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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Women on the edge	Sharon Lin Tay	"Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political,…	OL15500963W
Welcome to Temptation	Jennifer Crusie	A town with a name like Temptation is bound to be a hotbed of trouble, and Jennifer Crusie knows the perfect way to expose it. Welcome to Temptation is a deliciously titillating and outlandish mi…	OL16050803W
It Chooses You	Miranda July	While writing the script for her 2011 film The Future, Miranda July sought inspiration from the most unlikely of places: A weekly classified ads booklet. It Chooses You includes a series of in…	OL16336637W
Betrayal	Danielle Steel	Tallie Jones is happy with life. She's at the top of her career as a hugely successful, renowned movie director, she's in a relationship with a handsome producer and her personal assistant is also he…	OL17307228W
La luz de un sueño. El cine de Helena Taberna	Carlos Roldán Larreta	El poeta José Ángel Valente describió en su día los cortos de Helena Taberna con dos palabras: fuerza y delicadeza. Es difícil retratar con más acierto su cine. Efectivamente, siempre nos encontramos…	OL17929653W
Jodie Foster	Therese DeAngelis	Discusses the personal life and professional career of the actress, producer and director who has won an Academy Award for her roles in "Accused" and "The Silence of the Lambs."	OL1819292W
In the garden of the fugitives	Ceridwen Dovey	"Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest p…	OL19751910W
In the heart of life	Kathy Eldon	Relates how the death of the author's photojournalist son at the hands of an angry mob in Somalia led her to transform her grief into something positive by embracing the role of philanthropist and ac…	OL19970716W
Dietrich & Riefenstahl	Karin Wieland	Leni Riefenstahl and Marlene Dietrich both came of age in Weimar Berlin, a time of great political ferment. Both women seized upon the revolutionary energy of the 1920s, seeking careers on the stage …	OL20010331W
But you did not come back	Marceline Loridan-Ivens	An activist and documentary filmmaker, who was arrested in occupied France at the age of fifteen, presents this deeply personal account of her experiences during the Holocaust and the death of her fa…	OL20020473W
Disturbing the dark	Wendy Hornsby	Maggie MacGowen, an investigative filmmaker, is in Normandy with a film crew to document the agricultural four seasons on her ancestral family farm. An accidentally excavated skull causes a social me…	OL20028030W
She made me laugh	Richard M. Cohen	"Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of thei…	OL20033334W
The animators	Kayla Rae Whitaker	"In their first year of college, two young women, one from a Florida swamp, the other from a Kentucky holler, both outsiders at their prestigious east coast college, meet in "Introduction to Sketch" …	OL20045915W
The body and the screen	Kate Ince	Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries: in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnes Varda in gaining …	OL20056585W
You'll never eat lunch in this town again	Julia Phillips	Autobiography of movie producer and the first woman to win an academy award for best picture--Julia Phillips.	OL20058235W
My Year of Meats	Ruth Ozeki	**A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author …	OL2754906W
Safe conduct	Elizabeth Benedict	Safe Conduct, is a harrowing exploration of trust and deception between men and women in the midst of the Cold War and at the heart of a marriage." "Filmmaker Kate Lurie and her new husband, Eli MacK…	OL3243888W
Welcome to Temptation	Jennifer Crusie	This is two books in one. Welcome to Temptation and Bet Me. Turn Left at Small Town Secrets Sophie Dempsey is content living a quiet life filming wedding videos until an assignment brings h…	OL503075W
Quentins	Maeve Binchy	While filming a documentary about Quentins, a famed Dublin restaurant, Ella Brady explores the changing face of the city from the 1970s to the present day as she captures the stories of the people wh…	OL56795W
Heartthrob	Suzanne Brockmann	NO WOMAN COULD RESIST HIM . . .Once voted the "Sexiest Man Alive," Jericho Beaumont had dominated the box office before his fall from grace. Now poised for a comeback, he wants the role of Laramie ba…	OL84166W