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The Authenticity Experiment by Kate Carroll De Gutes

Kate Carroll De Gutes | The Authenticity Experiment | The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life, essays from Kate’s critically-acclaimed blog, has been called “a pilgrim’s

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Cooking As Fast As I Can by Cat Cora

Cat Cora | Cooking As Fast As I Can | “AffectingÂ….as warm and comforting as a home-cooked meal” (People), a no-holds-barred memoir on Southern life, Greek heritage, same sex marriage–and

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Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez

Emma Perez | Gulf Dreams | Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsess

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Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade by Clifford Chase

Clifford Chase | Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade | Forward by Dale PeckSeventh grade: You remember it, don’t you? Sweet sixteen seemed impossibly far away, an elegant, unattainable future. All that we

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Sex Talks to Girls by Maureen Seaton

Maureen Seaton | Sex Talks to Girls | Sex Talks to Girls chronicles the outward antics of a woman on an inward journey to self through the routes of religion, sex, sobriety, and kids. Reca

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Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade by Clifford Chase

Clifford Chase | Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade | Forward by Dale PeckSeventh grade: You remember it, don’t you? Sweet sixteen seemed impossibly far away, an elegant, unattainable future. All that we

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Like Me by Chely Wright

Chely Wright | Like Me | The award-winning country music artist-songwriter and singer (Single White Female, Shut Up and Drive,and others)-writes movingly and candidly about he

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Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | Unlike Jane Austen or Dickens or George Eliot, most of the great novelists of the twentieth century have felt an immense pressure toward the autobiogr

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Between Me And Life by Meryle Secrest

Meryle Secrest | Between Me And Life | In March 197I a major retrospective of Romaine Brooks’s paintings opened in Washington, two months after she had died virtually forgotten at the age o

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Cease by Lynette Loeppky

Lynette Loeppky | Cease | Cecile and Lynette were living on an ‘Old MacDonald’-style hobby farm, commuting into the city for work. Each evening Lyn would come home to a farm fu