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Why We Read : On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
Reed, ShannonHanover Square Press 2024*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a "beloved and wonderful writer" (George Saunders), teacher,...
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Never Enough : When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
Breheny Wallace, JenniferPenguin Publishing Group 2023AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement culture” overtaking our kids' and parents' lives, and a new framework for fighting backI...
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Nobody's Fool : Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It
Simons, Daniel; Chabris, ChristopherHachette Audio 2023 UnabridgedTwo New York Times-bestselling psychologists explain the science of cons—and how we can avoid them From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess ch...
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Wavewalker : Breaking Free
Heywood, SuzanneHarperCollins Publishers 2023THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand m...
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101 Amazing Facts about Queen Elizabeth II : 101 Amazing Facts
Goldstein, JackAndrews UK 2023 3. editionQueen Elizabeth II passed away on the 8th September 2022. She left behind her seventy years of rule that saw massive change both in the Royal Family and throughout Britain in gener...
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Visual Thinking : The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
Grandin, TemplePenguin Publishing Group 2022INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD“A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we’ll need to face the mounting challenge...
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Babel : Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Kuang, R.F.HarperCollins Publishers 2022THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES AND #1 NYT BESTSELLER 'One for Philip Pullman fans' THE TIMES 'This one is an automatic buy' GLAMOUR 'Ambitious, sweeping and epic' EVENING STANDARD 'Razor-shar...
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True Biz : A Novel
Novic, SaraRandom House Publishing Group 2022NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, po...
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Every Good Boy Does Fine : A Love Story, in Music Lessons
Denk, JeremyRandom House Publishing Group 2022NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music—its power, its meanings, and what it can teach us about our...
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Disorientation : A Novel
Hsieh Chou, ElainePenguin Publishing Group 2022A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE SELECTION * A MALALA BOOK CLUB PICK * AN INDIE NEXT PICK * A FAVORITE BOOK OF 2022 BY NPR AND BOOK RIOT * A MUST-READ MARCH 2022 BOOK BY TIME, VANI...
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The Genetic Lottery : Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Harden, Kathryn PaigePrinceton University Press 2021A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DN...
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Madam : A Novel
Wynne, PhoebeMacmillan Audio 2021 UnabridgedPhoebe Wynne's Madam is a riveting, modern gothic debut with shades of The Secret History, The Stepford Wives, and a dash of Circe, set at a secretive all girls' boarding school pe...
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Mind Hacking for Rebels - or for you who want to become one...
Tydén, KarinOmega ProductionTAKE COMMAND OF YOUR BRAIN! You will be guided on an exciting journey into your subconscious operating system, The Matrix. You will learn how you with small adjustments can crush...
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Deep Time Reckoning : How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
Ialenti, VincentMIT Press 2020A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own ac...
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The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
Sabic-El-Rayess, Amra; Sullivan, Laura L.Bloomsbury Publishing 2020The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive in the midst of the Bosnian genocide-and the stray cat who protected her family through it all. *Six Starred Reviews* "Ex...
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Ace : What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Chen, AngelaBeacon Press 2020An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity...
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Race: Are We So Different?
Goodman, Alan H.; Moses, Yolanda T.; Jones, Joseph L.John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2020 2. editionThe second edition of the bestselling title on modern notions of race, providing timely examination of perspectives on race, racism, and human biological variation In this fully up...
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Flipped Assessment: A Leap towards Assessment for Learning
Toivola, MarikaBooks on Demand 2020 1. editionNew release on the significance of assessment in a student-centered learning culture Flipped Assessment presents formative assessment as the most important factor in a student-cen...
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Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes
West, KathleenPenguin Publishing Group 2020Perfect for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Small Admissions, a wry and cleverly observed debut novel about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High—the micro-manag...
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The Dozier School for Boys : Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past
Murray, Elizabeth A.Lerner Publishing Group 2019Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where—rather than reforming the chi...