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Rainesford Stauffer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Rainesford Stauffer is a freelance writer, reporter, and author Writer, author (All the Gold Stars, 6/6/23 & An Ordinary Age), @teenvogue columnist, supporter of youth journalism. 22-23 @CarterCenter Fellow. Kentuckian.

26 books
Book Cover for: Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture, Sara Petersen

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Sara Petersen
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Happy Publication Day and biggest congratulations to @slouisepetersen and Momfluenced! 🎉🎉🎉 This incredible book is brimming with insight, deep, thoughtful analysis and research, and wit, and it is one you won't want to put down. Get your copy today!

Hardcover, 2023

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pas de Don't, Chloe Angyal

Pas de Don't

Chloe Angyal
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I was lucky enough to read a galley of @ChloeAngyal's debut novel, PAS DE DON'T, and trust me: you want this one the day it comes out. Preorder it so you can have this gem of a book come May 2nd: https://t.co/0NlEvHB1kE https://t.co/L5luRYAKhA

Paperback, 2023

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, Angela Garbes

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

Angela Garbes
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Extraordinary interview by @slouisepetersen with @agarbes (whose new book, ESSENTIAL LABOR, is out today—can’t wait to dive in) for @TheCut: “I was hoping the pandemic would shake us out of the delusion that we can individually save ourselves. We cannot.” https://www.thecut.com/2022/05/angela-garbes-essential-labor-interview.html

Hardcover, 2022

$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter, John Hendrickson

Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter

John Hendrickson
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...It’s personal, investigative, and brimming with curiosity and empathy. Grounded in Hendrickson’s personal story, the book interweaves research, telling us it’s only since the turn of the millennium that stuttering has been understood as a neurological disorder...

Paperback, 2024

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: I give up, Alan Curson

I give up

Alan Curson
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I was thrilled to get to contribute to @CatapultStory's #IGiveUp series with an essay on striving, that's also about my health, and about writing about ambition while losing mine. I hope you'll read it! (And share, if it resonates.) https://twitter.com/CatapultStory/status/1533841515113500672

Paperback, 2008

$12.50$6.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rise to the Sun, Leah Johnson

Rise to the Sun

Leah Johnson
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Happiest of birthdays to one of the kindest, most brilliant, joyful-to-work-with people I've ever had the honor of meeting via the internet! @byleahjohnson is AMAZING and you need to preorder Rise to the Sun right now! 🎉🎈💕✨☀️ https://t.co/uowpp4YZJ6

Paperback, 2024

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families, Nicole Lynn Lewis

Pregnant Girl: A Story of Teen Motherhood, College, and Creating a Better Future for Young Families

Nicole Lynn Lewis
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If you haven’t read Pregnant Girl, you should add it to your reading list. https://t.co/5pl452NVmq

Hardcover, 2021

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work, Simone Stolzoff

The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

Simone Stolzoff
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Honored to see All the Gold Stars in this conversation, and really appreciate @SimoneStolzoff including it— his book, The Good Enough Job, just came out this week! Read more about it: https://t.co/aj7YhncvIN

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive, Rainesford Stauffer

All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

Rainesford Stauffer
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Thrilled that All the Gold Stars was named to the list of June 2023 Must-Read Books by @NextBigIdeaClub! ⭐️💡 (cc: @thebookgrp @HachetteBooks) So grateful for the kindness that's been shown to this book. https://t.co/CcOQmmznX5

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: No Choice: The Destruction of Roe V. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right, Becca Andrews

No Choice: The Destruction of Roe V. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right

Becca Andrews
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So many amazing books on this list, but especially thrilled to see NO CHOICE by my brilliant friend @kbeccaandrews here! If you're looking to give the gift of a book that's urgent and deeply empathetic, you have to gift (and read!) this one: https://t.co/RtfaOmFCCY https://t.co/NmD0TlYXpl

Hardcover, 2022

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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