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Summer Reads from Singular, Illuminating Voices

       

Pain & Prejudice

A groundbreaking, feminist work of investigative reporting that explores why women experience healthcare differently than men, and shares the author's own journey of fighting for an endometriosis diagnosis.  
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“[A] powerful account of the sexism cooked into medical care ... will motivate readers to advocate for themselves.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)    
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Every Little Scrap & Wonder 

From an award-winning essayist and acclaimed poet comes this radiant, observant, and warmly funny memoir, part ode to childhood, part love letter to rural life. 
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Feasting Wild 

In Feasting Wild, geographer and anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva embarks on a global culinary adventure to trace our relationship to wild foods.
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“An intense and illuminating travelogue... La Cerva combines environmental history with feminist memoir to craft a narrative that's more in tune with recent works by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Rush.” —The Wall Street Journal
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Still 

Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and six days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain that her baby has died, and she will need to deliver him, still. At once honest, brave, and uplifting, Still is about one woman’s search for her own definition of motherhood, even as she faces one of life’s greatest challenges: learning to live after loss.
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Still is one of those rare books that catches you up and does not let you go. With grace, courage, and honesty, Emma Hansen adds an important voice to this tragic and too-often silenced subject. I loved this book.”—Beth Powning, author of Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss 
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The Immune Mystery 

A page-turning and powerful medical mystery for readers of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders and The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper. After the premature death of her mother, who developed rheumatoid arthritis shortly after giving birth to her, doctor and researcher Anita Kåss embarked on a years-long quest to solve the autoimmune puzzle. 
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Buffy Sainte-Marie Biography

A powerful, intimate look at the life and music of a beloved folk icon and activist.
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"Buffy Sainte-Marie is an icon and inspiration. This book is necessary—an authorized insight into the making of a legend." —Terese Marie Mailhot, author of Heart Berries

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