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7 Literary Fiction Books To Read This Fall

Stealing: A Novel by Margaret Verble Kit Crockett lives on a farm with her grief-stricken, widowed father, tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and

7 Feel Good Romance Novels That Make The Perfect Escape

Room Maid by Sariah Wilson Madison Huntington is determined to live her dreams. That means getting out from under her family’s wealth and influence by saying no to

7 Fantasy Books that Explore the Weird & the Surreal

The Sturgeon’s Heart by Amy E. Casey Three people in the same northern city of Duluth, Minnesota, are vanishing in different ways. Howard Wright finds his

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8 Books on Being Childless by Choice or Circumstance

Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood by Ruby Warrington Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as “other.” With no official place

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A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers

I always find myself gravitating towards books written by women of color, particularly Asian women. They have no qualms about writing things plainly. When they talk

June 15, 2023June 13, 2023 by purey7 Min Reading

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8 Essential Texts for Female Empowerment

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit In her comic, scathing essay, “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong

June 13, 2023June 6, 2023 by purey7 Min Reading

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8 Memoirs By Comedians That’ll Make You Laugh & Cry

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began

June 6, 2023May 16, 2023 by purey10 Min Reading