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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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Sunrise Cove volume 5
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"Luna Wright is a lot of things, but sweet and trusting aren't on the list. However, she's a sucker for the underdog and a hard-luck story. Adopted at birth, with scant knowledge of her biological family, she's created her own inner circle--a motley crew that includes her bestie, Willow--to help her run the struggling but charming Apple Ridge Farm. With a farm-to-table cafe as well as a menagerie of rescued animals (complete with a baby goat who keeps...
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"In this explosive tell-all memoir, an Olympic figure skater reveals her battle to survive mental illness, eating disorders, and the self-destructive voice inside that she calls "outofshapeworthlessloser." When Gracie Gold stepped onto center stage (or ice, rather) as America's sweetheart at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, she instantly became the face of America's most beloved winter sport. Beautiful, blonde, Midwestern, and media-trained, she was suddenly...
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Amistad
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[2024]
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English
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"A visceral and candid portrait of today's Ghanaian youth, told in interconnected short stories by acclaimed spoken-word artist and author of the poetry collection Woman, Eat Me Whole Ama Asantewa Diaka. In this startling collection of short fiction, Ama Asantewa Diaka creates a vibrant portrait of young Ghanaians' today, captured in the experiences of characters whose lives bump against one other in friendship, passion, hope, and heartache. Men like...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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2023.
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Ten years after one terrible night in Paxos, Greece, Julie, the classic "yummy mummy" of high society, is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage, stricken with anxiety and perfectionism until she meets a therapist who gives her hope for a different future.
he vacation house is a luxurious getaway for a wealthy English family, windows open to sun and the sea, a sparkling swimming pool, and a verdant garden. One hot summer night, while the parents...
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"Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to the town...
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2024.
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"The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Center convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination...
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2024]
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"Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history"--
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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2024.
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"Equal parts fantastical - a pair of talking dolls help twins escape a stifling home, a heart boils on the stove as part of an elaborate cure for melancholy - and true to life - a mother and daughter try to heal their rift when the daughter falls unexpectedly pregnant, a woman reexamines her father's legacy after his death - the stories in this collection are hopeful and heartbreaking, full of danger and full of joy. Chung is a master at capturing...
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Balance
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[2024]
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"If you've ever wanted to travel solo, founder of global women's travel community Wanderful, Beth Santos, is here to tell you that you're not alone. Travel isn't just about how many passport stamps you have-it's about your mindset. In Wander Woman, Santos busts myths about who can travel, empowering women to uncover the confidence they need to see the world for themselves, by themselves, and giving them the lifelong tools to challenge your preconceptions,...
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Milkweed Editions, in association with the Library of Congress
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2024.
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"For many years, "nature poetry" has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet. Edited and introduced by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, this book challenges what we think we know about "nature poetry," illuminating the myriad ways our landscapes--both literal and literary--are changing. You Are Here features fifty previously...
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Clarkson Potter/Publishers
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[2024]
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English
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"Bring the joy of Italian living to your kitchen with 100 family-friendly Italian and Italian American recipes from social media star and beloved author of Laura in the Kitchen. In Laura Vitale's first cookbook she shared recipes from her popular YouTube cooking channel. Now, in At My Italian Table, she turns her focus to Italy, where she was born and lived until she was a young woman, and where her Nonna's cooking made a lasting imprint. Home sick...
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Street Noise Books
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[2023]
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English
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"Schor's pull-no-punches graphic memoir debut depicts her attempts as a young woman to recover from trauma, with striking illustrations that toggle between realism and fragmented, color-saturated dreamscapes. As a Jewish child in Moldova in the late 1980s, Karina begins life as an outsider, but moving with her parents to Israel as "communism was crumbling" only lands her in a place where everything is "exciting, unique... and out of reach" for her...
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Hachette Go
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2024.
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""For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. All my struggles and feelings were supposedly universal, and the real difference was that I was just a weak, manipulative, selfish, emotional baby. I had to toughen up. But as much as everyone tried to convince me, I knew it couldn't be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me than everyone else. Whilst the people around me seemed to have no problem being calm and happy, I had panic...
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Ediciones Obelisco
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2023.
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Español
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A partir de las cocinas de países donde las mujeres comen menos alimentos procesados y más plantas y, por lo tanto, experimentan menos síntomas de la menopausia (sofocos, aumento de peso, confusión mental, irritabilidad), la Dra. Anna Cabeca ofrece más de 125 recetas deliciosas y satisfactorias que destacan los alimentos científicamente. Se ha demostrado que cura, equilibra y mantiene el cuerpo en un modo desintoxicante y quemagrasas durante...
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Greystone Books
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2024.
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English
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Why are women so ashamed of certain parts of their bodies? And why are our feelings about our midsections so hard to navigate? These are the questions that animate My Belly, an unflinching and funny portrait of one woman's obsession with a seemingly innocent body part. Hilde Otsby is a critic, a thinker, and an acclaimed author. At the start of My Belly, she is on tour promoting her latest work about the culture and science of memory. As she poses...
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Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
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2023.
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English
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"Between micro- and macro-aggressions at school, the workplace, and even the grocery store, a constant news cycle highlighting Latine trauma, and a general lack of resources for women of color, it's tough to be a Latina woman and prioritize your wellness, both physically and mentally. With Self-Care for Latinas, you'll find 150 exercises to radically choose to put yourself first. Whether you need a quick pick-me-up in the middle of the day, you're...
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Cottage Door Press
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[2018]
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English
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Discover faraway lands and magical kingdoms, flee from thundering giants and cunning beasts, and fall in love with brave animals and beautiful princesses... There is always time to read together with this treasure trove of over 50 five-minute fairy tales, fables, and classic stories.--
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