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‘Getting Waisted: A Survival Guide to Being Fat in a Society That Loves Thin’

Up and down. Up and down.
When your children were infants, you did it for them all night. You do it now with the remote, clicking through when you’re looking for something good on TV. You’re up and down while cleaning, working, exercising, and weighing yourself—and on that note, if the latest diet doesn’t work, maybe the next one will.

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‘Adinkrahene’

There’s something that really intrigues people about stories dealing with secret organizations. The James Bond glamour of being a secret agent with the weight of the world on your shoulders seems to draw attention with the allure of danger, the imaginative outfits, and the slick and sophisticated gadgets that tickle everyone’s fantasy. What if you could be a secret agent? What if the fate of the world depended on you? In J.A. Faulkerson’s fictional tale “Adinkrahene,” (C. 2014, $7.99/E-book, $3.99, 177 pages) he explores that fantasy as the life of a Washington Post political reporter named Jonathan Fraiser is turned upside down, almost overnight.

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