who wrote the Gospels -- The land and people of Jesus' day -- Jesus arrival -- Jesus before his birth -- What He left behind to come here -- An angelic birth announcement -- Can the virgin birth be real? -- Mary, the mother -- Joseph, the father -- The day Mary gave birth -- The little town of Bethlehem -- What is a manger and why is it important? -- Eyewitnesses : shepherds, wise men, and angels -- The amazing people in Jesus' lineage -- King Herod's horrible response -- What was Jesus like? -- Jesus' first public appearance -- How Jesus faced temptation -- Many names and titles, one person -- Jesus at the temple, unafraid of confrontation -- How Jesus lived sinless in a world of sinners -- Suffocated by crowds, Jesus dealt with the masses -- Jesus need to get away -- I am how Jesus described himself -- Who do people say I am? -- The emotional Jesus, the times Jesus wept -- Jesus came for reasons different than expected -- Jesus is more than He seems transfiguration -- How Jesus worked -- Jesus, the itinerant preacher -- Loving what society rejects, lepers and others -- Working with society's outsiders, adulterers, prostitutes, outcasts -- Erasing the lines of prejudice -- Jesus shows compassion for the conquerors -- Breaking social rules -- The meaning of miracles -- Types of miracles -- The first miracle -- Miracles over disease -- Miracles done over distance -- Miracles involving the dead -- Miracles over nature -- Miracles with messages -- The world's greatest teacher -- Jesus' parables -- The rich man and Lazarus : a different kind of story -- Jesus' Sermon on the Mount -- Jesus' teachings about God's desire -- Jesus' teachings about our need for forgiveness -- Jesus' teachings about our responsibility to others -- Jesus' teachings about prayer -- Jesus'

Subjects: Jesus Christ;

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Optic nerve / by Gainza, María,1975-author.(CARDINAL)789777; Bunstead, Thomas,translator.(CARDINAL)605322;

The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies. The mystery of Rothko's refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Building in New York is blended with the story of a hospital in which a prostitute walks the halls while the narrator's husband receives chemotherapy. Alfred de Dreux visits Géricault's workshop; Gustave Courbet's devilish seascapes incite viewers ٢to have sex, or to eat an apple٣; Picasso organizes a cruel banquet in Rousseau's honor . . . All of these fascinating episodes in art history interact with the narrator's life in Buenos Aires-her family and work; her loves and losses; her infatuations and disappointments. The effect is of a character refracted by environment, composed by the canvases she studies. Seductive and capricious, Optic Nerve marks the English-language debut of a major Argentinian writer. It is a book that captures, like no other, the mysterious connections between a work of art and the person who perceives it.

Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Autobiographical fiction.; Novels.; Art; Artists; Women art historians; Social classes;

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Over there : living with the U.S. military empire from World War Two to the present / by H©œhn, Maria,1955-; Moon, Seungsook,1963-(CARDINAL)822263;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and class in the U.S. military empire / Maria H©œhn and Seungsook Moon -- Regulating desire, managing the empire: U.S. military prostitution in South Korea, 1945-1970 / Seungsook Moon -- "Pan-Pan girls" performing and resisting neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U.S. military prostitution in occupied Japan, 1945-1952 / Michiko Takeuchi -- "You can't pin sergeant's stripes on an archangel" : soldiering, sexuality, and U.S. Army policies in Germany / Maria H[MARC+95]hn -- U.S. military families abroad in the post-Cold War era and the "new global posture" / Donna Alvah -- Crossfire couples : marginality and agency among Okinawan women in relationships with U.S. military men / Chris Ames -- Hidden soldiers : working for the "national defense" / Robin Riley -- In the U.S. army but not quite of it : contesting the imperial power in a discourse of KATUSAs / Seungsook Moon -- "The American soldier dances, the German soldier marches" : the transformation of Germans' views on GIs, masculinity, and militarism / Maria H©œhn -- In the middle of the road I stand transfixed / Christopher Nelson -- The racial crisis of 1970-1971 in the U.S. military : finding solutions in West Germany and South Korea / Maria H©œhn -- Camptown prostitution and the imperial sofa : abuse and violence against transnational Camptown women in South Korea / Seungsook Moon -- Abu Ghraib : a predictable tragedy? / Jeff Bennett -- Conclusion: the empire at the crossroad? / Maria H©œhn and Seungsook Moon.

Subjects: Military bases, American; Military bases, American;

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Diamond cut : a novel / by Cavanagh, Thomas B.,author.(CARDINAL)482690;

"To find a missing girl, Sandy must return to the insidious places she once worked tirelessly to escape. Sandy Corrigan used to be called Diamond. She used to live in an apartment with other girls like her, though she rarely slept there, instead spending her evenings in hotel rooms around Orlando with lonely, unfaithful men. That is, until the incident. But despite the personal hell she endured, the nightmarish crisis saved her from a life spent in strangers beds. Sandy now spends her evenings reading to her six-year-old son, Tyler, and her days working for her brother's private investigation business. Despite severing all ties to her former life, a girl from her past reappears and asks Sandy to investigate the disappearance of a young call girl. Unsure of whether or not the girl is alive, and wary of the past traumas the investigation could bring to the surface, Sandy takes the case. What she doesn't expect to discover is a sordid web of corruption, sex, and murder, and she soon grows more entangled with each step she takes. Can she survive the horrors she thought she escaped years ago?"--Back cover.

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Social problem fiction.; Private investigators; Human trafficking; Prostitution; Missing persons; Murder;

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