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The Man with the Silver SAAB: A Detective Varg Novel (3)  By Smith, Alexander McCall 2021-07 - Pantheon Books 9780593316108 Check Our Catalog 3rd book in Detective Varg series In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the department of sensitive crimes are on the case. Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refined tastes and quite familiar with the art scene in Malm?. So when art historian Anders Kindgren visits the Department of Sensitive Crimes to report a series of …More

Site Fidelity: Stories  By Boyles, Claire 2021-06 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393531824 Check Our Catalog Firmly rooted in the modern American West, Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequity and climate catastrophe. A seventy-four-year-old nun turns to eco-sabotage to stop a fracking project. A woman delivers her own baby in a Nevada ghost town. A young farmer hides her …More

Count the Ways  By Maynard, Joyce 2021-07 - William Morrow & Company 9780062398277 Check Our Catalog In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of her most acclaimed work in a mesmerizing story of a family--from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce, and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives Eleanor and Cam meet at a crafts fair in …More

It's Better This Way  By Macomber, Debbie 2021-07 - Ballantine Books 9781984818782 Check Our Catalog After her marriage ends, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning but is the past truly behind her? #1 New York Timesbestselling author Debbie Macomber explores the powerful intersections of love and family in this poignant novel. It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another …More

The Cover Wife  By Fesperman, Dan 2021-07 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780525657835 Check Our Catalog From the award-winning author of Safe Houses--an electrifying new novel about a CIA agent and a young expat who find themselves caught up in a dangerous world, whose secrets, if revealed, could have disastrous repercussions for them both. When CIA agent Claire Saylor is told that she'll be going undercover in Hamburg to pose as the wife of an academic who has published a …More

All Our Shimmering Skies  By Dalton, Trent 2021-07 - Harper 9780063092754 Check Our Catalog From the internationally bestselling and beloved author of the critically acclaimed Boy Swallows Universe, a mesmerizing, uplifting novel of adventure and unlikely friendships in World War II Australia--calling to mind The Wizard of Oz as directed by Baz Luhrmann. Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her …More

The Hollywood Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery  By MacNeal, Susan Elia 2021-07 - Bantam 9780593156926 Check Our Catalog Maggie Hope is off to California to solve a crime that hits too close to home--and confront the very evil she thought she had left behind in Europe--as theacclaimed World War II mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal continues. "A swift, vibrant novel that peels back the asbestos curtain on the complex history of Los Angeles, home to …More

Silence in the Library: A Lily Adler Mystery  By Schellman, Katharine 2021-07 - Crooked Lane Books 9781643857046 Check Our Catalog Regency widow Lily Adler didn't expect to find a corpse when visiting a family friend. Now it's up to her to discover the killer in the charming second installment in the Lily Adler mysteries. Regency widow Lily Adler has finally settled into her new London life when her semi-estranged father arrives unexpectedly, intending to stay with her while he recovers from an illness. …More

The Final Girl Support Group  By Hendrix, Grady 2021-07 - Berkley Books 9780593201237 Check Our Catalog "The horror master...puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes."-USA Today A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle, Popsugar and the New York Public Library In horror movies, the final …More

An Irish Hostage  By Todd, Charles 2021-07 - William Morrow & Company 9780062859853 Check Our Catalog 12th book in Bess Crawford series "[Readers] are bound to be caught up in the adventures of Bess Crawford . . . While her sensibility is as crisp as her narrative voice, Bess is a compassionate nurse who responds with feeling."-- The New York Times Book Review In the uneasy peace following World War I, nurse Bess Crawford runs into trouble and treachery in Ireland--in this twelfth book in …More

Night Came with Many Stars  By Van Booy, Simon 2021-06 - David R. Godine Publisher 9781567927030 Check Our Catalog "It is a heartbreaking book, a gorgeous book...In Night Came with Many Stars, Van Booy finds the weakness, grace and beauty of common lives fully lived." --NPR "Not to miss!" --USA Today In Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel …More

