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Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with scenes from her own, from her adolescence to her development as a writer, wife, and mother.

Actress Tina Fey recounts her life, sharing how she managed to fulfill her dream of one day becoming a comedian on television and discussing her childhood, marriage, career, and views on beauty, politics, motherhood, and relationships.

Stories of courage, redemption, and pee.
From comedian Sarah Silverman.

David Sedaris describes the struggles he has had in life due to his voice problems, discussing how his voice has affected his personal relationships, his career, and his family life.

Collection of essays presenting the author's observations on her childhood, romance, friendship, and Hollywood.

Presents a study of how people think without thinking, looking at the brain processes involved in making snap decisions, discussing why some people seem to have great instincts while others consistently choose unwisely, and examining ways to control the process.

National Book Award Finalist

Describes the efforts of IBM scientists to create "Watson," an artificial intelligence computer system designed to compete on the game show, "Jeopardy!" tracing the history of Watson's "life," and discussing the televised match between Watson and two human players.

Argues that a new philosophy must be developed to help balance the convenience and benefits of the digital world with the problems it can create in a user's personal life, drawing on philosophies that have helped people manage and enjoy their connected lives in the past.

"A charming account of the astounding series of discoveries that result in the downgrading of Pluto from planet status. The combination of engaging humor, accessible science, and personal anecdote makes for a lively glimpse into an extremely successful career in
astronomy." - School Library Journal

Social Networking and the Death of Privacy

Examines the widespread misuse of our personal online data on social networking sites.

Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

A biography of Timothy J. Lepore, who seemed to be the health care of Nantucket, discussing his childhood, island life, his island experiences as a doctor, and more.

Presents Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

One hundred children's book authors suggest ways in which individuals can help the environment, discussing one's home, school, community, and world.

"Relates tales of beetles, flowers, mussels, bacteria, and other organisms that eavesdrop on the chemical messages other species use to communicate. Not only do they eavesdrop on each other, they subvert the intercepted messages for their own ends, often killing the sender."

Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism.

A reprint of the nineteenth-century drama that examines the human struggle against the humiliating constraints of social conformity.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. Three Greek plays

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers and though well formatted, it is without line numbers.

Collection of poetry in praise of those men and women who work at many diverse jobs.

Looks at Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," discussing the characters, the humor, and connections between Ishmael and Ahab to the twenty-first century.

Bernard Knox (Introduction by, Notes by)

Robert Fagles (Translator)

Epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.

“In Crazy U, Ferguson is at his dazzling best, using humor and narrative as portals to very serious subjects. The book is both a hilarious chronicle of his 18-month ordeal helping his not-always-cooperative son apply to college and a devastating exposé of the buying and selling of higher education in America.”
—Christina Hoff Summers, National Review

The essential parenting guide to the college years.

The Official College Admissions Guide for Overwhelmed Parents

Filled with common sense advice from a mother/daughter team now past this particular milestone. Reassuring and perky.

A parents guide to understanding the college years.
Fifth edition.

Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up.

"When teenagers inevitably look at themselves through the prism of our overachiever culture," Robbins writes, "they often come to the conclusion that no matter how much they achieve, it will never be enough." The author of Pledged turns her eye back to her HS alma mater.

Still a standard and reliable book. This guide puts the transition from high schooler to college student into perspective and includes practical advice that is great help throughout that first year.

“Entertaining, an enjoyable book…a serious look at the science of habit formation and change.” —New York Times Book Review

"A posthumously published analysis of his dying days. Mortality is the anti–Last Lecture"

Explains the two systems that drive the way we think; system one is fast, intuitive, and emotional, and system two is slower, deliberative, and logical and discusses how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.

From Publisher's Weekly: Katz is cofounder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program (MVP), and his focus is on prevention—his intended audience is not violent men who need help changing their ways, but all men, who, he says, have a role to play in preventing male violence against women.

"The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver's brilliant and elegant tour of the modern science-slash-art of forecasting, shows what happens when Big Data meets human nature."

“Clear-eyed, thorough reporting on the Japanese underworld . . . Parry . . . mak[es] the reader feel not like a voyeur, but a witness to this deeply human tragedy that illustrates how a single murder creates many victims and proves that the seemingly distant political past can continue to influence individual lives into the present day.” —Elyssa East, The Boston Globe

During a motorcycle trip with his son, the author reveals his past life and muses on philosophical topics.

Looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale.

Explores the role introverts play in a world that is geared towards those who enjoy communicating with others and offers practical suggestions at how introverts can make sure their message is heard.

