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New Nonfiction December 2020
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These are many of the recently published nonfiction books the library has received. Click on a title to see it in the catalog and to place a hold.
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Undaunted : my fight against America's enemies, at home and abroad
by John O. Brennan
The former director of the CIA chronicles his thirty-year career, detailing his experiences with different presidents and discussing major U.S. national security policies and actions during his tenure, particularly his eight years serving in the Obama administration
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I have something to tell you : a memoir
by Chasten Buttigieg
"A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America's future"
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Untamed
by Glennon Doyle
An activist, speaker and philanthropist offers a memoir wrapped in a wake-up call that reveals how women can reclaim their true, untamed selves by breaking free of the restrictive expectations and cultural conditioning that leaves them feeling dissatisfied and lost.
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His Truth Is Marching on : John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hope of Glory presents a timely portrait of veteran congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis that details the life experiences that informed his faith and shaped his practices of non-violent protest
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My life as a villainess : essays
by Laura Lippman
Collects the author's recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her parents, her newspaper career, and her experiences as a novelist
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The luckiest man : life with John McCain
by Mark Salter
A tribute to the late Senator by one of his most trusted confidantes draws on elements from McCain’s early biography as well as his later-in-life political philosophies to discuss his peripatetic youth, naval service and private life.
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Eleanor
by David Michaelis
The award-winning author of Schulz and Peanuts presents a breakthrough portrait of America’s longest-serving First Lady that includes coverage of her major contributions throughout critical historical events and her essential role in advancing international human rights.
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Black spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Drawing on groundbreaking archival research and a keen interpretive lens, this brilliant work of both biography and intellectual history is a new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture.
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Madam C. J. Walker's gospel of giving : black women's philanthropy during Jim Crow
by Tyrone McKinley Freeman
"Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C. J. Walker was celebrated as America's first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist philanthropy aimed at empowering African Americans and challenging the injustices inflicted by Jim Crow. Tyrone McKinley Freeman's biography highlights how giving shaped Walker's life before and after she became wealthy. Poor and widowed when she arrived in St. Louis in her twenties, Walker found mentorship among black churchgoers and working black women. Her adoption of faith, racial uplift, education, and self-help soon informed her dedication to assisting black women's entrepreneurship, financial independence, and activism. Walker embedded her philanthropy in how she grew her business, forged alliances with groups like the National Association of Colored Women, funded schools and social service agencies led by African American women, and enlisted her company's sales agents in local charity and advocacy work. Illuminating and dramatic, Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving broadens our understanding of black women's charitable giving and establishes Walker as a foremother of African American philanthropy"
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This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
by Jacqueline Winspear
This deeply personal portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, the best-selling author reflects on her childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.
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The Dead Are Arising : The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne
A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth, religious conversion and 1965 assassination.
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000s - Computers/General Knowledge
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The gifts of imperfection
by Brené Brown
An expert of the psychology of shame presents advice on how to overcome paralyzing fears and self-consciousness, and at the same time increase feelings of self-worth, gratitude, and acceptance
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Republican Jesus : how the right has rewritten the gospels
by G. Anthony Keddie
"Jesus loves borders, guns, unborn babies, and economic prosperity and hates homosexuality, taxes, welfare, and universal healthcare--or so say many Republican politicians, pundits, and preachers. Through outrageous misreadings of the New Testament gospels going back almost a century, conservative influencers have conjured a version of Jesus who speaks to their fears, desires, and resentments. In Republican Jesus, Tony Keddie explains not only where this right-wing Christ came from and what he stands for, but also why this version of Jesus is a fraud. By restoring Republicans' cherry-picked gospel texts to their original literary and historical contexts, Keddie dismantles the biblical basis for Republican positions on hot-button issues like Big Government, taxation, abortion, immigration, and climate change. At the same time, he introduces readers to an ancient Jesus whose life experiences and ethics were totally unlike those of modern Americans, conservatives and liberals alike"
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The purpose of power : how to build movements for the 21st century
by Alicia Garza
"Coupled with the speed and networking capacities of social media, #blacklivesmatter was the hashtag heard round the world. But Alicia Garza well knew that the distance between a hashtag and real change would take more than a single facebook to cover. Itwould take a movement. Garza was a lifelong activist who had spent the previous decades educating herself on the hard lessons of organizing. She started as a kid, working on sexual education for her peers, and then moved on to major campaigns around housing, policing, and immigrant and labor rights in California and then nationally. The lessons she extracted were different from the "rules for radicals" that animated earlier generations of lefitists; they were also different than the charismatic, patriarchal model of the American Civil Rights Movement. She instead developed a mode of organizing based on creating deep connections with communities, forging multiracial, intersectional coalitions, and, most of all, calling in all sorts of people to join the fight for the world we all deserve. This is the story of an activist's education on the streets and in the homes of regular people around the country who found ways to come together to create change. And it's also a guide for anyone who wants to share in that education and help build sustainable movements for the 21st century at any level, whether you're fighting for housing justice in your community or advocating for a political candidate or marching in the streets or just voting. It's a new paradigm for change for a new generation of changemakers, from the mind and heart behind one of the most important movements of our time"
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Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world
by Fareed Zakaria
The CNN host and Washington Post columnist shares 10 lessons in subjects ranging from globalization and threat-preparedness to inequality and technological advancement to outline the likely political, social, technological and economic impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.
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Entitled : how male privilege hurts women
by Kate Manne
"An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called "jaw-droppingly brilliant." In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and "Cat Person" to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren, Manne shows how privileged men's sense of entitlement--to sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, medical care, bodily autonomy, knowledge, and power--is a pervasive social problem with often devastating consequences. In clear, lucid prose, she argues that male entitlement can explain a wide array of phenomena, from mansplaining and the undertreatment of women's pain to mass shootings by incels and the seemingly intractable notion that women are "unelectable." Moreover, Manne implicates each of us in toxic masculinity: It's not just a product of a few bad actors; it's something we all perpetuate, conditioned as we are by the social and cultural currents of our time. The only way to combat it, she says, is to expose the flaws in our default modes of thought, while enabling women to take up space, say their piece, and muster resistance to the entitled attitudes of the men around them. With wit and intellectual fierceness, Manne sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to our collective care and concern"
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Caste : the origins of our discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people--including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others--she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of America life today"
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Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""
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Uncomfortable conversations with a black man
by Emmanuel Acho
"In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask--yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-heartedgenerosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and 'reverse racism.' In his own words, he provides a space of compassion and understanding in a discussion that can lack both. He asks only for the reader's curiosity--but along the way, he will galvanize all of us to join the antiracist fight"
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A black man in Trumpland : why didn't we riot?
by Issac J. Bailey
A collection of essays from the award-winning journalist that explores what it means to be black in Trump’s America and how the media has underserved people of color by prioritizing the concerns and needs of the white working class.
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How to make a slave and other essays
by Jerald Walker
"Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising black boys, haircuts that scare white people, racial profiling, and growing up in Southside Chicago"
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I'll Be Seeing You : A Memoir
by Elizabeth Berg
The New York Times bestselling author, in this moving memoir, shares her experiences caring for her parents in their final years, charting the passage from the anguish of loss to the understanding that even in the most fractious of times, love can heal.
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Trust : America's best chance
by Pete Buttigieg
"An urgent call to foster an 'American way of trust' at this painfully polarized juncture in the nation's history, Trust is a direct reckoning with the prevailing corruption of social responsibility. Yet refusing to give in to the despair that threatens our foundations, Trust seeks to inspire Americans to build a powerful movement that will define all of us in the years to come"
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Culture warlords : my journey into the dark web of white supremacy
by Talia Lavin
The unapologetic journalist and anti-discrimination activist recounts her immersive investigation into white supremacy to reveal how it proliferates online, exposing a rampant Web subculture of religious extremism, misogyny, racism and anti-Semitism.
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Conditional citizens : on belonging in America
by Laila Lalami
A Pulitzer Prize finalist recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship.
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The zealot and the emancipator : John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom
by H. W. Brands
"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary to destroy slavery. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery, the eerily charismatic Brown raised a band of followers to wage war against the evil institution. One dark night his men tore several proslavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords, as a bloody warning to others. Three years later Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the goal of furnishing slaves with weapons to murder their masters in a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery once and for all. Abraham Lincoln's answer was politics. Lincoln was an ambitious lawyer and former office-holder who read the Bible not for moral guidance but as a writer's primer. He disliked slavery yet didn't consider it worth shedding blood over. He distanced himself from John Brown and joined the moderate wing of the new, antislavery Republican party. He spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path to Washington and perhaps the White House. Yet Lincoln's caution couldn't preserve him from the vortex of violence Brown set in motion. Arrested and sentenced to death, Brown comported himself with such conviction and dignity on the way to the gallows that he was canonized in the North as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded in anger and horror that a terrorist was made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle of the fracturing country and won election as president, still preaching moderation. But the time for moderation had passed. Slaveholders lumped Lincoln with Brown as an enemy of the Southern way of life; seven Southern states left the Union. Lincoln resisted secession, and the Civil War followed. At first a war for the Union, it became the war against slavery Brown had attempted to start. Before it was over, slavery had been destroyed, but so had Lincoln's faith that democracy can resolve its moral crises peacefully"
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Why we serve : Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces
by Alexandra N. Harris
"Why We Serve commemorates the 2020 opening of the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the first landmark in Washington, DC, to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Native veterans. American Indians' history of military service dates to colonial times, and today, they serve at one of the highest rates of any ethnic group. Why We Serve explores the range of reasons why, from love of their home to an expression of their warrior traditions.The book brings fascinating history to life with historical photographs, sketches, paintings, and maps. Incredible contributions from important voices in the field offer a complex examination of the history of Native American service. Why We Serve celebrates the unsung legacy of Native military service and what it means to their community and country"
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War : how conflict shaped us
by Margaret MacMillan
From the internationally renowned historian and bestselling author of Paris 1919 comes a provocative argument that war is an essential aspect of human nature, and that peace is an aberration in history.
