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Non-Fiction @ L&A Libraries March 2017
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How to murder your lifeby Cat MarnellA former beauty editor at Lucky describes her secret life as a prescription-drug addict and bulimic who manipulated doctors into supporting her destructive lifestyle, recounting the early experiences that shaped her addictions and her struggles to balance her literary ambition with her disease.
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The revenge of analog : real things and why they matter by David SaxA lighthearted tribute to the historical and future role of analog technologies traces the renewal of interest in tangible goods from books to vinyl records, exploring how under reported trends in analog consumerism are reflecting how today's people think, shop and do business.
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Just around midnight : rock and roll and the racial imagination by Jack HamiltonJust around Midnight explores the interplay of popular music and racial thought in the 1960s by asking how, when, and why rock and roll music "became White." By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 the idea of a Black man playing electric lead guitar was considered literally remarkable in ways it had not been for Chuck Berry only ten years earlier: this book explains how this happened.
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Oogy : the dog only a family could love by Larry LevinOffers the heartwarming story of a puppy that was used as bait for fighting dogs, rescued and brought back from the brink of death and adopted by a family that was grieving the loss of their terminally ill cat.
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by Mark Doty
A memoir of the author's relationship with a pair of beloved canine companions is a tribute to their irrepressible personalities, their life-changing impact on the author and his family, and their role in how the author came to understand loss and grief.
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Do dogs dream? : nearly everything your dog wants you to know by Stanley CorenUsing a question and answer format, a psychology professor and dog researcher unravels mysteries about the social and emotional lives of dogs, including whether or not they recognize themselves in a mirror and if they are smarter than cats.
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