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All in my head : a memoir of life, love and patient power
by Jessica Morris
How do you keep going when you have received the worst possible diagnosis? This is what happened to Jessica Morris when, in her early fifties, she was told she had glioblastoma (GBM), a particularly aggressive and difficult-to-treat form of brain cancer. All In My Head is her brilliant, brave and inspiring riposte. Jessica began a determined search for effective treatment as she continued to live her life, love her family and campaign for better research into GBM, connecting with patients all over the world. And finally, she came to terms with the knowledge that she had reached the end of the road. Much more than a book about GBM, it takes readers into the life of a woman who when confronted by devastating news chooses to be strong.
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The creative business handbook : follow your passions and be your own boss
by Ekaterina Popova
It's time to level up your career as a creative entrepreneur - but you don't have to do it alone! From identifying your big idea to gaining financial independence and growing your business, this handbook will help make your brilliant vision a reality. Art industry veterans Ekaterina Popova and Alicia Puig - the dynamic duo behind Create! Magazine and art gallery PxP Contemporary - started their businesses from the ground up, learning best practices along their road to success, and they've filled The Creative Business Handbook with all their tips and resources. Kat and Alicia will walk you through the process of building a brand in today's fast-changing landscape, offering lessons from their diverse experience in the industry, numerous practical guides and ideas, and steady encouragement as you chart your own course. Divided into six chapters, each focusing on different stages of building and sustaining a business, the handbook also features exclusive interviews with inspirational founders, including Colossal's Christopher Jobson, Danielle Krysa (The Jealous Curator), and award-winning contemporary art advisor Maria Brito. Get ready to be your own boss, whether you're an aspiring artist, writer, designer, event organizer, consultant, curator, or any other sort of creative visionary!
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Miss Major speaks : conversations with a Black trans revolutionary
by Toshio Meronek
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. Miss Major Speaks is both document of her brilliant life--told with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity--and a roadmap for the challenges Black, brown, queer, and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today.
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Automate your busywork : do less, achieve more, and save your brain for the big stuff
by Aytekin Tank
Most people don't work with time, they work against time. But how you spend your time is everything. This book is not about how to do XXX number of things within X hours or about turning you into a productivity machine. This book is about time well spent. This book is about protecting and mastering your most precious asset, from an entrepreneur who built a company to 10 million users with no outside funding. Automate Your Busy Work requires you to explore why you are doing busywork in the first place. The book takes you from busy work to less work, to the best use of your time.
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Fodor's South Florida : With Miami, Fort Lauderdale, & the Keys
by Amber Love Bond
From snorkeling in the Keys, partying in Miami Beach or touring the Everglades, a travel guide to the best things to see and do in South Florida provides trip-planning tips, maps and carefully curated recommendations. Illustrations.
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The language of trees : a rewilding of literature and landscape
by Katie Holten
Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost and new original writing in praise of the natural world. With an introduction from Ross Gay, and featuring writings from over fifty contributors, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Limon, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, James Gleick, Elizabeth Kolbert, Plato, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, Holten illustrates each selection with an abiding love and reverence for the magic of trees. She guides readers on a journey from "primeval atoms" and cave paintings to the death of a 3,500 year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry, unearthing a new way to see the natural beauty all around us and an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away. The Language of Trees considers our relationship with literature and landscape, resulting in an astonishing fusion of storytelling and art and a deeply beautiful celebration of trees through the ages.
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The Con Queen of Hollywood : the hunt for an evil genius
by Scott C. Johnson
Blending years of deep reporting with distinctive, powerful prose, this unique true crime narrative recounts the exploits of a psychopathic con artist and gender-bending criminal mastermind who swept through the entertainment industry, stealing dozens of identities and millions of dollars while exploiting the dreams of artists around the world.
