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Staff PickI'd rather be reading : the delights and dilemmas of the reading life2018
Summary: Reading isn't just a way to pass the time -- it's a lifestyle. Books shape, define, and enchant us. They are part of who we are and we can't imagine life without them. In this collection of charming... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickBaking with Kafka2017
Summary: In his inimitable style, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a "book-lover's cartoonist," Gauld's... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickKind of coping : an illustrated look at life with anxiety2019
Summary: Maureen "Marzi" Wilson -- the popular Instagram cartoonist -- is back with a brand-new collection of hilarious, relatable, and heartwarming doodles about anxiety that show you that you are not alone.... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff Pick41 reasons I'm staying in : a celebration of introverts2019
Summary: An illustrator and self-proclaimed introvert portrays engaging and sometimes outlandish excuses to avoid leaving home, with a character pursuing their obsessions, hobbies, interests, and sudden whims with gusto on each page.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickQuiet girl in a noisy world : an introvert's story2017
Summary: This illustrated gift book of short comics illuminates author Debbie Tung's experience as an introvert in an extrovert's world. Presented in a loose narrative style that can be read front to back or... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickTell me more : stories about the 12 hardest things I'm learning to say2018
Summary: A funny, wise and insightful exploration of seven sentences adult life requires. Each chapter is animated by poignant, hilarious anecdotes from Corrigan's own life, focusing on one of those scenarios.- place hold (1)
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Staff PickHallelujah anyway : rediscovering mercy2017
Summary: "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in latest book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others -- and yourself -- to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe story of WITH : a better way to live, love, & create2016
Summary: "You are not alone. Whether you|re a free spirit, an office exec, a writer, musician, college student, or tired parent -- your soul, like mine, knows life is meant to go beyond rat races and rare... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickLet's take the long way home : a memoir of friendship2010
Summary: In this gorgeous, moving memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Caldwell reflects on her own coming-of-age in midlife, as she learns to open herself to the power and healing of sharing her life with a best friend.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickSpecial exits : a graphic memoir2014
Summary: In the vein of Alison Bechdel or Harvey Pekar, Joyce Farmer's memoir chronicles the decline of the author's parents' health, their relationship with one another and with their daughter, and how they... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickWe should all be feminists2015
Summary: In this essay -- adapted from her TEDx talk of the same name -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe mental load : a feminist comic2018
Summary: Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, i.e. all that invisible and unpaid organizing, list-making and planning women do to manage... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickBetween the world and me2015
Summary: "For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he,... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe dead eye and the deep blue sea : a graphic memoir of modern slavery2018
Summary: Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to return him, but instead Vannak was hostage on the vessel for... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe deviant's war : the homosexual vs. the United States of America2020
Summary: In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C. The Pentagon had reason to believe he was a... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickSaving Alex : when I was fifteen I told my Mormon parents I was gay, and that's when my nightmare began2016
Summary: A memoir from Alex Cooper, who knew "she was holding a secret that could shatter her family, her church community, and her life. Yet when this secret couldn't be hidden any longer, she told her... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickCan't we talk about something more pleasant? : a memoir2014
Summary: In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickA user's guide to neglectful parenting2013
Summary: An intimate, offbeat look at the joys of parenting. The trademark dry humor that pervades Guy Delisle's landmark and praised graphic travelogues takes center stage. Quick, light vignettes play on the... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickBreak it up : secession, division, and the secret history of America's imperfect union2020
Summary: The novel and fiery thesis of this book is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War,... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition2017
Summary: A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most Americans today, this "second Klan"... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickMarch. Book One2013
Summary: This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe Nazis next door : how America became a safe haven for Hitler's men2014
Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II,... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickAlmost American girl : an illustrated memoir2020
Summary: A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women2017
Summary: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickA fire story2019
Summary: Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickKnow my name : a memoir2019
Summary: Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting "Emily Doe" on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickHostage2017
Summary: "In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andre was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe read-aloud family : making meaningful and lasting connections with your kids2018
Summary: Champions the lifelong benefits of reading aloud to children and offers book lists, strategies, and tools parents can use to form deep and lasting connections with their kids.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickKent State : four dead in Ohio2020
Summary: On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Ohio. In a deadly barrage of sixty-seven shots, 4 students were... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickWord by word : the secret life of dictionaries2017
Summary: "Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. Have you ever tried to define the word "is?" Do you have strong... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickSeven brief lessons on physics2016
Summary: An introduction to modern physics by a founder of the loop quantum gravity theory shares seven succinct lessons on topics ranging from general relativity and quantum mechanics to elementary particles and black holes.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickWorld of wonders : in praise of fireflies, whale sharks, and other astonishments2020
Summary: From award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction -- a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickAmerican wolf : a true story of survival and obsession in the West2017
Summary: The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her. Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe ghost map : the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world2006
Summary: From the dynamic thinker routinely compared to Malcolm Gladwell, E. O. Wilson, and James Gleick, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner with a real-life historical hero that brilliantly illuminates... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe hot zone1994
Summary: A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickLast things : a graphic memoir of loss and love2017
Summary: After returning home from a year abroad, Marissa's husband, Harvey was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickRX : a graphic memoir2018
Summary: In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure health care coverage for her treatment. But work takes a strange... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickDancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir2020
Summary: Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickHighest duty : my search for what really matters2009
Summary: Airline pilot Captain "Sully" Sullenberger tells his life story, including his perspective on the emergency landing on the Hudson River that earned him the world's admiration, and offers insight on... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThis blessed earth : a year in the life of an American family farm2018
Summary: The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's... more »- place hold (0)
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