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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xviii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"We all know people who seem capable of connecting with almost anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, the ones who ask deep questions but also seem to hear what we are trying to say. What do they know about conversation that makes them so special? And what can they tell us about how communication really works? Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand--some by intuition, some by hard-won experience--that there is a science to...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls-from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Overthe Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought-whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Drawing on a wide range of factors that shape our experience of sound, this lyrical exploration of music examines how we listen it and why we listen to it in the first place, challenging the very dichotomy between 'good' and 'bad' music and changing our relationship with the heard world.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
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"It's 1989 and Amos Fielding, onetime sheriff of Oscar, Iowa, is in his early seventies and grieving the recent loss of his wife, Sara. He packs up his few belongings and heads to a ranch in the far northwest corner of Washington State. The farther he canget from Oscar and his years there as sheriff, the better. Eager to escape painful memories, Fielding throws himself into the daily chores of a gentleman rancher. But there is evil afoot, as dark...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Sharing an intimate, decades-long friendship, Jess and Ren, who are each other's person, must adjust to the unexpected when a one-night stand with a tourist leaves Ren pregnant--and leaves both women wondering if this is one more thing they'll do together or if this will in fact change everything"--
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Publisher
MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Discovering her brother has committed suicide, a successful yet lonely author with a hit dystopian novel begins responding to texts as her late brother on her phone and becomes more and more untethered from reality.
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Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1585
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
662 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"How far would you go to keep your family safe? Lorraine Henry is generally content to keep her head down and get on with her work as a records clerk at the Masterton police station. But when children start going missing in her small town, Lo can't help but pay attention. After all, she has Bradley, her young nephew, to worry about, and the cops don't seem to be putting much effort into finding the kids. And then the unthinkable happens: Bradley disappears....
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Meet Enid: a lesbian who's a serial dater and deaf in one ear. She works at The Space Agency as an information architect, and when she's not obsessing over true crime podcasts, she's managing her crippling phobia of bald people. While she tries not thinkabout her teenage years, she can't seem to stop obsessively watching her childhood YouTube channel. But as Enid fumbles her way through her first serious relationship and navigates a new family life...
12) The listeners
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Publisher
HarperAvenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother's obsession with a sound that no one else can hear One night, while lying in bed next to her husband, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum. This innocuous sound, which no one else in the house can hear, has no obvious source or medical cause, but it begins to upset the balance of Claire's life. When she discovers that one of her students can also hear the hum, the two strike...
13) The surgeon
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Trusted surgeon. Loving wife. Murderer? Before my world came crashing down, I had it all. The successful career I dreamed of. The beautiful red-brick home where I could relax in front of the fire. The handsome, devoted husband whose blue eyes and charming smile always made me feel safe. As I call time of death, my voice is steady. My colleagues stand hushed around me, their eyes on me, confused, concerned. I have never lost a patient until today....
14) The intruder
Author
Publisher
Dead Sky Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
ix, 317 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Successful lawyer Jacob Schiff is driven to the edge by a homeless man--a patient of his social worker wife, Dana--who takes to stalking Jacob's wife and son.
15) Old God's time
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his...
17) Watch it burn
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Three women investigate the death of a high-profile local woman in a small Southern town, and when they find a connection to a cultish personal development group, their discoveries have scorching consequences for the whole community.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Lucy and her husband, Adam, have been best friends with another couple, Cora and Scott, for years. The four are practically family at this point--they vacation together, co-own a beach cottage, and their young children are inseparable. So Lucy is devastated when, while looking at a colleague's photos of a trip to the Maldives, she spots a picture of Scott, apparently on a luxurious holiday with another woman. Lucy is determined to protect her best...
Author
Publisher
Zibby Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 272 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Meghan Riordan Jarvis lived a charmed childhood with her large Irish-Catholic family: loving parents, a house full of siblings, a top-tier education, and summers on Cape Cod. And yet, loss waspart of her story from the beginning. In therapy in her 20's after a break-up, Meghan discovered how the silence surrounding a childhood tragedy had laid the groundwork for a life spent trying to keep...
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