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Emergency Contact

by Mary H. K. Choi

Published: 2018-03-27

Hardcover: 400 pages

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“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow RowellFrom debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park ...

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Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day

by Ken Mogi

Published: 2018-01-02

Hardcover: 224 pages

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“Awakening Your Ikigai is really quite a delightful look at sometimes mystifying Japanese traditions.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIntroducing IKIGAI: find your passions and live with joyIkigai is a Japanese phenomenon commonly understood as “your reason to get up in the morning....

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Edokko: Growing up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan (Holocaust/WWII memoirs by seasidepress)

by Isaac Shapiro

Published: 2017-11-06

Paperback: 202 pages

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In 1926, professional musicians Constantine Shapiro, born in Moscow, 1896 and Lydia Chernetsky (Odessa, 1905) met and married in Berlin, Germany after their respective families had suffered continuous persecution in war-torn Russia, or the Soviet Union, as it was known after 1922. With Hitler’s national...

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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan

Published: 2018-05-15

Hardcover: 480 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller.A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to...

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Every Day I'm Hustling

by Vivica A. Fox

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Vivica A. Fox is a dynamo who has created a lasting career on her own, through sheer, roll-up-your-sleeves DIY hustle. Every Day I'm Hustling is a personal book with a message Fox passionately believes in: that you make your own luck, that you never ever wake up in the morning thinking som...

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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

by Michael Bennett, Dave Zirin

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 268 pages

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Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most scathingly humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable. Benne...

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The Poems of T.S. Eliot Read by Jeremy Irons

by T.S. Eliot

Published: 2018-04-10

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Jeremy Irons is doing a special event at 92nd Street Y to celebrate 75th anniversary of the publication of the "Four Quartets".Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from "The Love...

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See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

by Lorrie Moore

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 432 pages

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A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review...

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A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

by Rachel Devlin

Published: 2018-05-15

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial educationThe struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits...

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Zebras and Cheetahs: Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle

by Micheal J. Burt, Colby B. Jubenville

Published: 2013-04-22

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Praise for Zebras and Cheetahs "It's not the big that eat the small. Today, it's the fast that eat the slow. Zebras and Cheetahs teaches you step by step how to run faster, to be agile in the business jungle, and to pounce on opportunity 10x quicker than your competitors." —GRANT CARDONE...