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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
By Michelle ZaunerPublished 04-2021 by Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 9780525657743
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- NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
- A Best Book of 2021: AV Club - Bustle - Entertainment Weekly - Good Morning America - Chicago Review of Books - Fortune - TIME - CNN Underscored - Apartment Therapy - Popsugar - Hello Giggles - Business Insider - The Millions - Wall Street
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.…More
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
By Anthony BourdainPublished 04-2021 by Ecco Press
ISBN 9780062802798
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A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and …More
The Anthropocene Reviewed
By John GreenPublished 05-2021 by Dutton Books
ISBN 9780525555216
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- Instant #1 bestseller! A deeply moving collection of personal essays from John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down.
- 'The perfect book for right now.' -People
- 'The Anthropocene Reviewed is essential to the human conversation.' -Library Journal, starred review
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale--from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar.
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By Suzanne SimardPublished 05-2021 by Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 9780525656098
- INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery
Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she's been compared to Rachel Carson, …More
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
By Malcolm GladwellPublished 04-2021 by Little Brown and Company
ISBN 9780316296618
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- A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war
In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the …More
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
By Charlie MackesyPublished 10-2019 by HarperOne
ISBN 9780062976581
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- #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - USA TODAY BESTSELLER
'The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is not only a thought-provoking, discussion-worthy …More
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
By Michael LewisPublished 05-2021 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 9780393881554
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Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.
The characters …More
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By Clint SmithPublished 06-2021 by Little Brown and Company
ISBN 9780316492935
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- 'We need this book.' --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to be an Anti-Racist
The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those …More
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By Isabel WilkersonPublished 08-2020 by Random House
ISBN 9780593230251
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- #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST
- 'An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.'--Dwight Garner, The New York Times
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken …More
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
By Ashley C. FordPublished 06-2021 by Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
ISBN 9781250305978
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- 'Sure to be one of the best memoirs of 2021.' --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
- 'So clear, sharp, and smooth that the reader sees, in vivid focus, Ford's complicated childhood, brilliant mind, and golden heart. Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody's Daughter will be a book of the year.' --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father. …More
Untamed
By Glennon DoylePublished 03-2020 by Dial Press
ISBN 9781984801258
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- #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
- Over two million copies sold
- 'Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today.'--Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick)
In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and 'patron saint of female empowerment' (People) explores the joy and peace …More
On Juneteenth
By Annette Gordon-ReedPublished 05-2021 by Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN 9781631498831
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Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. All too aware of …More
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
By Walter IsaacsonPublished 03-2021 by Simon & Schuster
ISBN 9781982115852
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The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a paperback titled The …More
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By Daniel KahnemanPublished 05-2021 by Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 9780316451406
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones--'a tour de force' (New York Times).
Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients--or that two judges in the same courthouse give …More
Last Best Hope
By George PackerPublished 06-2021 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 9780374603663
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Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides
In the year 2020, Americans suffered one rude blow after another to their health, livelihoods, and collective self-esteem. A ruthless pandemic, an inept and malign government response, polarizing …More
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