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Author: Yara Zgheib
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250202469
Size: 33.80 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2019-02-05
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Girls At 17 Swann Street eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. *A BookMovement Group Read* **A People Pick for Best New Books** Yara Zgheib’s poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists’ list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound. Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears – imperfection, failure, loneliness – she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day. Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street.

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Book Detail:
Author: Yara Zgheib
Publisher: Platinum Spotlight Series
ISBN: 9781643581149
Size: 55.38 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2019
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Girls At 17 Swann Street eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life"--

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Author: Yara Zgheib
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982187433
Size: 71.52 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2022-09-06
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF No Land To Light On eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Hadi and Sama are a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, building a life in the country that brought them together. They'd met in Cambridge, Massachusetts: he, a shell-shocked refugee of a bloody civil war; she, a passionate dreamer who'd come to America years earlier in search of new horizons. Now, they giddily await the birth of their son, a boy whose native language would be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi's father dies, in Amman, the night before the embassy interview that would finally reunite Hadi with his parents and deliver them from a country in crisis. Hadi flies back to the Middle East for the funeral, promising he'll be gone only a few days. On the day his flight is due to arrive in Boston, Sama decides to surprise him at the airport, eager to scoop him up and bring him back home. She waits, and waits. There are protests at Logan airport, and Hadi never shows up. What Sama doesn't yet know is that Hadi has been stopped at the border. That he's been taken away for questioning, detained in a windowless, timeless, nightmarish limbo. She does not know about the travel ban, that his legal status in the U.S., which yesterday seemed rock solid, is now in jeopardy - and with it, the chance that he'll ever step foot on U.S. soil again. Amid the protests, Sama goes into premature labor; their son, Naseem, is born, too soon, his father nowhere to be found, the future they could almost taste wrenched from their grasp in a matter of hours. Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist anymore? Was it only ever an illusion? Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught on either side of a border, fighting for freedom and home, finding both in each other, and in the tenacious faith of creatures who take flight"--

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Author: Anissa Gray
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984802445
Size: 36.57 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-01-14
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Care And Feeding Of Ravenously Hungry Girls eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls...an absorbing commentary on love, family and forgiveness.”—The Washington Post “A fast-paced, intriguing story...the novel’s real achievement is its uncommon perceptiveness on the origins and variations of addiction.”—The New York Times Book Review One of the most anticipated reads of 2019 from Vogue, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Essence, Bustle, HelloGiggles and Cosmo! “The Mothers meets An American Marriage” (HelloGiggles) in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. The Butler family has had their share of trials—as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest—but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with and her younger sisters have alternately appreciated and chafed at her strong will. They are as stunned as the rest of the small community when she and her husband, Proctor, are arrested, and in a heartbeat the family goes from one of the most respected in town to utter disgrace. The worst part is, not even her sisters are sure exactly what happened. As Althea awaits her fate, Lillian and Viola must come together in the house they grew up in to care for their sister’s teenage daughters. What unfolds is a stunning portrait of the heart and core of an American family in a story that is as page-turning as it is important.

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Author: Abraham Cahan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486146359
Size: 10.83 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-03-21
Category: Literary Collections
Language: en
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Download PDF The Rise Of David Levinsky eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A young Hasidic Jew seeks his fortune in New York's Lower East Side. He turns from his religious studies to focus on the business world, where he discovers the high price of assimilation.

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Book Detail:
Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525522883
Size: 64.82 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2018-02-06
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF How To Stop Time eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library. “A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations….A delightfully witty…poignant novel.” —The Washington Post “She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going… I had existed whole years without her, but that was all it had been. An existence. A book with no words.” Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. Unfortunately for Tom, the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present. How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages—and for the ages—about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

