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Noteworthy Nonfiction Digital Edition May 2020
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Our building may be closed, but our online resources are always available! Access thousands of ebooks and audiobooks, including the hottest new titles, from your tablet or smartphone using Libby and Hoopla. Get the app for your phone or tablet. Below you will find a few our favorite titles!
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Joy at work : organizing your professional life by Marie KondoThe best-selling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and the psychologist author of Stretch share anecdotes, studies and strategies for promoting workplace fulfillment through focused organization and productivity. eBook and Audiobook Available on Libby!
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The Untethered Soul : The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. SingerWho are you? In this remarkable book, author and spiritual guide Michael Singer explores this fundamental question, seeking the very root of consciousness in order to help readers learn how to dwell in the present moment. Written in an engaging and uncomplicated voice, this book will open readers up to the radical and powerful experience of simply being themselves.
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The house of Kennedy by James PattersonThe Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price. Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed, at once familiar and unknowable. The House of Kennedy is a revealing, fascinating account of America's most storied family, as told by America's most trusted storyteller.
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In praise of walking : a new scientific exploration by S. M. O'Mara"Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia. Every day, we put one foot in front of the other-yet how many of us know how we do that, or appreciate the advantages it gives us? In this book, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains. From walking's evolutionary origins, traced back millions of years to the ocean floor, to new findings from cutting-edge research, O'Mara reveals how the brain and nervous system give us the ability to balance, weave through a crowded city, and run our "inner GPS" system, and how walking, in turn, spurs our imaginations. In Praise of Walking illuminates the joys, health benefits, and mechanics of walking-and reminds us to get out of our chairs and discover a happier, healthier, more creative self.
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How to : absurd scientific advice for common real-world problems by Randall MunroeThe creator of the web comic xkcd and best-selling author of What If? and Thing Explainer shares inadvisable advice for responding to today’s problems, from using social-media for weather forecasts to powering a home by destroying the fabric of space-time.
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by Brian Doyle
A playful, evocative book of spiritual essays for both religious and secular readers draws on the late award-winning Portland Magazine editor’s vast body of writing and explores small everyday miracles and love in all its forms.
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