While We Were Dating  By Guillory, Jasmine 2021-07 - Berkley Books 9780593100844 Check Our Catalog Two people realize that it's no longer an act when they veer off-script in this sizzling romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory. Ben Stephens has never bothered with serious relationships. He has plenty of casual dates to keep him busy, family drama he's trying to ignore and his advertising job to focus on. When Ben lands a huge ad campaign …More

The Cellist: A Novel  By Silva, Daniel 2021-07 - Harper 9780062834867 Check Our Catalog 21st book in Gabriel Allon series From Daniel Silva, the internationally acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author, comes a timely and explosive new thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon. Viktor Orlov had a longstanding appointment with death. Once Russia's richest man, he now resides in splendid exile in London, where he has waged a tireless crusade against the …More

Lesson in Red  By Hummel, Maria 2021-06 - Counterpoint LLC 9781640094314 Check Our Catalog A companion to Still Lives--a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection--this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art world and reveals the fatal mistakes that can befall those who threaten its status quo. Brenae Brasil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and her path to art world celebrity …More

Bath Haus: A Thriller  By Vernon, P. J. 2021-06 - Doubleday Books 9780385546737 Check Our Catalog "Stylish, smart, and scary as hell." --Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Timesbestselling author A nightmarish white-knuckler. --O, The Oprah Magazine Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate …More

Home Stretch  By Norton, Graham 2021-06 - Harpervia 9780063112094 Check Our Catalog In this "compelling, bighearted, emotionally precise page-turner" (Sunday Times), the New York Times bestselling writer and acclaimed television host explores the aftermath of a tragedy on a small-town to illuminate the shame and longing that can flow through generations--and how the secrets of the heart cannot stay be buried forever. It is 1987 and …More

The Godmothers  By Aubray, Camille 2021-06 - William Morrow & Company 9780062983695 Check Our Catalog Named a Most Anticipated Novel of the Summer by Newsweek, Buzzfeed, andVeranda "A fascinating, fast-paced trip into the Mob underworld."--People magazine Aubray marries history, suspense and womanhood in a story perfect for devouring."--Newsweek An irresistible novel about four women who …More

A Dark Queen Rises  By Banker, Ashok K. 2021-04 - Mariner Books 9781328916297 Check Our Catalog 2nd book in Burnt empire saga Returning to Ashok K. Banker's brilliant epic fantasy world of the Burnt Empire, ADark Queen Rises features Aqreen and Krushita, a mother and daughter on a quest to protect the innocent and bring down tyrants. Queen Aqreen of Aquila leaves her husband Jarsun and flees across the Red Desert. She is determined to keep her daughter from being used by Jarsun to stake his …More

The 22 Murders of Madison May  By Barry, Max 2021-07 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780593085202 Check Our Catalog From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality. I love you. In every world. Young real estate agent Madison May is shocked when a …More

Someone to Cherish  By Balogh, Mary 2021-06 - Berkley Books 9780593201213 Check Our Catalog 9th book in Westcott family series Is love worth the loss of one's freedom and independence? This is what Mrs. Tavernor must decide in the new novel in the Westcott series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. When Harry Westcott lost the title Earl of Riverdale after the discovery of his father's bigamy, he shipped off to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, where he was near-fatally wounded. After a …More

The Secret Bridesmaid  By Birchall, Katy 2021-05 - St. Martin's Griffin 9781250817747 Check Our Catalog A pure delight. --Bookpage, starred review Charming, escapist fun. --Katharine McGee, New York Times bestselling author of American Royals Matrimony meets mayhem in a modern British romcom about a young woman charged with pulling off the biggest aristocratic wedding of the year--and the misadventures that ensue. Sophie Breeze is a brilliant …More

The Woman in the Purple Skirt  By Imamura, Natsuko Translator North, Lucy 2021-06 - Penguin Books 9780143136026 Check Our Catalog "A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession." --Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train "[It] will keep you firmly in its grip." --Oyinkan Braithwaite, bestselling author ofMy Sister, the Serial Killer "The love child of Eugene Ionesco and Patricia Highsmith." --Kelly Link, bestselling author of …More

