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The Soul of a Woman By : Isabel Allende READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman. "When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without "resources or voice." Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn't have.As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists, she for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin, as they wrote "with a knife between their teeth" about women's issues. She has seen what has been accomplished by the movement in the course of her lifetime. And over...

Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old By : Steven Petrow READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Soon after his 50th birthday, Steven Petrow began assembling a list of ?things I won?t do when I get old??mostly a catalog of all the things he thought his then 70-something year old parents were doing wrong. That list, which included ?You won?t have to shout at me that I?m deaf,? and ?I won?t blame the family dog for my incontinence,? became the basis of this rousing collection of dos and don?ts, wills and won?ts that is equal parts hilarious, honest, and practical.The fact is, we don?t want to age the way previous generations did. ?Old people? hoard. They bore relatives?and strangers?with tales of their aches and pains. They insist on driving long after they?ve become a danger to others (and themselves). They eat dinner at 4pm. They swear they don?t need a cane or walker (and guess what happens next). They never, ever apologize. But there is another way . . .In Stupid T...