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Summary: In just two short decades of the 21st century, National Geographic has ushered in a new era of visual storytelling excellence, including innovations in digital, drone, and smartphone photography. And...
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Call #: 779 NAT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Yuval N. Harari
(142,327)
Summary: How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? As...
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Call #: 909.83 HAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Yuval N. Harari
(141,372)
Summary: How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? As...
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Yuval N. Harari
(142,356)
Summary: How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? As...
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John Naisbitt
(316)
Summary: In his Megatrends books, Naisbitt proved himself a far-sighted observer of our fast-changing world. This book discloses his secret of forecasting, opening the door to the insights that let him...
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Call #: 303.49 NAI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Thomas L. Friedman
(10,689)
Summary: Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature...
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Call #: 303.483 FRI
Location: Adult Displays - Nonfiction Aisle
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Evan Osnos
(1,444)
Summary: Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 after a decade away from the United States, first reporting from the Middle East before becoming the Beijing bureau chief at the Chicago Tribune and then...
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Call #: 973.93 OSN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Dana Milbank
(777)
Summary: In 1994 Republican congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the "Contract with America" and put bi-partisanship on notice. A quarter century later, a bloodthirsty mob incited...
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Call #: 324.2734 MIL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Helen Ellis
(3,031)
Summary: When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs; powdered onion...
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Call #: 817.54 ELL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Mary Oliver
(12,481)
Summary: Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living...
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Call #: 811.54 OLI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Olivia Seltzer
(166)
Summary: Today's world can feel like a seriously confusing mess. You stand up for justice, and change the world; you can raise your voice to make a difference, but first you need to know what is actually on....
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Call #: 306 SEL YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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Joy Harjo
(1,652)
Summary: Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve...
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Call #: B HARJO
Location: Adult Biographies
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Christine French Cully
(133)
Summary: Every year tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they were writing to a trusted friend. From the beginning the...
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Call #: 305.23 CUL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Philip Yancey
(4,108)
Summary: Raised by an impoverished widow who earned room and board as a Bible teacher in 1950s Atlanta, Philip Yancey and his brother, Marshall, found ways to venture out beyond the confines of their...
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Call #: B YANCEY
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Jim Popkin
(782)
Summary: Just days after the 9/11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed to work. She never saw the undercover cars tracking her every turn. As she settled into...
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Call #: 327.12 POP
Location: New Adult Nonfiction
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George Friedman
(10,007)
Summary: Utilizing 2000-year-old geopolitical models, expert weather forecaster George Friedman reviews major historical changes and predicts what changes await humanity in the 21st Century.
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Mark T. Esper
(537)
Summary: Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration. From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after...
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Call #: 973.933 ESP
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
George Friedman
(1,457)
Summary: Friedman identifies an 80-year "institutional cycle" and a 50-year "socio-economic cycle" that has seen the formation of the industrial classes, baby boomers, and the middle classes. These two major...
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Call #: 909.83 FRI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Eve L. Ewing
(3,360)
Summary: Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time,...
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Call #: 818.6 EWI YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
Jenny Lawson
(36,586)
Summary: As Jenny Lawson's hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In this book, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But...
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Call #: B LAWSON
Location: Adult Biographies
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Greg Bear
Summary: A novel on the impact of new technologies and the steps people take to avoid becoming their prisoner. The action centers on separatist militiamen who in the next century create a country of their own in Idaho.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Series:
Space Odyssey Series
(296,009)
Summary: On the moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent deep into our solar system. But before they can reach their destination, things begin to go very wrong.
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Call #: F CLARKE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Michael Crichton
(200,756)
Summary: TIMELINE opens on the threshold of the 21st century in a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly, and any moment of the past can be actualized....
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Miranda Devine
(3,291)
Summary: The explosive contents of Hunter Biden's laptop were the "October Surprise" of the 2020 presidential election, and the New York Post had the scoop. Here was the first evidence of Joe Biden's...
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Call #: 973.934 DEV
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Ian Bremmer
(30)
Summary: Ian Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises -- global health emergencies, transformative climate change, and the AI revolution....
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Call #: 303.49 BRE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Bill McKibben
(1,877)
Summary: Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill...
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Call #: 304.2 MCK
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Sarah Ruhl
(2,398)
Summary: Happily married and in the flush of hard-earned professional success, with her first play opening on Broadway, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high risk pregnancy and given birth to twins when she...
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Call #: B RUHL
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Gretchen McCulloch
(10,384)
Summary: A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language...
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Call #: 302.23 MCC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Fredrik Backman
(21,655)
Summary: Collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience: fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the "firsts" that...
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Call #: CD BOOK 306.8742 BAC
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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Warren Farrell
(1,515)
Summary: What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science. It's a crisis of mental health. ADHD...
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Call #: 155.432 FAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Fredrik Backman
(21,655)
Summary: Collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience: fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the "firsts" that...
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Call #: 306.8742 BAC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Sarah Gailey
(17,765)
Summary: Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her -- a marriage to the man who was previously engaged...
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Call #: F GAILEY
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Hope Jahren
(5,618)
Summary: This is Hope Jahren's impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit -- which has tamed...
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Call #: 363.7387 JAH
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Ross Gregory Douthat
(2,004)
Summary: Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-television politics, the deeper reality is one of drift, repetition, and dead ends. This book explains...
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Call #: 909.83 DOU
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Anne Applebaum
(11,790)
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist...
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Call #: 321.9 APP
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Barbara Kingsolver
Summary: In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful,...
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Call #: CD BOOK 811.54 KIN
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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by
Brandon Stanton
(6,737)
Summary: This book shows us the world. Brandon Stanton created "Humans of New York" in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. Over the...
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Call #: 920 STA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Fareed Zakaria
(12,515)
Summary: Describes the surging growth of the economies of China, India, and Brazil while the United States and other advanced economies have stalled.
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Call #: 303.49 ZAK
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Abbi Jacobson , illustrator
Summary: When Broad City star Abbi Jacobson announced that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions. Why wasn't she going with friends? Wouldn't it be...
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