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Is it Hot in Here? Or Is it Me? by Barbara Kantrowitz, Pat Wingert Kelly

Is it Hot in Here? Or Is it Me?

The Complete Guide to Menopause

by Barbara Kantrowitz, Pat Wingert Kelly

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  • Dec 2006, 500 pages
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For significant milestones, significant books: first, Our Bodies, Ourselves, then What to Expect When You’re Expecting, and now, Is it Hot in Here? Or is it me? The Complete Guide to Menopause. Written with an uncompromising intelligence and wit by two award-winning Newsweek journalists, Is it Hot in Here? Or is it me? is the essential, comprehensive, up-to-the-minute, deeply optimistic book for the millions of women in their forties-to-sixties.

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"Workman's enviable success with the classic pregnancy "bible" What to Expect When You're Expecting has no doubt sparked this guide, which claims to do for those at midlife what Heidi Murkoff's series has done for pregnant women." - PW.

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