Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room

10 best books like Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room (Merle Hoffman): The Girl He Used to Know, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics, American Wolf, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice, Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War, from El Salvador to Oklahoma, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems, Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

The Girl He Used to Know

Author	Tracey Garvis Graves
ISBN	1250200350

What if you had a second chance at first love?Annika Rose likes being alone.
She feels lost in social situations, saying the wrong thing or acting the wrong way. She just can't read people. She prefers the quiet solitude of books or playing chess to being around others. Apart from Jonathan. She liked...

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

Author	Pete Buttigieg
ISBN	1631494368

Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation’s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American...

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Author	David Sheff
ISBN	1328974715

With a new afterword

Now a Major Motion Picture

What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before...

Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics

Author

Hazel Newlevant

Comics for Choice is anthology of comics about abortion. As this fundamental reproductive right continues to be stigmatized and jeopardized, over sixty artists and writers have created comics that boldly share their own experiences, and educate readers on the history of abortion, current political...

American Wolf

Author	Nate Blakeslee
ISBN	1101902809

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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her

Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction...

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Author	Austin Channing Brown
ISBN	1524760854

From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.

Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future...

Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice

Author	Willie Parker
ISBN	1501151126

In Life’s Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of the few doctors to provide such services to women in Mississippi and Alabama) pulls from his personal and professional journeys as well as the scientific training he received as a doctor to reveal...

Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War, from El Salvador to Oklahoma

Author	Michelle Oberman
ISBN	0807045527

With stories from the front lines, a legal scholar journeys through distinct legal climates to understand precisely why and how the war over abortion is being fought.

Drawing on her years of research in El Salvador--one of the few countries to ban abortion without exception--legal scholar...

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0807068993

“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire...

Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

Author	Caroline Elton
ISBN	0465093736

A psychologist's stories of doctors who seek to help others but struggle to help themselves.

From ER and M*A*S*H to Grey's Anatomy and House, the medical drama endures for good reason: we're fascinated by the people we must trust when we are most vulnerable. In Also Human, vocational psychologist...

Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence

Author	Amy Blackstone
ISBN	1524744093

From Dr. Amy Blackstone, childfree woman, co-creator of the blog we're {not} having a baby, and nationally recognized expert on the childfree choice, comes a definitive investigation into the history and current growing movement of adults choosing to forgo parenthood: what it means for our society,...