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24) Find me
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel--a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and...
Author
Publisher
Whitney Museum of American Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online-and the large societal impact of these decisions This engaging and richly illustrated book comprehensively examines the life and art of David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992), who came to prominence in New York's East Village art world of the 1980s, actively embracing all media and forging an expansive range of work both fiercely political and highly personal....
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Are you at risk of being scammed? Former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale shows you how to stop scammers in their tracks. Maybe you're wondering how to make the scam phone calls stop. Perhaps someone has stolen your credit card number. Or you've been a victim of identity theft. Even if you haven't yet been the target of a crime, con artists are always out there, waiting for the right moment to steal your information,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After a whirlwind courtship and rough post-cohabitation period, Season Three finds Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) trying to keep the good times rolling while confronting the F- word.."family". Meanwhile, Edgar (Desmin Borges) seaches for therapy to combat his PTSD, and Lindsay (Kether Donohue) faces a big decision in this original comedy series that takes a modern look at love and happiness through two people who haven't been successful...
Author
Series
Jane Austen takes the South volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the bestselling author of Pride, Prejudice, and Cheese Grits comes a new and comical contemporary take on the perennial Jane Austen classic, Emma. Caroline Ashley is a journalist on the rise at The Washington Post until the sudden death of her father brings her back to Thorny Hollow to care for her mentally fragile mother and their aging antebellum home. The only respite from the eternal rotation of bridge club meetings and garden parties is...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat--and a riveting tale of survival in wartime Germany. Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents' intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimee, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this groundbreaking book, Goodavage brings us behind the scenes of cutting-edge science at top research centers, and into the lives of people whose well-being depends on their devoted, highly skilled personal MDs (medical dogs). With her signature wit and passion, Goodavage explores how doctor dogs are becoming our happy allies in the fight against dozens of physical and mental conditions. We meet dogs who detect cancer and Parkinson’s disease,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat comes a smart, funny, personal examination of what it's like to be at the crossroads of a woman's midlife crisis. Jen Mann had what appeared to be the perfect life: a successful career as a bestselling author and award-winning blogger, a devoted husband, teenage kids who weren't total jerks, and a badass minivan. So imagine her surprise when, at forty-seven years old,...