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  • Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation by Barthes, Roland
    Roland Barthes

    Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

    Author: Roland BarthesISBN-13: 9798200083442Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2012Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d
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  • Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Di Robilant, Andrea
    Andrea Di Robilant

    Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

    Author: Andrea Di RobilantISBN-10: 1665137312ISBN-13: 9781665137317Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2018Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.70h x 5.30w x 0.50d
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  • Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Morgan, Llewelyn
    Llewelyn Morgan

    Horace: A Very Short Introduction

    Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous influence but argues that it is best understood within the...
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  • Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Morgan, Llewelyn
    Llewelyn Morgan

    Horace: A Very Short Introduction

    Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous influence but argues that it is best understood within the...
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  • Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France by Harrison, Olivia C.
    Olivia C. Harrison

    Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France

    For the past fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the...
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  • Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France by Harrison, Olivia C.
    Olivia C. Harrison

    Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France

    For the past fifty years, the Palestinian question has served as a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights in postcolonial France, from the immigrant labor associations of the 1970s and Beur movements of the 1980s to the militant decolonial groups of the...
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  • My Perfect Opinions by Oyler, Lauren
    Lauren Oyler

    No Judgment: Essays

    From the celebrated national bestselling novelist and critic, a groundbreaking collection of essays exploring the state of cultural criticism and what meaning art has in our ever-challenging world.Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant, influential, and revelatory critics of her generation,...
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  • Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Reed, Shannon
    Shannon Reed

    Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

    A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize finalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference,...
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  • A Poetry Handbook by Oliver, Mary
    Mary Oliver

    A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry

    "Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that's what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook."--Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved,...
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  • Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises by Blume, Lesley M. M.
    Lesley M. M. Blume

    Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises

    "Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white." -- James Wolcott, Vanity Fair "An...
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  • Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Haynes, Natalie
    Natalie Haynes

    Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

    New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a...
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  • How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read by Bayard, Pierre
    Pierre Bayard

    How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read

    In this delightfully tongue-in-cheek book, a #3 bestseller in France, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our...
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  • Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Reed, Shannon
    Shannon Reed

    Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

    A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize finalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference,...
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  • The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians by Lozada, Carlos
    Carlos Lozada

    The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation.As a long-time book critic and columnist...
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  • Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures by Bradbury, Ray D.
    Ray D. Bradbury

    Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures

    Essays discuss Bernard Berenson, Walt Disney, Federico Fellini, the cities of Paris and London, art, literature, history, science fiction, and the design of public placesAuthor: Ray D. BradburyISBN-10: 8200703282ISBN-13: 9798200703289Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2022Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.17lbs
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  • Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Di Robilant, Andrea
    Andrea Di Robilant

    Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

    Author: Andrea Di RobilantISBN-10: 1665137320ISBN-13: 9781665137324Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/26/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbs
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  • Roughing It by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    Roughing It

    In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales....
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  • Roughing It by Twain, Mark
    Mark Twain

    Roughing It

    In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales....
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  • Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Haynes, Natalie
    Natalie Haynes

    Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

    New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a...
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  • Borges in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Borges in 90 Minutes

    Weaving fiction with fact, fantastic matter with historical figures, Borges' frequent theme of a world where time, culture, and place converge is both timely and pertinent in our advance toward globalization. Drawing from his multi-ethnic and -lingual upbringing in Argentina, Borges' focus on universal...
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  • Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes

    A highly sensitive and intelligent child, Virginia Woolf grew up in a large family prone to psychological instability. Throughout her life, she was subject to periods of mental breakdown, yet when she was lucid she was capable of a uniquely perceptive and frank introspection....
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  • Beckett in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Beckett in 90 Minutes

    Samuel Beckett's work evokes passionate responses: readers and playgoers either revere it or consider it a load of pretentious nonsense. But his philosophy of pessimism will always find a new generation of young readers, for it bursts the rainbow soap bubbles of illusion, leaving...
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  • Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes

    Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. After narrowly...
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  • The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Crawford, Jackson
    Jackson Crawford

    The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

    The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised ) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a thirteenth-century Icelandic manuscript are...
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  • The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Feder, Rachel
    Rachel Feder

    The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

    What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying.Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy...
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  • Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes

    Garcia Marquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage. But he is also that modern rarity, a writer with aspirations to high art who also remains hugely popular. For those who fall under his spell, his novel, One Hundred Years...
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  • On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions by Lewis, C. S.
    C. S. Lewis

    On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions

    A definitive collection of wisdom on every style of writing and a celebration of the transformative power of the written word from one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the modern age, C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of...
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  • New Hampshire by Frost, Robert
    Robert Frost

