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Two Old Broads : Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn't Know You Needed to Know
Hecht, Dr. M. E.; Goldberg, WhoopiHarper Horizon 2022 UnabridgedWritten by renowned surgeon and expert on the art of aging, Dr. M.E. Hecht, with her friend Whoopi Goldberg lending her unique point of view, Two Old Broads is laugh out loud funny...
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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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The Shame Machine : Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
O'Neil, CathyCrown 2022NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperparti...
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Dopamine Nation : Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Lembke, AnnaPenguin Publishing Group 2021INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick,as heard on Fresh Air This boo...
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The Storm Is Upon Us : How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Rothschild, MikeMelville House 2021"I hope everyone reads this book. It has become such a crucial thing for all of us to understand." —Erin Burnett, CNN "An ideal tour guide for your journey into the depths of the...
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Pop Song : Adventures in Art & Intimacy
Pham, LarissaCatapult 2021"A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex...
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Hype : How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following
Bluestone, GabrielleHanover Square Press 2021"Hype is the best kind of nonfiction: juicy, sharp, savage and wildly entertaining, with a celebrity behaving badly on every page. What more could you want?" -Cat Marnell, New York...
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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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Legendary Children : The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
Fitzgerald, Tom; Marquez, LorenzoPenguin Publishing Group 2020A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo NPR's Best B...
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Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Kendall, MikkiPenguin Publishing Group 2020A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights...
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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers : Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power
Doyle, SadyMelville House 2019Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop culture offers “provocative and incisive” commentary on society’s fear of female rage...
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Our Women on the Ground : Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
Penguin Publishing Group 2019Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief intern...
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How to Do Nothing : Resisting the Attention Economy
Odell, JennyMelville House 2019** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New...
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How to Be Less Stupid About Race : On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Fleming, Crystal M.Beacon Press 2018A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our “national conversation about race”—and what to do about it How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide...
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White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
DiAngelo, RobinBeacon Press 2018The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain...
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Enlightenment Now : The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Pinker, StevenPenguin Publishing Group 2018INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." —Bill Gates If you think the w...
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I've Got This Round : More Tales of Debauchery
Hart, MamriePenguin Publishing Group 2018A wild and hilarious journey through adulting, from actress and comedian Mamrie Hart—the New York Times bestselling author of You Deserve a Drink. When Mamrie simultaneously enter...
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Antifa : The Antifascist Handbook
Bray, MarkMelville House 2017The National Bestseller “Focused and persuasive... Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a re...
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Regretting Motherhood : A Study
Donath, OrnaNorth Atlantic Books 2017A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhood Women who...
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Requiem for the American Dream : The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
Chomsky, NoamSeven Stories Press 2017A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, pati...