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The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian cancer in her lifetime. Thirty-four, unattached, and yearning for marriage and a family of her own, Queller faces an agonizing choice: a lifetime of vigilant screenings and a commitment to fight the disease when caught, or its radical alternative--a prophylactic double mastectomy that would effectively restore life to her, even as it would challenge her most closely held beliefs about body image, identity, and sexuality. Superbly informed and armed with surprising wit and style, Queller takes us on an odyssey from the frontiers of science to the private interiors of a woman's life. Pretty Is What Changes is an absorbing account of how she reaches her courageous decision and its physical, emotional, and philosophical consequences. It is also an incredibly moving story of what we inherit from our parents and how we fashion it into the stuff of our own lives, of mothers and daughters and sisters, and of the sisterhood that forms when women are united in battle against a common enemy. 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Still, when detectives asked for victims to come forward, she sent a note. With her criminal case file reopened, she saw for the first time evidence that corroborated her memories. Here were depictions of the naïve, hardworking girl she'd been, a chorister and debater, the daughter of a priest; of the two senior athletes who assaulted her and were allowed to graduate with awards; and of the faculty, doctors, and priests who had known about Crawford's assault and gone to great lengths to bury it. Now a wife, mother, and writer living on the other side of the country, Crawford learned that police had uncovered astonishing proof of an institutional silencing years before, and that unnamed powers were still trying to block her case. The slander, innuendo, and lack of adult concern that Crawford had experienced as a student hadn't been the imagined effects of trauma, after all: these were the actions of a school that prized its reputation above anything, even a child. This revelation launched Crawford on an extraordinary inquiry into the ways gender, privilege, and power shaped her experience as a girl at the gates of America's elite. Her investigation looks beyond the sprawling playing fields and soaring chapel towers of crucibles of power like St. Paul's, whose reckoning is still to come. And it runs deep into the channels of shame and guilt, witness and silencing, that dictate who can speak and who is heard in American society. 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How does a girl—abandoned by her mother at age two and orphaned at thirteen when her beloved father dies—find her place in the world? This memoir is the story of Nadia creating her own solid ground across countries and continents. I know the struggle of rebuilding your life in an unfamiliar place. While some of you might be familiar with that and some might not, I hope you’ll take as much inspiration and hope from her story as I did.” —MALALA YOUSAFZAI ​ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 SELECTED BY VULTURE, TIME, ESQUIRE, NPR, AND VOGUE! Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo. With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. 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As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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Bette, on a student-teaching assignment, meets Richard in the teachers' lounge. Seven weeks later, they're engaged! Richard and Bette manage to keep their young love hidden through clandestine post office boxes, dates in out-of-the-way places, and a loyal roommate sworn to keep their secret. But that secret comes out in the worst possible way, when their engagement announcement appears in the local paper a week early . . . before Richard has worked up the nerve to tell his parents! Slip into New York City's legendary Playboy Club with Bette and (underage) Richard. Enter the devious mind of her two-timing psychologist. Share their concern as they hide their love from school administrators who could expel them, and cheer for the housemother who winks and looks the other way. Throw into the mix outraged parents, scornful siblings, snickering friends, legal obstacles, and uncooperative clergy. They're always on the run from someone. But then, who can catch this couple in his Jaguar XKE? 