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Physical Desc
xxv, 286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times and beloved cultural critic tackles big issues embroiling society alongside more individually personalized matters through a collection of essays that cover such topics as politics, feminism, culture wars, civil rights and much more.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and writer Morgan Parker has spent much of her adulthood in therapy, trying to square the resonance of her writing with the alienation she feels in nearly every aspect of life, from her lifelong singleness to a battle with depression. She traces this loneliness to an inability to feel truly safe with others and a historic hyperawareness stemming from the effects of slavery.
In a collection of essays as intimate...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Looking back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, and reflecting on projects he never got around to - people to profile, regions he meant to portray, a literary legend presents a collection of vignettes and a "reminiscent montage" from a writing life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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A Yorkshire veterinarian describes the adventures and experiences of his career as he tends to sick cattle, pregnant ewes, ailing dogs, and their eccentric owners, in a celebration of the relationships between human and animal.
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Publisher
Andscape
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 172 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A giftable collection of essays from celebrity contributors celebrating the great work of teachers or a teacher they admire, curated by ABC journalist Deborah Roberts. Contributors include Oprah Winfrey, Jenna Bush Hager, Robin Roberts, Brooke Shields, Octavia Spencer, Misty Copeland, among others. Everyone can name a teacher that had an impact on their life. Educators not only open our minds to new ideas, but they also help us recognize our potential...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Counterpoint edition
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue between the miraculous and the mundane, the spiritual...
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Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays.Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this intimate and heartfelt...
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Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
280 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Woodsqueer" is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the twenty-first century, which can often lead to a kind of stir-craziness. Woodsqueer chronicles her experiences not just making a living but making a life-in this case, an agrarian one more in tune with the earth on eighty acres in backwoods Maine. Building...
