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1) Untamed
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"There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to...
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"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions...
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"Passing Strange" is a uniquely American biography of Clarence King, who hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family: for 13 years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd.
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"Biography of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only recently recognized for her extraordinary contributions to the field"--
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1860: Elizabeth Packard's husband, Theophilus, feeling threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts, has her committed to an insane asylum. The conditions in the asylum are horrific. But most disturbing is that many other rational women have also been committed not because they need treatment, but were instead conveniently labeled "crazy" so their voices are ignored. No one is willing to fight for...
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This is an intimate and ultimately riveting look at their unique relationship, and the humor, faith, fortitude, and grace that define it. It is, above all, a uniquely American love story. Given the obvious historic significance of what they accomplished together, the marriage of Barack and Michelle stands as one of the great personal and political partnerships in American history. Yet, incredibly, the true nature of the marriage remains a mystery....
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In her senior year of college, Asha Bandele and a group of other writers went to a prison to read their works for a Black History Month program. There, she met Rashid, a man who was serving 20 to life for murder, a man who spoke softly and wisely, a man who would become Asha's soul mate. This is her account of a relationship that has thrived despite terrific odds.
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It's May 2007. Leaving China's Great Wall is Dina Bennett and her husband Bernard in Car 84, one of the 125 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. The 1940 LaSalle is guided by Dina, the world's least likely navigator, with Bernard at the wheel as they race their car across the Gobi, Siberia, and the Baltic States and head south to Paris. As they nurse their car through the route, Dina brings you with as she ducks rock-throwing...
10) Swing
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"Waiting in line to use the bathroom in a fancy New York City sex club is just like waiting to use the bathroom anywhere else. Well, anywhere else that people walk around half-naked. And anywhere else that you must send in a bio and full-body photo before being added to the invite list. Besides those things, it's like waiting in line for the bathroom anywhere else. Raised in figure skating, Ashleigh brought the quest for perfectionism into marriage...
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"Born Betsy Bowen into grinding poverty, the woman who reinvented herself as Eliza Jumel was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, and confined to a workhouse when her mother was in jail. By the end of her life, "Madame Jumel" was one of America's richest women, with servants of her own, an elegant mansion, a summer home in Saratoga Springs, a major art collection, and several hundred acres of land. During her remarkable rise, she obtained...
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What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully written memoir, she movingly describes how she has experienced place, marriage, and aloneness while creating a home in the Texas Hill Country
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"La cantante Adele ha hablado mucho en la prensa sobre este libro y cómo la ha ayudado a cambiar... La publicación del libro ha generado un movimiento global en redes. El nuevo libro de Glenon Doyle, una autora superventas, activista y conocida bloguera que ha revolucionado las redes con una sencilla pregunta: ¿quién eras tú antes de que el mundo te dijera cómo debías ser? A los treinta y nueve años, casada con el padre de sus tres hijos,...
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"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened--by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to put his wife back in her place. One summer...
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