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Rainbow parenting : your guide to raising queer kids and their allies
by Lindz Amer
An essential guide for parents and caregivers to raising queer-friendly children in a gender-affirming space. In the face of so many injustices across society for LGBTQ+ people, it can be easy for parents of young children to feel helpless and hopeless. While they may not be able to address every problem across the country, there's a simple place to start: right at home. Rainbow Parenting is an indispensable stepping stone for adults who want to raise and teach kids in a queer and gender-affirming way, but might not know how. Lindz Amer, the creator of Queer Kid Stuff, an award-winning LGBTQ+ educational webseries for children and families, is an expert guide, leading readers through practical applications, important LGBTQ+ history, key lessons in intersectionality, pronouns, social justice, and more. Divided by sections that address kids' individual ages - from infancy to kindergarten - this joyful and approachable book shares a bit of hope and starts with the understanding that anyone can spread queer joy. By giving parents and their kids a vocabulary to express themselves, Rainbow Parenting ultimately aims to create more empathetic adults - and spreads a message of radical acceptance in a world where it's sometimes dangerous to just be yourself.
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The cat's meow : how cats evolved from the savanna to your sofa
by Jonathan B. Losos
A leading evolutionary biologist and cat lover explores how researchers today are unraveling the history and secrets of the world's most popular and beloved pet, past and present, using all the tools of modern technology, and suggests what the future may hold for both Felis catus and Homo sapiens. Illustrations.
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Climate champions : 15 women fighting for your future
by Rachel Sarah
Presents the stories of 15 contemporary climate champions, including climate scientists, journalists, professors, academics, researchers and policy makers from around the world, who are on the frontlines of science to create a sustainable future on Earth.
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Washed Ashore : Family, Fatherhood, and Finding Home on Martha's Vineyard
by Bill Eville
Since he was a boy, Bill Eville knew he wanted two things in life: to be a writer and a father. Being a minister's husband had not been on this list, having left the church as a teenager as soon as his parents stopped making him go each Sunday. In Washed Ashore, Eville's life changes when his wife Cathlin takes a job as the first female pastor of a 350-year-old church on Martha's Vineyard, the island that was once home to generations of his ancestors. With their two small children in tow, the couple begins a new life eight miles out at sea. Readers follow Eville's journey from stay-at-home-dad to newspaper editor as he discovers what it means to be a writer, a father, and--after his wife's devasting breast cancer diagnosis--what it truly means to be a minister's husband. Washed Ashore, told in a series of linked essays, is poignant and funny, filled with faith, struggle, and light.
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The Great American Transit Disaster : A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight
by Nicholas Dagen Bloom
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way. Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy--all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today's conversations about public transportation funding.
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The ecology book
by Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 90 of the key ideas, movements, and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book has a simple chronological structure, with early chapters ranging from the ideas of classical thinkers to attempts by Enlightenment thinkers to systematically order the natural world. Later chapters trace the evolution of modern thinking, from the ideas of Thomas Malthus, Henry Thoreau, and others, all the way through to the political and scientific developments of the modern era, including the birth of the environmental movement and the Paris Agreement.
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The face laughs while the brain cries : the education of a doctor
by Stephen L. Hauser
Sharing the incredible stories of many of his patients, an acclaimed physician and neuroimmunologist who has spent his career performing cutting-edge research on multiple sclerosis presents this profound and deeply human memoir in which he recounts everything from his unorthodox childhood to the lifechanging medical breakthroughs he has made against extremely long odds. Illustrations.
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Tenderheart : a cookbook about vegetables and unbreakable family bonds
by Hetty McKinnon
In this loving homage to her father, a Chinese immigrant in Australia, told in flavorful, vegetarian recipes, a James Beard Foundation finalist shares her love of vegetables which are the basis for over 180 recipes, including Miso Mushroom Ragu with Baked Polenta, Crispy Potato Tacos and Soy-Butter Boy Choy Pasta. Illustrations.
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Break bread on a budget : ordinary ingredients, extraordinary meals
by Lexy Rogers
Break Bread on a Budget offers everything a home cook could need to create family-favorite recipes: shopping lists, meal prep advice, and budget-stretching techniques from a young mother of three who perfected the art of cooking for her family on a shoestring budget - $40 a week!
