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1. Gender Queer: A Memoir

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Author:
Kobabe, Maia
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Formats:
Graphic Novel, Hoopla eComic, OverDrive eBook
Description:
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...

2. Someone else's shoes

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Author:
Moyes, Jojo, 1969-
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook, Playaway
Description:
"A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars. Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes? Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Nisha, 45, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband inexplicably cuts her off entirely. She doesn't even...

3. The woman they could not silence: one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear

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Author:
Moore, Kate (Writer and editor)
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eAudiobook
Description:
"1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions...