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NON-FICTION
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
by M. Nolan Gray
It’s time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray. Arbitrary Lines lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common confusions and myths about how American cities regulate growth and examining the major contemporary critiques of zoning. Zoning has failed to address even our most basic concerns about urban growth over the past century, but we can think about a new way of planning a more affordable, prosperous, equitable, and sustainable American city.
The Art of Fantasy, Sci-fi and Steampunk
by Hiroshi Unno
This book describes the history of fantasy art from Romanticism in the 18th century to the modern era by exploring the masterpieces of fantasy artists; William Blake, John Martin, Albert Robida, Jules Gabriel Verne, H.G. Welles and more. It also shows illustrations from science fiction and fantasy novels such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, poems and stories by Edgar Allan Poe, mystery novels by Agatha Christie, and contemporary fantasy novelists such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Michael Ende.
Belonging at Work: Everyday Actions You Can Take to Cultivate an Inclusive Organization
by Rhodes Perry
Belonging at Work empowers business leaders, change agents, visionaries, and those on their way to joining them with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to build inclusive organizations. The personal stories, case studies, and practical strategies featured in the book offer everything you need to cultivate workplace cultures where all of your stakeholders feel valued and respected. Rhodes Perry’s visionary book serves as a blueprint for the future of work.
Digital Madness: How Social Media is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis—and How to Restore Our Sanity
by Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D.
In Digital Madness, Kardaras answers the question of why young people’s mental health is deteriorating as we become a more technologically advanced society. While enthralled with shiny devices, people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, overdoses and suicide. Digital Madness is a crucial book for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers searching for ways to restore our young people’s mental health.
Disability Visibility: First-person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
by Alice Wong
A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience. Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people. One in five people in the US lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden – but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Just in time for the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers.
Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories
by Pamela A. Parmal, Jennifer M. Swope, Lauren D. Whitley
A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. These are just a few of the stories told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The 58 works of textile art in this book express the personal narratives of their makers and owners and connect to broader stories of global trade, immigration, industry, marginalization, and territorial and cultural expansion.
FICTION
The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story–and who gets to be believed. The Tichborne Trial – wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title — captivates all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? In a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task. The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of “other people.”
The Breakaway: A Novel
by Jennifer Weiner
Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in. But she’s got good friends and her bicycling club. She’s at peace with her plus-size body—at least, most of the time—and she’s on track to marry her childhood summer sweetheart. When Abby gets a last-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip, she’s happy to have a chance to reflect and make up her mind. But things get complicated fast. Over two weeks and seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, and Abby reconsiders everything she believes about herself.
Immortal Longings
by Chloe Gong
Princess Calla lurks in hiding because a massacre killed her parents and left the Talin palace empty…and she was the one who did it. Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin flock to its capital where the palace hosts a set of games. Competitors fight to the death to win unimaginable riches. Enter Anton Makusa, an exiled aristocrat, deep in debt. His last chance is entering the games and winning. The princess Cala finds an unexpected alliance with Anton, even though they have very different goals. Before the games close, Calla must decide what she’s playing for–her lover or her kingdom.
The Atlas Six
by Olivie Blake
The caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will. Most of them.
LIBRARY OF THINGS
GX37 37-stitch Sewing Machine
K20 Karaoke Machine
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