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  Who Is a Worthy Mother? - An...

  Rebecca Wellington

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  Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women's reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. Wellington's timely—and deeply researched—account amplifies previously marginalized voices and exposes the social and racial biases embedded in the United States' adoption industry. 
   
   
   
  The history of adoption is rarely told from an adoptee's perspective. Wellington remedies this gap by framing the chronicle of adoption in America using her own life story. As she reckons with the pain and unanswered questions of her own experience, she explores broader issues surrounding adoption in the United States, including changing legal policies, sterilization and compulsory relinquishment programs, forced assimilation of babies of color and Indigenous babies adopted into white families, and other liabilities. 
   
   
   
  According to Wellington, US adoption practices in America are shrouded in secrecy, for they frequently cast shame on unmarried women, women struggling with fertility, and "illegitimate" babies and children. As the United States once again finds itself embroiled in heated disputes over women's bodily autonomy Wellington's book offers a unique and much-needed frame of reference.

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  Moonlight Elk - One Woman's Hunt...

  Christie Green

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  Christie Green learned to hunt in order to complement the food she grew in her garden. As an act of practical agency this fulfilled her needs, yet a restlessness stirred within. She longed for a life defined by something deeper than cultural norms. Could she travel beyond the supposed domain of women and venture into the wild, where men were said to prevail? 
   
   
   
  Here, hunting in the wild, the moon cycles through her, rising and falling, whispering messages from the dark side. Rather than circle the hot insistence of a masculine sun, Green begins to attune to the more elusive, mysterious murmuration of the moon. Animals and dreams, lunar partners, choreograph Green through time and space. She longs to dream, toil, live, and love at the edges of the fertile ecotones where she can withdraw inward, retreat like an animal into hiding, and then come into full, radiant view on her own terms. Green sheds the burdens of her domestic self and witnesses the animals defying reason as they walk her into their world, ambling her along, straddling night and day, waking and sleeping. Through them, definitions of gender dissolve and boundaries blur. In the process, Green eclipses western society's definitions of her as a woman, mother, lover, and entrepreneur, courageously birthing her own independence through a profound connection to the animals and the places they call home.

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  Untouchable - From Beatings To...

  Richard Convery

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  Untouchable is the story of Naggya, an orphan in the streets of India from the country’s lowest class, the Dalits. Taken under the wing of a Christian school owner, the boy finds a home, a community of students and mentors, a safe place to grow up, and unlikely dance classes where his extraordinary talent is revealed.  
  Follow teenage Naggya to a new life with a host family in the United States, to the stages of New York City, Europe, and beyond. And ultimately, to the pinnacle of the world of professional ballet. 
  A testament to God’s unfailing love and the strength it lends the human spirit, Untouchable is a story that will take readers on a trek, inspire their hearts, and help them see that any dream is possible, no matter how great the odds … and that the ultimate journey may one day lead back to where it began

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  Herman's Sister

  Ramendeep Dhoot

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  Is life really unfair or is it what you make it? Wrapped in this book are excerpts from Ramendeep's journal, capturing some of the most simple, ordinary and significant moments of her life.
  
  "I didn't fight anger with anger. I fought it with love".
  
  I've taken the brave step to share my life with you in an unrestrained, unfiltered manner. The story is real and raw. It  provides an uncensored deep dive into my world of heartache, grief and mental health. It also encourages you to change the narrative of these subjects.
  
  With every life struggle, I've tried to overcome and deal with it with sheer courage and a roar of resilliance. However, there comes a point in life when you can't take any more. For me, that moment arrived in 2019. How do we face the unfairness life brings us? How do we carry on when we have no choice?

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  Unroyal - Three Women Who Shook...

  Sarah Lyall

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  Wallis, Diana and Meghan: Three Wives, One Narrative 
   
  One was a married American socialite who embarked on a scandalous affair with the future king of England. Another was an aristocratic ingenue whose winsome charm captured the world’s imagination. And the third was a thirty-something actress whose outspokenness put her on a collision course with the British public. The marriages of Wallis Simpson, Diana Spencer, and Meghan Markle into the British royal family sparked a series of crises that at times seemed to threaten the future of the monarchy itself. In Unroyal, veteran New York Times reporter and former London correspondent Sarah Lyall revisits how each royal wife threatened the stability of—and was ultimately rejected by—this most ancient and opaque of institutions.  
   
  Using archival material and interviews with experts like the bestselling author Tina Brown, the royal biographer Andrew Morton, and the social commentator and broadcaster Afua Hirsch, Lyall’s audio documentary examines three pivotal TV interviews in which each woman pushed up against the official royal narrative: Wallis in 1970, Diana in 1995, and Meghan in 2021. Lyall describes the differences and highlights the similarities between the women at these three flexion points to examine the endless codependent dance between the monarchy, the public, and the news media and to shed fresh light on the fraught intersection of power, fame, and family politics in an institution torn between tradition and modernization.  
   
  Narrated by the author against a beguiling soundscape of contemporaneous news footage and a spectral score, Unroyal blends the probing inquisition of You’re Wrong About with the historical intrigue of The Crown, serving both neophytes and obsessives a delectable royal feast for the ears.

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  Hollow - A Memoir of My Body in...

  Bailey Williams

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  At eighteen, Bailey Williams bolted from her strict Mormon upbringing to a Marine recruiting office to enlist as a 2600—a military linguist. But the first language the Marine Corps taught her wasn't Arabic, Farsi, or Dari. It was how Marines speak to, and about, women. There are only three kinds of women in the Marine Corps, she was told: you can be a bitch, a dyke, or a whore. 
   
   
   
  Determined to prove she's not whatever it is the men around her believe a woman to be, Private Williams turned to an eating disorder, intending to show her discipline through the visible testament of bone. She ran endurance distances on an increasingly Spartan diet, shoving through her own body's resistance. 
   
   
   
  Pushed to the brink by a leadership and a culture that demands women shrink themselves, she finally looked to the women around her, and began to wonder what else she was losing. Quietly but inexorably, the power of other women's stories whispered an alternative path to what it means to be a woman, and a warrior. 
   
   
   
  Hollow is a story for anyone whose identity has been prescribed to them—and has dared question if there is another way to live.

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