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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by McBride, James       
(Paperback - English - 9781594481925)
From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation. br br Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared light-skinned woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother .The son of a black minister and a ..
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Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us
by Pink, Daniel H.       
(Paperback - English - 9781594484803)
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money--the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others ). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home--is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our worl ..
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Trespasses
by Kennedy, Louise       
(Hardcover - English - 9780593540893)
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion. br br Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family's pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who's made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment - Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married - Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, s ..
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Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
by Setiya, Kieran       
(Hardcover - English - 9780593538210)
A philosophical guide to facing life's inevitable hardships. br br There is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. But Kieran Setiya believes philosophy can help. He offers us a map for navigating rough terrain, from personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world. In this profound and personal book, Setiya shows how the tools of philosophy can help us find our way. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy as well as fiction, history, memoir, film, comedy, social science, and stories from Setiya's own experience, Life Is Hard is a book for this moment--a work of solace and compassion. Warm, accessible, and good-humored, this book is abo ..
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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
by Harper, Michele       
(Paperback - English - 9780525537397)
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER br br A New York Times Notable Book "Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring." --The New York Times Book Review "An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor." -- Ellen Pompeo br br As seen heard on Fresh Air , The Daily Show with Trevor Noah , NBC Nightly News , MSNBC, Weekend Edition , and more An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in a complicated family, she ..
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The Death of Vivek Oji
by Emezi, Akwaeke       
(Paperback - English - 9780525541622)
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Electrifying. -- O: The Oprah Magazine br br Named a Best Book of 2020 by The New York Times , The Washington Post , NPR, USA TODAY, Vanity Fair , Elle , Harper's Bazaar , Marie Claire , Shondaland, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Lit Hub, Bustle, Electric Literature, and BookPage What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son's body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family's struggle to understand a ch ..
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We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
by Gayle, Caleb       
(Hardcover - English - 9780593329580)
"An important part of American history told with a clear-eyed and forceful brilliance." --National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson br br "We Refuse to Forget reminds readers, on damn near every page, that we are collectively experiencing a brilliance we've seldom seen or imagined...We Refuse to Forget is a new standard in book-making." --Kiese Laymon, author of the bestselling Heavy: An American Memoir A landmark work of untold American history that reshapes our understanding of identity, race, and belonging br br In We Refuse to Forget , award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe th ..
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Seven Empty Houses
by Schweblin, Samanta    McDowell, Megan   
(Hardcover - English - 9780525541394)
Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon." -O , the Oprah magazine The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first encounter wit ..
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The Girl on the Train
by Hawkins, Paula       
(Paperback - English - 9781594634024)
The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture starring Emily Blunt. br br The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives, from the author of Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning. "Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train. "--Vanity Fair "The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl . . . . It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership."--The New York Times "Marries movie noir with novelistic trickery. . . hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend."--USA To ..
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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
by Harford, Tim       
(Paperback - English - 9780593084663)
From "one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics" (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That's a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective . We shouldn't be suspicious of statistics--we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often "the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us." If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly--understanding how our own prec ..
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Vagabonds!
by Osunde, Eloghosa       
(Hardcover - English - 9780593330029)
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it." --Los Angeles Times Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly , Vulture , Harper's Bazaar , Buzzfeed, Ms. Magazine , Lit Hub, The Millions, and Electric Literature In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters--some haunted, some defiant--navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives. As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spa ..
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The Return of Faraz Ali
by Ahmad, Aamina       
(Hardcover - English - 9780593330180)
"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity." -- New York Times Book Review (cover) Sent back to his birthplace-- Lahore's notorious red-light district-- to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past. Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, in Lahore's walled inner city, where women continue to pass down the art of courtesan from mother to daughter. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at ..
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by Gessen, Masha       
(Paperback - English - 9781594486517)
National Book Award winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power. br br "In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." --The Wall Street Journal br br "Thanks to fearless reporting and acute psychological insights, Masha Gessen has done the impossible in writing a highly readable, compelling life of Russia's mysterious president-for-life." -Tina Brown, The Daily Beast The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, ..
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Flights
by Tokarczuk, Olga    Croft, Jennifer   
(Paperback - English - 9780525534204)
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE br br WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE br br NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald (Annie Proulx) A magnificent writer. -- Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex. -- Washington Post From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart i ..
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How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
by North, Ryan       
(Hardcover - English - 9780593192016)
"Comic book fans will fall hard for this delightfully daffy guidebook. . . . Exuberant, optimistic, and just plain fun, How to Take Over the World will both surprise and delight." --Esquire A book this informative should be a crime! br br Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What's the perfect location for a floating secret base? What zany heist will fund my wildly ambitious plans? How docontrol the weather, destroy the internet, and never, ever die? Bestselling author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North has the answers. In this introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, he details a n ..
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Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
by Saltz, Jerry       
(Hardcover - English - 9780593086490)
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary readers to fine art as few critics have. An early champion of forgotten and overlooked women artists, he has also celebrated the pioneering work of African American, LGBTQ+, and other long-marginalized creators. Sotheby's Institute of Art has called him, simp ..
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We Do What We Do in the Dark
by Hart, Michelle       
(Hardcover - English - 9780593329672)
Hart's novel does something exceptional that few pieces of fiction have done successfully....[H]as flashes of Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends . - New York Times "An unforgettable account of a forbidden romance." - Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Patsy br br "Moving and memorable." - Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion br br "Sensual and wise." - Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. br br Mallory is a freshman in college when she meets the woman. She sees her for the first time at the university's gym, immediately entranced by this eleg ..
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The Order of Time
by Rovelli, Carlo       
(Paperback - English - 9780735216112)
One of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade br br Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book. --The Sunday Times br br From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics , Reality Is Not What It Seems , Helgoland , and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to flow? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terra ..
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by Gessen, Masha       
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW , LOS ANGELES TIMES , WASHINGTON POST , BOSTON GLOBE , SEATTLE TIMES , CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR , NEWSWEEK, PASTE , and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russ ..
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by Epstein, David       
(Hardcover - English - 9780735214484)
The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen heard on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS , Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more. "The most important business--and parenting--book of the year." --Forbes "Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." --Daniel H. Pink Shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliber ..
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