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Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Newspaper, magazine, and web editors are desperate for new voices, and anyone, in any field, can break in...Over the last two decades, writing professor Susan Shapiro has taught more than 25,000 students of all ages and backgrounds at NYU, Columbia, Temple, the New School, and Harvard University. Now in the BYLINE BIBLE she reveals the wildly popular 'Instant Gratification Takes Too Long" technique she's perfected, sharing how to land impressive...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Christian Wiman, a thinker "at the very source of theology" (Marilynne Robinson), braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work"--
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 2005, a group of construction workers in Jerusalem made an incredible discovery. Underneath the parking lot they were digging up lay an ancient city that was built in the tenth century! Three years later, gold coins from an even earlier century were found at the site. The city of Jerusalem is like a layer cake of history--more than five thousand years of complicated history--all of which author Ellen Morgan explains clearly and objectively in...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
66) Microwaves
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble, a Capstone Imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Microwaves heat our food. They carry messages from phone to phone. They help detect the weather. Microwaves are all around us, even if we don't see them. With engaging, at-level text and colorful images, readers will learn about microwaves and how we use them every day"--
67) I am gravity
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Explore the amazing feats of gravity! Told in lyrical, riddling first-person narrative, Gravity boasts of its essential role in life as we know it. Back matter about the science of gravity and major historical discoveries enhances the book for STEM learning"--
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation point. It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier whose flamboyantly dramatic gesture lets the reader know: here be feelings! Scott Fitzgerald famously stated exclamation points are like laughing at your own joke; Terry Pratchett had a Discworld character say that multiple !!! are a 'sure sign of a diseased mind'. So what's the deal with ! ? AN ADMIRABLE POINT recuperates...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"[A] deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons--a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in a dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Writer and adventurer Craig Childs delves into the primacy of our starkest landscapes and the profound nature of the more-than-human."-- Back cover.
71) Sandfuture
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A work of literary non-fiction about the life of architect Minoru Yamasaki (architect of the Twin Towers), but also a parallel narrative about an artist (the author) interrogating art and architecture's role in culture in NYC"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Dude, I am Ocean. You know my many names: Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, Southern. It's all excellent me. My salt water flows across the planet as one. I have no flag. No nationality. My waves are for all. Life on Earth began in my epic waters I keep the global climate just right. And I have rad secrets. But I'm facing a major wipeout! Only by working together can we get back in the zone. It's you and me, dudes."--publisher
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock, or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events - for example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts lakes which contain liquid methane surrounded by soaring hills and valleys, exactly as the earth did before life evolved on our fragile planet? Or...
Author
Publisher
Big Picture Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Art is everywhere. It's in our galleries, on our streets and even in our homes. Under the playful guidance of Keith, a world-renowned art historian (who also happens to be an ostrich), this book encourages young readers to use the basic tools of visual analysis when studying art, giving them the eyes to see art outside of the restrictions of a gallery. This book aims to show that art isn't always about classical paintings and knowing the right answers....
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? Despite our constant search for new ways to "hack" our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 33
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Greenland where they discover they've traveled back in time to meet Lief Erikson"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this wryly humorous and innovative look at a marriage gone wrong, Hannah Pittard recalls a decade's worth of unforgettable conversations, beginning with the one in which she discovers her husband has been having sex with her charismatic best friend, Trish. These time-jumping exchanges are fast-paced, intimate, and often jaw-dropping in their willingness to reveal the vulnerabilities inherent in any friendship or marriage. Blending fact and fiction,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Dive into the facts behind the most well-known footage of the cryptid and learn about actual scientific studies conducted to learn whether or not Bigfoot actually exists. Filled with accounts of over a century of potential sightings, this book will have every reader looking for footprints on their next hike. Bigfoot has been the star subject of movies, TV shows, books, and more . . . but is he really out there?"--
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