New Arrivals Added To Our Adult Nonfiction Collection in the last 7 days
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May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024
"Former vice-chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, John Hope Bryant, delivers an accessible and powerful resource for everyday Americans seeking to build a strong financial foundation. This book is an easy-to-follow first step toward a fulfilling financial future, helping you understand your relationship to work and money. With an insightful foreword by Doug McMillon, president and CEO of Walmart Inc., you'll learn how to create wealth for yourself and your fam
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May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024
"A revelatory book, Disbelief is not about defining the relationship between science and religion; it's about using science to better understand religion in order to better understand human nature"--
Based on the author's "Modern Love" essay in The New Yorker, this life-affirming memoir tells the story of the gifts and letters left behind by her mother who was diagnosed with terminal cancer during her childhood.
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May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024
"The author's road trips through the American South lead to a personal confrontation with history. In A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road, Pete Candler offers a travel narrative drawn from twenty-five years of road-tripping through the backroads of the American South. Featuring Candler's own photography, the book taps into the public imagination and the process of both remembering and forgetting that define our collective memory of place. In this highly personal
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May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024
"This book contains instructions for 37 unique monster bodies and more than 15 teeth patterns, tongues and horns, hair and scales, tails and limbs, and more! Nearly everything is interchangeable, with over 30 limb options and so many more ways to customize your monster"--
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May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024
"A magnificently illustrated book showcasing the work of twenty-three contemporary women photographers from Iran"--Provided by publisher.
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May 23, 2024
"Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory"--
Told chronologically and divided into ten decades, The American Teacher sheds light on the important role that teachers have played in this country over the last one hundred years. It is parsed through the voices of educators, intellectuals, and journalists who have weighed i...
"Eric Hazan follows in Balzac's footsteps, criss-crossing the city in the novelist's outsize boots, running between printers, publishers, coffee merchants, mistresses and friends, stopping for a moment, struck by a detail that would be fixed in Balzac's photographic memory. More than a tour of the city, this is an attempt to measure the soul of a city as recovered in its finest literature"--
"Being a working artist is a romantic idea - actually pursuing art as an occupation is absurd. Why do people choose the the life of an artist and how do they accomplish it? What is it about the romanticism of New York that makes it a magnet for artistic dreamers? In Art Monster, Marin Kosut guides the reader into the lives, minds, and emotions - including her own - of artists who live and work on the margins of New York's art world. Through an honest and personal prose style, she explores the ir