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The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Shechtman (Author)"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."--New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest.The indisputable "queen...

A Shortage of Grandparents: A Memoir of Loss and Discovery

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Meier Moss Katz (Author) Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Mary S. King (Author)A poignant and deeply personal memoir, Facing the Wall recounts the long and painful journey of a wife navigating life alongside a Vietnam War veteran struggling with PTSD. Through raw and heartfelt storytelling, Mary S. King shares the emotional toll of war's invisible wounds, the challenges of family life, and the resilience needed to find hope and healing. This compelling narrative sheds light on the lasting effects of trauma, offering u...

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Report copyright infringementby J. M. Tolcher (Author) Number of Pages: 124 Dimensions: 0.29 x 7.87 x 5.12 IN Publication Date: March 21, 2025

Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole

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Report copyright infringementby Wendy A. Gaudin (Author)Shaped by centuries of migration, enslavement, freedom, colonization, and cultural mixture, Louisiana Creole identity is often simplified or misunderstood to fit into today's ideas about race and nationality. In Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole, Wendy A. Gaudin fearlessly takes on the many meanings of Creole in a lyrical exploration of how this multilayered, transnational, bilingual, and racially expansive history of New Orlean...

Ever Widening Circles & Mystical Moments: Autobiographical, Historical, Spiritual, Psychological & Political

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Shinoda Bolen (Author)Ever Widening Circles and Mystical Moments is a long-awaited memoir by Jean Shinoda Bolen MD that invites readers to journey through a life interwoven with personal experiences and historical events. The book begins with Bolen's childhood, marked by her Japanese American family's forced relocation from California following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This experience-along with her early eye surgery and frequent moves to different sta...

In The Footsteps Of A Bipolar Life: Life Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Abigail George (Author), Ambrose Cato George (Author)This book will display and demonstrate the imaginative and creative powers of the pen in combating the frailties and difficulties of a life faced head on with mental illness. We all suffer from mood swing. It is just how we deal, handle and cope with the preconceived notion, the ego and self-concept of the individual with regards to the conditioning and genetic predispositions we were raised with. The authors...

The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights, 1960-1968

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Peter Clark (Editor), Raymond Arsenault (Editor)"In pointing us toward how to be 'better than we are, ' Gene Patterson--passionate, funny, sound of mind and full of heart--coincidentally reminds us just how fine journalism can be. This is a wonderful, inspiring book."--Geneva Overholser, syndicated columnist, Washington Post Writers Group, and Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting, University of Missouri"Proves that journalism at its best can e...

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Report copyright infringementby Angie R. Douthit (Author)Life With Mike is a true story about living with, caring for, and loving a man with Down's syndrome. Mike Williams Douthit lived with Down's Syndrome for 55 years. During the last 17 years he was blessed to be cared for by the devoted mother he deserved, author Angie Douthit, the father he had always longed for, Brad Douthit, and the sisters and brothers he had constantly hoped for, Whitney, Kaylee, Mackenzie, and Zeke. This story focus...

My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Verdery (Author)As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. She returned several times over the next twenty-five years, during which time the secret police--the Securitate--compiled a massive surveillance file on her. Reading thro...

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Wynn-Williams (Author)An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them. From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes bot...

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Report copyright infringementby Dylan Mulvaney (Author)"Dylan makes me laugh and makes me brave. I love Paper Doll, and I love this woman." --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed Actress and content creator Dylan Mulvaney's honest account of her journey through girlhood When Dylan Mulvaney came out as a woman online, she was a viral sensation almost overnight, emerging as a trailblazing voice on social media. Dylan's personal coming-out story blossomed into a platfo...

Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People

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Report copyright infringementby Dalai Lama (Author)In this unique book offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections--some never shared before--His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and its people for nearly seventy-five years.The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People's Republic of China for about his entire life. He was sixteen years old when Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, only nineteen when he had his first meeti...

We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

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Report copyright infringementby Alissa Wilkinson (Author)Joan Didion opened The White Album (1979) with what would become one of the most iconic lines in American literature: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Today, this phrase is deployed inspirationally, printed on T-shirts and posters, used as a battle cry for artists and writers. In truth, Didion was describing something much less rosy: our human tendency to manufacture delusions that might ward away our anxieties when society...

The Stowaway in First Class: A True Story of an Unforgettable Quest to Come to America

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony DeSantis (Author)A family's legacy is forever changed in this true story of ransom notes, stowaways, and mobsters. Paris, 1929. Gaetano "Guy" DeSantis is an Italian emigrant with a good life: a stable construction job, a comfortable place to live, and a blossoming relationship with a young waitress, Marie. But Guy dreams of making a future in America, alongside his cousin Frank who immigrated a few years earlier. So when a mysterious stranger shows up a...

Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy

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Report copyright infringementby Bridgett M. Davis (Author)A searing tribute of sisterhood and family, profound love and loss from the acclaimed author of The World According to Fannie Davis.In Love, Rita Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister Rita, who knew Bridgett before she knew herself. Just four years apart in age, as the two sisters grew into young adulthood they left behind their childhood rivalry and became best friends.Rita was a vivacious woman who attended Fi...

Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer

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Report copyright infringementby Ariel Gore (Author)An expansive, darkly funny, and deeply personal reflection on the reality of living with--and dying from--metastatic breast cancer.Deena stepped out of the shower and opened her towel in the steam. "Does my breast look weird?" These words irrevocably change the lives of writer Ariel Gore and her wife. As they descend into a world of doctors and tests, medications and insurance, sickness and treatments and hope and pain and more, they discover...

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Report copyright infringementby Kate Manne (Author)NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it--from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled "An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture."--Roxane Gay, author of Hunger A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NP...

If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

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Report copyright infringementby Geraldine Deruiter (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. "With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves."--Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood Feminism ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR When celebrity chef Mario Batali sen...

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Report copyright infringementby Will Rees (Author)A personal and literary examination of hypochondria.A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria is expansive in its range of references, from the writings of Franz Kafka to original yet accessible readings of theorists like Lauren Berlant. Whether he is discussing Seinfeld, John Donne, or his own hypochondriac past, Rees reveals himself to be a wry and perceptive critic, exploration the causes - and the costs - of our desire for certaint...

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Report copyright infringementby Andre Dubus (Author)During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in New York City, Dubus worked--at being a better worker and a better human being.In Ghost Dogs, Dubus's nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs...

Invisible Blackness: A Louisiana Family in the Age of Racial Passing

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Report copyright infringementby Katy Morlas Shannon (Author)Invisible Blackness explores the complex lives of Creoles of mixed race born in Louisiana to enslaved women and the white men who enslaved them. Individuals such as Alice Thomasson Grice forged their own identities--and often reinvented themselves--within the increasingly strict racial order of antebellum and postbellum Louisiana. Alice Thomasson Grice occupied an unusual position among mixed-race Creoles of her era, as her white fat...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Maracle (Author)Lee Maracle's Bobbi Lee Indian Rebel tells the narrative of an Indigenous woman raised in North America who finds her strength despite the forces that challenge and oppress her. Grippingly honest, Lee's autobiographical exploration of post-colonial tensions in Toronto circa 1960-1980 sheds light on the existing racist and sexist sentiments affecting Indigenous women. Reflective of the struggles Indigenous communities face today, this book co...

Here to Stay: The Story of the Class of Women Who Coeducated the University of Virginia

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Report copyright infringementby Gail Burrell Gerry (Author)Reflecting on the legacy of the first class of undergraduate women at UVA The campaign to secure unfettered access to higher education for women took decades of activism and advocacy, and mainstream skepticism over the viability of coeducation persisted until shockingly recently. Many august institutions dragged their feet until the passage of Title IX codified equal access to higher education. The University of Virginia was the las...

The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman's Journey to Save Scotland's Original Sheep - Paperback

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by Jane Cooper (Author)"A windswept love letter"--Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentFrom Viking times to pastoral Highland crofts to odious research experiments, this is the untold, real-life detective story of the remarkable little horned sheep known as the Orkney Boreray and the determined woman who moved to one of Scotland's wildest islands to save them.It was Jane Cooper's passion for knitting that led her to search for rare-breed sheep and their distinctive wool. When she found a...

Motherhood Uncensored: 35 Authors Explore Things Left Unsaid About Motherhood

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Report copyright infringementby Beverley Pannell (Author)In 2024 Motherhood Uncensored ran a writing competition, open to all, on the theme of 'things left unsaid about motherhood'. Hundreds entered and thousands voted on which entries resonated with them the most.This collection contains the most popular entries. It tackles the impact of motherhood on our relationships, work, health and identity; our dilemmas about becoming mothers; fertility, loss and grief; and inequality and injustice.It ...

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A Legacy of Service: Memoirs of a Life Lived

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Report copyright infringementby A. Bola Olaniyan (Author)This is a well balanced book which gives credence to the fact that while you play your part, it is the grace of God that takes you to great heights. The book features several accounts where the subject received favour from unexpected situations. From an insider's perspective, I can boldly say this book is of a man who has lived a life that is aptly highlighted in a quote I recently read: "Live so that when your children think of fairnes...

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Report copyright infringementby Jake Zawlacki (Author)Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular and contentious comic artists ever. The interviews compiled in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of McFarlane's polarizing character. Beginning with his earliest days on Spider-Man to the months before the hotly anticipated release of Spawn and ending with his writing ventures decades later, the interviews offer compelli...

The Real Cost of Fake News: The Hidden Truth Behind The Planned Parenthood Video Scandal

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Report copyright infringementby Savita Ginde (Author)Dr. Ginde thought she was just doing her job, a job that she loved. Suddenly, in 2015 her anonymity was snatched from her by an unscrupulous organization calling itself "the Center for Medical Progress." (CMP) Members of CMP used subterfuge to gain access to the offices and medical facilities of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, where Savita worked as Chief Medical Officer. Using deceit to enter into both the national office and ma...

The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin G. Lowther (Author), Joseph A. Opala (Foreword by)A compelling biography of a South Carolina slave who returned to fight the slave trade in his African homelandThe inspirational story of John Kizell celebrates the life of a West African enslaved as a boy and brought to South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution. Fleeing his owner, Kizell served with the British military in the Revolutionary War, began a family in the Nova Scotian wilderness, the...