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  • Blood: The science, medicine, and mythology of menstruation - Jen Gunter

    Blood: The science, medicine, and mythology of menstruation - Jen Gunter
    Jan 23 2024
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    Title: Blood: The science, medicine, and mythology of menstruation
    Author: Jen Gunter
    Narrator: Jen Gunter
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 11:42:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-23-2024
    Publisher: Random House Canada
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Women's Health, Science & Technology, Medicine, Social Science

    Summary:
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The galvanizing new book from Dr. Jen Gunter, #1 bestselling author of The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto, dispels the shame, mythology, and misinformation around menstruation with scientific facts, medical expertise, and a fierce feminist perspective. Most of us know about as much about how the uterus and ovaries function as we do about how the liver works. Add in societal shame around the menstrual cycle and it’s not surprising that misinformation is widespread. But, as women’s health advocate and trusted OB-GYN Dr. Jen Gunter writes, “you don’t have to think about your liver 5 days a month for 30 years, so I’d argue people should know more about the uterus.' Enter Blood. In her new book, Dr. Gunter offers a clear, no-nonsense guide to reproductive anatomy and answers all the questions you never knew you had about menstrual bleeding—for example, where does the blood come from? And where does it go if you miss a period? Why do we even menstruate in the first place? With her expertise and trademark wit, Dr. Gunter debunks myths and challenges patriarchal attitudes toward this natural bodily process, shedding light on: - The endometrium's fascinating connection to the immune system - The brain-ovary connection - Legitimate menstrual products, and the facts behind toxic shock syndrome - Irregular, heavy, and breakthrough bleeding - Period pain - Endometriosis - Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - Hormonal contraception, menstrual tracking, and FAM (fertility awareness methods) - Abortion as menstrual management And much more. Surprising, funny, and fact-filled, Blood is an essential and empowering resource from the doctor who 'takes the mystery out of women’s health and replaces it with evidence-informed concrete recommendations.' (Lori Brotto, Canada Research Chair in Women's Sexual Health)
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    11 h y 42 m
  • Rouge - Mona Awad

    Rouge - Mona Awad
    Sep 12 2023
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    Title: Rouge
    Author: Mona Awad
    Narrator: Sophie Amoss
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 14:42:26
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-12-2023
    Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada
    Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore

    Summary:
    *INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* *USA TODAY BESTSELLER* A New York Times Editor’s Choice From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm Brothers fairy tale for the modern age” (Good Housekeeping) and “darkly funny horror novel” (NYLON) about a lonely young woman who’s drawn to a cult-like spa in the wake of her mother’s mysterious death. “Surreal, scary and deeply moving—like all the best fairytales” (People). A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Time, Vogue, The Guardian, Goodreads, Bustle, The Millions, LitHub, Good Housekeeping, PureWow, Our Culture Mag, and more! For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.
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    14 h y 42 m
  • One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing - Rowan Jette Knox

    One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing - Rowan Jette Knox
    Sep 12 2023
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    Title: One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing
    Author: Rowan Jette Knox
    Narrator: Rowan Jette Knox
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:15:01
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-12-2023
    Publisher: Viking Canada
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Mental Health

    Summary:
    From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long trauma head-on, and bravely healing the scars that endure. For writer and human rights advocate Rowan Jetté Knox, the inspiring story of his family’s journey of love and acceptance, when both his child and partner came out as transgender one after the other, was the hopeful beginning to their new lives. Their tale, shared in Rowan’s memoir Love Lives Here and embraced by readers everywhere, quickly found its way to the top of bestseller lists. Yet in the spring of 2020, Rowan began to experience targeted attacks on social media, and he soon became the subject of a small but very vocal group that criticized his book’s success and his advocacy work. The intensity of the backlash grew and drove Rowan to contemplate suicide. But instead of taking his life, on one sunny afternoon, he went to the hospital to seek help. One Sunny Afternoon is a searing testament to Rowan Jetté Knox’s extraordinary reckoning of his past and present to find hope in his future. Triggered by the online harassment, he wades through his personal history and details the incidents of violence, addiction and sexual assault that have haunted him. When Rowan eventually receives a complex trauma disorder diagnosis and dedicates himself to recovery, he emerges with newfound strength, resiliency and confidence. One Sunny Afternoon is a profoundly moving and candid account of how trauma can shape us rather than define us, and reveals how even in our darkest moments—and on our most hopeless days—light can find its way in.
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    9 h y 15 m
  • Circle - Katherena Vermette

    Circle - Katherena Vermette
    Sep 5 2023
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    Title: Circle
    Author: Katherena Vermette
    Narrator: Michaela Washburn
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7:13:03
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-05-2023
    Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada
    Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Multicultural & Interracial, Contemporary Women, Family Life

    Summary:
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Circle is a polyphonic masterpiece.” —Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant and unwavering epic told from a constellation of Métis voices that consider the fallout when the person who connects them all goes missing The concept was simple. You sit a bunch of people in a circle—everyone who hurt, everyone who got hurt, all affected—and let them share. Some people, it helped them heal, for sure. Others went in angry and left a different kind of angry. Learned how the blame belonged on the system, the history, the colonizer, the big things that were harder to change than one bad person. The day that Cedar Sage Stranger has been both dreading and longing for has finally come: her sister Phoenix is getting out of prison. The effect of Phoenix’s release cascades through the community. M, the young girl whom she assaulted, is triggered by the news. Her mother, Paulina, is worried and her cousin is angry—all feel the threat of Phoenix’s release. When Phoenix is seen lingering outside the school to catch a glimpse of her son, Sparrow, the police get a call to file a report—but the next thing they know, she has disappeared. Amid accusations and plots for revenge, past grievances become a poor guide in a moment of danger, and the clumsy armature of law enforcement is no match for the community. Cedar and her and Phoenix’s mother, Elsie, continue down different paths of healing, while everyone in their lives form a circle around the chaos, the calm within the storm, and the beauty in the darkness. Fierce, heartbreaking, and profound, Vermette’s The Circle is the third and final companion novel to her bestsellers The Break and The Strangers. Told from various perspectives, with an unforgettable voice for each chapter, the novel is masterfully structured as a Restorative Justice Circle where all gather—both the victimized and the accused—to take account of a crime that has altered the course of their lives. It considers what it means to be abandoned by the very systems that claim to offer support, how it feels to gain a sense of belonging, and the unanticipated cost of protecting those you love most.
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    7 h y 13 m