New Books
by Po Bronson
It's a Dog Eat Dog World. Don't Be on the Menu.
What are the differences between a winning and losing performance? Why are we able to rise to the challenge one...
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Do you believe you are descended from the aristocracy, or even from royalty? Or do you have a line of descent from a blue-blooded family, but want to...
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This new collection of poetry and prose explores the body as a site of pleasure, pain and political struggle. Disabled and chronically ill writer, historian...
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...the personal, idiosyncratic, often frustrated, sometimes angry, but ultimately sad observations of a life long soap opera fan...
Notwithstanding the title...
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by Mary Wallace
A cinematic foray from the 'ruin porn' of Detroit to the warming of a young woman's love life in Hawaii.
Detroit has been in a economic death spiral for decades,...
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by Susan Alcorn
A true adventure in Spain enriched with flavors of contemporary culture and spiced with legends from ancient times.
In September 2001, the author and her husband...
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Sara Brubaker was two years old when a German Baptist couple adopted her. She has become a beautiful woman, and works as a secretary for Alexander's. Now she's torn...
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A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study...
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Superhero origin stories show us how the character becomes both super as well as a hero, and ultimately highlight the character’s humanity, even those superheroes...
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by Ariel Gore
Everything from Christian fundamentalist rapture predictions to environmentalist utopian visions is included in this unique collection of writings about the end...
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by Holly Clegg
There are books available to prevent cancer but this exceptional book, Eating Well Through Cancer focuses on the person in cancer treatment. Anyone affected by...
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In game theory’s prisoner’s dilemma problem, two prisoners are given the choice between silence, and the betrayal of the other. The optimal choice turns out to be...
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When Alice marries Ramesh, her new mother-in-law, named Shiva for the Hindu god of Creation and Destruction, usurps the young woman’s authority in her own home,...
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Here's a copy of my personal essay that was broadcast on National Public Radio's KQED today.
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R810270737
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by Belle Yang
In a cozy, tropical place called Washtub Pond, three web-footed creatures pass carefree days playing and dreaming together. Sue-Lin Salamander, Mao-Mao Mudpuppy,...
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In this gripping, in-the-trenches account of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, award-winning journalist Matt Rees takes us deep within Israeli and Palestinian...
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The children in Miss Thompson’s 4th grade class knew Fran Ellen Smith as a smelly, “thumb sucker.” The only thing that makes life bearable was the bears’ house, a...
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What fans don’t love to relive the good times of their favorite team? Likewise, in a twisted sort of way, what fans can really resist a self-pitying look back on...
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They say the Army makes a man out of you—but for 18-year-old SPC Michael Anthony, that fabled rite of passage proved a very dark journey. After soliciting his...
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Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics...
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