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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover
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Looking at the headlines--a global pandemic, the worsening climate crisis, political upheaval--it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist and Douglas Abrams, internationally-bestselling... |
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
Format: Hardcover
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Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. As she dug into subject after subject, from the financial crisis to declining wages to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common problem at the bottom of them... |
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The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
John Green - Penguin Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audiobook
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The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered... |
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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In a display case in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley's Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love, passed down through generations. In 1850s... |
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Eyal Press - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view... |
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Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
Cal Flyn - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered... |
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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
Elon Green
Format: Hardcover
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"In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a compelling true crime story. Green has shed light on those... |
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: people around... |
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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One of Bookpage's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) , Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.What's to be done about... |
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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oprah Winfrey - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Through deeply personal conversation, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood influences the people we become. They challenge us to shift from focusing on, "What's wrong with you?" or "Why are you behaving that way?," to asking,... |
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Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Kelefa Sanneh - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities, shape-shifting across the years, giving us a way to track larger forces and controversies. In Major... |
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Things I Have Withheld
Kei Miller - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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By acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller's linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender In a deeply moving, critical and lyrical collection of interconnected... |
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Amanda Gorman - Viking Books
Format: Hardcover
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On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition. |
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however,... |
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