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1. Normal women: nine hundred years of making history

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Author:
Gregory, Philippa
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus-a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history. Most histories have been written by men, about men, relegating women-with the exception of a few queens-to the shadows of time. Now, bestselling author Philippa Gregory reveals the importance of ordinary women, providing...

2. Normal women

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Author:
Hogarth, Ainslie
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Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"New mother Dani has a lot going on. She's worried that her seemingly healthy husband, Clark, might drop dead, leaving her and her baby, Lotte, destitute. She's worried that she hasn't lived up to her birthright as the daughter of the legendary Garbage King, DJ Silver, whose waste management company employed the town of Metcalf for decades. And she's really worried that, try as she might, she's not a gym-going, manicure-sporting, perfectly coiffed...

3. Why It's Normal for Men to Prefer Young Women

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Castor, A. A.
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A.A. Castor
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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From ancient civilizations to modern media, the allure of youth has long shaped cultural ideals and personal desires. Drawing on evolutionary biology, psychology, and historical evidence, this book examines the natural underpinnings of why men are often attracted to younger women. Far from being a superficial or modern phenomenon, these inclinations reflect deep-seated adaptive strategies that have been refined over millennia.Yet understanding these...

4. Seven steps to managing your memory: what's normal, what's not, and what to do about it

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Budson, Andrew E.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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"As you age, you may find yourself worrying about your memory. Where did I put those car keys? What time was my appointment? What was her name again? With more than 41 million Americans over the age of 65 in the United States, the question becomes how much (or, perhaps, what type) of memory loss is to be expected as one gets older and what should trigger a visit to the doctor. Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory addresses these key concerns and more,...

5. Intermezzo: a novel

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Author:
Rooney, Sally
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Thorndike Press large print top shelf
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English
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"An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney"--

6. Husbands & lovers: a novel

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Williams, Beatriz
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"Connecticut, 2022. Mallory Dunne has spent her life trying to be a good mother to her son, Sam. Raising him alone is hard, even with the help of her sister. Two years ago, Sam ingested a toxic mushroom and fell into a coma. Now recovered, he needs a new kidney to live a normal life, forcing Mallory to track down his father in the hope that they're a match. Her journey to find him again transports her back to the summer they spent on the paradise...

7. The help

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Stockett, Kathryn
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.

8. Practical magic

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Author:
Hoffman, Alice
Series:
Practical Magic volume 1
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English
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For most adults, fairy tales are among the childish things we've put away. Alice Hoffman, however, feels differently. Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one...

9. Deepwater horizon

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[2017]
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English
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For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal day. Before day's end, the world would bear witness to one of the greatest man-made disasters in U.S. history. It reveals the brave acts of the men and women who rose to the challenge and risked everything to lead others to safety.

10. Dracula

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Author:
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Vintage classics
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990L
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English
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"A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this hardcover Dover Bookshelf edition of the chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula"-- "By night, Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) navigated the flourishing world of Victorian theater, yet, in the shadows, he was the brilliant mind behind the chilling vampire masterpiece Dracula, a tale of insatiable hunger...

11. The uncoupling

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Wolitzer, Meg
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire.
When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. Or, at least,...

12. Sons and Lovers

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Lawrence, David Herbert 'D. H.'
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English
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First published in 1913, "Sons and Lovers" is D. H. Lawrence's provocative semi-autobiographical novel. The work is based in part on his own family, his mother married a miner like the matriarch of the novel and consequently felt constrained by being relegated to a working class life. The story reflects the struggles of Paul Morel, an artist who cannot reciprocate love for other women while under the influence of his stifling mother. Unconsciously...

13. Home free

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Author:
Michaels, Fern
Series:
Sisterhood volume 20
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English
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The vigilantes of the Sisterhood reorganize as a secret group called the CIC and dedicated to serving their friend, the president of the United States, Martine Connor.

14. Then we came to the end: a novel

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Author:
Ferris, Joshua
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920L
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English
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The remaining employees at an office affected by a business downturn spend their time enjoying secret romances, elaborate pranks, and frequent coffee breaks, while trying to make sense of their only remaining "work," a mysterious pro-bono ad campaign.

15. Mrs. Dalloway

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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
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Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Harvest book
Everyman's library volume 157
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950L
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English
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....

16. I see you

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Mackintosh, Clare
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"The author of the smash bestseller, I Let You Go, propels readers into a dark and claustrophobic thriller, in which a normal, everyday woman becomes trapped in the confines of her normal, everyday world... Every morning and evening, Zoe Walker takes the same route to the train station, waits at a certain place on the platform, finds her favorite spot in the car, never suspecting that someone is watching her... It all starts with a classified ad....

17. You are not alone

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Hendricks, Greer
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"Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision to leap in front of an ongoing subway train, Shay realizes she could end up in the same spiral. She is intrigued by a group of women who seem to have it all together, and they invite her with the promise: 'You are not alone.' Why not align herself with the glamorous...

18. The dressmakers of Auschwitz: the true story of the women who sewed to survive

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Author:
Adlington, Lucy, 1970-
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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Drawing on a vast array of sources, including interviews with the last surviving seamstress, this powerful book tells the story of the brave women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, exposing the greed, cruelty and hypocrisy of the Third Reich. At the height of the Holocaust, young inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp-- mainly Jewish women and girls-- were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions in a...

19. All fall down: a novel

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Weiner, Jennifer
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"Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her mother's barely dealing at all. As she struggles to hold her home and work life together,...

20. This is the story of a happy marriage

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Author:
Patchett, Ann
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Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments-- to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband-- creating a resonant portrait of her life.
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