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Breath : the new science of a lost art2020
Summary: No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential... more »- place hold (4)
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A promised land2020
Summary: Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the... more »- place hold (0)
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Cool beans : the ultimate guide to cooking with the world's most versatile plant-based protein, with 125 recipes2020
Summary: Beans are being embraced as a delicious, versatile, and environmentally friendly protein alternative. Yonan provides master base recipes for cooking any sort of bean in any sort as appliance -- as... more »- place hold (3)
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World 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 (1)
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Children of the land : a memoir2020
Summary: With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, simple lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when... more »- place hold (2)
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Notes on a silencing : a memoir2020
Summary: When the elite St. Paul's School came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought she'd put behind her the assault she'd suffered decades... more »- place hold (0)
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Pie academy : master the perfect crust and 255 amazing fillings with fruits, nuts, creams, custards, ice cream, and more : expert techniques for making fabulous pies from scratch2020
Summary: Discover recipes for all types of crusts and pastry, including gluten-free, whole wheat, and extra-flaky. Learn about the best tools and gadgets to make dough and fillings. Step-by-step instructions with photos make it easy for bakers of all levels.- place hold (2)
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I want you to know we're still here : a post-Holocaust memoir2020
Summary: Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was... more »- place hold (0)
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Notes from an apocalypse : a personal journey to the end of the world and back2020
Summary: We're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Our old post-war alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the... more »- place hold (0)
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Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life2020
Summary: David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day.... more »- place hold (0)
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Mosquito Supper Club : Cajun recipes from a disappearing Bayou2020
Summary: Every hour of the day, Louisiana loses a football field's worth of land to the Gulf. And so before her hometown disappears entirely, chef Melissa Martin wants to document the recipes, ingredients,... more »- place hold (0)
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Unworthy republic : the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory2020
Summary: On May 28, 1830, Congress authorized the expulsion of indigenous peoples from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Over the next decade, Native Americans saw their homelands and... more »- place hold (0)
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Solutions and other problems2020
Summary: Includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and... more »- place hold (0)
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Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot2020
Summary: Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues author Mikki Kendall, but... more »- place hold (0)
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Here for it, or, how to save your soul in America : essays2020
Summary: Author R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went -- whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or... more »- place hold (0)
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Gordon Ramsay quick and delicious : 100 recipes to cook in 30 minutes or less2020
Summary: Create chef-quality food without spending hours in the kitchen. Over the course of his career, Gordon Ramsay has learned every trick in the trade to create dishes that taste fantastic and that can be... more »- place hold (4)
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Cook with me : 150 recipes for the home cook2020
Summary: Through 150 decadent and smart recipes, Alex Guarnaschelli explores how the relationships with her family have shaped her as a chef and home cook. "This book is who I am now -- it is a road map to... more »- place hold (1)
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The dragons, the giant, the women : a memoir2020
Summary: When Wayetu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother,... more »- place hold (0)
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Ottolenghi flavor2020
Summary: Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage offer a next-level approach to vegetables that breaks down the fundamentals of cooking into three key elements: process, pairing, and produce. For process, Yotam... more »- place hold (0)
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New world sourdough : artisan techniques for creative homemade fermented breads : with recipes for birote, bagels, pan de coco, beignets, and more2020
Summary: Teaches handmade artisan bread baking for beginner to intermediate home bakers who want to learn how to bake fermented breads at home with New World twists. With less emphasis on perfecting crumb... more »- place hold (0)
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Having and being had2020
Summary: Having just purchased her first home, the author embarks on a self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The essays in this volume offer an interrogation of work, leisure, and the lived experience of capitalism.- place hold (0)
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A promised land2020
Summary: Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the... more »- place hold (22)
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One life2020
Summary: Rapinoe was four years old when she kicked her first soccer ball. Her parents encouraged her love for the game, but taught her that winning was much less important than how she lived her life. Here... more »- place hold (0)
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The meaning of Mariah Carey2020
Summary: It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments -- the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that... more »- place hold (0)
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Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir2020
Summary: At nineteen Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the... more »- place hold (0)
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The talk : conversations about race, love & truth2020
Summary: Thirty diverse authors and illustrators invite you into their homes to witness the conversations they have with their children about race in America today in this powerful call-to-action that invites... more »- place hold (0)
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Why we swim2020
Summary: We swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure, for exercise, for healing. But humans, unlike other animals that are drawn to water, are not... more »- place hold (0)
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MS-132020
Summary: "A remarkable feat of reporting."—Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises *WINNER OF THE LUKAS PRIZE* The definitive account of the most notorious street gang in America—the... more »E-AUDIOBOOK
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The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X2020
Summary: An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long... more »- place hold (0)
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Eat a peach : a memoir2020
Summary: In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny space in Manhattan's East Village. Chang, the chef-owner, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused... more »- place hold (0)
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Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country2020
Summary: When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape... more »- place hold (0)
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His Truth Is Marching On2020
Summary: An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from... more »E-AUDIOBOOK
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Until the End of Time2020
Summary: Instant New York Times Best-seller "A splendid and invigorating read." —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes a... more »EBOOK
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His Truth Is Marching On2020
Summary: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the... more »EBOOK
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Eat the Buddha2020
Summary: A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy. "You simply cannot understand China without reading Barbara Demick on... more »EBOOK
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Memorial Drive2020
Summary: An Instant New York Times Bestseller A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the... more »EBOOK
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Lifting as We Climb2020
Summary: For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage... more »E-AUDIOBOOK
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Caste2020
Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH; S BOOK CLUB PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America... more »EBOOK
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Caste2020
Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH; S BOOK CLUB PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America... more »E-AUDIOBOOK
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His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope2020
Summary: John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep... more »- place hold (1)
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