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From the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really. Fans of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know Sloane Crosley’s life as a series of relatable but madcap misadventures. In Look Alive Out There, whether it’s scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors—Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris—and crafted something rare, affecting, and true. Look Alive Out There arrives on the tenth anniversary of I Was Told There’d be Cake, and Crosley’s essays have managed to grow simultaneously more sophisticated and even funnier. And yet she’s still very much herself, and it’s great to have her back—and not a moment too soon (or late, for that matter).","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2bfznk43ek21ynnnnw9my9.jpg?v=44a8ee593e","LJLE._xX%%tS%$krMxi]xpV=R4o~",2018,257,[286],{"id":287,"slug":288,"name":289},"01kp6bp47w9safdqgdwwkjyevb","sloane-crosley-poem","Sloane Crosley",[291,292,296],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":293,"name":294,"slug":295,"is_fiction":17},119,"Humor","humor",{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":174,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":299,"themes":300,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[245,62],[],{"id":302,"slug":303,"title":304,"description":305,"primary_cover_url":306,"cover_blurhash":307,"first_publish_year":308,"community_rating_avg":13,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":309,"authors":310,"genres":315,"series":323,"enrichment":324},"01kx23jnsw322gpqmw2n0xsfmt","i-am-the-central-park-jogger-a-story-of-hope-and-possibility-vqw6","I Am the Central Park Jogger A Story of Hope and Possibility","A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. As featured in When They See Us—the Netflix limited series created, written, and directed by Ava DuVernay that retells the story of the Central Park Five, the young men wrongly accused of this crime. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room—comatose—she has lost so much blood that her doctors believe it’s a miracle she's still alive. Meet Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger. I Am the Central Park Jogger recounts the mesmerizing, inspiring, often wrenching story of human strength and transcendent recovery. Called “Hero of the Month” by Glamour magazine, Meili tells us who she was before the attack—a young Wall Street professional with a promising future—and who she has become: a woman who learned how to read, write, walk, talk, and love again...and turn horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and victorious life. With “moments of unexpected grace and insights into life’s challenges….Meili’s story—the story the public never knew—is unforgettable” (The Buffalo News).","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx23jntf5755fe2s0raaj2zw.jpg?v=02d0d32171","LVPP_hyCXlMd.TRksWo}tnVsVstR",2003,280,[311],{"id":312,"slug":313,"name":314},"01kx23jnt94mkg614b97mbk48t","trisha-meili-nggg","Trisha Meili",[316,317,318,319],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":117,"name":118,"slug":119,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},{"id":320,"name":321,"slug":322,"is_fiction":18},95,"Self-Help","self-help",[],{"pace":94,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":325,"themes":326,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[61,62],[],[328,447,586],{"key":329,"params":330,"works":331},"genre_year",{"genre":33,"year":9},[332,358,380,390,409,435],{"id":333,"slug":334,"title":335,"description":336,"primary_cover_url":337,"cover_blurhash":338,"first_publish_year":339,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":340,"authors":341,"genres":346,"series":353,"enrichment":354},"01kwzr1e2rksqxfde9347amj4w","one-bullet-away-t7gc","One Bullet Away","A former captain in the Marines' First Recon Battalion, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon, charged with working clandestinely, often behind enemy lines. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, and advances to the pinnacle--Recon--four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. Along the way, he learns to shoot a man a mile away, stays awake for seventy-two hours straight, endures interrogation and torture, learns to swim with Navy SEALs, and much more. His vast skill set puts him in front of the front lines. Fick unveils the process that makes Marine officers such legendary leaders and shares his hard-won insights into the differences between the military ideals he learned and military practice, which can mock those ideals.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kwzr1e3ttk7389h0z12gygkr.jpg?v=3c57394c21","LLQT4N%M~qM{a#RjM{%Maxt7xuRj",2005,391,[342],{"id":343,"slug":344,"name":345},"01kwzr1e35avyd372f05y12k4m","nathaniel-c-fick-ir9j","Nathaniel C. 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In our mothers' day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers, and occasionally great mothers.Today we have only Bad Mothers.If you work, you're neglectful; if you stay home, you're smothering. If you discipline, you're buying them a spot on the shrink's couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade. If you buy organic, you're spending their college fund; if you don't, you're risking all sorts of allergies and illnesses.Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as \"a bad mother\"? Ayelet Waldman says it's time for women to get over it and get on with it, in a book that is sure to spark the same level of controversy as her now legendary \"Modern Love\" piece, in which she confessed to loving her husband more than her children.Covering topics as diverse as the hysteria of competitive parenting (Whose toddler can recite the planets in order from the sun?), the relentless pursuits of the Bad Mother police, balancing the work-family dynamic, and the bane of every mother's existence (homework, that is), Bad Mother illuminates the anxieties that riddle motherhood today, while providing women with the encouragement they need to give themselves a break.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx294e7p57mf2qqewbpdyx8v.jpg?v=d25f3af4c2","LBNd%gxG77WZY8tRxtt61SWBrpj]",2009,213,[368],{"id":369,"slug":370,"name":371},"01kph46ag4wr9n2masb0c0rh7h","ayelet-waldman-d8ha","Ayelet Waldman",[373,374,375],{"id":293,"name":294,"slug":295,"is_fiction":17},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":174,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":378,"themes":379,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[245,62],[],{"id":178,"slug":179,"title":180,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":181,"cover_blurhash":182,"first_publish_year":9,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":183,"authors":381,"genres":383,"series":386,"enrichment":387},[382],{"id":186,"slug":187,"name":188},[384,385],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":94,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":388,"themes":389,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[62,61],[],{"id":391,"slug":392,"title":393,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":394,"cover_blurhash":395,"first_publish_year":396,"community_rating_avg":204,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":7,"authors":397,"genres":402,"series":405,"enrichment":406},"01kx24m5dazxf1c9ay5tvm14p8","the-memory-palace-jwxb","The Memory Palace","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx24m5e8pbrjzp1y53zhq0ft.jpg?v=11a133963f","LLOpJE%2%fjF~pj]WWt7_0WBWBoe",2011,[398],{"id":399,"slug":400,"name":401},"01kx24m5draw0v3h7tng5s5czm","mira-bartok-gvkl","Mira Bartok",[403,404],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":94,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":407,"themes":408,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[274,62],[],{"id":410,"slug":411,"title":412,"description":413,"primary_cover_url":414,"cover_blurhash":415,"first_publish_year":9,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":416,"authors":417,"genres":422,"series":431,"enrichment":432},"01kx25x5b7dzycv91qa7bx1kf1","things-ive-been-silent-about-memories-krrj","Things I've Been Silent about Memories","I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. ReadingLolitain Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about private betrayals, implicating myself and those close to me in ways I had never imagined. --FromThings I Have Been Silent About Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestsellerReading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval–these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday). Nafisi’s intelligent and complicated mother, disappointed in her dreams of leading an important and romantic life, created mesmerizing fictions about herself, her family, and her past. But her daughter soon learned that these narratives of triumph hid as much as they revealed. Nafisi’s father escaped into narratives of another kind, enchanting his children with the classic tales like the Shahnamah, the Persian Book of Kings. When her father started seeing other women, young Azar began to keep his secrets from her mother. Nafisi’s complicity in these childhood dramas ultimately led her to resist remaining silent about other personal, as well as political, cultural, and social, injustices. Reaching back in time to reflect on other generations in the Nafisi family,Things I’ve Been Silent Aboutis also a powerful historical portrait of a family that spans many periods of change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, which turned Azar Nafisi’s beloved Iran into a religious dictatorship. Writing of her mother’s historic term in Parliament, even while her father, once mayor of Tehran, was in jail, Nafisi explores the remarkable “coffee hours” her mother presided over, where at first women came together to gossip, to tell fortunes, and to give silent acknowledgment of things never spoken about, and which then evolved into gatherings where men and women would meet to openly discuss the unfolding revolution. Things I’ve Been Silent Aboutis, finally, a deeply personal reflection on women’s choices, and on how Azar Nafisi found the inspiration for a different kind of life. This unforgettable portrait of a woman, a family, and a troubled homeland is a stunning book that readers will embrace, a new triumph from an author who is a modern master of the memoir.