Had I Known
Barbara Ehrenreich
Nonfiction / Sociology / Politics
A new selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" (The New Yorker) Barbara Ehrenreich.A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit.From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller, Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and...
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Bang
E. K. Blair
New Adult / Romance / Sociology
They say when you take revenge against another you lose a part of your innocence. But I’m not innocent. I haven’t been for a very long time. My innocence was stolen from me. Taken was the life I was supposed to have. The soul I was born with. The ruby heart embedded in a life full of hopes and dreams. Gone.Vanished. I never even had a choice. I mourn that life. Mourn the what-ifs. Until now. I’m ready to take back what was always meant to be mine. But every plan has a fatal flaw. Sometimes it’s the heart. *Due to the dark and explicit nature of this book, it is recommended for mature audiences only as some scenes may be particularly disturbing.*
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Hush (Black Lotus #3)
E. K. Blair
New Adult / Romance / Sociology
This is the final book in the highly acclaimed Black Lotus series, a dark psychosexual thriller like no other. Synopsis I've come to learn there is no escaping your past. It doesn't matter what you do, it will follow like a phantom--haunting you--reminding you. Reading Order BANG (book 1)ECHO (book 2)HUSH (book 3)*Due to the dark and explicit nature of this book, it is recommended for mature audiences only as some scenes may be particularly disturbing. ***
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Fiction / Sociology / Poetry
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.'Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Charlotte Perkins Gilman...
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Author Anonymous: A True Story
E. K. Blair
New Adult / Romance / Sociology
She’s an author. She’s a mother. She’s a wife. She’s a fraud, a woman marked and bound by her own deceit. Experience the astounding tale of how Anonymous battled through a year of scandals and betrayals, how her world fell from its axis with a single choice, and how she lost herself between reality and fantasy.
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Vancouver Nights
Blythe Stone
Nonfiction / Sociology / Economics
Relationship dynamics are rocked when Olivia bumps into her ex after ten years of successful avoidance. Hitting on the new girlfriend might be a bad place to start. Nevertheless, the charitable two invite Olivia to stay with them in Vancouver while Nat works on a new horror film with a real jerk of a director.
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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Barbara Ehrenreich
Nonfiction / Sociology / Politics
As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of health care in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by The Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have written an entirely new chapter that delves into the current fascination with and controversies about witches, exposing our fears and fantasies. They build on their classic exposé on the demonization of women healers and the political and economic monopolization of medicine. This quick history brings us up-to-date, exploring today's changing attitudes toward childbirth, alternative medicine, and modern-day witches.Barbara Ehrenreich is author of the New York Times bestsellers Nickel and...
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