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Carolina De Robertis
Perla (Vintage Contemporaries)
From the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain, comes Perla , a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history. Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of her na...
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Kelly Corrigan
Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond—sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine—between mothers and daughters.   When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dyn...
$9.68
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Mariko Tamaki
Supergirl: Being Super
A Newsweek Best Graphic Novel of the Year! New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Honor-winning writer Mariko Tamaki ( This One Summer , Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me ) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Joëlle Jones ( Lady Killer , Catwoman ) combine forces for a coming-of-age ta...
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Angela Dalton
Ruby's Reunion Day Dinner: A Heartwarming Picture Book About African American Family Traditions and Food for Children (Ages 4-8)
On Here Wee Read's 2021 Ultimate List of Diverse Children's Books!  Publisher Weekly Starred Review! "Warm digital art by Southerland makes excellent use of light and shadow, and offers a lovely portrait of an expressive family with varying hairstyles and body types. This hopeful, mouthwatering na...
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Brontez Purnell
100 Boyfriends
Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of Buzzfeed 's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC's 10 Most Notable LGB...
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David W. Gill
What Are You Doing About It?: The Memoir of a Marginal Activist
In his memoir, What Are You Doing About It?, ethicist and activist David W. Gill takes readers on an exciting inside tour of the academic, cultural, religious, and political landscape in which he has lived and worked for the past several decades. From Berkeley to Bordeaux, Chicago to Boston . . . ...
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Andrew Vu
Halfkinds Volume 1: Contact
In the twenty fourth century, a scientific experiment gave a few species the gift of intelligence, and after much struggle, they've carved out a place in society. By the thirtieth century, humans find themselves co-existing, negotiating, and residing on Earth with these animals as equals. Maya Lawto...
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Paul Vachon
Moon Michigan: Lakeside Getaways, Scenic Drives, Outdoor Recreation (Travel Guide)
Moon Michigan reveals the best of the Great Lake State's charming small towns, vibrant cities, and vast, untouched wilderness. Inside you'll find: Strategic, flexible itineraries for 3-to-4-day trips to Mackinac Island, the Upper Peninsula, wine country, Detroit, and Ann Arbor - Unique exper...
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Dylin Redling
Start Your F.I.R.E. (Financial Independence Retire Early): A Modern Guide to Early Retirement
Achieve early retirement through financial independence with the F.I.R.E. plan Living your best life someday starts with saving smarter for retirement. Start Your F.I.R.E.: A Modern Guide to Early Retirement can help by giving you the most direct approach to success and security. It's a perfect ad...
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Jack London
Jack London - Burning Daylight: “The function of man is to live, not to exist.”
John Griffith "Jack" London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with his mother Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although her wounds we...
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S. Lily Mendoza
Back from the Crocodile's Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory
(Interior pages with greyscale images) Back from the Crocodile’s Belly is a celebration of the beauty, richness, and diversity of indigenous ways of being as revealed in the critical studies and creative performances of living native traditions in the Philippines and in the United States diaspora....
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Ernie J. Zelinski Visions International Pub
Career Success without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations
Career Success and Personal Freedom -- You Can Have Both Career success is much more than having a real job and earning a decent income. Real career success is truly enjoying what you do for a living and having the personal freedom to perform your work virtually any time you want.   This one-of-a...
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Maxine Hong Kingston
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (Vintage International)
A poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age from the award-winning author of The Woman Warrior and China Men . “[A] graceful meditation. . . . Achieves meaningful insights into the art of living.” —Boston Globe “A gentle, meandering memoir, ...
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Naomi Shihab Nye
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..." Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag; child...
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David Mas Masumoto
Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring
The nation's favorite literary farmer pays homage to the life of the senses. Rushing from one thing to another, we lose sight of the art of living, which for California farmer David Mas Masumoto is also the art of farming. Not fast farming, of the kind that produces fast food, but slow farming, the...
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T. G. Onstot
Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties We make no apology in appearing before the public as a literary crank. When we first began to publish these let ters in the papers a few years ago we little thought to have them in book form. Like Harriett Beecher Stowe, When writing the letters th...
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Nina Renata Aron
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love “Ferocious . . . glints with hard-won truths . . . Aron lights a path through the darkness of her p...
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Dwight Billings
Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes
Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of rep...
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Reese Christian
Ghosts of Atlanta: Phantoms of the Phoenix City (Haunted America)
? Do the ghosts of Civil War soldiers still march through the mists of Kennesaw National Battlefield on the outskirts of Atlanta? ? Can those who listen still hear the voices of the guests who died in the devastating Winecoff Hotel fire of 1946? ? Does the spirit of a young boy still ride the "black...
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Ayya Khema
Be an Island: The Buddhist Practice of Inner Peace
From the best-selling author of Being Nobody, Going Nowhere , Ayya Khema's Be an Island guides us along the path of Buddhist meditation with direct and practical advice, giving us contemplative tools to develop a healthy sense of personal being. Be an Island is at once an introduction to the te...
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