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx25x5bn1k9fxsbnce4a8acr.jpg?v=5b58a6e597","LuNmc-s;t7t7~qbHWBjaI9f6ofWV",352,[418],{"id":419,"slug":420,"name":421},"01kjtmqk5cxq3h0pf50v43vqd0","azar-nafisi-5wth","Azar Nafisi",[423,424,425,426,430],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},{"id":427,"name":428,"slug":429,"is_fiction":18},79,"Education","education",{"id":168,"name":169,"slug":170,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":94,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":433,"themes":434,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[62,97],[],{"id":302,"slug":303,"title":304,"description":305,"primary_cover_url":306,"cover_blurhash":307,"first_publish_year":308,"community_rating_avg":13,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":309,"authors":436,"genres":438,"series":443,"enrichment":444},[437],{"id":312,"slug":313,"name":314},[439,440,441,442],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":117,"name":118,"slug":119,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},{"id":320,"name":321,"slug":322,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":94,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":445,"themes":446,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[61,62],[],{"key":448,"params":449,"works":450},"genre_mood",{"genre":29,"mood":61},[451,477,511,523,544,565],{"id":452,"slug":453,"title":454,"description":455,"primary_cover_url":456,"cover_blurhash":457,"first_publish_year":458,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":459,"authors":460,"genres":465,"series":472,"enrichment":473},"01kx2e8p78djcv7beyz80htdt8","yes-chef-zz2n","Yes, Chef","\"It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother's house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his mother, and his sister--all battling tuberculosis--walked seventy-five miles to a hospital in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Adaba. Tragically, his mother succumbed to the disease shortly after she arrived, but Marcus and his sister recovered, and one year later, they were welcomed into a loving middle-class white family in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was there that Marcus's new grandmother, Helga, sparked in him a lifelong passion for food and cooking with her pan-fried herring, her freshly baked bread, and her signature roast chicken. From a very early age, there was little question what Marcus was going to be when he grew up. Yes, Chef chronicles Marcus Samuelsson's remarkable journey from Helga's humble kitchen to some of the most demanding and cutthroat restaurants in Switzerland and France, from his grueling stints on cruise ships to his arrival in New York City, where his outsize talent and ambition finally come together at Aquavit, earning him a coveted New York Times three-star rating at the age of twenty-four. But Samuelsson's career of \"chasing flavors,\" as he calls it, had only just begun--in the intervening years, there have been White House State dinners, career crises, reality show triumphs and, most important, the opening of the beloved Red Rooster in Harlem. At Red Rooster, Samuelsson has fufilled his dream of creating a truly diverse, multiracial dining room--a place where presidents and prime ministers rub elbows with jazz musicians, aspiring artists, bus drivers, and nurses. It is a place where an orphan from Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, living in America, can feel at home. With disarming honesty and intimacy, Samuelsson also opens up about his failures as a man--the price of ambition, in human terms--and recounts his emotional journey, as a grown man, to meet the father he never knew. Yes, Chef is a tale of personal discovery, unshakable determination, and the passionate, playful pursuit of flavors--one man's struggle to find a place for himself in the kitchen, and in the world\"--","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2e8p85754qs5kcr5y9h1er.jpg?v=1e29942bcb","LDFMzd$f0jI=}n$$I=NI1Js.}DR,",2012,319,[461],{"id":462,"slug":463,"name":464},"01kx2e8p7gpq0q6j29w5f8a61g","marcus-samuelsson-vhwh","Marcus Samuelsson",[466,467,468],{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},{"id":469,"name":470,"slug":471,"is_fiction":18},112,"Cooking","cooking",[],{"pace":57,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":474,"themes":476,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[61,475],"heartwarming",[],{"id":478,"slug":479,"title":480,"description":481,"primary_cover_url":482,"cover_blurhash":483,"first_publish_year":396,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":484,"authors":485,"genres":494,"series":505,"enrichment":506},"01kx23q0rvcbjt7rr0tsv3chvs","wonder-girl-the-magnificent-sporting-life-of-babe-didrikson-zaharias-ixqi","Wonder Girl The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias","This is the extraordinary story of a nearly forgotten American superstar athlete. Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all: go public and try to win again with the hope of inspiring the world. A rollicking saga, stretching across the first half of the 20th century, WONDER GIRL is as fresh, heartfelt, and graceful as Babe herself.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx23q0sajhx2a8e3hwmzjtsy.jpg?v=22a3e496c5","L38qB3xuWX~W_2-;ofIV00-:%24o",410,[486,490],{"id":487,"slug":488,"name":489},"01kx23q0s4hxpggq3hv357m5zq","don-van-natta-f4bt","Don Van Natta",{"id":491,"slug":492,"name":493},"01kx23q0s7rbm8q9gs76g22n3y","don-van-natta-jr-9xwt","Don Van Natta Jr.",[495,496,497,501],{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},{"id":498,"name":499,"slug":500,"is_fiction":18},70,"History","history",{"id":502,"name":503,"slug":504,"is_fiction":18},78,"Health","health",[],{"pace":174,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":507,"themes":509,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[61,508],"adventurous",[249,510],"underdog",{"id":151,"slug":152,"title":153,"description":154,"primary_cover_url":155,"cover_blurhash":156,"first_publish_year":157,"community_rating_avg":13,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":158,"authors":512,"genres":514,"series":519,"enrichment":520},[513],{"id":161,"slug":162,"name":163},[515,516,517,518],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":117,"name":118,"slug":119,"is_fiction":18},{"id":168,"name":169,"slug":170,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":174,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":521,"themes":522,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[126,61],[],{"id":524,"slug":525,"title":526,"description":527,"primary_cover_url":528,"cover_blurhash":529,"first_publish_year":339,"community_rating_avg":13,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":530,"authors":531,"genres":536,"series":540,"enrichment":541},"01kx26sr9k4y112zjeezj2ej3k","tales-from-the-bed-uh05","Tales from the Bed","Jenifer Estess is a woman on the verge: She's about to launch her own company; she's looking buff and dating vigorously; she's driving in the fast lane -- with the top down. At the age of thirty-five, Jenifer dreams of falling in love and starting a family. Then she notices muscle twitches in her legs. Walking down a city block feels exhausting. At first, doctors write off Jenifer's symptoms to stress, but she is quickly diagnosed with ALS, a fatal brain disease that is absolutely untreatable. Max out your credit cards and see Paris, suggests one doctor. Instead of preparing to die, Jenifer gets busy. She dreams deeper, works harder, and loves endlessly. For Jenifer, being fatally ill is not about letting go. It's about holding on and reaching -- for family, friends, goals. Jenifer's girlhood pact with her sisters Valerie and Meredith -- nothing will ever break us apart -- guides them as Jenifer faces down one of the most devastating illnesses known to humankind. That same enduring pact inspires the creation of Project A.L.S., a movement started by the sisters that changes the way science and medicine approach research for ALS and the related diseases Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and which has already raised more than $18 million. Will Project A.L.S. help scientists discover medicine in time for her? Jenifer answers these questions and others in this beautifully written and wholly inspiring memoir that celebrates a life fuelled by memory. Tales from the Bed forces us to reconsider society's notion of \"having it all,\" and illustrates, more than anything, the importance of endurance, hope, and, most of all, love.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx26sra2yzybkykb7sgbdx5d.jpg?v=a08a7d0d56","LADSzXIUf4Rj00t7ogWX~TWAWBae",256,[532],{"id":533,"slug":534,"name":535},"01kx26sr9xg16swz528apnqc3e","jenifer-estess-dxas","Jenifer Estess",[537,538,539],{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":57,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":542,"themes":543,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[61,97],[],{"id":545,"slug":546,"title":547,"description":548,"primary_cover_url":549,"cover_blurhash":550,"first_publish_year":106,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":551,"authors":552,"genres":557,"series":560,"enrichment":561},"01kx27hpf5ty1hycxz53sc8czb","an-american-covenant-q8kk","An American Covenant","A history of mystic resistance and liberation and of five women who transcended the expected to transform America. For centuries, women who emerge as mystic leaders have played vital roles in American culture. For just as long, they've been subjugated and ridiculed. Today, women and others across the nation are once again turning to their mystic powers to #HexThePatriarchy and help fight the forces that seem bent on relegating them to second-class citizenry. Amid this tumult, Lucile Scott looks to the past and the stories of five women over three centuries to form an ancestral spiritual coven: Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans; Cora L. V. Scott, nineteenth-century Spiritualist superstar; Helena Blavatsky, mother of Theosophy; Zsuzsanna Budapest, feminist witch and founder of Dianic Wicca; and Marianne Williamson, presidential candidate and preacher of the New Age Gospel of Love. Each, in their own ways, defied masculine preconceptions about power. A scathing queer feminist history and a personal quest for transcendence, An American COVENant opens our eyes to the paths forged by women who inspired the nation in their own times--and who will no longer be forgotten or silenced in ours.