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The Snowman

by Raymond Briggs

Published: 1978-11-12

Hardcover: 32 pages

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Illus. in full color. A wordless story. The pictures have "the hazy softness of air in snow. A little boy rushes out into the wintry day to build a snowman, which comes alive in his dreams that night. The experience is one that neither he nor young 'readers' will ever regret or forget."--(...

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Brunch Is Hell: How to Save the World by Throwing a Dinner Party

by Rico Gagliano, Brendan Francis Newnam

Published: 2017-12-05

Hardcover: 224 pages

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A call to arms against BRUNCH... and a how-to guide for fighting back, from the hosts of the hit podcast and public radio show The Dinner Party Download.Society is under threat. The culprit? BRUNCH. Not merely a forum for overpriced eggs, brunch is a leisure-time-squandering hellscape, emb...

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Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice

by Dr. Willie Parker

Published: 2018-03-06

Paperback: 240 pages

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In this “vivid and companionable memoir of a remarkable life” (The New Yorker), an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider reveals his personal and professional journeys in an effort to seize the moral high ground on the question of choice and reproduct...

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Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century)

by Loretta Ross, Rickie Solinger

Published: 2017-03-21

Paperback: 360 pages

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Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. Loretta J. Ross a...

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Bitter Chocolate: Book 2 of the Alcott Family Adventures (Hot Chocolate 1)

by Dawn Greenfield Ireland

Published: 2014-06-02

Kindle Edition: 506 pages

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The characters you loved in Hot Chocolate are back with more escapades of life in Houston’s wealthy River Oaks. Lila Mae is in a tizzy over the Chocolate Ball – a huge event that she and her sisters, Dorothea and Madge, host every year. But due to unusual circumstances, Dorothea and Ma...

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Hot Chocolate: Book 1 of the Alcott Family Adventures

by Dawn Greenfield Ireland

Published: 2011-10-20

Kindle Edition: 460 pages

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Meet the middle-aged, eccentric Alcott sisters: Madge, Lila Mae and Dorothea, heiresses to the Alcott Chocolate fortune and mavens of Houston’s elite River Oaks.Madge ambushes Lila Mae with Dorothea’s manipulative plea: she can’t care for Bernie, their 92-year old father, any longer....

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Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

by Thomas Page McBee

Published: 2018-08-14

Hardcover: 224 pages

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From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with “hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love” (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society.In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match...

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White Dancing Elephants

by Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Published: 2018-10-09

Paperback: 208 pages

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"Chaya Bhuvaneswar's debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold, smart, exciting new voice, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.."-Lauren Groff, author of Florida"Stunning, evocative, electr...

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Presidents of War

by Michael Beschloss

Published: 2018-10-09

Hardcover: 752 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magi...

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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 2017-11-07

Paperback: 224 pages

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An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the worldBook Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “There is more insight here into the Age of Trump than in bushels of political-h...