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Reaching back from the most recent economic crash to ancient times, Screwnomics explains the underlying sexual history of todays economics and issues a wake-up call for todays women to join what has been a nearly exclusively male conversation for the past 2,500 years.

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An intimate peek inside French homes and lives, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre or peasant foods), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditionssprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memoriesthis culinary food and travel memoir reveals French families at their best and at their own dinner tables.

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Karen Meadows intertwines her own story with excerpts from her daughter Sadies journals, to describe their roller coaster ride through Sadies depression and a maze of inadequate mental health treatment and servicesone that ended with Sadies suicide at age eighteen. .

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Traumatized by an unwanted cesarean, Derich begins the long journey of learning to trust her instinct and building the courage to go against societal norms and give birth to her second child the way she always wanted to: naturally.

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Written for the invisible walking wounded among us who hide their pain behind smilesand for the educators and mentors who sometimes doubt the power of their influenceSeeing Eye Girl is an inspiring story of one girls search for hope in an abusive, dysfunctional home, and of the teachers who empowered her.

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An inspirational memoir by a chemically intolerant woman that has the potential to change the way people view fragrances and other common chemical toxins in their environments.

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Do you want to visit Italy, or do you want to experience Italy Those enticing words were the lure that emboldened Carole Bumpus and her husband to take a month-long trip to Italy one memorable Septembera trip during which they discovered a land of unforgettable characters, sumptuous traditional foods, and sublime beauty.

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A hilarious peek into the Catholic school experience through the eyes of Kathy Gereauwho, by learning to laugh at the ridiculous bits of dogma, eventually finds the spiritual message within.

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What would you do if you wanted something but didnt know how to get it What if you were incarcerated but didnt know why What if you followed up on a decades-old whim When is a society truly perfect, and who decides And what awaits us at the end of our lives In this fascinating short story collection, Nancy Joie Wilkie explores these questions and more.

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This deeply personal memoir of Alenka Vreceks 2,500-mile solo bikepacking pilgrimage along the spine of the snow-covered Sierra Nevada and into the hostile desert mountains and plains of Mexicos Baja Peninsulaa story about crossing emotional, physical, and cultural boundarieswill inspire readers to follow their own dreams as Alenka followed hers.

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A courageous escape from domestic abuse is rewarded with a happy late-in-life remarriage in this motorcycle diary of love and loss.

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From his post at the headquarters of the German occupation during World War II, Hans Calmeyer surreptitiously saved thousands of Jewish lives in the Netherlands. Here, Laureen Nussbaum describes how Calmeyer declared her mother non-Jewish and deleted her and her family from the deportation listsand traces the arc of both her life and Calmeyers in the aftermath of the war.

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When a series of bomb explosions hit on Memorial Day, Sabine flees Washington DC on foot and eventually finds safety at an abandoned farmhouse with other refugeesbut surrounded by chaos, and unable to remember her family or her last name, who can she trust

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Lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mom Sarah Shaw is struggling to find a steady happiness after the death of her infant daughter, when she meets a young homeless mother and toddler she cant get out of her mind. Rescuing them becomes her missionone that takes her on a journey that may destroy whats left of her marriage.

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After twenty-four-year-old Kim falls in love with and marries fifty-six-year-old Vern, she quickly becomes pregnantonly to have their love tested by the ghosts of Verns past, his failing health, and the unexpected arrival of a troubled young boy.

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It's the 1960s, and teenager Martha Goldenthal just wants to do well at Berkeley High and apply to college--but how can she when her father is a raging batterer who disdains academia, and her mother is arguably worse When her mother abandons the family, Martha must stand up to her father to fulfill her vision of going to college.

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Linda Curtis was raised as a Jehovahs Witness and is an unquestioning true believer who has knocked on doors from the time she was nine years oldbut when she begins to have doubts as an adult, she eventually leaves the religion, losing her family and divorcing her Witness husband in the process.

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Marilee Eaves has struggled her whole life to fit into her lineage--the long line of kings and queens of the secret elitist Mardi Gras societies that rule New Orleans--but when, as a student at Wellesley, she's hospitalized at McLean psychiatric hospital, she begins her journey to break free and stand on her own two feet.

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The sexual exploitation and abuse of young women is an increasing problem throughout the world. With metaphors of goddesses and sea creatures as guides; this inspiring book addresses the long term challenges faced by adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation and embarks upon a healing journey from within and reclamation of personal voice and power.

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If you take one very large, reclusive, and eccentric man who lives to eat, add one young woman fresh out of culinary school who lives to cook, and then stir in a love of musical comedy and fresh-brewed exotic tea, with just a hint of magic, will the result be a soufflor a charred, inedible mess