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx27hpfjg4edweyjbd1w7fxe.jpg?v=f43e6e9d75","L89G1}oe0iWV-jj[NKf60jWW}pn%",300,[553],{"id":554,"slug":555,"name":556},"01kx27hpfek6kjasyt1ymca1vk","lucile-scott-ldub","Lucile Scott",[558,559],{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":57,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":562,"themes":564,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[61,563],"thought-provoking",[],{"id":566,"slug":567,"title":568,"description":569,"primary_cover_url":570,"cover_blurhash":571,"first_publish_year":203,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":572,"authors":573,"genres":578,"series":582,"enrichment":583},"01kx2951hfcerganp7n353sa9r","more-than-enough-dqal","More Than Enough","INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2020 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK — BIOGRAPHY\u002FAUTOBIOGRAPHY NOW OPTIONED FOR DEVELOPMENT AS A TV SERIES BY PARAMOUNT TELEVISION STUDIOS AND ANONYMOUS CONTENT “The millennial Becoming . . . Inspiring and empowering.” —Entertainment Weekly “An essential read for women in the workplace today.” —Refinery29 Part-manifesto, part-memoir, from the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue, an exploration of what it means to come into your own—on your own terms Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way. In this riveting and timely memoir, the groundbreaking journalist unpacks lessons on race, identity, and success through her own journey, from navigating her way as the unstoppable child of an unlikely interracial marriage in small-town California to finding herself on the frontlines of a modern movement for the next generation of change makers. Welteroth moves beyond the headlines and highlight reels to share the profound lessons and struggles of being a barrier-breaker across so many intersections. As a young boss and often the only Black woman in the room, she’s had enough of the world telling her—and all women—they’re not enough. As she learns to rely on herself by looking both inward and upward, we’re ultimately reminded that we’re more than enough.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2951hvycexjx9g5ghk8ph0.jpg?v=3a2f5f2ce7","LACke^f33?.93?x^.-IT@ZNaGtw|",338,[574],{"id":575,"slug":576,"name":577},"01kx2951hq32fpemv91gbg5wwv","elaine-welteroth-yqs4","Elaine Welteroth",[579,580,581],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":57,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":584,"themes":585,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[61,62],[],{"key":587,"params":588,"works":589},"genre",{"genre":29},[590,615,626,648,674,686],{"id":591,"slug":592,"title":593,"description":594,"primary_cover_url":595,"cover_blurhash":596,"first_publish_year":597,"community_rating_avg":13,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":158,"authors":598,"genres":603,"series":609,"enrichment":610},"01kx27vt93abm1mswyac5thvv0","mockingbird-ic4g","Mockingbird","In the 1930s Southern United States, young Scout Finch watches her father Atticus take on a case that will expose the rot beneath their small Alabama town's polite surface: defending Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. 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On a fateful day in February 2002, campaign manager Clara Rojas accompanied longtime friend and presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt into an area controlled by the powerful leftist guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Armed with machine guns and grenades, the FARC took them hostage and kept them in the jungle for the next six years. After more than two years of captivity deep in the Colombian jungle, surrounded by jaguars, snakes, and tarantulas, miles from any town or hospital, Clara Rojas prepared to give birth in a muddy tent surrounded by heavily armed guerrillas. Her captors promised that a doctor would be brought to the camp to help her. But when Rojas went into labor and began to suffer complications, the only person on hand was a guerrilla wielding a kitchen knife. The guerrillas drugged Rojas with anesthetic while one of them slit open her abdomen. Her son, Emmanuel, was born by amateur cesarean section in April 2004. His survival was miraculous, but her joy was soon cut short when the FARC took him from her when he was only eight months old. For the next three years, Clara was given no information about him, but her desire to one day see him again kept her alive. In early 2008, Clara was finally liberated and reunited with her son—to whom this book is dedicated.