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Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy

by Martin Lindstrom (Goodreads Author)

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Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home

by Lauren Kessler (Goodreads Author)

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Has Medicine Lost Its Mind?: Why Our Mental Health System Is Failing Us and What Should Be Done to Cure It

by Robert C. Smith MD

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Book cover for Shut Up and Run: How to Get Up, Lace Up, and Sweat with Swagger – A Bold Fitness Guide from Peloton's Ultramarathon Coach Robin Arzón

Shut Up and Run: How to Get Up, Lace Up, and Sweat with Swagger – A Bold Fitness Guide from Peloton's Ultramarathon Coach Robin Arzón by Robin Arzón

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“When her breast grew, Teena hated how they hurt. When someone stared at her chest, it would make her feel sick. She liked her body before puberty and despised it when it started to develop. She wasn't feminine she wasn't graceful and she didn't want to be [page 47]”
― Aphrodite Jones, All She Wanted

tags: ftm, transgender, true-crime

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“Being told you are not who you know yourself to be is trauma [page 321]”
― Elijah C. Nealy, Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition

tags: children, education, ftm, mtf, transgender

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