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The complete guide to bathrooms : beautiful upgrades & hardworking improvements you can do yourself
by Quarto Publishing Group USA
This sixth edition of the perennial bestseller from the BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide series covers all the bases when it comes to bathroom remodeling. From freshening up decor to a down-to-the-studs remodel, all of the information you need to design the job and do the work yourself is right here. This new edition also features smart home projects, from advanced toilets and add-on bidets to freestanding tubs, dimmable lights, and touchless faucets. Through step-by-step photography and instructions, you'll see how to update lighting, ventilation, flooring, surfaces, cabinetry, toilets, bathtubs, and accessories. This comprehensive buyer's guide takes you through one of the most important steps in any remodeling project, and a complete and up-to-the minute section on bathroom design provides education and inspiration. It also includes information explaining how to remodel or re-imagine your bathroom to better meet the needs of aging in place, with projects that conform to Universal Design Standards. The list of projects is long and the information, vetted by the experts at BLACK+DECKER, is complete and current.
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Mastering the art of entertaining
by Joseph Marini
Home entertaining expert Joseph Marini offers up guidance on modern hosting etiquette, creating a prop closet, working with flowers, and making simple but beautiful food for your guests--while at the same time exploring the vulnerability involved in opening one's home to others, and why doing so with authenticity is so important.
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The story of Disney : 100 years of wonder
by John Baxter
Published to coincide with its 100th anniversary in 2023, this official companion to the touring exhibition by Walt Disney Archives and SC Exhibitions showcases the history and rich legacy of the most magic place on earth through vibrant voices and rare Disney concept art and photographs. 25,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Navigating the messy middle : a fiercely honest and wildly encouraging guide for midlife women
by Ann Douglas
Roughly 68 million North American women currently grapple with the challenges of midlife, faced with a culture that tells them their "best-before date" has long passed. In Navigating the Messy Middle, Ann Douglas pushes back against this toxic narrative, providing Gen X women with evidence-based strategies for thriving at midlife. In this deeply validating and encouraging book, Douglas interviews well over one hundred women of different backgrounds and identities, sharing their diverse conversations about the complex and intertwined issues that women must grapple with at midlife: from family responsibilities to career pivots, health concerns to building community. Readers will find a book that offers practical, evidence-based strategies for thriving at midlife, coupled with compelling first-person stories. Offering purpose and meaning in a life stage that can otherwise feel out of control, Douglas pushes back against the message that middle-aged women are no longer relevant and needed, highlighting the far-reaching economic, political and social impacts of these messages and providing a refreshing counter-narrative that maps out a path forward for women at midlife. Both a midlife love letter and a lament, Navigating the Messy Middle celebrates the beauty and rages at the many injustices of this life stage, and provides readers with the tools to chart their own course.
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When the subject is rape : a guide for male partners, friends & family members
by Alan W. McEvoy
Rape is, unfortunately, an all-too-common violent crime usually perpetrated against women. For victims, the process of sharing information about the assault with loved ones or reporting the crime to police can be harrowing, embarrassing, and painful. The emotional aftermath and the responses of others can greatly affect the way a rape survivor copes. Although there are trained counselors to help women through the process of recovery, the question remains: What role should the men in their lives play? Often the men who are closest to rape survivors - intimate partners, friends, and family members - are simply unprepared to offer the right assistance. The wrong word or action may trigger an unexpected response. The book When The Subject Is Rape, written by Dr. Alan McEvoy, is designed specifically for men to help them identify, understand, and respond appropriately in their role as allies in a woman's recovery from rape.
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The Trauma Beat : A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News
by Tamara Cherry
In The Trauma Beat , an eye-opening combination of investigative journalism and memoir, former big-city crime reporter Tamara Cherry calls on her award-winning skills as a journalist to examine the impact of the media on trauma survivors and the impact of trauma on members of the media. As Tamara documents the experiences of those who were forced to suffer on the public stage, she is confronted by everything she got wrong on the crime beat. Covering murders and traffic fatalities to sexual violence and mass violence, Cherry exposes a system set up to fail trauma survivors and journalists. Why do some families endure a swell of unwanted attention after the murder of a loved one, while others suffer from a lack of attention? What is it like to have a microphone shoved in your face seconds after escaping the latest mass shooting? What is the lasting impact on the reporter holding that microphone? The Trauma Beat explores these issues with the raw, reflective detail of a journalist moving from ignorance to understanding and shame to healing.
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Lessons learned and cherished : the teacher who changed my life
by Deborah Roberts
Curated by an award-winning ABC News journalist, this collection of essays and reflections from contributors such as Oprah Winfrey, Robin Roberts, Octavia Spencer, and Misty Copeland share how teachers changed them, imparted life lessons and helped them get to where they are today.
