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1. All in her head: the truth and lies early medicine taught us about women's bodies and why it matters today

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Comen, Elizabeth
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English
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For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The notion that female bodies are flawed inversions of the male ideal lingers on, as do the pervasive societal stigmas and ignorance that shape women's health and relationships with their own bodies. The author draws back the curtain on the collective medical...

2. All in her head: how gender bias harms women's mental health

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Pratt, Misty
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Greystone Books
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English
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"Why are so many women feeling anxious, stressed out, and depressed, and why are they not getting the help they need? Over the past decade, mood disorders have skyrocketed among women, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. Yet in a healthcare system steeped in gender bias, women’s complaints are often dismissed, their normal emotions are pathologized, and treatments routinely fail to address the root causes of their distress. Women...

3. All in Her Head: A Novel

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Author:
Mera, Sunny
Publisher:
She Writes Press
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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As a young girl growing up in the Midwest, Sunny experiences the shame and stigma of scandal when her father is banned from their church for having an affair with the pastor's best friend's wife. As Sunny grows older, she begins to build the life she's always wanted: she marries, buys a house, enrolls in graduate school, and soon has a baby on the way. But when she experiences the psychological phenomena of orgasmic labor, it triggers a chain of bizarre...

4. All in Her Head: What Men Taught Us About Women's Bodies

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Comen, Elizabeth
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women's health. For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women's healthcare is a story in which...

5. It's All in Her Head

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Author:
Doty, Wyeth
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Meraki Press
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"I think someone followed me home from work last night." Marnie Adams has spent ten years running from an abusive stepfather and a faith that betrayed her. Finally free, she's devoted her life to helping others heal from trauma as a therapist. But when she becomes the sole object of an obsessive stalker's attention, her perfectly crafted life crumbles. She knows someone is watching her, but no one believes her, not even her closest friend. The threat...

6. A phoenix first must burn: sixteen stories of Black girl magic, resistance, and hope

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Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic.

7. The nightingale

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
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New York Times Bestsellers Fiction
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HL: High-Low 740L
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English
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4.6 stars
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Kristin Hannah's next novel. It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II. She is the author of twenty-one novels. Her previous novels include Home Front, Night Road, Firefly Lane, Fly Away, and Winter Garden"-- "Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life...

8. The teacher

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Author:
McFadden, Freida
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Thorndike Press Large Print Thriller Adventure Suspense
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal, with one student, Addie, at its center. And this year, Eve is dismayed to find the girl in her class. Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says. But nobody knows the real...

9. The grey wolf

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Author:
Penny, Louise
Series:
Three Pines mystery volume 19
Thorndike Press large print high octane
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
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English
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"The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly...

10. Deep end

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Hazelwood, Ali
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A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships--at...

11. Pride and prejudice

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Dover large print classics
Oxford illustrated Jane Austen volume 2
Gramercy classics
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1090L
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English
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4.2 stars
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A novel of manners about the romantic 'pas de deux' between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despite Elizabeth's negative feelings about Darcy, fate seems determined to keep throwing this pair together, and Darcy, almost in spite of himself, will make revelations that will end up causing Elizabeth to question everything she believes. Set in a time when marrying well was...

12. Lies he told me

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Patterson, James, 1947-
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"An attorney and mother of two discovers her husband's secret life - and it might cost them all their lives. Everyone in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practices family law. When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, he's celebrated as a hero. His muscled physique, shaved head, and piercing blue eyes are broadcast on every news outlet....

13. It ends with us

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Author:
Hoover, Colleen
Series:
It Ends with Us: volume 1
Thorndike Press Large Print softcover romance and women's fiction
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English
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"Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up— she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant....

14. Anne of Green Gables

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Author:
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942
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Classic Starts®
Puffin in bloom
Everyman's library children's classics
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Lexile measure:
990L
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English
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4.5 stars
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As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever. But would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was not...

15. Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
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Puffin chalk
Studio book
Alice in Wonderland
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950L
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English
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4.5 stars
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

16. The big empty

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Author:
Crais, Robert
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Thorndike Press large print top shelf
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel volume 20
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English
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"Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now, ten years later, Traci is a high-profile influencer with millions of followers and the money to hire the best detective she can find: Elvis Cole. Elvis heads to Rancha where an ex-con named Sadie Givens and her daughter, Anya, might have a line on the...

17. The maid

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Author:
Prose, Nita
Series:
Maid novel volume 1
Molly the Maid
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English
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"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...

18. Jane Eyre

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Author:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
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Oxford world's classics
Vintage Classics
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840L
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English
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4.8 stars
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This is a story of a woman of passion and intelligence who refuses to be satisfied with her "place" in society, and asserts her identity and aspirations with defiance and dignity. In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

19. A midsummer night's dream

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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Oxford world's classics
Plays
Folger Shakespeare Library
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English
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5 stars
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The original play by Shakespeare's drama telling how Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander but is betrothed to Demetrius, much to her dismay. And no one loves Helena, though her heart belongs to Demetrius. When Hermia and Lysander escape escape through the forest to elope, Demetrius chases them, and Helena chases Demetrius. With the magic of the forest bewitching the hand of fate, perhaps their dream of love will come true.

20. This tender land: a novel

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Author:
Krueger, William Kent
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English
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"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"-- 1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an...
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