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No One Talks About This Stuff
"No One Talks About This Stuff" is a ranging anthology of frank, humorous essays about facing infertility, pregnancy loss, and childlessness. The twenty-two contributors felt “disenfranchised grief” over pregnancies that did not lead...
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A Dictionary of Modern Consternation
Resembling an updated Devil’s Dictionary with its sarcastic definitions of buzzwords and euphemistic phrases, "A Dictionary of Modern Consternation" sifts through business and technology jargon and slang vocabulary in a subversive...
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Cat Ninja Presents: Time Buddies
In the charming graphic novel Time Buddies, a spin-off from the Cat Ninja series, a schoolboy and a talking owl traverse millennia. On a museum field trip, Bentley is fascinated by hieroglyphics and sees one image that resembles him. In...
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brother. do. you. love. me.
Illustrated by his brother, Manni Coe’s touching memoir demonstrates how the patient rhythms of nature and family nurture can mitigate mental health crises. In November 2021, Coe was in Spain for work. He received a text from England,...
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Cactus Country
Zoë Bossiere’s "Cactus Country" is a sensitive, searching memoir about gender fluidity. Cactus Country is the Tucson trailer park where Bossiere lived as a child, all year round, in a harsh desert environment that taught them...
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Loose of Earth
About faith, family, and an informal investigation into carcinogenic toxins, Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s memoir "Loose of Earth" is wrenching. Blackburn grew up in Texas surrounded by cotton fields. Her family was religious; their...
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The God of Wild Places
Tony Jones’s meditative memoir "The God of Wild Places" is about leaving the ministry but remaining alive to spirituality through outdoor adventures in Minnesota and further afield. It was Jones’s childhood ambition to become a...
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A Different Kind of Brave
In Lee Wind’s exciting novel "A Different Kind of Brave", two gay teenagers who emulate James Bond fall in love and crisscross the Americas to shut down a harsh conversion therapy institution. Sixteen-year-old Nico escapes Dr....