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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024].
Physical Desc
x, 327 pages : black and white maps ; 25 cm
Description
"H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means— now— to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin...
Author
Publisher
Roc Lit 101
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xix, 242 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Rich Paul grew up in a Cleveland that hadn't won a sports championship in decades. He and his siblings lived with their mother, who struggled with addiction, in a one-bedroom apartment in the poverty-stricken Glenville neighborhood. Young Rich dreamed of becoming a star athlete but realized quickly that his small stature would make it nearly impossible. A serious child with a mind for detail, he went to private school and then college at his shop-owner...
Author
Publisher
Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : fotografia (color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Con cinco años, Hannah Pick-Goslar huyó con su familia a Ámsterdam para escapar de la Alemania nazi. El primer día de cole allí, entabló amistad con una niña extrovertida y avispada llamada Anne Frank. Durante unos años maravillosos las dos fueron inseparables y disfrutaron de tranquilas fiestas de pijamas y juegos infantiles en el barrio de Rivierenbuurt.Sin embargo, un día de 1942 las vidas de ambas cambiaron para siempre. La ocupación...
Author
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvii, 197 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Winner of the prestigious 2005 Philippe Habert Prize, the late Émile Perreau-Saussine's Alasdair MacIntyre: Une biographie intellectuelle stands as a definitive introduction to the life and work of one of today's leading moral philosophers. With Nathan J. Pinkoski's translation, this long-awaited, critical examination of MacIntyre's thought is now available to English readers for the first time, including a foreword by renowned philosopher Pierre...
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Series
Tres edades. Nos gusta saber volume 57
Publisher
Siruela
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations (grayscale and shades of blue only) ; 25 cm
Description
"Louis Pasteur, Carlos Juan Finlay, Lynn Margulis, Margarita Salas, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Francis Mojica, Katalin Karik̤... Cient̕ficos y cient̕ficas que han cambiado nuestra vida son los protagonistas de este emocionante recorrido por la historia de la ciencia. Hoy todos conocemos la vacuna contra la covid-19, pero nadie se tomaba en serio a Katalin Karik̤, la cient̕fica que la hizo posible, cuando empez̤ sus investigaciones. Igual que ella,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran and social media influencer discusses how he overcame both an addiction to prescription painkillers and a severe gambling problem that cost him almost his entire fortune.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xvi, 269 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Un divertido y conmovedor libro de memorias en ensayo de la comediante Aida Rodríguez sobre el poder de superar las dificultades y transformar el dolor en risa. Aida Rodríguez ha vivido, por decir poco, una vida de torbellino. La historia de cómo pasó de la pobreza a la opulencia es cuando era niña, su madre la secuestró y se la llevó de la República Dominicana a los Estados Unidos. Más tarde, un nuevo secuestro, esta vez a manos de su abuela...
Author
Publisher
Rebel Girls, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Featuring stunning portraits created by female and nonbinary artists from around the world, this empowering book profiles 25 neurodivergent artists, athletes, innovators and others who thought creatively, achieved their dreams and advocated for the rights of neurodivergent people everywhere.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxi, 368 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In this remarkable memoir, Jeremy Norton marshals twenty-two years of professional experience to offer, with compassion and critique, an extraordinary portrayal of emergency responders. Trauma Sponges captures in arresting detail the personal and social toll the job exacts, as well as the unique perspective afforded by sustained direct encounters with the sick, the dying, and the dead"--
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xii, 348 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
viii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
This new biography of the brilliant Southern author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is based on newly available letters and journals and traces how she captured the heart and longing of the outcast.
Publisher
Odd Dot
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"This uplifting read-aloud is a heartfelt wish for all children and a timeless introduction to the Grammy Award-winning and multi platinum singer and songwriter. YOU ARE FEARLESS presents Taylor Swift's inspirational journey, encouraging children to be fearless, defy limits, and follow their hearts. Perfect for Swifties of all ages!"--
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
marzo de 2023.
Physical Desc
181 pages : map ; 23 cm
Description
"Joaquín Murrieta no era un justiciero, pero la gente lo creyó así; no luchó por la libertad ni para defender a su gente de la ambición estadounidense, sino que se convirtió en un símbolo de resistencia en momentos en los que la muerte recorría los caminos de California. Esta es la historia real del antihéroe mexicano que se propuso ser «el azote de los gringos» durante la fiebre del oro, repartió el botín de sus atracos con los más...
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