The Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom is a place where people dream
of love and loneliness, of the world's beauty, and of ongoing environmental
degradation. In this short but moving work, travelers confront their lives
in the strange, elemental language which dre...
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Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on
the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having
survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself
hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic ...
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live and The End of
Diabetes, an unflinching, provocative exploration of how our food is killing
us and the ways in which we are unwitting participants in an unprecedented
and exploding health crisis. Fast food is ...
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“Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado, is a love letter to
an obstinate genre that won’t be gentrified. It’s a wild thing, this
book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists
from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi,...
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"In Gospel of Regicide, Eunsong Kim develops a thrilling method for
unwriting lyric even as she reimagines it, creating a socially engaged poetry
of and for our time. Anticapitalist, feminist and anti-racist yet critical of
non-intersectional understandings of identity a...
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In Leni Zumas' Red Clocks, abortion is once again illegal in America,
in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights
of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing
town, five very different women navigate these new...
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“What a memorable, companionable, and singular book. I can’t think of
another contemporary memoir that has this mix of political and literary
intelligence, all embedded in a personal story that is told with great
candor, historical consciousness, and wit. How I wish it h...
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Uncontrollable weight gain and boiling hot flashes, crying one minute and
angry the next... Menopause (or peri-menopause) is here - it's taking over
your life - and you're seriously ready to get some relief and feel like
yourself again. Did you know that in a recent stu...
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