The Great Mistake  By Lee, Jonathan 2021-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780525658498 Check Our Catalog An exultant novel of New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, about one man's rise to fame and fortune, and his mysterious murder--"riveting, immersive...an unparalleled feat of elegance and craftsmanship" (Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter). Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more …More

What You Can See from Here  By Leky, Mariana Translator Lewis, Tess 2021-06 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9780374288822 Check Our Catalog In this international bestseller by the award-winning novelist Mariana Leky, a heartwarming story unfolds about a small town, a grandmother whose dreams foretell a coming death, and the young woman forever changed by these losses and her loving, endearingly oddball community On a beautiful spring day, a small village wakes up to an omen: Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is …More

A Lady in Attendance  By Fordham, Rachel 2021-06 - Fleming H. Revell Company 9780800739737 Check Our Catalog Five years in a New York state reformatory have left a blemish on Hazel's real name. So when she takes a job as Doctor Gilbert Watts's lady in attendance in 1898, she does so under an alias. In the presence of her quiet and pious employer, Hazel finds more than an income. She finds a friend and a hope that if she can set her tarnished past in order, she might have a future after all. As …More

The Seeds of Change  By Snelling, Lauraine 2021-06 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764235696 Check Our Catalog Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on, and her older brother is successfully running the family business. She bristles at the small-mindedness that permeates life in her small Ohio community, and she sees little chance of a satisfying future there. She has a little money saved, and after turning the tables on a crooked gambler who had fleeced several locals, including …More

Last Summer at the Golden Hotel  By Friedland, Elyssa 2021-05 - Berkley Books 9780593199725 Check Our Catalog A Good Morning America Buzz Pick A Can't-Miss Beach Read For Summer 2021 from The Skimm A Best Beach Read of 2021 from Bustle A Best Summer Read of 2021 from PopSugar A family reunion for the ages when two clans convene for the summer at their beloved getaway in the Catskills--perfect for fans of Dirty Dancing and The Marvelous Mrs. …More

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels  By Holton, India 2021-06 - Berkley Books 9780593200162 Check Our Catalog "The kind of book for which the word "rollicking" was invented."--New York Times Book Review One of Bustle's Best New Books Out June 2021 A Popsugar Best Summer Read of 2021 A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance. Cecilia …More

The Summer Job  By Dent, Lizzy 2021-05 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780593328118 Check Our Catalog "My perfect summer read! Sure to be one of the sweetest, funniest, and sexiest books of the year." --Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author ofPeople We Meet on Vacation Named a Best Beach Read by Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, Bustle, Country Living, Parade, Fortune, and …More

Star Eater  By Hall, Kerstin 2021-06 - Tordotcom 9781250625311 Check Our Catalog From Nommo Award finalist Kerstin Hall comes "a layered and incisive examination of power."--Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author ofWilder Girls All martyrdoms are difficult. Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way or another, it will kill her. Though she's able to stomach her gruesome day-to-day duties, …More

The Promise  By Galgut, Damon 2021-04 - Europa Editions 9781609456580 Check Our Catalog A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly …More

The Next Wife  By Rouda, Kaira 2021-05 - Thomas & Mercer 9781542025942 Check Our Catalog There is no limit to the lies, suspicion, and secrets that can poison the perfect marriage in this twisting novel of suspense by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda. Kate Nelson had it all. A flourishing company founded with her husband, John; a happy marriage; and a daughter, Ashlyn. The picture-perfect family. Until John left for another woman. Tish is half his age. …More

Daughters of Sparta  By Heywood, Claire 2021-06 - Dutton Books 9780593184370 Check Our Catalog For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships--but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra. As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury …More

The Apocalypse Seven  By Doucette, Gene 2021-05 - Mariner Books 9780358418948 Check Our Catalog Scott Sigler called Doucette's cozy apocalypse story, "entertaining as hell." Come see how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whatever... The whateverpocalypse. That's what Tour?, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard …More

The Break-Up Book Club  By Wax, Wendy 2021-05 - Berkley Books 9780440001454 Check Our Catalog Named one of 2021's Best Beach Reads by Bustle ? Country Living ?Cosmopolitan ? Augusta Chronicle ? E! Online ? PureWow ? SheReads ? and more! Breakups, like book clubs, come in many shapes and sizes and can take us on unexpected journeys as four women discover in this funny and heartwarming exploration of …More