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Our malady : Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
by Timothy Snyder
"From the author of On Tyranny comes an urgent diagnosis of an American malady: our heartless system of commercial medicine and our politics of pain. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window, he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right, but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning. And he had no idea how much worse things could get. Now, American hospitals, long understaffed and undersupplied, are buckling under waves of coronavirus patients. The federal government has responded with willful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering. Even with public life at a standstill, thousands of Americans continue to die, needlessly, every single day. In this eye-opening cri de coeur, Snyder traces the societal forces that led us here and outlines the lessons we must learn to survive. In examining some of the darkest moments of recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds glimmers of hope, and principles that could lead us out of ourcurrent malaise. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and medical knowledge, and planning for our children's future can we create an America where everyone is truly free"
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Our bodies, their battlefields : war through the lives of women
by Christina Lamb
"Across the world women are victimized by wartime atrocities that are rarely recorded, much less punished. The first ever prosecution for war rape was in 1997 and there have been remarkably few convictions since, as if rape doesn't matter in the reckoning of war, only killing. Some courageous women in countries around the world are taking things in their own hands, hunting down the war criminals themselves"
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The killer's shadow : the FBI's hunt for a white supremacist serial killer
by John E. Douglas
A legendary FBI criminal profiler and international best-selling author of Mindhunter returns with a book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer
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The knowledge machine : how irrationality created modern science
by Michael Strevens
Citing historical events from Newton’s alchemy to Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge, a paradigm-shifting investigation into the origins and structure of science urges scientists to intentionally disregard religion, theoretical beauty and philosophy to channel focus into tangible experimentation and observation.
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The secret lives of planets : order, chaos, and uniqueness in the solar system
by Paul Murdin
"An insider's guide to astronomy reveals everything you need to know about the planets, their satellites, and our place in the solar system. We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events"
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Black hole survival guide
by Janna Levin
A professor of physics and astronomy and author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space offers a guide understanding the black hole and reveals how scientists’ knowledge of them has changed our basic understanding of the universe.
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Metazoa : animal life and the birth of the mind
by Peter Godfrey-Smith
The scuba-diver author of Other Minds blends philosophical reflections with the latest biological research in an investigation into the evolution of subjective awareness in animals that describes his remarkable encounters with undersea life.
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Lost animals : extinct, endangered, and rediscovered species
by John Whitfield
A zoologist and science journalist documents the evolution and extinction of earth’s species from the prehistoric era to the present, including dodos, paraceratherium, spinosaurus, paceoderm fishes and more highlighting the biggest losses and moments of conservational hope.
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Every penguin in the world : a quest to see them all
by Charles Bergman
Follow an award-winning author and photographer on his quest to see all 18 species of penguins, in this thought-provoking book that beautifully combines narrative and photography to capture the plight and experience of penguins worldwide.
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Bones : inside and out
by Roy A. Meals
A 500-million-year history of bone as a focus for understanding vertebrate life and human culture examines the biological makeup of bones, how medical innovations have enhanced human knowledge and what can be learned from bones even millions of years later.
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600s - Health, Cooking & Parenting
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Golem girl : a memoir
by Riva Lehrer
The vividly told, full-color memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies.
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Pregnancy & diabetes : a complete guide for women with gestational, type 2, and type 1 diabetes
by Marina Chaparro
"A practical, down-to-earth guide to managing diabetes and pregnancy from an educator, nutrition professional, and mother living with diabetes. Diabetes during pregnancy can be a scary experience for women, whether they are diagnosed with gestational diabetes or have been living type 1 or type 2 diabetes for years. This book gives moms-to-be practical, easy-to-follow, and reassuring advice to successfully manage diabetes during the nine months of pregnancy"
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How to astronaut : an insider's guide to leaving planet Earth
by Terry Virts
A behind-the-scenes look at the training, basic rules, lessons and procedures of space travel by the former astronaut, space-shuttle pilot and International Space Station commander includes coverage of the realities of living long-term in space.