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Book Detail:
Author: Yara Zgheib
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781475040159
Size: 66.90 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2012-07-01
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Biography Of A Little Prince eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In his short life, a seven-year-hundred-day-old prince left an unforgettable mark on every person he met. Through the memories of all who knew him, The Biography of a Little Prince narrates the triumphant life of this little boy who transformed the lives of so many others.The novel begins nineteen days after the prince's untimely death. His life is not told in a conventional, chronological manner; rather it is celebrated in a series of vignettes that swing back and forth in time to the gentle breeze of his accomplishments. Many of the memories are simple and sweet, like when the little boy prepared breakfast, taught his elders to blow bubble gum, and explained how to fly a kite to catch the prevailing winds. Others are more serious, like when the prince intervened to break up a fight between adults, called a family together to pray, and meditated on death with a maturity far beyond his young years.Heartfelt, honest, and enchanting, The Biography of a Little Prince is the story of a real little boy. To write the book, author Yara Zgheib drew on the experience of the most fascinating person she has ever met, her youngest brother Mikey. From watching him learn how to lace up his shoes to making pancake breakfasts and drawing air castles in the clouds, the seven years, hundred days she spent with her brother were the happiest times of her life. Through the novel, she hopes that readers can get to know and love him the same way she did. This isn't a book written for profit or personal gain but a labor of love that seeks to put the story of an exceptional young boy into the public record. “Trust me, this is one kid you cannot afford not to have in your life,” says Zgheib. From love to magic, friendships to family, this boy's story will have you rethinking life.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alexandra Ballard
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374304645
Size: 17.77 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-06-06
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF What I Lost eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and her peace of mind. As a result, she’s finally a size zero. She’s also the newest resident at Wallingfield, a treatment center for girls like her—girls with eating disorders. Elizabeth is determined to endure the program so she can go back home, where she plans to start restricting her food intake again.She’s pretty sure her mom, who has her own size-zero obsession, needs treatment as much as she does. Maybe even more. Then Elizabeth begins receiving mysterious packages. Are they from her ex-boyfriend, a secret admirer, or someone playing a cruel trick? This eloquent debut novel rings with authenticity as it follows Elizabeth’s journey to taking an active role in her recovery, hoping to get back all that she lost.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 034554496X
Size: 10.47 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2016-10-11
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Small Great Things eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America today, both overt and subtle. Her many readers will find much to discuss in the pages of this topical, moving book.”—Booklist (starred review) Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy’s counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other’s trust, and come to see that what they’ve been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong. With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn’t offer easy answers. Small Great Things is a remarkable achievement from a writer at the top of her game. Praise for Small Great Things “Small Great Things is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written. . . . It will challenge her readers . . . [and] expand our cultural conversation about race and prejudice.”—The Washington Post “A novel that puts its finger on the very pulse of the nation that we live in today . . . a fantastic read from beginning to end, as can always be expected from Picoult, this novel maintains a steady, page-turning pace that makes it hard for readers to put down.”—San Francisco Book Review

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Book Detail:
Author: Diana Clarke
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062986708
Size: 12.18 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-06-30
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Thin Girls eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and queerness as well as toxic diet culture and the power of sisterhood, love, and lifelong friendships, written by a talented protégé of Roxane Gay. Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other’s emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, they’ve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to food—or not—to battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. when Rose stops eating, Lily starts—consuming everything Rose won’t or can’t. Within a few years, Rose is about to mark her one-year anniversary in a rehabilitation facility for anorexics. Lily, her sole visitor, is the only thing tethering her to a normal life. But Lily is struggling, too. A kindergarten teacher, she dates abusive men, including a student’s married father, in search of the close yet complicated companionship she lost when she became separated from Rose. When Lily joins a cult diet group led by a social media faux feminist, whose eating plan consists of consuming questionable non-caloric foods, Rose senses that Lily needs her help. With her sister’s life in jeopardy, Rose must find a way to rescue her—and perhaps, save herself. Illuminating some of the most fraught and common issues confronting women, Thin Girls is a powerful, emotionally resonant story, beautifully told, that will keep you turning the pages to the gratifying, hopeful end.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kathleen Rooney
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250113326
Size: 49.48 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-01-17
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Set on New Year’s Eve, 1984, 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish walks the length of Manhattan and encounters a vibrant cross-section of fellow urbanites and recollects an eventful life.

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Book Detail:
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062235877
Size: 10.57 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2013-01-08
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Watching The Dark eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson brings back Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his colleague DI Annie Cabbot in a case riddled with corruption. A decorated policeman is murdered on the tranquil grounds of the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, shot through the heart with a crossbow arrow, and compromising photographs are discovered in his room. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is well aware that he must handle the highly sensitive and dangerously explosive investigation with the utmost discretion. And as he digs deeper, he discovers that the murder may be linked to an unsolved missing persons case from six years earlier—and the current crime may involve some very bad, crooked cops. A pulsating, electrifying novel of suspense Watching the Dark is one of Peter Robinson’s finest novels. “Ambitious…Robinson shows a keen awareness of the global reach of crime.”—New York Times Book Review

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Book Detail:
Author: E. J. Schwartz
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1635830702
Size: 67.89 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2021-09-14
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Before We Were Blue eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In a treatment center for eating disorders, teenagers Shoshana and Rowan develop an intense, sometimes destructive connection. Ultimately, the girls will have to make a choice: get healthy on their own—or stay sick together.

