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Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At a party Harley Langston discovers her boyfriend, Mike hooking up with her younger sister, Audrey. She abandons them both in a rage, and when Mike drunkenly drives Audrey home, he crashes--and Audrey ends up in a coma. Harley is left with guilt, grief, pain and the undeniable truth that her relatively unscathed ex-boyfriend has a drinking problem. Raf, a neighbor and childhood friend who's recently out of rehab, is still wrestling with his own demons....
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Louise, a young woman whose mother, Lydia, died in an automobile accident while she was a child, believes that her mother's lover, Nicholas, caused her death and seeks revenge against him by secretly creeping into his life.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary novel of two sisters trying to find new life--one in her marriage and faith, the other desperate for a chance at a future"--
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Harvard University Press edition.
Physical Desc
x, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"How is it that we can walk unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction? Come up with shortcuts on the fly, in places we've never traveled? The answer is the complex mental map in our brains. This feature of our cognition is easily taken for granted, but it's also critical to our species's evolutionary success. In From Here to There Michael Bond tells stories of the lost and found-Polynesian sailors, orienteering champions, early aviators-and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes to a nearby town... A woman in an arranged marriage struggles to connect with the son she hid from her husband for years... A well-meaning sister unwittingly reunites an abuser with his victims... Through the lives of an indelible array of individuals--musicians, housewives and pastors, children and grandparents, the men and women who own the dry cleaners...
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women's bonds. Nancy K. Miller describes her friendships with three well-known scholars and literary critics: Carolyn Heilbrun, Diane Middlebrook, and Naomi Schor. Their relationships were simultaneously intimate and professional, emotional and...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jim Gaffigan meets Cheryl Strayed in this blisteringly funny memoir about the call of the wild, from one of Scandinavia's biggest comedians. Sometime around his forties, Are Kalvø starts losing his friends ... to the mountains. Friends who used to meet him at the pub are now hiking and skiing every weekend, and when they do show up, all they talk about is feeling at one with nature (without a hint of irony). When Are realizes he's the only person...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An accessible, compassionate guide to Buddhist principles and practices that can help support recovery from addictions and addictive behaviors-written by an experienced Zen lay teacher with thirty-five years of sobriety. For anyone struggling with addiction, Buddhism offers powerful, grounding wisdom and tools to help support recovery. In The Zen Way of Recovery, Laura Burges shares her experience as a dedicated Zen practitioner who came to terms...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
422 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Poets of the twentieth century Elizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that 'Elizabeth had more talent for life--and for poetry--than anyone else I've known.' This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose, and letters--a remarkable body of work that would make her one of America's most beloved and celebrated poets. In Love...
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xxiii, 264 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of perspectives on translation, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, Clare Cavanagh, David Bellos, and Jose Manuel Prieto. Discussing the process and possibilities of their art, they cast translation as a fine balance between scholarly and creative expression. The volume provides guidance on technique...
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 270 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It has been more than thirty years since the term "flash fiction" was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories...
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Using art as the catalyst, this film explores how the human spirit prevails in the face of tragedy. SHOULDER THE LION features three people; a photographer who becomes blind, a painter/sculptor (the real-life inspiration for "Million Dollar Baby") who loses half her brain in a boxing match, and a musician losing his hearing to tinnitus. Using art to illustrate change, this film explores how the human spirit prevails in the face of tragedy and what...
20) #ArtOffline
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What happens to art in the Internet age? The philosophers, artists and exhibition makers in this documentary believe that endless reproduction liberates art from a muddled art market and an undemocratic exhibition circuit. Some critics wonder whether the urge for physical objects is really just a nostalgic fetishism. But aren't we losing something if the physical artworks disappears? Official Selection at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam**....
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