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Nervosa
Hayley Gold’s beautiful graphic memoir "Nervosa" covers the artist’s life through her eating disorder. When Gold was ten, she went to get ice cream with her father while he ranted about her mother. Her cholesterol was high, some...
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Women Without Kids
Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Ruby Warrington’s "Women Without Kids" concerns the reality of being childless today. After years of fielding the question of when she’d have kids, Warrington started digging into the social...
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Climate Champions
Rachel Sarah’s "Climate Champions" profiles fifteen women who are fighting against climate change from every avenue of science activism. Covering journalists, professors, conservation biologists, and researchers—many of them from...
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Living with Mr. Fahrenheit
Lisa Beecher’s moving memoir "Living with Mr. Fahrenheit" concerns the twenty years she spent as a caregiver for her husband. Police officer Lisa Beecher’s heartbreaking memoir "Living with Mr. Fahrenheit" is about how her marriage...
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Survive Your Child's Suicide
Peggy Green’s book Survive Your Child’s Suicide takes on self-help and grief from a delicate, informative place. Grief coach Peggy Green’s self-help book Survive Your Child’s Suicide is a straightforward and gentle guide to...
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Higher Connections
A humorous exercise in “pothead” spirituality, Eric and Alexandra Right’s "Higher Connections" is about the ways that marijuana might improve a person’s life. Eric and Alexandra Right’s spiritual memoir "Higher Connections"...
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Muddy People
Sara El Sayed’s heartwarming, humorous memoir "Muddy People" concerns her life growing up in an Egyptian Muslim family in Australia. El Sayed’s childhood was both messy and marked by feelings of being “other.” When she was a...
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Land of Women
María Sánchez’s memoir concerns the inequalities that women face in the Spanish countryside, even as rural communities fade away. Sánchez works in a field that’s dominated by men: just 2.2% of field veterinarians in Spain are...