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Book Detail:
Author: Alyson Richman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451490770
Size: 49.44 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-02-19
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The Secret Of Clouds eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Named One of the Best 2019 Winter Books by PopSugar and Chosen as One of 9 Books to Read (or Gift!) This February by Instyle! From the #1 international bestselling author of The Lost Wife and The Velvet Hours comes an emotionally charged story about a mother’s love, a teacher’s promise, and a child’s heart.... Katya, a rising ballerina, and Sasha, a graduate student, are young and in love when an unexpected tragedy befalls their native Kiev. Years later, after the couple has safely emigrated to America the consequences of this incident cause their son, Yuri, to be born with a rare health condition that isolates him from other children. Maggie, a passionate and dedicated teacher agrees to tutor Yuri at his home, even though she is haunted by her own painful childhood memories. As the two forge a deep and soulful connection, Yuri's boundless curiosity and unique wisdom inspires Maggie to make difficult changes in her own life. And she'll never realize just how strong Yuri has made her—until she needs that strength the most.... A novel that will make readers examine what it means to live life with a full heart.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael Belanger
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0735228825
Size: 12.64 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2019-06-04
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The History Of Jane Doe eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A poignant, deeply funny coming-of-age story about first love, first loss, and the power of history to give life meaning. * "[An] impressive debut...John Green fans will gobble this one up." -- Kirkus, starred review History buff Ray knows everything about the peculiar legends and lore of his rural Connecticut hometown. Burgerville's past is riddled with green cow sightings and human groundhogs, but the most interesting thing about the present is the new girl--we'll call her Jane Doe. Inscrutable, cool, and above all mysterious, Jane seems as determined to hide her past as Ray is to uncover it. As fascination turns to friendship and then to something more, Ray is certain he knows Jane's darkest, most painful secrets and Jane herself--from past to present. But when the unthinkable happens, Ray is forced to acknowledge that perhaps history can only tell us so much. Mixing humor with heartache, this is an unmissable coming-of-age story from an exciting new voice in YA.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 3985943680
Size: 27.15 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2021-06-30
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Girl Meets Boy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the astonishingly talented writer of The Accidental and Hotel World comes Ali Smiths brilliant retelling of Ovids gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, as seen through the eyes of two Scottish sisters. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, and the absurdity of consumerism, as well as a story of reversals and revelations that is as sharply witty as it is lyrical. Funny, fresh, poetic, and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for a world made in Madison Avenues image, and the funniest addition to the Myths series from Canongate since Margaret Atwoods The Penelopiad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Emma Woolf
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593765592
Size: 66.72 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-05-01
Category: Psychology
Language: en
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Download PDF An Apple A Day eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A woman suffering from anorexia struggles to understand the cause of her eating disorder and, more importantly, becomes determined to stop starving and start living. I haven’t tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I’m walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat . . . Remember when Kate Moss said, "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels"? She’s wrong: chocolate does. At the age of thirty-three, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise, and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day. Having met the man of her dreams, and wanting a future and a baby together, she decided it was time to stop starving and start living. Honest, hard-hitting, and spoken from the heart, An Apple a Day is a manifesto for the modern generation to stop starving and start living.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kristin Hannah
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0449148386
Size: 66.82 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1992-12-23
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Once In Every Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a research scientist hides her longings for husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit -- a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soon. But for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America. She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three -- and she can hear. Shocked and disoriented by her new surroundings, she is drawn into the savage heartache burdening the family, especially her husband, Jack, a man who fears himself capable of anything.

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Book Detail:
Author: B. B. Swann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781647040949
Size: 78.31 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-03-15
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Breaking The Bro Code eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Susan Burton
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 081298272X
Size: 72.97 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2021-07-06
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Empty eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. “Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful.”—People NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE For almost thirty years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents’ abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But in the fallout from her parents’ breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from “peculiarity to pathology.” Susan entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. She went from success to success—she went to Yale, scored a dream job at a magazine right out of college, and married her college boyfriend. But in college the compulsive eating got worse—she’d binge, swear it would be the last time, and then, hours later, do it again—and after she graduated she descended into anorexia, her attempt to “quit food.” Binge eating is more prevalent than anorexia or bulimia, but there is less research and little storytelling to help us understand it. In tart, soulful prose Susan Burton strikes a blow for the importance of this kind of narrative and tells an exhilarating story of longing, compulsion and hard-earned self-revelation.

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