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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system. Pryce started her social work career with an internship where...
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Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"A judgment-free guide for parents who want to better understand and balance family screentime in the digital age. Author Emily Cherkin- aka The Screentime Consultant- has written a compelling and necessary book about parenting in the modern digital age. Unlike any previous generation, children's excessive screen use today at home and at school impacts mental health and family relationships. Parents have concerns about the amount of time children...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"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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English
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"Human beings have succeeded as the most dominant species on earth in large part due to our need to connect and cooperate. It was our ability to socialize and connect that catapulted our species to phenomenal heights of innovation, through collaboration and specialization. This drive has fine-tuned our unconscious perception of faces, facial expressions, body language, and touch. Our primitive drive to connect changes how we perceive the world and...
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English
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USA TODAY BESTSELLERNew in paperback: Get fired up to launch a business, creative project, or side hustle-and build your dreams on your own terms-with unconventional wisdom from the "Queen of Social Media.""This book is going to teach you the business and life lessons to make sure that you can start a business and do it without compromising your ethics, your beliefs, and your values. And show you how to do it in a way that's uniquely you."- from the...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A fascinating peek behind the making of a megahit, and a delightful bit of nostalgia for those of us who remember life before streaming TV. Town & CountryWelcome to the O.C., b*tch:its the definitive oral history of beloved TV showThe O.C.,from the shows creators, featuring interviews with the cast and crew, providing a behind-the-scenes look into how the show was made, the ups and downs over its four seasons, and its legacy today.On August 5th, 2003,...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers. Some of these foods may already...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever felt at a loss for an answer when asked: 'How are you really feeling?" Maybe you can't quite put your finger on it, but you know something is definitely off. Microaggressions, challenging family relationships, toxic positivity, work and pandemic stress, gaslighting-these are just a few examples of what psychologist Dr. Meg Arroll calls "Tiny T" trauma. These tiny traumas can slowly build up inside of us, and if ignored for too long,...
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English
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"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
10) Caught up
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Series
Windy City ; 3
Publisher
Liz Tomforde
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kai I'm a single dad and starting pitcher for Chicago's MLB team.I'm stretched too thin, but I don't want help raising my son.Each of his previous nannies only lasted a few weeks before I let them go.Now, my coach is putting his foot down by hiring the one person I can't fire-his daughter.Miller Montgomery is the last woman I should fall for. Too wild, too young, and too unattached.Chicago is just a quick stop for her. I thought I'd be counting down...
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English
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"A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot-from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz. Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women-women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We've all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz...
12) Trouble: a novel
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble. Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life. This position was meant to be her sister's--brilliant, kind Amy, who isn't perpetually angry, dangerously reckless, and who does (inexplicably) like children. But Amy is unwell and needs a doctor, their father is gone and their mother is useless, so here...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first. Mabel Beaumont's husband Arthur loved lists. He'd leave them for her everywhere. `Remember: eggs, butter, sugar'. `I love you: today, tomorrow, always'. But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he's still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: `Find D'. Mabel feels sure she knows what it means. She must track down her best friend...
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Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A love letter to the game of baseball from one of America's foremost scribes. Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he's attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It's a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting. The tattered scorebooks he's filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare...
15) Ilium
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Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Pub. Date
20240116
Language
English
Description
Fast-paced and powerful, gripping and immersive, this subtly crafted and suspenseful novel, set in the present and the immediate past, in the dark world of international espionage in London, Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret is told through its young female protagonist who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a special op. The young English narrator briefly tells us of her unhappy family life in London, wanting...
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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How did Ron Shaich, the visionary founder of Panera Bread, build a little bakery in St. Louis into 2,400 restaurants with 6 billion dollars in revenue and annual returns of 25 percent, outperforming Starbucks, Chipotle, and all others? By seeing the future and clearing a path to it, leading and innovating from the future back. Now, Shaich shares his story, starting with its humble entrepreneurial beginnings: the college-campus convenience store he...
Author
Publisher
Waterside Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Most of us are overwhelmed by stuff that is not essential to our lives and is out of alignment with our true spiritual nature. Although our souls are inherently free, we also have an ego mind that orients us toward fear, scarcity, self-preservation, and holding on. With the ego mind in the drivers seat of our lives, we accumulate clutter. Physical clutter is the most obvious, but we are also burdened with mental, emotional, energetic, and relationship...
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English
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Kate Fletcher is my kryptonite. She’s also my best friend. Former best friend? I’m not sure what you call it when we grew up attached at the hip and then she left Silver Creek (and me) to travel the world. The important thing is: Kate is back. (Temporarily.) And I’m still in love with her. (Permanently.) But something is different now. The attraction doesn’t seem one-sided. I don’t think I’m imagining the heat in Kate’s eyes or...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the...
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Publisher
Ben Yehuda Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How do you hold on to faith in a modern world? The realities of the modern world challenge believers of all faiths. Rabbi Michael Strassfeld digs deep into the Jewish tradition to help us get to the root of the matter: to create connection -- to our past, to our present, to each other. To connect with the unity underlying the universe that draws us all together. Judaism is at a point of seismic change - and it's not the first time. The second fall...
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