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Out! : a parent's guide to supporting your LGBTQIA+ kid through coming out and beyond
by John Sovec
Coming out is one of the trickiest moments for families and this essential coming out parenting guide is here to help. With loads of helpful information about a wide range of orientations, cultures, effective communication strategies and stories from families who have been there throughout, this guide is your go-to for you and your family.
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Party of one : the rise of Xi Jinping and China's superpower future
by Chun Han Wong
Drawing on his years of first-hand reporting across China, including insights from scholars and diplomats and analyses of official speeches and documents, a The Wall Street Journal correspondent provides a broad, lucid account of China's leader and how he inspires fear and fervor in his Party, his nation and beyond.
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Reaching inside : 50 acclaimed authors on 100 unforgettable short stories
by Andre Dubus III
An anthology of original essays by fifty major American writers on one hundred essential short stories. 'A writer,' Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, 'is a reader who is moved to emulation.' That idea inspired New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III to invite fifty acclaimed authors to write about the precise alchemy of emulation, about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in it-short stories that, ultimately, made them want to write something substantial themselves. Reaching Inside is the far-ranging end result of that invitation. For practitioners of the personal essay and other forms of creative nonfiction, this anthology is fifty examples of how to write about the "I" as well as the 'eye.' For teachers of creative writing, it is fifty inspiring songs of praise for the kind of writing that aspires to art. For professors of literature, it is fifty models for how to think and write critically. And for readers, Reaching Inside is simply a moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays that reach inside us and, as Tolstoy wrote, 'transfer feeling from one person's heart to another person's heart.' Reaching Inside will remind you why you fell in love with reading.
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Fodor's essential Iceland
by Carolyn Bain
A comprehensive guide to exploring Iceland, from soaking in the Blue Lagoon to partying in Reykjavik or hiking a glacier, with tips to beat the crowds, self-guided walking tours and the best places to stay and dine. Illustrations.
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Rethink your position : reshape your exercise, yoga, and everyday movement, one part at a time
by Katy Bowman
Rethink Your Position is your guide to everyday anatomy and alignment -- part by part. Daily aches and pains can feel unavoidable, but we can start feeling better by moving better. And moving better starts with our individual body parts, and the relationship between and among those parts and the forces or loads they experience. Professionals, experienced exercisers, and new-to-movement newbies alike will discover the big and little ways our body parts move. Rethink Your Position explains how to check the way different areas are moving now, includes precision exercises to get important parts moving better, and shows how to support better health by making small changes--not only at the gym, but at the office, in the kitchen, on a walk with friends... even while you're sleeping.
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Brown boy : a memoir
by Omer Aziz
In a tough neighborhood on the outskirts of Toronto, miles away from wealthy white downtown, Omer Aziz struggles to find his place as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy. As he falls in love with books, and makes his way to Queen's University in Ontario, Sciences Po in Paris, Cambridge University in England, and finally Yale Law School, he continually confronts his own feelings of doubt and insecurity at being an outsider. In Brown Boy, Omer Aziz has written a book that eloquently describes the complex process of creating an identity that fuses where he's from, what people see in him, and who he knows himself to be.
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Uncle of the year : & other debatable triumphs
by Andrew Rannells
In essays drawn from his life and career, the star of The Book of Mormon, Girls and Big Mouth reflects on anxiety, ambition and the uncertain path to adulthood, challenging us to take a long look at who we're pretending to be, who we know we are and who we want to become.
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Foolproof Sketching & Painting Techniques for Beginners
by Tomoko Kuramae
Author Tomoko Kuramae provides clear step-by-step instructions on the proportions and perspective of basic objects and clearly explains how to draw dozens of items based on cubes, cylinders and flat shapes from a variety of angles. She then shows you how to bring your finished sketches alive with the use of brilliant transparent watercolors.
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Make your own living trust
by Denis Clifford
Providing a wealth of information on living trusts, how they work and who should use them, this must-have resource provides easy-to-understand instructions, worksheets and forms needed for creating an individual or shared living trust and a basic will, without the need for a lawyer. Illustrations.
