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New & Coming Soon Noteworthy Nonfiction October 2019
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The funniest things ever said by Steven D. Price"A collection of the greatest witticisms from the world of politics, show business, sports, and anywhere else people need a good laugh!" 081 FUN
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Your Turn : Ways to Celebrate Life Through Storytelling by Tyra ManningCreative expression through writing helps us uncover gems of hope and serenity, enabling us to navigate difficult times. Sharing stories with one another fills the space between us, inspires us, helps us forge stronger relationships, and teaches us that we're more alike than different. In Your Turn, renowned educator Dr. Tyra Manning offers examples of stories from her own life, followed by an invitation for readers to delve onto their own emotional histories, with plenty of room to explore on the page with writing prompts and tools. 153 MAN
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Rainforest : Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines by Tony JuniperRainforests have long been recognized as hotspots of biodiversity-but they are crucial for our planet in other surprising ways. Not only do these fascinating ecosystems thrive in rainy regions, they create rain themselves, and this moisture is spread around the globe. Rainforests across the world have a powerful and concrete impact, reaching as far as America's Great Plains and central Europe. In Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines, a prominent conservationist provides a comprehensive view of the crucial roles rainforests serve, the state of the world's rainforests today, and the inspirational efforts underway to save them. 577.34 JUN
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The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care by Anne BoyerThe award-winning author of Garments Against Women presents a meditation on pain and economics that draws on her experiences as a single parent with a catastrophic illness to explore emerging ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of healthcare. 616.994 BOY
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The yellow house by Sarah M. BroomDescribes the author’s upbringing in a New Orleans East shotgun house as the unruly 13th child of a widowed mother, tracing a century of family history and the impact of class, race and Hurricane Katrina on her sense of identity. * Finalist for the 2019 National Book Awards * 814.6 BRO
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Toil & trouble : a memoir by Augusten BurroughsThe best-selling author of Running with Scissors documents his lifelong capacity for causing impossible manifestations, exploring his mother’s revelations about their witch ancestry and his efforts to understand himself and his powers. BIO BURROUGHS
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