Classical Indian Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 5  By Adamson, Peter Author Ganeri, Jonardon 2020-06 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780198851769 Check Our Catalog Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India. They begin with the earliest extant literature, the Vedas, and the explanatory works that these inspired, known as Upani?ads. They also discuss other famous texts of classical Vedic culture, especially the …More

The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos  By Ahmari, Sohrab 2021-05 - Convergent Books 9780593137178 Check Our Catalog We've pursued and achieved the modern dream of defining ourselves--but at what cost? The New York Post op-ed editor makes a compelling case for seeking the inherited traditions and ideals that give our lives meaning. "Ahmari's tour de force makes tradition astonishingly vivid and relevant for the here and now."--Rod Dreher, bestselling author of Live Not by Lies and The …More

Everybody: A Book about Freedom  By Laing, Olivia 2021-05 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393608779 Check Our Catalog The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her …More

The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840  By Amar, Akhil Reed 2021-05 - Basic Books 9780465096350 Check Our Catalog A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with …More

Nightmare Scenario  By Abutaleb, Yasmeen Author Paletta, Damian 2021-06 - Harper 9780063066052 Check Our Catalog From the Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta--the definitive account of the Trump administration's tragic mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the chaos, incompetence, and craven politicization that has led to more than a half million American deaths and counting. Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics warned that …More

Recovery After Rehab: A Guide for the Newly Sober and Their Loved Ones  By Nowinski, Joseph 2021-07 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 9781538142523 Check Our Catalog A practical guide that picks up where "rehab" leaves off, and where the real work of recovery from substance abuse begins. Many of those who suffer the consequences of substance (along with their loved ones) may find relief when the substance abuser agrees to enter rehab or treatment. Too many, however, have also known the pain and disappointment that comes later, with relapse. This book provides …More

Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner  By Hauck, Liz 2021-06 - Dial Press 9780525512431 Check Our Catalog A tender and vivid memoir about the radical grace we discover when we consider ourselves bound together in community, and a moving account of one woman's attempt to answer the essential question Who are we to one another? "Liz Hauck reveals fascinating, sobering, and urgent truths about boyhood, inequality, and the power and promise of community."--Piper …More

The Gut-Immune Connection: How Understanding Why We're Sick Can Help Us Regain Our Health  By Mayer, Emeran 2021-06 - Harper Wave 9780063014787 Check Our Catalog From one of today's leading experts on the emerging science of the microbiome comes a ground-breaking book that offers, for the first time, evidence that the gut-microbiome plays a pivotal role in the health crises of the twenty-first century. In his acclaimed book, The Mind-Gut Connection, physician, UCLA professor, and researcher Dr. Emeran Mayer offered …More

The Little Book of Lymph  By Gainsley, Lisa Levitt 2021-05 - Harper Wave 9780063049130 Check Our Catalog A first-of-its-kind guide that outlines and explains the health-promoting properties of lymphatic massage, featuring beautifully illustrated, five-minute self-massage sequences anyone can do at home. Thanks to the astonishing results it provides--glowing skin, a flatter stomach, enhanced immunity, and full-body detox--the practice of manually stimulating the …More

What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You  By Corinna, Heather 2021-06 - Hachette Go 9780306874765 Check Our Catalog What to Expect When You're Not Expected to Expect Anything Anymore Did you see the title and flame-filled cover of this book, and did your weary, sweaty, confused, and exasperated soul scream, That one That is the book for me ? If so, I'd first like to extend my deepest sympathies, an ice pack, and some of these very helpful edibles. If it's three in the morning as you're …More

NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide: Create, Launch, and Grow a Podcast That People Listen To--On Any Budget  By Weldon, Glen 2021-06 - Ten Speed Press 9780593139080 Check Our Catalog From NPR comes the definitive guide to podcasting--featuring step-by-step advice on how to find a unique topic, tell the best stories, and engage the most listeners, as well as the secrets that will take your pod to the next level. Whoever you are, whatever you love, there's a podcast audience waiting for you, and in today's booming audio storytelling landscape, it's never been easier …More

