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Sharing the less “palatable” parts of her life, revealing her struggles with bulimia, mental illness and family, coaches and federation, the U.S. figure skating champion and Olympic medalist provides an intimate account of surviving as a young woman in a society that rewards appearances more than anything and demands perfection at all costs.
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It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
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Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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With laugh-out-loud impertinence and tongue-in-cheek humor, a best-selling author profiles the unforgettable, impressive 19th- and early 20th-century women—unjustly called sluts, shrews, sinners and scolds—who refused to conform to social standards and who were collectively unbecoming as women, but forever changed what women can become.
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Sea Glass Cove volume 3
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Katie Shand
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Wren Gabbri-Keawe has just become the most famous novelist in America. But how can she follow up her latest hit? Retreating to Seaglass Cove, she needs a mystery romance to keep readers flipping pages--and cement her reputation. The only chip in her writer's block comes thanks to sheriff Jude Cohen. Older than her and with a secretive past behind him, Wren finds him utterly captivating. But is she falling for him, or his story? Trust is a fragile...
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Brown Books Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The B Words walks readers through thirteen key challenges that women encounter in their career paths, showing how to navigate them with confidence and ultimately manifest the bravery needed to achieve for self-defined success. Author Tricia Kagerer not only explores the hurdles we all have faced or will face in the workforce but also offers effective strategies that combat the true root causes of the inequality we must stamp out to create a brighter...
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English
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In this exuberant and unapologetic book, Lenz makes an argument for the advantages of getting divorced, framing it as a practical and effective solution for women to take back the power they are owed. Weaving reportage with sociological research and literature with popular culture along with personal stories of coming together and breaking up, Lenz creates a kaleidoscopic and poignant portrait of American marriage today. She argues that marriage,...
11) Sing her down
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MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When an unexpected reprieve frees them both from an Arizona women’s prison, Diosmary Sandoval’s fixation on her former cellmate Florida Baum turns into a dangerous obsession, resulting in a deadly cat-and-mouse chase from Arizona to the desolate streets of Los Angeles.
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English
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Offered patronage by Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate, in 1906, Gemma, a silver-voiced soprano, and Suling, a Chinatown embroideress, when Henry disappears, along with the fabled Phoenix Crown, are brought together five years later in one last desperate quest for justice.
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Tells the extraordinary true story of America’s first women astronauts who made history in 1978 when they were selected to go into orbit aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle, each of them making their mark as they helped build the tools that made the space program run.
15) V.I. Warshawski
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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When V.I. Warshawski, a tough-talking Chicago private eye, is hired by the 13-year-old daughter of a murdered ex-hockey star, she gets caught up in a plot involving money, murder and the Windy City's most notorious hoods.
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Enrolling in the prestigious Law and Literature course at Franklin University to exact revenge on the professor she believes is responsible for her sister’s death, Jessie Mooney will cross any line to hold him accountable as the truth becomes darkly twisted.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. In her bones, Ricki knows that somewhere, a different, more exciting life awaits her. When regal nonagenarian, Ms. Della, invites her to rent the bottom floor of her Harlem brownstone, Ricki jumps at the chance for a fresh beginning. She leaves behind her family, wealth,...
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Redhook
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"1977: Beatrice Bird is a Ph.D. psychologist who has fled her home, her partner, and her practice in San Francisco for a remote and sparsely populated island. She sees as few people as she possibly can, not by choice but from necessity. Normally, Beatrice is plagued by ghosts, manifestations of the emotional baggage people carry with them, but on the island, she's free from their grief and sadness. Then she meets Anne Iredale, a thirty-two-year-old...
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English
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Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can't imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there's the devil herself: Jane's senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay...
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