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Grow the f*ck up : how to be an adult and get treated like one
by Sarah Knight
Putting her sweary, hilarious twist on classic parental decrees like "Stop whining" and "Go clean up that mess!," Sarah teaches you essential life skills--like effectively communicating your needs and taking accountability for your actions--and then how to use those skills to turn grown-up responsibilities into daily opportunities for increased happiness, satisfaction, and success. Packed with tips, strategies, and hundreds of real-life examples of adulting wisely and well, Grow the F*ck Up is the perfect read for anyone--at any age--looking to become more independent, resourceful, and self-sufficient, and have lots of fun along the way.
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Wisdom of the bullfrog : leadership made simple (but not easy)
by William H. McRaven
Providing the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of four decades, Admiral McRaven, who received the honor of the title “Bullfrog,” which is given to the Navy SEAL who has served the longest on active duty, reveals the qualities that separate the good from the truly great. 500,000 first printing.
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The LGBTQ+ history book : Big Ideas Simply Explained
by Jon Astbury
Showcasing the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience, this diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements and phenomena, celebrating the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution. Illustrations.
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Long illness : a practical guide to surviving, healing, and thriving
by Meghan Jobson
An integrative neuropsychiatrist and an internist with specialized training in integrative and palliative medicine team up in this timely and practical guide for those living with a long illness that provides evidence-based and accessible recovery tools that address the body, mind and spirit. 25,000 first printing.
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Fat talk : parenting in the age of diet culture
by Virginia Sole-Smith
Reveals the impact of our weight-centric society on children and explores how America's focus on “solving the childhood obesity epidemic” has perpetuated disordered eating and body hatred and offers empowering advice to navigate these challenges.
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The pride atlas : 500 iconic destinations for queer travelers
by Maartje Hensen
Welcome to the ultimate guidebook for LGBTQ+ travelers! Whether you're looking for relaxation, romance, or adventure, The Pride Atlas will help you plan your next gaycation. This colorful catalog spans the globe, taking you from metropolitan must-sees, like the birthplace of Pride in New York, or the world's first gayborhood in Berlin, to lesser-known gems, like a trans designer's clothing store in Sao Paulo or the first LGBTQ+ bar in Nepal. Maartje Hensen and a diverse team of international travel writers have put together information on the best pride parades and nightlife hotspots, LGBTQ+ memorials, and queer-owned businesses all around the world - as well as the scoop on alluring natural escapes where LGBTQ+ visitors can unwind among friends. Also included are resources regarding laws, restrictions, and cultural attitudes, ensuring that you can safely enjoy your sojourns and find community wherever you go.
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Women we buried, women we burned : a memoir
by Rachel Louise Snyder
An award-winning journalist, in this necessary story of family struggle, female survival and the passionate drive to bear witness, relates her personal journey from teenage runaway to reporter on the global epidemic of violence against women. 100,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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An Amerikan family : the Shakurs and the nation they created
by Santi Elijah Holley
This examination of Black liberation groups in America is told through the history of the Shakur family, from Assata Shakur, an author who spent three decades in Cuban exile, to the late rapper Tupac. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Bold move : a 3-step plan to transform anxiety into power
by Luana Marques
A Harvard-based psychotherapist presents a clinically-proven three-step method to overcome anxiety and achieve goals that is based on the lessons she learned growing up in poverty in Brazil. 80,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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The good enough job : reclaiming life from work
by Simone Stolzoff
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Michelin star chefs, Wall Street bankers, overwhelmed teachers and other laborers across the American economy, a designer and journalist reveals we are obsessed with our work and makes the urgent case for us to emotionally extricate ourselves from our jobs to reclaim our lives.
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The leaving season : a memoir in essays
by Kelly McMasters
Kelly McMasters found herself in her midthirties living her fantasy: she'd moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rain boots and diapers. The pastoral landscape and the bookshop they opened were restorative at first, for her and her marriage. But soon, she was quietly plotting her escape.
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A renaissance of our own : a memoir & manifesto on reimagining
by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
A modern voice in feminism and racial justice describes her own journey and approach to dismantling the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones that better affirm our individuality. Illustrations.
