Welcome to the world of pre-loaded Kindles for loan! WHAT HAVE WE PURCHASED FOR OUR KINDLES? ACCESS THE LISTS BY CLICKING THE HYPERLINKS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. But a few facts first. Not all of our Kindles have all of the books we have purchased, as Amazon has limited how many Kindles can…
The Fifth Season
When her husband murders their son and abducts their daughter, grief-stricken and vengeful Essun pursues him across The Stillness, a vast and dynamic super-continent on the brink of catastrophe that will usher in a “fifth season,” a time of uncertainty and hardship. But Essun is as formidable as the land she traverses — she’s an…
We Had No Rules
Spanning the years 1992 to 2019, the eleven first-person stories in Corinne Manning’s We Had No Rules feature characters who feel the promise of a radically reimagined world but face complicity instead.
L’art de la Liste
L’art de la Liste: Simplify, organise and enrich your life by Dominique Loreau The humble list has the power to change your life. In its immediacy, its simplicity and its concise, contained form, the list enables us to organise, to save time and to approach facts with clarity. Yet why do we end…
My Grandmother’s Hands
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze. My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body. Author Resmaa Menakem…
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
“Laymon’s memoir recounts growing up in a ferociously intellectual household — the only child of a single mother — as a black boy who struggles with weight. It is about the jagged, uneven road to becoming a writer and a man; it is a chronicle of daily confrontations with the twin assaults of American racism…
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
“With “How to Change Your Mind,” Pollan remains concerned with what we put into our bodies, but we’re not talking about arugula. At various points, our author ingests LSD, psilocybin and the crystallized venom of a Sonoran Desert toad. He writes, often remarkably, about what he experienced under the influence of these drugs …”
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival Melissa Fleming Recounts the experiences of Syrian refugee Doaa Zamel. She was cast adrift after her overcrowded ship sank, in an account that details what their experiences reveal about an ongoing international crisis.
Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You by Patricia Evans
Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You Patricia Evans From small-scale incidents to large-scale issues, the author of the bestselling “The Verbally Abusive Relationship” explains the damaging nature of control and offers insight and advice those want to break the cycle.
Baby Teeth: A Novel by Zoje Stage
Baby Teeth: A Novel Zoje Stage Afflicted with a chronic debilitating condition, Suzette Jensen knew having children would wreak havoc on her already fragile body. Nevertheless, she brought Hanna into the world, pleased and proud to start a family with her husband Alex … But Hanna proves to be a difficult child. Now seven…
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager–obsessed with music, food, and girls–but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a…
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity Esther Perel Iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity. An affair: it can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet, this extremely common human experience is so…
It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again by Julia Cameron
It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond Julia Cameron Julia Cameron has inspired millions with her bestseller on creativity, The Artist’s Way. In It’s Never Too Late To Begin Again, she turns her eye to a segment of the population that, ironically, while they have more time to…
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