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Author
Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This is an age of change and disruption. Now is the time to channel the energy of disruption and bring about the change you want to see in the world. Whether you consider yourself a rebel, an activist, a protestor, or someone who simply sees injustice that they wish they could challenge--you have access to a power that you may not have considered: energy"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Simpatía is set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the intellectual class who have been leaving their pets behind. Ulises Kan, the protagonist and a movie buff, receives a text message from his wife, Paulina, saying she is leaving the country (and him). Ulises is not heartbroken but liberated by Paulina's departure. Two other events end up disrupting his life even further: the return of Nadine, an unrequited love from the past,...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Despite decades of anti-racism workshops and diversity policies in corporations, schools, and nonprofit organizations, racial conflict has only increased in recent years. “Are You Calling Me a Racist?” reveals why these efforts have failed to effectively challenge racism and offers a new way forward. Drawing from her own experience as an educator and activist, as well as extensive interviews and analyses of contemporary events, Sarita Srivastava...
Author
Series
Meet me on Mercer Street volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring artist Kacie spends most of her time on Mercer Street with her best friend Nisha, but one day Nisha and her family are gone, and Kacie struggles to understand the changes happening to her street and neighborhood, and what they mean for her life."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
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"It's 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames. He wakes the next day to find he's in a messy, derelict room he's never seen before, in grimy clothes he doesn't recognize, with no idea of how he got there. A glimpse...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Our mindset is the ultimate catalyst for change. Perhaps you're busy but still feel empty. Maybe things haven't turned out how you'd hoped, and life seems stale and unfulfilling. What if you could wake up every morning excited about your purpose, knowing you're fulfilling your greatest potential? The life you want is within your reach, and it starts in one place: your mind. Living with a mindset of false narratives will keep you stuck, locked in...
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice. The concept of solastalgia comes from the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht, who describes it as "the homesickness we feel...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a failed engagement and her mother's battle with cancer, Charlotte Carter's life is finally turning around now that she's landed a dream job teaching music. What she didn't see coming was the imminent closure of the school's music program. She's determined to save it, even if it means getting creative. There's no way she's chalking this up as just another failure in her book of recent embarrassments. Zach Bryant is back in town just long enough...
10) T. Singer
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1419
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
T Singer begins with thirty-four-year-old Singer graduating from library school and traveling by train from Oslo to the small town of Notodden, located in the mountainous Telemark region of Norway. There he plans to begin a deliberately anonymous life as a librarian. But Singer unexpectedly falls in love with the ceramicist Merete Saethre, who has a young daughter from a previous relationship. After a few years together, the couple is on the verge...
Author
Series
Franny Cloutier volume 2
Publisher
W1-Media, Inc./ Arctis Books USA
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this follow-up to The Year My Life Turned Upside Down, we follow 15-year-old Franny as she now has to have her life uprooted for the second time in a year, and this time she is moving to Japan to follow her father as he continues his research there. Far away from anything she knows, Franny deals with cultural differences as best as she can, with varying levels of success. She is able to find some respite when she befriends the super cute son of...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"For years, there has been no doubt that widespread consumption of meat is both environmentally destructive and morally dubious. A growing chorus of scientists, health experts, and activists champion the benefits of a plant-based diet. Nevertheless, change has been slow to arrive, and the chasm between our appetites and our collective well-being seems impossibly vast. We know we must transition to a more plant-based world. But what would such a world...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk―the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? In this major work, Fareed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can't help feeling something's missing. Is it a home to call her own? Travel? A more rewarding job? A relationship? Before she can work it out, she dies in a freak kebab-related accident after what she sees as yet another dud of a first date. But life isn't over for Frankie. Instead, she is miraculously offered a second chance: Frankie can revisit key moments from her...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Why is constant change bad for business? Because it's bad for human performance." For decades, "disruption" and "change" have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues that what has become a sacred dogma is both wrong and harmful. Whether it's a merger or re-org or a new office layout, change has become the ultimate easy button for leaders, who pursue it with...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In kindergarten, James Rhee received a toy red helicopter in gratitude for a simple act of generosity—sharing his lunch. Decades later, the lesson from that small gift led him to develop a human-centered framework for business and personal achievement that helped him overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles and find unprecedented success. Rhee was a high school teacher turned private equity investor when he unexpectedly took the helm of Ashley...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Many modern women experience a frustrating phenomenon: No matter how much we accomplish, the feeling of satisfaction we anticipated never actually comes. Raised in a society of gender-influenced expectations—be an amazing mom, be an extraordinary partner, be an incredible executive and execute on all these roles flawlessly—women have lost the one thing that can ever truly fulfill us: self-love. Acclaimed therapist and self-love spokesperson Kasey...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green- washing distract the public from the climate violence suffered by the vulnerable. This timely, interdisciplinary contribution to the environmental humanities draws on the latest climatology, the first shoots of an energy transition, critical theory, Earth’s paleoclimate history, and trends in border violence to answer the most pressing question...
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