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Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size

10 best books like Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size (Marilyn Wann): Titus Groan, The Magnificent Ambersons, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories, Orfe, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body, I'm Not the New Me

Titus Groan
AuthorMervyn Peake
ISBN0879514256

What an odd fantasy! No swords, no sorcery, no elves, no thieves, no imaginary beasts, no multiple planes of existence . . . nothing but a cavernous castle peopled by eccentrics with Dickensian names (Sepulchrave, Prunesquallor, Swelter, Flay) whose lives are determined by centuries--perhaps...
The Magnificent Ambersons
AuthorBooth Tarkington
ISBN1406935735
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson...
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
AuthorSandra Cisneros
ISBN0679738568
Last year I read Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and felt an affinity toward her as I discovered that she grew up on the northwest side of Chicago and attended the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Mostly an autobiographical account, Mango Street detailed the coming of age of a Mexican American...
Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body
AuthorKate Harding
ISBN0399534970
From the leading bloggers in the fat-acceptance movement comes an empowering guide to body image- no matter what the scales say.

When it comes to body image, women can be their own worst enemies, aided and abetted by society and the media. But Harding and Kirby, the leading bloggers in the "fatosphere,"...
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
AuthorSonya Renee Taylor
ISBN1626569762
A global movement guided by love

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.

The Body Is Not an Apology offers...
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories
AuthorAlice Walker
In Alice Walker’s second story collection, women stand their ground in the midst of crisis

This collection builds on Alice Walker’s earlier work, the much-praised In Love & Trouble. But unlike her first collection of stories, the women in these tenderly wrought tales face their...
Orfe
AuthorCynthia Voigt
ISBN0689848684
"Love stories aren't about how they end."A chance meeting on a street corner with her childhood friend Orfe plunges Enny into the tough world of popular music. As Orfe's business manager, Enny sees Orfe and her band, the three Graces, arrive at the brink of success -- and watches Orfe's dangerous obsession...
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
AuthorLinda Bacon
ISBN1933771585
Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with "healthy" is the problem. Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda...
Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
AuthorLesley Kinzel
ISBN1558617930

In the age of The Biggest Loser and the “war on obesity,” we’re pressured to conform to certain body standards at any cost. Sure, everyone should eat right and get exercise, but what if you do that and you still don’t fit into the clothes at the mall?

In Two Whole Cakes, Fatshionista...
I'm Not the New Me
AuthorWendy McClure
ISBN1594480745
A hilarious and sometimes poignant look at the absurdities of weight-loss culture from an appealing and original voice.

From the creator of the immensely popular websites Pound and Candyboots, this is the memoir of Wendy McClure's odyssey-on-line and off-through the Valley of The Shadow...
Fools Die
AuthorMario Puzo
ISBN0451160193
"A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather.

Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve...
The Fortunate Pilgrim
AuthorMario Puzo
ISBN0345476727
Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant,...
The Spirit
AuthorThomas Page
ISBN0892560320
For a schizophrenic Native American, it is the spirit guide that will lead him back to the heritage he can no longer remember....a spirit he will kill to protect.

For a wealthy businessman looking for a purpose in life, sole survivor of a chance encounter with this spirit, it is a savage beast...
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