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How to grow your dinner without leaving the house : Without Leaving the House
by Claire Ratinon
"A vegetable garden is not an option for everyone, and so container growing has become desirable for people with little outside space. Many have discovered the love of growing houseplants and want to take their skills to another level; others are inspired by the idea of growing their own food organically and sustainably. The book covers all the essentials of growing a range of edible plants in pots, and meeting each crop's specific needs"
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7 ways : Easy Ideas for Every Day of the Week
by Jamie Oliver
Offering multiple options for common ingredients from chicken breast and ground beef to potatoes and broccoli, a collection of 120 original recipes reveals how to incorporate satisfying twists and high nutrition into everyday meals.
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Instant pot Asian pressure cooker meals : fast, fresh & affordable
by Patricia Tanumihardja
"Instant Pot Asian Pressure Cooker Meals shows you how to cook all your favorite Asian dishes at home using healthy, inexpensive ingredients and your Instant Pot! In this cookbook, Asian-American food expert Pat Tanumihardja shows you how to buy fresh ingredients, condiments and spices from your local supermarket, farmers market or health food store on a budget, then how to use them to prepare delicious and flavorful Asian dishes using an Instant Pot. The author takes you through all the basics; including making rice and soup stocks; then shows you how to prepare all the popular dishes you love, including: Sweet and Sour Pork (Chinese), Lemon Teriyaki Chicken (Japanese), Kalbijjim Braised Beef Short Ribs (Korean), Chicken Adobo (Filipino), Pho Chicken Noodle Soup (Vietnamese), Pad Thai Rice Noodles (Thai), Red Lentil Dal with Dates and Caramelized Onions (Indian). To round off the menu, Tanumihardja even presents a handful of popular Asian desserts and snacks. Sticky rice with mango or Filipino caramel flan. As the author reveals, everything is possible in your Instant Pot, and this cookbook shows you how to do it!"
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I heart soul food : 100 Southern comfort food favorites
by Rosie Mayes
The creator of the blog and social media channels I Heart Recipes shares all the secrets of southern classics, in this authentic, accessible and mouthwatering collection of recipes that use easy-to-find ingredients.
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East : 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes from Bangalore to Beijing
by Meera Sodha
The author of Made in India returns with a collection of delicious, meat-free recipes inspired by Asian cuisines including India, Indonesia, Japan, China Thailand and Vietnam and include noodles, curries, rice dishes, tofu, salads, sides and sweets.
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Ottolenghi flavor
by Yotam Ottolenghi
The Guardian columnist and best-selling co-author of Jerusalem and an Ottolenghi Test Kitchen master chef provide 100 plant-based and vegan recipes that use strategic preparation techniques to maximize flavor, including Spicy Mushroom Lasagna, Vegetable Schnitzel and Stuffed Eggplant in Dal.
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Dessert person : recipes and guidance for baking with confidence
by Claire Saffitz
A first cookbook by the host of Bon Appétit’s Baking School shares professional tips and troubleshooting strategies for more than 100 recipes that feature Saffitz’s signature twists, including Babkallah, Crispy Mushroom Galette and Malted Forever Brownies. I
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Pie camp : the skills you need to make any pie you want
by Kate McDermott
The James Beard Award-nominated Pie Camp instructor presents a follow-up to Art of the Pie that shares expert insights into pie foundations, troubleshooting and mix-and-matching crusts with fillings, providing gluten-free options and one dozen master-level recipes.
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The book on pie : everything you need to know to bake perfect pies
by Erin Jeanne McDowell
The award-winning New York Times food stylist and author of The Fearless Baker presents a comprehensive, single-volume resource on the secrets to making great pie that provides coverage of everything from flaky crusts to special-occasion classics.
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Glory : Magical Visions of Black Beauty
by Kahran Bethencourt
The husband-and-wife team behind CreativeSoul Photography and the acclaimed AfroArt series combine striking photography of natural Black hairstyles with visual storytelling in a celebration of Black culture, heritage and self-acceptance.
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How to write one song
by Jeff Tweedy
"Perfect for gifting during the holidays and beyond, a thoughtful, counterintuitive book about creativity from the celebrated songwriter, leader of the band Wilco, and New York Times bestselling author of Let's Go (So We Can Get Back), inspiring others by taking the reader through the process of writing one song"
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150 glimpses of the Beatles
by Craig Brown
The author of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws on previously unexamined lore and celebrity testimony in a kaleidoscopic group portrait of the Fab Four that reveals lesser-known examples of their indelible and enduring cultural impact.
