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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window into the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this book's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An array of essays delivers an impassioned critique of contemporary society while arguing that reverence must be given to who and what human beings are: creatures of singular interest and value, despite errors and depredations.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
2009 Modern Library ed., 1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 188 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns.
Author
Series
Warriors dawn of the clans volume 3
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A latest entry in the prequel story arc reveals new details about the history of the warrior cats and follows the efforts of Clear Sky to violently divide the territories of the forest cats in spite of Gray Wing's efforts to promote peace.
6) The Whisper
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Members of an elite squadron of mutants, the telepathic twins, Ellie and Mika have specialized skills that will enable them to steal the top-secret formula for an age-reversing drug developed by rebel scientists on the wild side of The Wall. Juiced by these potent pills, the cadaver-like Gorman foresees a future in which he'll be forever young - released from the machinery that now supports him. Unless the twins have a master plan of their own: to...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Heather Morris comes the memoir of a life of listening to others. In Listening Well, Heather will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener-a skill she employed when she first met Lale Sokolov, the tattooist at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the inspiration for her bestselling novel. It was this ability that led Lale to entrust Heather with his story, which she told in her novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz and...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In American Marxism, Mark Levin explained how Marxist ideology has invaded our society and culture. In doing so, he exposed the institutions, scholars, and activists leading the revolution. Now, he picks up where he left off: to hold responsible the true malefactors steering our country down the wrong path.
Insightful and hard-hitting as ever, Levin proves that since its establishment, the Democrat Party has set out to rewrite history and destroy...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A work of nonfiction by philosopher Amia Srinivasan that upends the way we discuss-or avoid discussing-the problems and politics of sex"--
"We do not know the future of sex--but perhaps we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan's stunning debut helps us do just that. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope for a different world. She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political...
13) On trails
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Shuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own? Over the course of the next seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of master trail-builders, hunted down long-lost Cherokee trails,...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wildly original, incendiary story about race, redemption, the dangerous imbalances that continue to destabilize society, and speaking out for what's right. One could argue the story begins the night Allegra Douglass is awarded Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at her top-tier university in New York--the same night her grandmother dies--or before that: the day Allie left Birmingham and never looked back. Or even before that: the day her mother disappeared....
Author
Publisher
The Macmillan company
Pub. Date
1947
Physical Desc
113 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the classic The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society. Both astonishing and prophetic, The Abolition of Man is one of the most debated of Lewis's extraordinary works. National Review chose it as number seven on their "100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century."...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner--phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals...
18) Motherhood
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When I was younger, thinking about whether I wanted to have children, I always came back to this formula: If no one had told me anything about the world, I would have invented boyfriends. I would have invented sex, friendships, art. I would not have invented child-rearing. Motherhood treats the most universal and consequential decision of early adulthood--whether to have children--with the candour, originality and wit that have won Sheila Heti international...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First editon.
Physical Desc
viii, 237 pages : illstrustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Grammy nominated folk singer and songwriter, an inspiring exploration of creativity and the redemptive power of song Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny's old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her a window to a world where others felt the way she did. Songs became lifelines to her, and she longed to write her own, one day. Then, for a decade, while struggling...
20) Elsewhere
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving...