New Arrivals Added To Our Adult Nonfiction Collection in the last 7 days
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Jun 13, 2024
"This deeply researched book explores the life and music of folk legend Lead Belly within the context of the Jim Crow era. The work will appeal to a range of audiences, from Lead Belly fans and historians to readers interested in civil rights, mass incarceration, and the power of narrative"--
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Jun 13, 2024
"The Body Alone is a lyrical nonfiction inquiry into the experience, meaning, and articulation of pain. It is a hybrid account incorporating research, scholarship, and memoir to examine pain through the lenses of medicine, theology, and philosophy. Brokenbodies tell broken stories. This is why the pain experience is portrayed through an engaging but tangled, cyclical narrative of primers, vocabulary lessons, prescription records, and hypothesized internal monologues. The Body Alone is fractured
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Jun 10, 2024
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Jun 10, 2024
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Jun 10, 2024
"For anyone who has felt left out or pushed out, this book is your invitation to find spiritual rest and belonging in a God who loves, restores, and blesses the outcast and the marginalized"--
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Jun 10, 2024
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Jun 10, 2024
"Drawing from the wellsprings of science, philosophy, religion, and psychology, this illuminating work charts a course for those who seek a meaningful life without dogma or woo. Hartley draws on her work as an atheist spiritual director to provide practical guidelines for navigating a secular approach to ritual, morality, awe, transcendence, wisdom, community, intuition, connection, and meaning that can withstand the harsh truths of reality. With wisdom gleaned from the best of rationalism and
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Jun 10, 2024
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Jun 10, 2024
The haunting story of a girl lost in the cracks of the sytem, and forced to spend more than ten years as the prisoner of her school's security guard. Provides insight into Kach's emotional state of a criminal justice system that allowed her ordeal to happen.
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Jun 10, 2024
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Jun 10, 2024
"In Lies I Taught in Medical School, Robert Lufkin, MD, explains that metabolic dysfunction is the common underlying cause of most chronic diseases that has been overlooked for decades, providing the tools needed to prevent and reverse them in ourselves.He draws on expansive, peer-reviewed evidence, proving that standard medical recommendations are killing us"--
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Jun 10, 2024