    New Hampshire

    Robert Frost (1874-1963) was the most celebrated poet in America for most of the twentieth century. Although chiefly associated with the life and landscapes of New England, his work embodies penetrating and often dark explorations of universal themes. New Hampshire features Frost's meditations on...
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  • The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Feder, Rachel
    Rachel Feder

    The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

    What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying.Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy...
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  • The World According to Joan Didion by McDonnell, Evelyn
    Evelyn McDonnell

    The World According to Joan Didion

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions"A wonderfully fitting tribute to Joan Didion: one that avoids simple platitudes, approaching the great writer with a fierce, probing intelligence, flawless language, and the impulse, which drove Didion's finest work, to understand the dreams of...
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  • The World According to Joan Didion by McDonnell, Evelyn
    Evelyn McDonnell

    The World According to Joan Didion

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions"A wonderfully fitting tribute to Joan Didion: one that avoids simple platitudes, approaching the great writer with a fierce, probing intelligence, flawless language, and the impulse, which drove Didion's finest work, to understand the dreams of...
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  • A Marriage Made in Heaven, or Too Tired for an Affair by Bombeck, Erma
    Erma Bombeck

    A Marriage Made in Heaven, or Too Tired for an Affair

    "I now pronounce you husband and wife." There are few phrases as sobering, with the possible exceptions of "We have lift-off" and "This country is at war." Yet, as they have done for centuries, millions of courageous men and women continue to walk down...
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  • The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Nelson, Maggie
    Maggie Nelson

    The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

    Author: Maggie NelsonISBN-10: 1665274905ISBN-13: 9781665274906Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2017Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbs
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  • You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together by Timpf, Kat
    Kat Timpf

    You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We're All in This Together

    What happens when we can't joke about some of the most important stuff in life?In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should...
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  • How Dead Languages Work by George, Coulter H.
    Coulter H. George

    How Dead Languages Work

    This volume celebrates six such languages--Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew--by first introducing listeners to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how...
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  • Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman by Kenlon, Tabitha
    Tabitha Kenlon

    Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman

    The longest-running war is the battle over how women should behave. Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman examines seven centuries of advice literature, analyzing the print origins of gendered expectations that continue to inform our thinking about women's roles and abilities....
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  • The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World by Tomalin, Claire
    Claire Tomalin

    The Young H. G. Wells: Changing the World

    From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the early life of the influential writer and public figure H. G. Wells How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells's life shape the father of science fiction? From his...
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  • The Saga of the Volsungs Lib/E: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Crawford, Jackson
    Jackson Crawford

    The Saga of the Volsungs Lib/E: With the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok

    From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source...
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  • Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
    Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Narrated by Denis Daly During his lifetime, Hopkins, who was ordained as a Jesuit priest, was best known as a scholar and a teacher of languages. In his youth he composed poetry prolifically, but detroyed all his juvenile work...
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  • The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by Tresch, John
    John Tresch

    The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

    Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote...
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  • The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five by Roston, Tom
    Tom Roston

    The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five

    The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memoryKurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement...
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  • Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings by Smith, Mark Eddy
    Mark Eddy Smith

    Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings

    "As I get older and learn more of what sort of person I am, and continue sojourning to the rich soil of the Shire and the high tower of Minas Tirith, I discover that many of my notions of what is good and right...
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  • The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life: Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way by Atlas, Nava
    Nava Atlas

    Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life, Revised and Updated: Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way

    Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life serves as a beacon of inspiration to writers Author and artist Nava Atlas presents a treasury of intimate glimpses into the unfolding creative writing process across fifteen brilliant careers in women's literature and relates their stories to...
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  • Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Rundell, Katherine
    Katherine Rundell

    Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

    From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.In his...
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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman & Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Winkler, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Winkler

    Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the...
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  • Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God by Turek, Frank
    Frank Turek

    Hollywood Heroes: How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God

    Seven fictional stories―Captain America, Iron Man, Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Batman, and Wonder Woman―point us to the ultimate hero, Jesus Christ. Think about it. What if Batman knew your name and wanted to be friends with you? What if...
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  • A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth by Bruner, Michael Mears
    Michael Mears Bruner

    A Subversive Gospel: Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

    Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL) 2020 Book of the Year - Literary Criticism. The good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act. These notions were embodied in the literary work of American author Flannery O'Connor,...
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  • Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Dionne, Evette
    Evette Dionne

    Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

    A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their...
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  • American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th by Cheever, Susan
    Susan Cheever

    American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th

    Author: Susan CheeverISBN-10: 8200144739ISBN-13: 9798200144730Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2007Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 5.80h x 5.60w x 0.60d
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  • Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Dionne, Evette
    Evette Dionne

    Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

    A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding against all odds. It is a body that others map their...
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