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Pretty is What Changes by Jessica Queller

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Pretty is What Changes: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny

Jessica Queller

Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian cancer in her lifetime. Thirty-four, unattached, and yearning for marriage and a family of her own, Queller faces an agonizing choice: a lifetime of vigilant screenings and a commitment to fight the disease when caught, or its radical alternative—a prophylactic double mastectomy that would effectively restore life to her, even as it would challenge her most closely held beliefs about body image, identity, and sexuality.

The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great

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The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great

Pam Anderson

The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great is a way to eat for life. It's filled with voice-of-experience tips for curbing appetite, no-nonsense shortcuts for getting food on the table pronto, and recipes that could only have been developed by this food-loving pro—no compromises, no wasted steps, just extraordinary results from ordinary ingredients.

 

Child of Our Time by Tessa Livingstone

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Meet the Author - Tessa Livingstone

Tessa Livingstone is the executive producer of the groundbreaking BBC series 'Child of Our Time'. In this book, a companion to the series, she sets out to look at the child's first five years and to answer the question 'What makes us who we are'.

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