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Author: Tom Rasmussen
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'Bitingly funny, infectiously inquisitive and ferociously sharp. Adored!' ATTITUDE 'A fascinating interrogation' GRAZIA 'An incisive, witty and moving look at marriage - as an achievement, a compromise, a selling-out, a practical solution' REFINERY29 It was one thing to get married when your parents, your neighbours, your community insisted on it,...
View BookGreater Than the Sum of Our Parts
Author: Richard C. Schwartz
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Explore Your Multifaceted Mind—an Invitation to Personal Healing and Spiritual AwakeningInside each of us, there are many distinct selves. "Though we've been raised to believe that healthy people have a single 'self,'" explains Dr. Richard C. Schwartz, "acknowledging our multiplicity gives a far deeper awareness of how our minds actually work...
View BookAuthor: Barbara W Tuchman
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Narrator Wanda Mccaddon
Duration 19h 10m
In this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed—and ho...
View BookAuthor: James Baldwin
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Duration 18h 58m
James Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western society, most notably in regard to the mid-twentieth-century United States.This is a collection of his speeches and lectures.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year Updated with a new afterword by the author 'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' – Jordan B. Peterson '[Murray's] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' &ndas...
View BookAuthor: Sho Baraka
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Author Sho Baraka
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Duration 5h 31m
A deep exploration of the intersection of faith, creativity, and justice from acclaimed hip-hop artist and creative polymath Sho Baraka “Sho has the courage to say what many are thinking and the candor to say what many are not. His words have positively influenced me for years—now this book gives the world that influence.”&m...
View BookAuthor: Johnnyswim , Abner Ramirez, Amanda Sudano
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Author Johnnyswim , Abner Ramirez, Amanda Sudano
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The hugely popular singer/songwriter duo Johnnyswim share their story like never before, showing listeners how to find home wherever they are in this stunning debut.Foreword by Chip and Joanna Gaines Work and life partners Amanda Sudano Ramirez and Abner Ramirez are known for translating the memories and milestones of their journey, as well as...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Everts
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Author Sarah Everts
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An Outside Magazine 2021 Science book pickOne of Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of 2021A taboo-busting romp through the shame, stink, and strange science of sweating. Sweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but it’s also one of our most vital and least understood. In The Joy of Sweat, Sarah Everts delves into its role...
View BookAuthor: Michael Pollan
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Brought to you by Penguin. Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine and mescaline - and thro...
View BookThe Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory
Author: Dedeker Winston
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Author Dedeker Winston
Narrator Stephanie Rose
Duration 9h 59m
No one likes a know-it-all, but everyone loves a girl with brains and heart. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, offering relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack. This practical guidebook wi...
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Narrator Eimear Ryan
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An interview with Eimear Ryan, author of the novel Holding Her Breath, available to borrow from our online catalogue.
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Narrator Cari Thomas
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We chat with Cari Thomas, author of the fantasy novel Threadneedle, which is available to borrow from our online and CD libraries.
View BookAn Interview with Rachel Marks
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We chat with Rachel Marks, author of the novel Until Next Weekend, available to borrow from the Listening Books online library.
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Narrator Tim Weaver
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An interview with Tim Weaver, author of the David Raker series, available to borrow from our online catalogue.
View BookAuthor: Cathy Glass
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Author Cathy Glass
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 8h 13m
Little Jamey, 2½ years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out partying. When he first arrives with foster carer Cathy Glass, he is scared, hungry and withdrawn, cr...
View BookAuthor: Stanley Tucci
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Author Stanley Tucci
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Brought to you by Penguin.From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with The Devil Wears Prada, The Hunger Games, and the perfect Negroni, he grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the tab...
View BookWhy Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Author: Dr Julie Smith
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Brought to you by Penguin. Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs.Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful copi...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Macy, Chris Johnstone
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Narrator C.S.E. Cooney
Duration 8h 15m
The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power.
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A Canadian playwright's rise to fame amid the terrors of the AIDS era.Brad Fraser suffered an impoverished and abusive childhood, living with his teenage parents in motel rooms and shacks on the side of the highway in Alberta and Northern British Columbia. He grew to be one of the most celebrated, and controversial, Canadian playwrights, his work p...
View BookAuthor: C. Riley Snorton
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Duration 8h 51m
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both...
View BookAuthor: Laurie Woolever
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Duration 11h 26m
'This unique oral history builds to a comprehensive portrait and an important biography' Observer 'Reveals a vulnerable side to the man and adds remarkable depth to his onscreen persona' Financial Times When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life...
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