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx261n3qvk971kpa1ts0fx2t.jpg?v=673ddaa912","LIFhg:baE3XO-ixYnRoe|@NIIsjI",2010,[635],{"id":636,"slug":637,"name":638},"01kx261n3k5t80xy0mzb61mdmq","clara-rojas-3jsp","Clara Rojas",[640,641,642],{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},{"id":117,"name":118,"slug":119,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":174,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":645,"themes":647,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[126,125,646],"hopeful",[],{"id":649,"slug":650,"title":651,"description":652,"primary_cover_url":653,"cover_blurhash":654,"first_publish_year":655,"community_rating_avg":107,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":656,"authors":657,"genres":662,"series":669,"enrichment":670},"01kx266qjcyjwesd15qm19wzcf","imagined-london-a-tour-of-the-worlds-greatest-fictional-city-usi4","Imagined London A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City","Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home—in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities.While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always been the star, both because of the primacy of English literature and the specificity of city descriptions. She bases her view of the city on her own detailed literary map, tracking the footsteps of her favorite characters: the places where Evelyn Waugh's bright young things danced until dawn, or where Lydia Bennett eloped with the dastardly Wickham.In Imagined London, Quindlen walks through the city, moving within blocks from the great books of the 19th century to the detective novels of the 20th to the new modernist tradition of the 21st. With wit and charm, Imagined London gives this splendid city its full due in the landscape of the literary imagination.Praise for Imagined London:\"Shows just how much a reading experience can enrich a physical journey.\" —New York Times Book Review\"An elegant new work of nonfiction... People will be inspired by this book.\" —Ann Curry, Today\"An affectionate, richly allusive tribute to the city.\" —Kirkus Reviews","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx266qjvstwvxs8rfjd2xmnd.jpg?v=c112f88cf9","LrIF0UWZ~poz-:j[%MfkE2axM{ay",2006,169,[658],{"id":659,"slug":660,"name":661},"01kjqz7rh0fdqmz4w4nydwxcfw","anna-quindlen-qz3s","Anna Quindlen",[663,667,668],{"id":664,"name":665,"slug":666,"is_fiction":18},85,"Travel","travel",{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},{"id":498,"name":499,"slug":500,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":94,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":671,"themes":673,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[62,672],"intellectual",[],{"id":100,"slug":101,"title":102,"description":103,"primary_cover_url":104,"cover_blurhash":105,"first_publish_year":106,"community_rating_avg":107,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":108,"authors":675,"genres":677,"series":682,"enrichment":683},[676],{"id":111,"slug":112,"name":113},[678,679,680,681],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":117,"name":118,"slug":119,"is_fiction":18},{"id":87,"name":88,"slug":89,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},[],{"pace":94,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":684,"themes":685,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[125,62,126],[],{"id":687,"slug":688,"title":689,"description":690,"primary_cover_url":691,"cover_blurhash":692,"first_publish_year":106,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":693,"authors":694,"genres":699,"series":707,"enrichment":708},"01kx24zszjne5nre9v4px87r6p","welcome-to-the-united-states-of-anxiety-observations-from-a-reforming-neurotic-icn7","Welcome to the United States of Anxiety Observations from a Reforming Neurotic","A Wall Street Journal bestseller. 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Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. Take a deep breath, and her advice, and you just might get through a holiday dinner without wanting to disown your uncle.