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Crown
Pub. Date
2017
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1 online resource
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-- All These Wonders High-school student and neuroscientist alike, the storytellers share their ventures into uncharted territory—and how their lives were changed indelibly by what they discovered there. With passion, and humor, they encourage us all to be more open, vulnerable, and alive.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
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1 online resource(1 sound file (6hr.,51min.,0sec.))
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The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York TimesIn New York TimesI'll Show Myself Out is an incisive, moving, and often uproarious collection.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
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1 online resource(1 sound file (16hr.,7min.,59sec.))
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#1 New York TimesSan Francisco Chronicle Read by a full cast including:Kevin R. FreeGabra ZackmanScott ShepherdSullivan JonesChristine LakinBrittany PressleyZach VillaSaskia MaarleveldAli AhnRobin MilesRoxana OrtegaWilson BethelRobert PetkoffJefferson MaysDariush KashaniMegan TusingChristopher Ryan GrantTherese PlummerCriena HouseEmily Woo Zeller
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2023.
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Beloved writer Samantha Irby has returned to the printed page for her much-anticipated, sidesplitting fourth book following her 2020 breakout, Wow, no thank you, a Vintage Books Original. The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls with job offers from Hollywood and walks the red carpet with the iconic ladies of Sex and the City. Finally, she has made it. But, behind all that new-found glam, Irby is just trying to keep...
9) Autumn
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Four seasons encyclopedia volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facetsof the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully...
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"From disability advocate with a PhD in disability studies and creative nonfiction, and creator of the Instagram account @ sitting pretty, an essay collection based on a lifetime of experiences in a paralyzed body, tackling themes of identity, accessibility, bodies, and representation"--
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"For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, to Paris Men's Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season; Chabon Sr., whose interest in clothing stops at “thrift-shopping for vintage western shirts or Hermès neckties,” sat idly...
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2016.
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"Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us...
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2019
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1 online resource(1 sound file (8hr.,26min.,23sec.))
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It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our parents appear to us, in us—in mirrors, in gestures, in reaction and reactivity, at weddings and funerals, and in troubled thoughts that crouch in dark corners of our minds.In this masterful collection of new essays, the apple looks at the tree. Twenty-five writers deftly explore a trait they’ve inherited from...
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023
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1 online resource
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At once a subversive autobiography of a mercurial woman and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power.“I bite my friends to heal them.”—Diogenes the Cynic, c. 350 BCEFrom a Roman amphitheater where 4th century martyrs are fed to wild beasts to the S&M leather bars of New York in the 1970s, this sinuous and illuminating book by novelist and cultural critic Fernanda Eberstadt explore the lives of uncommonly brave men and...
19) Happy-go-lucky
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"Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown,...
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Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment.
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