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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Concetta Bertoldi has been communicating with the "Other Side" since childhood. In the first book of its kind, she exposes the naked truth about the fate and happiness of our late loved ones with no-holds-barred honesty and delightfully wry humor, answering questions that range from the practical to the outrageous. In addition she shares with us her own intimate secrets, revealing how her miraculous gift has affected her life, her marriage, her friendships,...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Do you believe women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist ... or so the feminists keep insisting. Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism-- and a bracing manifesto for revolution. She accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice-- and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"An uproarious behind-the-scenes account of the creation of the hit television series describes how comedians Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld dreamed up the idea for an unconventional sitcom over coffee and how, despite network skepticism and minimal plotlines, achieved mainstream success, "--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books, an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A behavioral scientist explores why "rebels" with unconventional outlooks who break the rules find the greatest success, discussing how they drive innovation and reinvention by defying the status quo.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he did with Letters of Note, Shaun Usher has trawled the world's archives to produce a rich visual anthology that stretches from ancient times to present...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture, entertainment, and food production.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On January 31, 2012, in an internet cafe on the outskirts of New Taipei City, Taiwan, 23-year-old student Chen Rong-yu was found dead at his keyboard while the video game he had been playing for three days straight continued to flash on the screen in front of his corpse. As Simon Parkin reconstructs what happened that night, he begins a journey that takes him around the world in search of answers: What is it about video games that inspires such tremendous...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of the FIFA scandal, the biggest international corruption case of recent years, touching dozens of countries and spearheaded by U.S. investigators, published on the eve of the biggest sporting event on the planet, soccer's World Cup"--
The FIFA case began with an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. It led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This hilarious part-memoir, part-manifesto reveals what sets apart the latest generation of young people coming of age in an all-wired, overeducated, and underemployed world. People are obsessed with Ryan O'Connell's blogs. With tens of thousands reading his pieces on Thought Catalog and Vice, watching his videos on YouTube, and hanging on to each and every #dark tweet, Ryan has established himself as a unique young voice who's not afraid to dole...
Author
Publisher
Smart Pop, an imprint of Benbella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The Art of Eating through the Zombie Apocalypse" is a cookbook and culinary field guide for the busy zombie apocalypse survivor. Included are more than 80 recipes (from "Overnight of the Living Dead French Toast" and "It's Not Easy Growing Greens Salad" to "Down & Out Sauerkraut," "Honey & Blackberry Mead," and "Twinkie Trifle"), scads of gastronomic survival tips, and dozens of diagrams and illustrations that help you scavenge, forage, and improvise...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books/Beyond Words
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A close-up examination and exploration, How We Live Now challenges our old concepts of what it means to be a family and have a home, opening the door to the many diverse and thriving experiments of living in twenty-first century America. Across America and around the world, in cities and suburbs and small towns, people from all walks of life are redefining our "lifespaces"--The way we live and who we live with. The traditional nuclear family in their...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on interviews with such women as Verna Griffin, Dr. Dre's mother; Marianne Stipe, Michael Stipe of REM's mother; Janis Winehouse, Amy Winehouse's mother; Hester Diamond, Mike D of The Beastie Boys' mother; and many more, the mother of Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl presents an exposé of what it's like to be a rock 'n' roll mom.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-needed antidote from the team that brought you Coddling of the American Mind. Cancel culture is a new phenomenon, and The Canceling of the American Mind is the first book to codify it and survey its effects. From the team that brought you the bestselling Coddling of the American Mind comes hard data and research on what cancel culture is and how it works,...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Junk has become ubiquitous in America today. Who doesn't have a basement, attic, closet, or storage unit filled with stuff too good to throw away? Or, more accurately, stuff you think is too good to throw away. When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late parents' overloaded basement, a job that dragged on for months, it got her thinking: How did it come to this? Why do smart, successful people hold on to old Christmas...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"During the academic calendar year of 1969 and 1970, there were 9000 protests and 84 acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. Two and a half million students went on strike, and 700 colleges shut down. Witness to a Revolution, Clara Bingham's oral history of that year, brings readers into this moment when it seemed that everything was about to change, when the anti-war movement could no longer be written off as fringe, and when America...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"With her golden lasso and her bullet-deflecting bracelets, Wonder Woman is a beloved icon of female strength in a world of male superheroes. But this close look at her history portrays a complicated heroine who is more than just a female Superman. The original Wonder Woman was ahead of her time, advocating female superiority and the benefits of matriarchy in the 1940s. At the same time, her creator filled the comics with titillating bondage imagery,...
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