How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island  By Bjarnason, Egill 2021-05 - Penguin Books 9780143135883 Check Our Catalog [A] joyously peculiar book. -- The New York Times The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries. The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North Atlantic. Suddenly, the island was no longer just a layover for the Arctic …More

An Atlas of Extinct Countries  By Defoe, Gideon 2021-06 - Europa Compass 9781609456801 Check Our Catalog Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated--and timely--history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. "Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close." Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by …More

Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America  By Borchert, Scott 2021-06 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9780374298456 Check Our Catalog A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the midst of the Great Depression--and employed some of the biggest names in American letters The plan was as idealistic as it was audacious--and utterly unprecedented. Take thousands of hard-up writers …More

Hearing Homer's Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry  By Kanigel, Robert 2021-04 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780525520948 Check Our Catalog From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland …More

Nolo's Patents for Beginners: Quick & Legal  By Pressman, David Author Stim, Richard 2021-06 - NOLO 9781413328684 Check Our Catalog A brilliantly clear and up-to-date patent guide This bestselling primer is packed with everything inventors need to know about patent law basics, including current patent regulations, filing rules, and caselaw resulting from the America Invents Act, the most important change to American patent law in two centuries. Nolo's Patents for Beginners helps inventors: …More

The Arabesque Table: Contemporary Recipes from the Arab World  By Kassis, Reem 2021-04 - Phaidon Press 9781838662516 Check Our Catalog The Arabesque Table is full to the brim with dishes which are rooted in tradition and at the same time creatively (and deliciously!) transcend it. It is wonderful! --Yotam Ottolenghi A dazzling set of recipes from Reem Kassis --Nigel Slater Reem Kassis's cookbooks tell of her Palestinian family, while giving a modern twist to such dishes as fatteh, lentil …More

Silver Jewellery Making: A Complete Step-By-Step Course for Beginners  By de Waard, Machi Author Richardson, Janet 2021-03 - Search Press 9781782217350 Check Our Catalog ...one of the most comprehensive beginner's guides to jewelry silversmithing available. BOOKLIST 2/1/21 Silver Jewellery Making is a practical beginners' guide to making silver jewelry, with step-by-step projects guiding the reader through seven projects. The projects are designed to help the reader gain skills and techniques and eventually progress to making their own designs. The …More

Leaving Breezy Street: A Memoir  By Myers-Powell, Brenda Author Reynolds, April 2021-06 - Henry Holt & Company 9780374151690 Check Our Catalog Told in an inimitable voice, Leaving Breezy Street is the stunning account of Brenda Myers-Powell's brutal and beautiful life. "Careful--don't think prostitution is just about money. It's never just the money. It's about slipping in at all the wrong places. Getting into dangerous situations and getting out of them. That's exciting. That's what you want. But you want …More

The Sunset Route  By Quinn, Carrot 2021-07 - Dial Press 9780593133286 Check Our Catalog The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train--a beautiful memoir about forgiveness, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of nature, perfect for fans of Wild or Educated. "An urgent read. A courageous life. Quinn's story burns through us and bleeds beauty on every …More

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography  By Lorde, Audre 1982-01 - Crossing Press 9780895941220 Check Our Catalog "ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page."--"Off Our Backs" …More

Philosophy in the Islamic World: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 3  By Adamson, Peter 2016-10 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780199577491 Check Our Catalog The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by providing full coverage of Jewish and Christian thinkers as well as Muslims, and by taking the story of philosophy from its beginnings …More

Albrecht Durer  By Wolf, Norbert 2017-04 - Prestel Publishing 9783791383453 Check Our Catalog Now available in a new edition, this lavishly illustrated volume draws on the latest research to present an exciting new interpretation of Albrecht Du?rer, both as a man and as an artist. Albrecht Du?rer's prints and drawings have inspired hundreds of artists, both during his life and after his death. Yet his talent as a painter and colorist, and his enthusiasm for the scientific world …More