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Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Going All the Way Teenage Girls' Tales of Sex, Romance, and Pregnancy Sharon Thompson Hill and Wang At once an affectionate tribute and a work of social history, Going All the Way captures the experiences of young women coming of age in modern day America....

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Cleopatra's Nose

39 Varieties of Desire

Judith Thurman Picador

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 Cleopatra's Nose is an exuberant gathering of essays and profiles, representing twenty years of Judith Thurman's...

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Devices and Desires

A History of Contraceptives in America

Andrea Tone Hill and Wang

"Marvelously eye-opening . . . Brings an original dimension to the story by recounting the development of the American contraceptive industry, and demonstrating its resilience in the face of militant attempts to suppress it . . . Tone convincingly upends [long-held views and] offers fascinating vignettes."—Daniel J. Kevles, The New York Times Book Review

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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

The American Portraits Series

Camilla Townsend Hill and Wang

"Townsend provides students with a model for how to tease meaning out of a fragmentary and intensely biased historical record. I look forward to having an opportunity to assign her book to my students and anticipate that it will work both in the American history survey course and in upper-division courses in early America."—Michael Leroy Oberg, The Journal of American History

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Falling Through the Earth

A Memoir

Danielle Trussoni Picador

"The affection, respect and humor she brings to the task of revealing this complicated individual is testimony both to her creative abilities and to the generosity of her spirit."—Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review

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Revolution

The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas

Deb Olin Unferth St. Martin's Griffin

Hailed as a “virtuosic one-woman show” (Time Out New York) this New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice pick tells the funny and poignant story of the year...

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Trade Paperback : $13.99 Buy	Girls on the Verge Debutante Dips, Drive-bys, and Other Initiations Vendela Vida St. Martin's Griffin In a fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida explores a variety of rituals that girls have adapted or created in order...

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Queen of Fashion

What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Caroline Weber Picador

"In Queen of Fashion, her suspenseful, remarkably well-documented and surprisingly humanizing account of the role style played in Marie Antoinette's fate and legacy, Caroline Weber, who teaches at Barnard College and is an expert on the Terror, adds texture, shimmer and depth to an icon most of us thought we knew already."—Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times Book Review

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