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An artist explains the Swedish concept of döstädning, meaning the effort to clean and declutter your home before you die.…
The tips for sorting and categorizing possessions can be used to prepare for any big life transition. 2018An account of the fates of those aboard the Seaflower, the Mayflower's sister ship. In 1630, these passengers founded a…
Puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. The author examines what went wrong as the experiment failed. 2017Fifty million rising: the new generation of working women transforming the Muslim world
By Saadia Zahidi. 2018
The economist author examines the ever-increasing numbers of women joining the workforce across the Muslim world. Profiles specific women and…
analyzes larger trends and impacts. Discusses how this phenomenon is working to redefine cultural norms and change how women are viewed within Muslim society. 2018Himalaya bound: one family's quest to save their animals-- and an ancient way of life
By Michael Benanav. 2018
Author of Men of Salt (DB 66075) profiles two brothers and their families who are nomadic water buffalo herders in…
northern India. Describes their way of life, the environment they live in, and the challenges they face as they attempt to drive their herds across international borders. 2018Vibrator nation: how feminist sex-toy stores changed the business of pleasure
By Lynn Comella. 2017
Gender studies professor examines the impact on business, entertainment, and education of female-owned sex-toy stores that first began operation in…
the 1970s. Discusses legal challenges confronting the industry's expansion, defines "feminist" and "women-friendly," looks at the role of pornography, and more. Some descriptions of sex. 2017The doctor, the murder, the mystery: the true story of the Dr. John Branion murder case
By Barbara D'Amato. 2016
Author of the Cat Marsala mystery series presents the case of physician John Branion, whose wife was found murdered in…
1967 in their Chicago apartment. Describes the crime, his 1968 conviction and appeals, his flight to Africa to avoid incarceration, and the later commutation of his sentence. Some violence. Anthony Award. 1992Enemies and neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
By Ian Black. 2017
The journalist author, whose career has focused on events in the Middle East, provides a history of Arab-Zionist conflict throughout…
the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Draws on sources that include declassified documents, oral histories, and more. 2017Becoming Eve: my journey from ultra-Orthodox rabbi to transgender woman
By Abby Stein. 2019
The author relates her experiences being raised in a Hasidic Jewish community as the eldest son in a dynastic rabbinical…
family. Describes her search for answers and ultimate departure from her former way of life. Some descriptions of sex. 2019Journey into Europe: Islam, immigration, and identity
By Akbar Ahmed. 2018
Professor of Islamic studies examines the experiences of Muslims in Europe, particularly those in immigrant communities. Discusses the role of…
politics, places Muslim experiences in context with those of Jewish and other communities facing discrimination, and presents lessons learned with policy suggestions for the future. 2018Maternal bodies: redefining motherhood in early America
By Nora Doyle. 2018
Historian examines the role of mothers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in America. Topics covered include maternal…
bodies in medical literature, childbearing narratives, breastfeeding and sentimentality, disembodiment of mothers in feminine print culture, and the role of sentimentality and embodiment in antislavery print culture. 2018A bite-sized history of France: gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment
By Stéphane Henaut, Jeni Mitchell. 2018
A French cheesemonger and American academic examine the history of France back to the Gauls through the lens of their…
gastronomic traditions. Wines, cheeses, liquors, truffles, vegetables, fruits, seafood, meats, and more are analyzed as part of the exploration of facts and myths. 2018Life at the Dakota: New York's most unusual address
By Stephen Birmingham. 2016
Author of California Rich (DB 18450) and America's Secret Aristocracy (DB 27656) profiles residents and goings-on at the legendary New…
York City apartment house, the Dakota. Details its construction in the 1880s and what life was like working and living there through the twentieth century. 1979America is in the heart: a personal history (Classics of Asian American Literature)
By Carlos Bulosan. 2014
Memoir by Filipino poet reflecting on his life in the Philippines and America. Describes the poverty his family faced and…
the loss of family members through sickness and other events. Examines the experience of immigrants to America who are made to feel as if they are criminals. Some violence. 1946Oye, Trump
By Andrés Manuel López Obrador. 2017
En 2017, el político mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador (conocido comúnmente como AMLO) recorrió los Estados Unidos y publicó estas…
reflexiones sobre la inmigración y la política, en parte en respuesta a la administración de Trump. En 2018, AMLO fue elegido presidente de México en una victoria aplastante. Epílogo de Elena PoniatowskaDark emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
By Bruce Pascoe. 2018
Examination of the ways aboriginal Australians developed the land to support their societies long before colonization of the continent by…
European explorers. Topics include agriculture, aquaculture, population and housing, storage and preservation, fire, cultural norms, non-Aboriginal agriculture techniques, and understanding history to improve the future. 2018Account of a dinner on April 29, 1962, hosted by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy for Nobel laureates, writers,…
scientists, historians, and artists. Discusses the historical context of the dinner, notable interactions, and the many repercussions in the years following the dinner. 2018Examines the lives of five African American athletes who were teammates on the UCLA football team in the late 1930s,…
a time when most college athletic programs were entirely white. Chronicles the discrimination they faced, and how they helped to transform college sports. Some strong language. 2017Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
By Michelle Tea. 2021
The PEN Award-winning essay collection about queer lives: “Gorgeously punk-rock rebellious.” (The A.V. Club) The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas;…
a doomed lesbian biker gang; recovering alcoholics; and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life, yet all-too-human figures populating America’s fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures, theirs are the stories we too often try to forget. But in the process of excavating and documenting these queer lives, Michelle Tea also reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways. Delivered with her signature honesty and dark humor, this is the first-ever collection of journalistic writing by the author of How to Grow Up and Valencia. As she blurs the line between telling other people’s stories and her own, she turns an investigative eye to the genre that’s nurtured her entire career - memoir - and considers the price that art demands be paid from life. “Eclectic and wide-ranging... A palpable pain animates many of these essays, as well as a raucous joy and bright curiosity.” (The New York Times) “Queer counterculture beats loud and proud in Tea’s stellar collection.” (Publishers Weekly, starred) “The best essay collection I've read in years.” (The New Republic)Our stories, our voices: 21 YA authors get real about injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America
By Ellen Hopkins, Hannah Moskowitz, Stephanie Kuehnert, Amy Reed, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Martha Brockenbrough, Maurene Goo, Julie Murphy, Alexandra Duncan, Brandy Colbert, Aisha Saeed, Jaye Robin Brown, Sona Charaipotra, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, Nina LaCour, Christine Day, Anna-Marie McLemore, Ilene I. W. Gregorio, Somaiya Daud, Tracy Deonn. 2018
A collection of essays from twenty-one Young Adult authors exploring their experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in…
America. Includes an editor's note identifying a few essays that deal with sensitive subject matter. Strong language and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2018An anthology of the works of American expatriate author Paul Bowles (1910-1999). Includes The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950),…
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), Midnight Mass (1981), and more. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Some strong language. 2002