"This book challenges the myth of the Southern mammy and other myths and attempts a richer, more complex pic ture of the lives of black women in slav ery. Drawing on historical evidence, in cluding slave narratives and the diaries and autobiographies of white Southern ers, as well as on recent scholarship on the black family, the author examines slave women's daily life, occupations, family roles, and female networks."

The indispensable man as you've never seen him.

Discusses how Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, was blamed for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and describes how the hunt for Davis continued even after Lincoln's body was put in its final resting place.

Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

A city, a siege, a revolution.

A haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman, Kristen Iversen, growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America."

Tells the story of the first decade of the television network channel MTV (Music Television) through interviews from those who created the network, those who appeared on it, and those who watched it.

When Laura Schroff first met Maurice on a New York City street corner, she had no idea that she was standing on the brink of an incredible and unlikely friendship that would inevitably change both their lives.

A history of the Pilgrim settlement of New England that discusses such topics as the diseases of European origin suffered by the Wampanoag tribe, the relationship between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags, and the impact of the King Philip's War.

This remarkable story follows the Macon Ironmen, a team of misfits with a hippie coach, through a recordsetting baseball season.

American-educated Jordanian Luma Mufleh founds a youth soccer team comprised of children from Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkan states, and elsewhere in the refugee settlement town of Clarkston, Georgia, bringing the children together to discover their common bonds as they adjust to life in a new homeland.

Inside the world's most exclusive fraternity.

What makes Saturday night so special? To answer it, Orleans embarked on a remarkable journey across the country and spent the evening with all sorts of people in all sorts of places—hipsters in Los Angeles, car cruisers in small-town Indiana, coeds in Boston, the homeless in New York, a lounge band in Portland, quinceañera revelers in Phoenix, and more.

Amassing stuff is normal in our materialistic culture, but for millions it reaches unhealthy levels, according to the authors of this eye-opening study of the causes of hoarding, its meaning for the hoarder, and its impact on their families.

Stories of courage, redemption, and pee.
From comedian Sarah Silverman.

In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

The indispensable man as you've never seen him.

Actress Tina Fey recounts her life, sharing how she managed to fulfill her dream of one day becoming a comedian on television and discussing her childhood, marriage, career, and views on beauty, politics, motherhood, and relationships.

A biography of Russian empress Catherine the Great, discussing her childhood, her rise to the throne, the values and beliefs she used to guide her rule over Russia, contacts she had over the years, and more.

The author, who was shot at the age of thirteen, writes a letter to his unknown assailant, whom he names Marcus, detailing the repercussions of that fateful day.

Reyna Grande chronicles her life as an undocumented immigrant, from her border crossing at age nine, discussing her difficult relationship with her father, and other complications with her family during childhood.

Chronicles the life of Dong-hyuk Shin, who was raised in a political prison camp in North Korea, and describes the inhuman conditions inside, his harrowing escape from the camp and the country, and his efforts to raise awareness of the camps to others.

In this memoir, Abbott shares the story of being raised by her gay father in 80's San Francisco, when revolution, liberation, and eventually plague, are everywhere.

Memoir of the manager's Red Sox years.

The author reflects on her childhood growing up white in a predominantly African-American neighborhood and her struggle to fit in with her classmates after moving to a mostly Caucasian school district.

Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

Tells the story of Chris McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who walked into the Alaskan wilderness on an idealistic journey and was found dead of starvation four months later. The book attempts to discover what led the young man to that point.

When Laura Schroff first met Maurice on a New York City street corner, she had no idea that she was standing on the brink of an incredible and unlikely friendship that would inevitably change both their lives.

Collection of essays presenting the author's observations on her childhood, romance, friendship, and Hollywood.

A biography of Timothy J. Lepore, who seemed to be the health care of Nantucket, discussing his childhood, island life, his island experiences as a doctor, and more.

The author recalls her childhood in a strict religious Midwestern town, her brother's and her education in a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic, the trials of adolescence and racism.

'In this irresistible memoir, the New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen writes about looking back and ahead—and celebrating it all—as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all the stuff in our closets, and more."

Includes audio and video enhancements.

The story of a four legged cinema legend and the humans who loved him.

The author describes her life, beginning with the trauma and violence that caused her to run away at an early age, the kindness of strangers that allowed her to start over and pursue a master's degree, and her subsequent dedication to helping other at-risk youth.

Oprah 2.0 Book club choice.

Meredith Hall retells the consequences she faced upon becoming an unwed mom at age 16, growing up in a conservative surrounding in the mid-60s.