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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they've passed.
E.B. Bartels has had a lot of pets-dogs, birds, fish, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are, they've taught her one universal truth: to own a pet is to love a pet, and to own a pet is also-with rare exception-to lose that pet in time.
But while we have codified traditions...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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 her battle with depression. She traces this loneliness to an inability to feel truly safe with others and a historic hyper-awareness stemming from the effects of slavery. In this collection of sharp, reflective...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
First published in 1739 to an unenthusiastic British public, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" has since been referred to as one of the most significant books in the history of philosophy. Hume, a Scottish philosopher, claimed that he was attempting to discuss moral issues with a methodical reasoning, and proceeded to do so in this foundational text. Divided into three large sections, Hume begins his work with a discussion of human understanding,...
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Immigrant children first speak the language of their mothers, and in Toledo, Ohio’s Little Syria neighborhood where Joseph Geha grew up, the first place he would go to find his mother would be the kitchen. Many of today’s immigrants use Skype to keep in touch with folks back in the old country but in those “radio days” of old before the luxuries of hot running water or freezers, much less refrigeration, blenders, or microwaves, the kitchen
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What do we, as parents, really mean when we say we want the best for our children?
Irena Smith tackles this question from a unique vantage point: as a former Stanford admissions officer, a private Palo Alto college counselor, and a mother of three children who struggle to find their place in the long shadow of Stanford University.
Written as a series of responses to actual college essay prompts, this witty, raw memoir takes the...
Irena Smith tackles this question from a unique vantage point: as a former Stanford admissions officer, a private Palo Alto college counselor, and a mother of three children who struggle to find their place in the long shadow of Stanford University.
Written as a series of responses to actual college essay prompts, this witty, raw memoir takes the...
Author
Publisher
Shoemaker + Company
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others.
Without historical understanding of this practice of dispossession—the
...Author
Publisher
Skyhorse
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Move over, dude! The Kook’s Guide to Surfing shows what it means to be a real surfer. This clever, often hilarious guide shares with kooks (those guys on surfboards who just don’t get it yet) the truths and know-how of a lifelong wave-lover. The secret: surfing responsibly and sharing the waves. You don’t have to be “too cool for school” to be cool in the water.
But surfing like a pro isn’t just about courtesy, and neither...
But surfing like a pro isn’t just about courtesy, and neither...
148) La Peau de chagrin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
"La Peau de chagrin" de Honoré de Balzac est un roman fantastique énigmatique qui explore les thèmes de la passion, de l'argent et de la mort. L'histoire suit le jeune Raphaël de Valentin, un homme désespéré qui se voit offrir une peau de chagrin magique qui peut exaucer tous ses souhaits. Mais chaque désir réalisé entraîne une réduction de la peau, rapprochant ainsi Raphaël de sa mort inévitable. Au fil du récit, Balzac crée un univers...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A fascinating survey of Victorian literature from one of England's greatest minds Dishing out his signature brand of harsh wit, G. K. Chesterton casts a critical eye on the poets and novelists that defined the Victorian age in English literature. "Her imagination was sometimes superhuman - always inhuman," he writes of Emily Brontë. "Wuthering Heights might have been written by an eagle." Ranging from sharp denunciation to genuine admiration, Chesterton...
150) On Lighthouses
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"After spending sufficient time inside a lighthouse, who wouldn't begin to hear a song in the sound of the machinery, a voice in the wind, or the waves?"
Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses-those structures whose message is "first and foremost, that human beings are here."Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather,...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role players and specialists and journeymen and then there are the backup catchers. The Tao of the Backup Catcher is about them, the backup catchers, who exist near the bottom of the roster and the end of the bench and between the numbers in a sport–and a society–increasingly driven by cold, hard analytics.
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping … readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.”—BOOKLIST
A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way.
When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When Alana and Roland, a spirited Canadian couple with an insatiable desire to live life to the fullest, embark on an epic yearlong travel adventure around the world with their newborn son and ten-year-old daughter, they think they’re prepared for whatever might come their way.
They soon discover that this is not entirely true.
This charming family love story, sure to inspire wanderlust, is peppered with funny parenting mishaps, thrilling...
They soon discover that this is not entirely true.
This charming family love story, sure to inspire wanderlust, is peppered with funny parenting mishaps, thrilling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Floating Press, The
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a work of travel literature by American writer Jack London. In 1906, after achieving early success as an author of novels and short stories, London began dreaming of the adventures of his youth. Inspired, he spent a fortune to build a 45-foot yacht complete with two sails and a 70-horsepower engine, powerful enough to carry him across the Pacific. Envisioning a seven-year journey, London and his wife Charmian set...
155) Axiomatic
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A New Yorker Best Book of 2019A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019
"Tumarkin presents a remarkable tour de force . . . These essays will linger in readers’ minds for years after."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit
...Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue - the thinking gardener's guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. "It is only when we are aware ofthe earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live," Beston says in his now-classic Herbs and the Earth. In this book, Beston shares one of those connections as seen through the oldest group...
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An international rescue mission for Paddington Bear. A family matriarch running numbers in Detroit. An epic Lucha Libre showdown in Mexico City. A beach vacation spent looking for the Kennedys. Storytellers from around the world share times they found real beauty in the moments when their lives changed forever—for better or for worse. Carefully selected by the creative minds at The Moth and adapted to the page to preserve the raw energy of stories...
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