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Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales

Darren Chetty - Repeater
Format: Paperback

Some of the most exciting writers in and from Wales consider the future of Wales and the UK and their place in it.What does it mean to imagine Wales and 'The Welsh' as something both distinct and inclusive? In Welsh (Plural) , some of the foremost Welsh writers consider the future...
 
 
Back from the Deep: How Gene and Sandy Ralston Serve the Living by Finding the Dead

DOUG HORNER - Steerforth
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic story of an unlikely search and recovery duo who help law enforcement and grieving families with their uncanny knack for locating bodies underwater . A powerful debut for fans of deeply reported stories that follow real people with obsessional passions, and of authors like...
 
 
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity - for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity. This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made...
 
 
Medieval Fare: Food and Culture in Medieval Iberia

Martha M. Daas - Lexington Books
Format: Hardcover

Unique in its cultural and religious makeup, medieval Iberia represented a crossroads of cultures. This crossroads was reflected in large and small ways. On a grand scale, we see the convergence of intellectual ideas and great innovations in agriculture and science. On a more intimate level,...
 
 
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Jason De León - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed." - Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted and Poverty, by America. "An enlightening, frightening, unforgettable read."...
 
 
Beer and Racism: How Beer Became White, Why It Matters, and the Movements to Change It (Sociology of Diversity)

Nathaniel G Chapman - Bristol University Press
Format: Paperback

Beer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. Given the very quick rise of craft beer, as well as the myopic scholarly focus on economic and historical trends in the field, there is an urgent need to take...
 
 
How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

Lyn Slater - Plume
Format: Hardcover

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon,"brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental...
 
 
The Farmer's Office, Second Edition: Tools, Templates, and Skills for Starting, Managing, and Growing a Successful Farm Business

Julia Shanks - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback

The no-nonsense, practical guide for farm-preneurs to grow a successful farm business - completely revised and updatedYou launched your farm-business because you love working the land and producing food. Yet to succeed you also need to think like an entrepreneur. The Farmer's Office,...
 
 
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

Jessica J. Lee - Catapult
Format: Hardcover

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future. A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture...
 
 
A Trauma-Informed Framework for Supporting Patrons: The PLA Workbook of Best Practices

The Public Library Association Social Worker Task Force - ‎ALA Editions; Workbook edition
Format: Workbook Edition

Whether it's navigating a crisis or witnessing a community member struggling with tough times, coming face to face with trauma and adversity can be uncomfortable. But in striving to learn more about challenging behaviors, and how we can better interact with library patrons and our coworkers,...