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Undaunted : how women changed American journalism
by Brooke Kroeger
Chronicling the lives of journalists and newsroom leaders in every medium, this essential history of American women in journalism, including Margaret Fuller, Ida B. Wells, Joan Didion and Cokie Roberts, discusses the huge and singular impact they have had on a vital profession still dominated by men. Illustrations.
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Your brain on art : how the arts transform us
by Susan Magsamen
Combining breakthrough research, insights from multidisciplinary pioneers and real-life stories, this authoritative guide to the new science of neuroaesthetics shows how the arts, from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture and more, are essential for improving physical and mental health. Illustrations.
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The undertow : scenes from a slow civil war
by Jeff Sharlet
One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart. Across the country, men "of God" glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while citing Scripture and preparing for civil war--a firestorm they long for as an absolution and exaltation. Lies, greed, and glorification of war boom through microphones at hipster megachurches that once upon a time might have preached peace and understanding. Political rallies are as aflame with need and giddy expectation as religious revivals. Framing this dangerous vision, Sharlet remembers and celebrates the courage of those who sing a different song of community, and of an America long dreamt of and yet to be fully born, dedicated to justice and freedom for all.
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Autism & education : the way I see it : what parents and teachers need to know
by Temple Grandin
Dr. Temple Grandin discusses the real issues that parents, teachers, and kids face every day. Here is a concise handbook that illustrates what Temple has found to work in the field of education. In these helpful pages, Dr. Grandin offers do's and don'ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her insider perspective and extensive research. Interestingly, she argues that education for kids on the autism spectrum must focus on their overlooked strengths to foster their unique contributions to the world.
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Arrangements in blue : notes on loving and living alone
by Amy Key
When British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by love--and Joni Mitchell's album Blue was her inspiration. "Blue became part of my language of intimacy," she writes, recalling the dozens of times she played the record as a teen, "an intimacy of disclosure, vulnerability, unadorned feeling that I thought I'd eventually share with a romantic other." As the years ticked by, she held on to this very specific idea of romance like a bottle of wine saved for a special occasion. But what happens when the romance we are all told will give life meaning never presents itself? Now single in her forties, Key explores the sweeping scales of romantic feeling as she has encountered them, using the album Blue as an expressive anchor: from the low notes of loss and unfulfilled desire--punctuated by sharp, discordant feelings of jealousy and regret--to the deep harmony of friendship, and the crescendos of sexual attraction and self-realization.
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Fodor's essential Greece : With the Best of the Islands
by Alexia Amvrazi
From exploring the Acropolis of Athens to partying in Mykonos a travel guide with maps, tips and curated recommendations will help travelers enjoy beaches, beautiful weather, island hopping and the archaeological riches of Greece. Original Illustrations.
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The Russo-Ukrainian war : the return of history
by Serhii Plokhy
Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences.
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Going remote : a teacher's journey
by Adam Bessie
With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and educators left their physical classrooms for remote learning. As a professor at a community college, Bessie shows how despite these challenges, teachers work tirelessly to create a more equitable educational system by responding to mental health issues and student needs. From the Black Lives Matter protests to fielding distressed emails from students to considering the future of his own career, Going Remote also tells the personal story of Bessie's cancer diagnosis and treatment during the pandemic. A fusion of memoir, meditation, and scholarship, Going Remote is a powerful account of a crisis moment in educational history demonstrating both personal and societal changes. Includes back matter revealing the literary and theoretical touchpoints that inform Going Remote (works by Octavia Butler, Neil Postman, Jaron Lanier, and Diane Ravitch).
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The world : a family history
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Capturing the whole human story in a single, masterful narrative, an award-winning historian, by chronicling the world's great dynasties throughout history, which features a cast of extraordinary diversity, shows the one commonality - families.
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Why politics fails
by Ben W. Ansell
A leading expert on the dilemmas facing modern democracies illustrates how we are undermined by our individual actions to reach a collective goal and discusses how to navigate today's complicated world of politics that block common sense solutions to the just, equitable, prosperous and environmentally sane society we all want. 15,000 first printing.
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When the world didn't end : a memoir
by Guinevere Turner
An acclaimed screenwriter, drawing from the diaries she kept throughout her youth, tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult and how she was unexpectedly thrust into the world she'd been raised to believe was evil, facing challenges and horrors she couldn't have imagined.
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