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Unfriending My Ex: Confessions of a Social Media Addict

Kim Stolz · Scribner,
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

"In this candid and insightful new memoir, Kim Stolz discusses the trials and tribulations of our obsession with social media and mobile technology...a Tweet-worthy, share-worthy, Instagrammable look into our society and the lives we create online." - Harper's Bazaar An incisive,...
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What to Talk About: On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss

Chris Colin · Chronicle Books
Pages: 159
Format: Hardcover

Homo sapiens have been speaking for hundreds of years - and yet basic communication still stymies us. We freeze up in elevators, on dates, at parties, under Dumpsters. We stagger through our exchanges merely hoping not to crash, never considering that we might soar. We go home sweaty and eat a birthday...
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A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World

Daniel Goleman · Bantam
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. In A Force for Good, with the help of his longtime friend Daniel...
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Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems

Louise Glück · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poetLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event...
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What If?

Randall Munroe · Mariner Books
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language,...
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101 Two-Letter Words

Stephin Merritt · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A one-of-a-kind celebration of the 101 two-letter words allowed in Scrabble.Rolling Stone has called singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields the Cole Porter of his generation O, The Oprah Magazine has hailed cartoonist Roz Chast as the wryest pen since Dorothy Parkers....
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Gabriel: A Poem

Edward Hirsch · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award Never has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel in which a short life a bewildering death and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a sustained elegy This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirschrsquos heart to our own without...
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Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul

Mark Ribowsky · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A soul icon and the southern music he helped popularize come to life in this moving requiem.When he died in one of rock's string of tragic plane crashes, Otis Redding was only twenty-six, yet already the avatar of a new kind of soul music. The beating heart of Memphis-based Stax Records,...
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You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About

Dave Barry · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 240

A brilliantly funny exploration of the twin mysteries of parenthood and families from the Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author of Insane City. In his New York Times-bestselling I'll Mature When I'm Dead, Dave Barry embarked on the treacherous seas of adulthood,...
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The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

Harold Bloom · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHailed as "the indispensable critic" by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom - New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University - has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion...
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