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx24zszwedvs19tq67vxh7p3.jpg?v=9ff3146129","LGP~i{ivTI%LITROSzbb~XkX=|t8",288,[695],{"id":696,"slug":697,"name":698},"01kx24zszryj8z6dqsn3besyaf","jen-lancaster-xp7x","Jen Lancaster",[700,701,705,706],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":18},{"id":702,"name":703,"slug":704,"is_fiction":18},96,"Psychology","psychology",{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":18},{"id":293,"name":294,"slug":295,"is_fiction":17},[],{"pace":57,"complexity":7,"audience":59,"mood":709,"themes":710,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[245,62],[249],[712],{"id":713,"slug":714,"title":715,"user":716,"work_id":4,"is_draft":18,"verified_reader":17,"featured":18,"body":723,"overall_rating":724,"depth":7,"momentum":7,"atmosphere":7,"craft":7,"impact":7,"spice":7,"spoiler_level":725,"locale":7,"feed_item_key":726,"like_count":15,"comment_count":15,"top_likers":727,"viewer_can_reply":18,"created_at":728,"updated_at":728},"01kx29pn9e5sms6775zy4a2zdn","review-of-pretty-is-what-changes-by-tara-nelson","Review of \"Pretty is what changes\" by tara_nelson",{"id":717,"name":718,"username":719,"avatar_url":720,"is_system":18,"published_reviews_count":721,"books_read_count":722},622,"Tara Nelson","tara_nelson","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Favatars\u002F622.webp?v=1783556101",1052,1231,"This book touched me very deeply and I was overwhelmed by how open Jessica Queller was with her very personal experience.  I'm still kind of reeling from it.\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>Jessica Queller was a 35 year old writer for the hit TV show Gilmore Girls when she was struck a mighty blow -- she tested positive for the BRCA-1 gene mutation, which meant she had an 87% chance of getting breast cancer and a 44% chance of getting ovarian cancer by age 50.  She faced the very personal decision -- prevent the cancer by having a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy and oompherectomy or undergo aggressive surveillance for cancer every 6 months for the rest of her life.\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>Jessica and her sister Danielle, along with their father Fred, helped their mother fight breast cancer and then helplessly watched as their mother Stephanie, died from ovarian cancer.  Jessica was prompted by a doctor cousin to go ahead and get tested for the gene mutation that would indicate the possibility of breast cancer.  When she tested positive for BRCA-1 she was overwhelmed.  Jessica began a lengthy research adventure to learn her options as well as gain strength from friends and family as she determined what to do with this new information.\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>At the time Jessica found out she was positive, she was single and had no children.  The idea of removing her breasts and ovaries was very concerning for her -- what man would want a woman who had no breasts and no ovaries?  Jessica began meeting other women who had either tested positive or were in the middle of fighting their own breast cancer.  She made her decision, have the prophylactic bilateral mastectomy and eventually have the oompherectomy (but first have a child or 2 -- even on her own -- before removing the ovaries).  Jessica then wrote an Op-Ed piece that appeared in the New York Times about her mother's battles with cancer as well as her own pre-vivor battle and all the information she was able to find.  She was met with an overwhelming response from women who wished her luck and felt great sympathy for her but were also amazed by the decision she had made.  The decision to have the mastectomy turns out to be a good one when the doctor tells her she did have pre-cancer cells in her breast tissues.  At the time she wrote the book (2008), she was still single at age 37 but was looking forward to having a child before removing the ovaries.\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>Jessica's courage flows throughout the book.  Her fears over a future without breasts and ovaries are very honest and upfront.  She does not take on the issue of cancer and surgery lightly and she did a lot of research on her own as well as had many discussions with a lot of doctors before she made her decision.  She also found a lot of support from her friends and family, as well as strangers she met over the course of her journey.  To me, she is courageous and brave.  I don't know if I would have the strength or the courage to forge that road.  She found strength on the website FORCE and she grew into a whole new person.  As a single woman, I sympathized with her dating dramas and her fears of what a man would think of her post-surgery; cancer has deeply affected my own family.  I found myself crying throughout most of this book, some of those tears were out of sadness (the scene where Jessica and Danielle find out their mother has died was heartbreaking) and some tears of joy (the birth of Jessica's nephew).\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>This is a book I would recommend to anyone, it doesn't matter if your life has been touched by cancer or not, read this book.  She is fresh and upfront and honest and I found that to be so wonderful.  I rarely read memoirs, but this is one that I think I could read repeatedly and learn something new from it every time.",5,"none","rv-01kx29pn9e5sms6775zy4a2zdn",[],"2026-07-09T02:00:58.000000Z"]