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Cindi Leive Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Cynthia Leive is a journalist. Journalist, cofounder @themeteor, former EIC @glamourmag, mom of two, wife of one, Brooklynite. She/her/hers.

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Book Cover for: Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown
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If you, too, have read “Goodnight Moon” aloud 8,752 times and known nothing about its author…get to ⁦@AnnaHolmes’ epic profile of⁩ Margaret Wise Brown immediately https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/07/the-radical-woman-behind-goodnight-moon

Board Book, 1991

$10.99Member price:$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, Cat Bohannon

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon
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But “Eve” makes a powerful argument for the pivotal role female Homo sapiens have played in making us “human” — which raises an obvious question. If our lives are so valuable, our well-being so crucial, how on earth did sexism develop?

Hardcover, 2023

$36.00Member price:$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World, Eliza Reid

Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

Eliza Reid
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At its heart, Reid’s book is also a 'love letter' from an immigrant to a country afflicted with the insecurity she labels 'Small Nation Complex'. And like all love letters, it shines when it’s personal.

Paperback, 2023

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book