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Let love rule
by Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny and humor.
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One life
by Megan Rapinoe
The Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women’s World Cup champion describes her childhood in a conservative California town, her athletic achievements and her public advocacy of civil rights and urgently needed social change.
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Knockout
by Mia Kang
This memoir of the Hong Kong-born model and host of Bravo’s “Spy Games” discusses how she overcame her struggles with bullying, addiction, depression and weight to become an advocate for body positivity.
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African American Poetry : 250 Years of Struggle & Song
by Kevin Young
A wide-ranging anthology of black poetry represents 250 famous and less-recognized poets from the colonial era to the present who used their powerful words to illuminate such issues as racism, slavery and the threatened African Diaspora identity.
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Dearly : new poems
by Margaret Atwood
The internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature – and zombies.
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Little big bully
by Heid E. Erdrich
"Poet, artist, filmmaker, and curator Heid E. Erdrich explores the indigenous experience in multifaceted ways-personal, familial, biological, cultural. These poems, written from the perspective of an Ojibwe woman, reveal what sustained harassment does topeople, especially to women, children, and Native and Indigenous people, how it can lead to the oppression of others and even ourselves, and how experiencing misogyny and sexual abuse can make a person vulnerable to future abuse"
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Every day we get more illegal
by Juan Felipe Herrera
The nation’s first Latino Poet Laureate presents this State of the Union address that is incisive, compassionate and filled with hope.
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Make me rain : poems & prose
by Nikki Giovanni
The seven-time NAACP Image Award-winning poet and Ebony Woman of the Year unapologetically celebrates her heritage in a deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society and the depths of her own heart.
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Mad at the World : A Life of John Steinbeck
by William Souder
The Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of Under a Wild Sky explores how John Steinbeck’s complicated persona and firsthand struggles through the depths of the Great Depression gave him deeply empathic perspectives that shaped his politics and his evocative characters and themes.
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Grieving : dispatches from a wounded country
by Cristina Rivera Garza
"Translated into English by Sarah Booker, GRIEVING is Cristina Rivera Garza's collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border. Drawing together horror theory and historical analysis, Rivera Garza outlines how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug trafficking-culminating in the misnamed "war on drugs"-has shaped her country. Working from and against this political context, Rivera Garza posits that collective grief and writing is a mode of seeking social justice"
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A World Beneath the Sands : The Golden Age of Egyptology
by Toby Wilkinson
The Egyptologist author of The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt documents the history of the West’s scramble to claim the discoveries of Egypt and how the past 200 years of archaeology have informed our understandings of the ancient world.
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Eat the Buddha : life and death in a Tibetan town
by Barbara Demick
"Set in Aba, a town perched at 12,000 feet on the Tibetan plateau in the far western reaches of China that has been the engine of Tibetan resistance for decades, Eat the Buddha tells the story of a nation through the lives of ordinary people living in the throes of this conflict. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick illuminates a part of China and the aggressions of this superpower that have been largely off limits to Westerners who have long romanticized Tibetans as a deeply spiritual, peaceful people. She tells a sweeping story that spans decades through the lives of her subjects, among them a princess whose family lost everything in the Cultural Revolution; a young student from a nomadic family who becomes radicalized in the storied monastery of Kirta; an upwardly mobile shopkeeper who falls in love with a Chinese woman; a poet and intellectual who risks everything to voice his resistance. Demick paints a broad canvas through an intimate view of these lives, depicting the tradition of resistance that results in the shocking acts of self-immolation, the vibrant, enduring power of Tibetan Buddhism, and the clash of modernity with ancient ways of life. Her depiction is nuanced, unvarnished, and at times shocking"
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A promised land
by Barack Obama
A deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
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Where law ends : inside the Mueller investigation
by Andrew Weissmann
Presents the inside account of the Mueller investigation, including the heated debates, painful deliberations, mistakes of the team, and the external efforts by the president and Attorney General William Barr to manipulate the investigation to their political ends
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Where I come from : stories from the deep South
by Rick Bragg
"From the best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning author of All Over But the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of his irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware ("My Affair with Tupperware") to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pick-up truck, the best way to kill fire ants, the unbridled excess of Fat Tuesday, and why any self-respecting Southern man worth his salt should carry a good knife, Where I Come From is an ode to the stories and the history of the deep south, written with tenderness, wit, and deep affection--a book that will be treasured by fans old and new"
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Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey
From the Academy Award-winning actor comes an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.
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