From the very first page, Pamela Gay takes the reader into the most traumatic day of her life, the day she spends the rest of her years to date recovering […]
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The World Looks Different Now
Author Margaret Thomson prefaces her book with the following Gloria Vanderbilt quote: “I have heard it said that the greatest grief a human being can experience is the loss of […]
Read MoreHearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
“For years, I was stuck in limbo between two worlds: never quite deaf enough or quite hearing enough to perfectly fit in one side or another.” Jaipreet Virdi, author of […]
Read MoreHigh Cotton: Essays
This selection of 21 essays by Kristie Robin Johnson is brilliant and evocative in its writing while being disturbing in the topics about which she writes. These essays are a […]
Read MoreThis is How We Leave
“In my basement office I keep a framed picture of my brothers and me, circa 1967,” writes Joanne Nelson at the opening of her memoir, This is How We Leave: “The […]
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Dori Jones Yang, a journalist from Ohio reporting on China in the 1980s for BusinessWeek—who married a Chinese man while doing so—decided she wanted to write a book that bridged […]
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