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"Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people....
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This 99-page special features 17 variations of the world's healthiest diet to help you look and feel your best! Choose the one that works for you and your lifestyle and goals. You'll also find expert advice, meal plans and more than 65 recipes to make it easy, plus stories of women just like you who conquered everything from high blood pressure to diabetes and chronic pain, all while powering off pounds! Get ready to change your life today!
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Welcome to Rees new frontier! Much has happened on Drummond Ranch over the last couple of years: The kids are growing up, another left for college, Rees business has expanded, and her cooking has evolved. While she still cherishes her trademark family-friendly style of food, Rees been cooking up some incredible new dishes that reflect the flavors, colors, and texture shes craving these days.
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Growing up in a household of food-loving Italian-Americans, Marissa Landrigan was always a black sheep--she barely knew how to boil water for pasta. But at college, she thought she'd found her purpose. Buoyed by animal rights activism and a feminist urge to avoid the kitchen, she transformed into a hardcore vegan activist, complete with shaved head. But Landrigan still hadn't found her place in the world. Striving to develop her career and maintain...
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A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures
Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact.
Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external,...
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In a world where she who's the fattest wins, one woman eats alone. In the novel, Attack of the Lushites we first met Trixie Pug, CEO of the second most powerful fast food corporation in the galaxy. But how did she rise to control such a powerful and greasy corporation? In this first prequel short story we meet Trixie Aioli thirty years before the novel, at her first job in the fast food industry, yearning and hungry (And I mean hungry!) to scratch...
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Imprisoned by a fanatical, corrupt maharajah in the torrid climes of 1910 India, Sarabande Swinford battles the maharajah's lust and another man's passions, all while desperately trying to regain her memory. She has forgotten her perilous adventures in both love and fortunes, but her intrepid spirit remains as she encounters jealousy in the harem, man- and woman-eating crocodiles, and venomous snakes, all in her attempts at escape.
Her defender...
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"In a universe where she who's the fattest wins, one woman eats alone."In a far future where fast food companies control the galaxy one overweight woman stands (or more properly sits) as the epitome of ambition and the art of fried foods.Trixie Pug will one day rise to CEO of the second most powerful fast food chain the galaxy. This story tells the tale of her early life and how she slid her way to the top of the greasy mountain crushing those who...
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Scientific progress goes splat!
Luther Watson is an anxious boy. His best friend, Paine, assures him that he has no reason to be, but what could Paine know of anxiety? No bipedal wolf capable of disguising itself as a stuffed animal has anything to worry about...especially when the only person who can see him is Luther.
That is, until a field trip to the Smokeland Science Museum introduces him to Miranda Even, the disturbing daughter of...
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Harness the health benefits of intermittent fasting-a comprehensive guide with meal plans and more
Intermittent fasting (IF) is an evidence-based eating program that's existed in multiple forms for nearly 2,500 years, with roots in evolution and religion. That said, there are many ways to approach it and apply it to your life. Complete Intermittent Fasting is filled with essential information, how-to advice, FAQs, meal plans, and recipes to help...
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It's the feeders and feedees night and Newlyn is in his element.Newlyn has had the facebook group for feeders and feedees for years, they've tried to get together but it's hard. A lot of the feedees often feel the stares that come their way with being voluptuous people. Newlyn loved them all. The bigger the better. He didn't understand why feeding someone got him off, it just did, there was something about watching a big man or woman eating that had...
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Amity Diaz has had worse days, but not in recent memory. No, recent memory has her waking up amidst smoking wreckage in a hellscape of craggy rocks and woman-eating trees. Did she mention the near-miss to her femoral artery or the deadly respiratory bacteria? Nevertheless, she found drinking water, Meals Ready to Eat, assorted supplies, a stray alien dog, and her trusty artificial general intelligence sidekick hasn't steered her wrong yet. With Amity's...
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Self-esteem and self-empowerment are vital for a rewarding and fulfilling life and are often bolstered by belief systems and societal views. But what if these systems or views prevent us from truly accepting ourselves because of miseducation or taboo? Such is the case for most women and the vagina, an organ so vital to our very existence, yet shrouded in secrecy and shamefully hidden.
In Maritza Breitenbach's The Cookie Book, she sets out to dispel...
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Last Mrs. Parrish novels volume 1
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"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and philanthropist--and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson,...
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Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when...
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Mindy is a young woman living with an eating disorder and trapped in a battle for her own self-worth. When she accidentally discovers something that will give her a chance to revist her past, she thinks she has a chance to put her life back on track. But will she be able to find a way back to her present and treat herself with love and kindness at any size?
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"Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Afi knows who he is, of course--Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she is moved from her small hometown of Ho...
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
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Contains haunting stories and scary songs that feature ghosts, monsters, and creepy endeavors, including selections entitled "Old Woman All Skin and Bone," "Cold as Clay," "The Ghost with the Bloody Fingers," and others.
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