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Moonglow
By Chabon, Michael
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWall Street Journal's Best Novel of the YearA New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Best Book of the Year * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year * A Slate Best Book of the Year * A Christian Monitor Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year * A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year * A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year * A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year"This book is beautiful." - A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover reviewFollowing on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother's home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon's grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator's grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York's Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the "American Century," the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.
Harpercollins
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9780062225559
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Print book
The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
By Karsh, Ellen
Written by two expert authors who have won millions of dollars in government and foundation grants - and revised to include vital up-to-the minute interviews with grantmakers, policy makers, and nonprofit leaders about seeking grants in today's economic climate - this new edition of the classic book on grant seeking provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for grant writers.INCLUDING:* CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPING EACH SECTION OF A PROPOSAL* HANDS-ON EXERCISES THAT LET YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU LEARN * A GLOSSARY OF TERMS* FUNDERS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS THAT EXPLAIN WHY THEY AWARD GRANTS ... AND WHY THEY DON'T* ROUNDTABLE ON GRANTSMANSHIP AND THE ECONOMYThe Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need demystifies the process and reveals indispensable advice, continuing to be essential reading for grant seekers everywhere.
Basic Books a Member of Perseus Books Group
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9780465058938
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Paperback
Home from the Storm
By Blount, Laurel
In this stirring Amish romance about love and second chances, a shunned man returns to protect the wife he left behind - and falls in love with the family he never knew he had.. After a senseless loss, hotheaded Caleb Hochstedler left his Amish faith and his young wife to seek justice. Two years later, he tracks his parents' killer back home to Johns Mill, where he's astonished to learn he's the father of twins. Now he's determined to protect his children and the woman he still loves - if she'll let him.. Her new husband's abandonment broke Rhoda Lambright's heart and proved her father, the bishop, right. Such a stubborn man could never be happy among the peaceful Amish. When Caleb unexpectedly returns, Rhoda is caught between her rock of a husband and a very hard place.
Berkley
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9780593200261
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Mass Market Paperback
If You Feel Too Much
By Tworkowski, Jamie
The New York Times BestsellerIn 2006 Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story called "To Write Love on Her Arms" about helping a friend through her struggle with drug addiction, depression, and self-injury. The piece was so hauntingly beautiful that it quickly went viral, giving birth to a non-profit organization of the same name. Nine years later, To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) is an internationally-recognized leader in suicide prevention and a source of hope, encouragement, and resources for people worldwide. Jamie's words have been shared hundreds of thousands of times online. They've shown up on T-shirts and posters and even tattoos. Now, for the first time, Jamie's writing is available in the form of a book. If You Feel Too Much is a celebration of hope, wonder, and what it means to be human.
The third installment in the mesmerizing series from the irrepressible, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost. Friends can betray. Mothers can disappear. Visions can mislead. Certainties can unravel. In a starred review, THE BULLETIN called THE DREAM THIEVES, the previous book in The Raven Cycle, "a complex web of magical intrigue and heart-stopping action." Now, with BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE, the web becomes even more complex, snaring readers at every turn.
Scholastic (Us)
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9780545424967
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Hardcover
NOW That's What I Call Music, Vol. 59
By Various,
NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 59 features 16 major current hits from today's hottest artists, including Justin Timberlake, The Chainsmokers, Sia, Meghan Trainor, Fifth Harmony, Ariana Grande, Nick Jonas, Desiigner, Kent Jones, Mike Posner, Gracy, Selena Gomez, Zara Larsson, P!nk, Maren Morris, Lukas Graham, plus six free up-and-coming 'NOW What's Next' New Music Preview tracks. Each numeric NOW release features 'NOW What's Next' bonus tracks, previewing tomorrow's biggest hits. NOW 59 showcases hot new tracks from Alx Veliz, Sigala, Alunageorge, Daniel Skye, Kaya Stewart and Trap Beckham.
Publisher: n/a
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889853525423
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Audio CD
Red Notice
By Browder, Bill
A New York Times bestseller: “[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar’s Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder’s business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate for any list of the year’s best books” (Fortune).This is a story about an accidental activist. Bill Browder started out his adult life as the Wall Street maverick whose instincts led him to Russia just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, where he made his fortune. Along the way he exposed corruption, and when he did, he barely escaped with his life.
Simon & Schuster
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9781476755748
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Hardcover
Girl in a Band
By Gordon, Kim
Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her storya memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smiths Just Kids.Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band. Telling the story of her family, growing up in California in the 60s and 70s, her life in visual art, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship with her daughter, her music, and her band, Girl in a Band is a rich and beautifully written memoir.Gordon takes us back to the lost New York of the 1980s and 90s that gave rise to Sonic Youth, and the Alternative revolution in popular music.
Dey Street Books
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9780062295903
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Print book
The Empathy Exams
By Jamison, Leslie
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain--real and imagined, her own and others'--Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory--from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration--in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.
