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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that takes away the ability to move, talk, and breathe. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-three years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date. His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced. Writing using eye-tracking...
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild Swan tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend. From her adolescence, Nightingale was determined to fulfill her life's calling to serve the sick and suffering. Overcoming Victorian hierarchies, familial expectation, patriarchal resistance, and her own illness, she used her hard-won celebrity as a battlefield...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the world's most famous diamonds -- stolen from South Asia during colonization and now among the crown jewels in London -- is a call to action for readers to decolonize and hold their heads high.The Kohinoor diamond, one of the most famous diamonds in the world, was stolen from India and fought over throughout centuries of colonial conquest, eventually landing in the hands of British royals who tricked a ten-year-old South Asian monarch...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking...
65) Oye
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Structured as a series of one-sided phone calls from our spunky, sarcastic narrator, Luciana, to her older sister, Mari, this wildly inventive debut 'jump-starts your heart in the same way it piques your ear' (Xochitl Gonzalez). As the baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana is usually relegated to the sidelines. But now she finds herself as the only voice of reason in the face of an unexpected crisis: A hurricane is heading straight...
67) Juneteenth is
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This book is an ode to the history of the Black community in the United States, a tribute to Black joy, and a portrait of familial love"--
A girl contemplates what Juneteenth means to her, her family, and her community.
68) What a croc!
Author
Series
Magnificent Mulligans volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Mulligans are used to adversity. But now someone wants to hurt something they love: the Mulligan Wild Animal Park. For a mini human, Stephie can be pretty tough. 'We don't believe in curses,' she says to Madame Claire. 'We have God to protect us.' Good words, but it's not long before the Mulligan kids begin to wonder if there is something real to the fortune teller's prediction of a curse. Strange things are happening at the animal park. Ghostly...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey-featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Southside Johnny, members of the E Street Band and Asbury Jukes, the Ramones, the Jonas Brothers, Jack Antonoff, and other legendary musicians. In 1970, Asbury Park, New Jersey, was ripped apart by race riots that left the once-proud beach town an hour away...
Author
Publisher
Mayo Clinic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"We are in the midst of a longevity revolution. And that's particularly true for women: Women can expect to live five years longer than men. A 50-year-old woman can expect to live another 35 years, on average. Women comprise 80% of centenarians, now the fastest growing segment of the world's population. But despite these incredible statistics showing how women are living longer, women are not living well. Women typically spend the last 14 years of...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after she left her hometown of Trove Isle, NC, Melody Palmer is back to receive an unexpected inheritance-her great aunt's thrift store, Hidden Treasures. There, in a glass case beneath the register, Melody spies the long-lost charm bracelet she shared with her high school friends, Liz and Bri, and her younger sister, Alyssa. After a devastating prom night accident, it disappeared, and the girls' friendship evaporated with it. Slipping...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiring and practical lessons in a book that's part biography, part travelogue, part personal prescription"--
Author
Publisher
S&S/Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Let go of perfect and become a transformative, positive influence in a child's life while creating your own definition of success from developmental psychologist and podcaster Dr. Aliza Pressman.
"My go-to for how we all raise good humans, including ourselves!" —Drew Barrymore
In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us feel like we've got to get everything...
Let go of perfect and become a transformative, positive influence in a child's life while creating your own definition of success from developmental psychologist and podcaster Dr. Aliza Pressman.
"My go-to for how we all raise good humans, including ourselves!" —Drew Barrymore
In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us feel like we've got to get everything...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cuál es la mejor manera de envejecer bien y vivir más? En una colaboración sin precedentes entre tres de las mentes más poderosas de la actualidad, Deepak Chopra se une al físico Jack Tuszynski y al endocrinólogo Brian Fertig para ofrecer una obra visionaria que profundiza en el innovador mundo de la ciencia cuántica. En ella nos muestran cómo podemos revolucionar nuestra forma de vivir y envejecer y, en última instancia, erradicar la...
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"This book will reveal the power of somatic exercises to help regulate your nervous system and enhance your emotional resilience. You will reduce anxiety, tone your vagus nerve, and create a stronger mind-body connection in just 10 minutes a day. This is not just a book about exercises but a way of moving that can break your connection with ongoing stress and anxiety to reveal a life of well-being and balance. Learn the power of listening to and working...
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A writer in search of his roots discovers stories of African American struggle, sacrifice, and achievement. In The Garretts of Columbia, author David Nicholson tells a multigenerational story of Black hope and resilience. Carefully researched and beautifully written, The Garretts of Columbia engages readers with stories of a family whose members believed in the possibility of America. Nicholson relates the sacrifices, defeats, and affirming victories...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir and coming-of-age story chronicling the successes and disappointments, wit and wildness of Dunne and his multigenerational family of larger-than-life characters"--
At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunne's legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. At sixteen, he got kicked out of boarding...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child
"A mesmeric celebration of a boy who died too soon, a mother's love and her resilience. It will help others surviving loss — surviving life." — David Sheff, New York Times
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