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An engaging and easy read for both longtime fans of women's basketball and newcomers, Hoop Muses is accompanied by lots of sidebars, pull quotes and illustrations that bring you up to speed on both the origin of the women’s game and the stories, stakes, and personalities that make it exciting.

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When son Myles gets kidnapped in Tijuana, his separated parents Wade and Fiona must do whatever they can to get him back, in the process getting sucked into shady financial dealings of a drug cartel. “Behind every crime is a family” is the premise for each of Vonderau's books, and Saving Myles will have you rooting for each character in this family, flaws and all.

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Enfield as a character of first-year teacher in this essay collection always seems one step behind. Yet Enfield the essayist is three steps ahead, pulling threads of cultural critique and wry observations into his lived experience to create a satisfying and unique voice. Pick this one up now — you can thank me later.

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A brave and sane book about engagine with those who have different political views without demonizing them or losing your moral center.

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Gehring's family owned land and a small sawmill a few miles from where Unabomber Ted Kaczynski lived, next door on property he bought from Gehring’s grandfather. The author sifts through personal memories and countless documented sources as she tries to reconcile her own experiences of Kaczynski, who seemed like an eccentric, if mostly harmless hermit, with the knowledge of his seventeen-year reign of domestic terrorism, asking why and how, and how could we miss the signs?

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This book is one of a growing number of fiercely honest interrogations of marriage and relationship that have come out in recent years, including Blow Your House Down, Foreverland, and American Honey. It’s incisive, bittersweet, and ultimately hopeful. I can’t recommend it enough.

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Huber explodes the concept that writers need have one authentic voice we need to find and get right, instead positing that we have a range of voices to draw on for different purposes and to different effects.

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More than just another celebrity memoir. Billy Porter tells his compelling story with true vulnerability and verve. I highly recommend the audiobook just to hear how he says, "Well—werk!"

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A powerhouse of a book shows the long shadows the twin secrets of Iverson's father’s alcoholism and the Rocky Flats weapons plant cast over both her family life and the community of this Denver suburb. Thoroughly researched and superbly written.

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I love collages, especially ones that are quirky with lots of visual jokes. I Made an Accident is therefore perfect for me. Highly recommended

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A memoir of discovery based on the author's decades-long exploration of her artist-father's past in hopes of finding new ways to connect with his memory and legacy as an adult.

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Pollit's clear language and cogent arguments make the case for abortion as a positive social good that we need not apologize for. This book fundamentally changed the way I look at abortion.

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Louise Erdrich's novel, set in 2019-20, captures in the story of Native bookseller Tookie all the humor, poignancy, grief, and love of a family living in these times in Minneapolis. It's hard to describe and a bit of a slow burn, but these characters stayed with me long after the last sentence.

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Brown deftly weaves research, data, stories, and quotes together in a way that's eminently readable. A reference on how our emotions manifest and how we can use that knowledge to foster connection.

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Jessica Handler gently and courageously guides the writer through writing about grief and loss. Includes writing exercises and stories from her own work.

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Handler's beautifully written memoir of being the surviving sister of three is told with honesty and resilience.

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Fast-paced and riveting, this macabre novel with supernatural elements tells what went wrong in the lives of four American Indian men in the ten-year aftermath of an elk hunt gone awry.

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This book is stunning in its immediacy, its intimacy, and its unflinching honesty. Kiese Laymon spares no one, especially himself, in this memoir filled with incisive reflection rooted in a deep and abiding love.

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Diaz uses the vehicle of the body to explore themes of desire, erasure, and what it means to be Indigenous in America in this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection

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In these previously unpublished essays, Virginia Woolf explores her complicated relationships with her family in an eye-opening look at the waning Victorian era, and offers insights on writing and the creative life as only she can.

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Joan Didion's extraordinary chronicle of the year following her husband's death shows what it's like to confront unimagined grief and come out the other side.

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A humorous yet no-holds-barred accounting of the mind-boggling number and variety of racist encounters co-author Lacey Lamar has faced in her home state of Nebraska. Recommended for someone starting out on an anti-racism education or wants a book that focuses more on personal stories than the sweep of history.

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This searing memoir unflinchingly examines the author's life as her marriage implodes, while at the same time situating herself in the greater context of women's place in contemporary society. Beautifully written and riveting.

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A riveting account based on hundreds of oral histories, communications records, and contemporaneous news reports of what happened that day in that place.

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Comes highly recommended, and anything by Rebecca Solnit writes is bound to be good.