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ID:
018666
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London, Vintage Books, 1970.
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xi, 212pWhite spine
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Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's prosperous black families, as well as its white families, Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, overworked mother in a shabby two-room storefront that reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives. In awe of her clean well-groomed schoolmates, and certain of her own intense ugliness, Pecola tries to make herself disappear as she wishes fervently, desperately for the blue eyes of a white girl. In her afterward to this novel, Morrison writes of the little girl she once knew: "Beauty was not simply something to behold, it was something one could do. The Bluest Eye was my effort to say something about that; to say something about why she had not, or possibly never would have, the experience of what she possessed and also why she prayed for so radical an alteration. Implicit in her desire was racial self-loathing. And twenty-years later I was still wondering about how one learns that. Who told her? Who made her feel that it was better to be a freak that what she was? Who had looked at her and found her so wanting, so small a weight on the beauty scale? The novel pecks away at the gaze that condemned her.
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9780099759911 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I01372 | 813.54/MOR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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022381
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London, Particular Books, 2016.
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212pBlue Spine
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Reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the stories of 100 heroic women from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams.
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Ada Lovelace - Mathematician
Alek Wek - Supermodel
Alfonsina Strada - Cyclist
Alicia Alonso - Ballerina
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim - President and Scientist
Amelia Earhart - Aviator
Aman Al Hadad - Weightlifter
Ann Makosinski - Inventor
Anna Politkovskaya - Journalist
Artemisia Gentleeschi - Painter
Ashley Fiolek - Motocross Racer
Astrid Lindgren - Writer
Aung San Suu Kyi - Politician
Balkissa Chaibou - Activist
Brenda Chapman - Director
The Bronte Sisters - Writers
Catherine the great - Empress
Cholita Climbers - Mountaineers
Claudia Ruggerini - Partisan
Cleopatra - Pharaoh
Coco Chanel - Fashion designer
Cora Coralina - Poet and baker
Coy Mathis - Elementary school student
Elizabeth I - Queen
Eufrosina Cruz - Activist and Politician
Evita Peron - Politician
Fadumo Dayib - Politician
Florence Nightingale - Nurse
Frida Kahlo - Painter
Grace Hooper - Computer Scientist
Grace O'Malley - Pirate
Harriet Tubman - Freedom Fighter
Hatshepsut - Pharaoh
Helen Keller - Activist
Hillary Clinton - Presidential candidate
Hypatia - Mathematician and Philosopher
Irena Sendlerowa - War hero
Isabel Allende - Writer
Jacquotte Delahaye - Pirate
Jane Austen - Writer
Jane Goodall - Primatologist
Jessica Watson - Sailor
Jill Tarter - Astronomer
Jingu - Empress
Joan Jett - Rock star
Julia Child - Chef
Kate Sheppard - Suffragette
Lakshmi Bai - Queen and warrior
Lella Lombardi - Formula One racer
Lozen - Warrior
Mae C. Jemison - Astronaut and doctor
Malala Yousafzai - Activist
Manal Al-Sharif - Activist
Margaret Hamilton - Computer scientist
Margaret Thatcher - Prime Minister
Margherita Hack - Astrophysicist
Mara Callas - Opera Singer
Maria Montessori - Physician and Educator
Maria Reiche - Archaeologist
Maria Sibyla Merian - Naturalist
Marie Curie - Scientist
Mary Anning - Paleontologist
Mary Edwards Walker - Surgeon
Mary Kom - Boxer
Matilde Montoya - Doctor
Maud Stevens Wagner - Tattoo artist
Maya Angelou - Writer
Maya Gabeira - Surfer
Melba Liston - Trombonist
Michaela Deprince - Ballerina
Michelle Obama - Lawyer and first lady
Millo Castro Zaldarriaga - Drummer
The Mirabal sisters - Activists
Miriam Makeba - Activist and singer
Misty Copeland - Ballerina
Nancy Wake - Spy
Nanny of the Maroons - Queen
Nellie Bly - Reporter
Nettie Stevens - Genticist
Nina Simone - Singer
Policarpa Salavarrieta - Spy
Rita Levi Montalcini - Scientist
Rosa Parks - Activist
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Harkness - Explorer
Seondeok of Silla - Queen
Serena and Venus Williams - Tennis players
Simone Biles - Gymnast
Sonita Alizadeh - Rapper
Sylvia Earle - Marine biologist
Tamara de Lempicka - Painter
Virginia Woolf - Writer
Wang Zhenyi - Astronomer
Wangari Maathai - Activist
Wilma Rudolph - Athlete
Xian Zhang - Orchestra conductor
Yaa Asantewaa - Warrior Queen
Yoko Ono - Artist
Yusra Mardini - Swimmer
Zaha Hadid - Architect
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9780141986005 Hb.
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ID:
018652
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New Delhi, Penguin Books, 1991.
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liv, 232pWhite spine
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Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those that she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves wtih that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.
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9780141182490 Pb.
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| I01341 | 823.912/WOO | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
018590
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New Delhi, 2007.
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Penguin Classics
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Set in a village in southern India shortly after independence, the novel portrays the hopes and aspirations of a young nation recently embarked on the path of development, surmounting many obstacles along the way.
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9780143066576 Pb.
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| I01343 | 823.91/MAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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