Moonglow
By Chabon, Michael
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWall Street Journal's Best Novel of the YearA New York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Best Book of the Year * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year * A Slate Best Book of the Year * A Christian Monitor Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year * A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year * A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year * A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year"This book is beautiful." - A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover reviewFollowing on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother's home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon's grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact - and the creative power - of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator's grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York's Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the "American Century," the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.
The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
By Karsh, Ellen
Written by two expert authors who have won millions of dollars in government and foundation grants - and revised to include vital up-to-the minute interviews with grantmakers, policy makers, and nonprofit leaders about seeking grants in today's economic climate - this new edition of the classic book on grant seeking provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for grant writers.INCLUDING:* CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPING EACH SECTION OF A PROPOSAL* HANDS-ON EXERCISES THAT LET YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU LEARN * A GLOSSARY OF TERMS* FUNDERS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS THAT EXPLAIN WHY THEY AWARD GRANTS ... AND WHY THEY DON'T* ROUNDTABLE ON GRANTSMANSHIP AND THE ECONOMYThe Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need demystifies the process and reveals indispensable advice, continuing to be essential reading for grant seekers everywhere.
Home from the Storm
By Blount, Laurel
In this stirring Amish romance about love and second chances, a shunned man returns to protect the wife he left behind - and falls in love with the family he never knew he had.. After a senseless loss, hotheaded Caleb Hochstedler left his Amish faith and his young wife to seek justice. Two years later, he tracks his parents' killer back home to Johns Mill, where he's astonished to learn he's the father of twins. Now he's determined to protect his children and the woman he still loves - if she'll let him.. Her new husband's abandonment broke Rhoda Lambright's heart and proved her father, the bishop, right. Such a stubborn man could never be happy among the peaceful Amish. When Caleb unexpectedly returns, Rhoda is caught between her rock of a husband and a very hard place.
If You Feel Too Much
By Tworkowski, Jamie
The New York Times BestsellerIn 2006 Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story called "To Write Love on Her Arms" about helping a friend through her struggle with drug addiction, depression, and self-injury. The piece was so hauntingly beautiful that it quickly went viral, giving birth to a non-profit organization of the same name. Nine years later, To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) is an internationally-recognized leader in suicide prevention and a source of hope, encouragement, and resources for people worldwide. Jamie's words have been shared hundreds of thousands of times online. They've shown up on T-shirts and posters and even tattoos. Now, for the first time, Jamie's writing is available in the form of a book. If You Feel Too Much is a celebration of hope, wonder, and what it means to be human.
Rock Bottom
By Michaels, Fern
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels continues her long-running and acclaimed Sisterhood series, in which a group of very different women forge a bond to help them right wrongs - especially when the victims are other women. Rock Bottom brings together some of her readers' favorite characters in an adventure-packed story that will satisfy every Fern fan. . Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project - an indoor/outdoor café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But the Zoe that Izzy reencounters doesn't seem like her old, confident friend. This Zoe is tense and stressed, and Izzy eventually learns why.
The Raven Cycle #3
By Stiefvater, Maggie
The third installment in the mesmerizing series from the irrepressible, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost. Friends can betray. Mothers can disappear. Visions can mislead. Certainties can unravel. In a starred review, THE BULLETIN called THE DREAM THIEVES, the previous book in The Raven Cycle, "a complex web of magical intrigue and heart-stopping action." Now, with BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE, the web becomes even more complex, snaring readers at every turn.
NOW That's What I Call Music, Vol. 59
By Various,
NOW That's What I Call Music! Vol. 59 features 16 major current hits from today's hottest artists, including Justin Timberlake, The Chainsmokers, Sia, Meghan Trainor, Fifth Harmony, Ariana Grande, Nick Jonas, Desiigner, Kent Jones, Mike Posner, Gracy, Selena Gomez, Zara Larsson, P!nk, Maren Morris, Lukas Graham, plus six free up-and-coming 'NOW What's Next' New Music Preview tracks. Each numeric NOW release features 'NOW What's Next' bonus tracks, previewing tomorrow's biggest hits. NOW 59 showcases hot new tracks from Alx Veliz, Sigala, Alunageorge, Daniel Skye, Kaya Stewart and Trap Beckham.
Red Notice
By Browder, Bill
A New York Times bestseller: “[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar’s Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder’s business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate for any list of the year’s best books” (Fortune).This is a story about an accidental activist. Bill Browder started out his adult life as the Wall Street maverick whose instincts led him to Russia just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, where he made his fortune. Along the way he exposed corruption, and when he did, he barely escaped with his life.
Girl in a Band
By Gordon, Kim
Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her storya memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of Patti Smiths Just Kids.Often described as aloof, Kim Gordon opens up as never before in Girl in a Band. Telling the story of her family, growing up in California in the 60s and 70s, her life in visual art, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship with her daughter, her music, and her band, Girl in a Band is a rich and beautifully written memoir.Gordon takes us back to the lost New York of the 1980s and 90s that gave rise to Sonic Youth, and the Alternative revolution in popular music.
The Empathy Exams
By Jamison, Leslie
From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain--real and imagined, her own and others'--Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory--from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration--in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.