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Pleasure principle - poems

"In her stunning debut collection, Madeleine Cravens explores desire in all its transgressive power and wildness. Pleasure and pain are inextricable in these carefully observed poems, capturing a young woman on the threshold of adulthood as she seeks to understand herself. With a hard-edged vulnerability and singularly bold style, Cravens is unsparing about the struggle to make sense of one's longings. An astonishing debut collection of poems about desire and the chaos of youth"--

 
Murder on Birchleaf Drive- The True Story of the Michelle Young Murder Case

The author documents the gripping tale of a family's marathon quest for justice, confounding crime scene evidence, persistence of law enforcement officers, and riveting courtroom combat.

 
Most dangerous - Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War

Traces the story of how an obscure government analyst exposed two decades of political deception about the Vietnam War in what became known as the Pentagon Papers.

 
A Midnight Moon by Sin, R. H.
Date added:
Mar 14, 2024
A Midnight Moon

 
Lvoe. by Atticus
Date added:
Mar 14, 2024
Lvoe.

 
 
The way you make me feel - love in black and brown

"A memoir in essays about love and allyship, told through one Asian and Black interracial marriage"--

 
5 kinds of nonfiction - enriching reading and writing instruction with children's books

"This book introduces a new way to sort, study and recognize nonfiction through the authors' categorization system of its five types - active, browsable, traditional, expository literature and narrative. After introducing the concept, the authors discuss ways this system can improve instruction, help students, teachers and librarians understand nonfiction better, and ultimately create stronger readers and writers"--

 
The year of living constitutionally - one man's humble quest to follow the Constitution's original meaning

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time: How should we interpret America's foundational document?"--

 
The unvanquished - the untold story of Lincoln's special forces, the manhunt for Mosby's Rangers, and the shadow war that forged America's special operations

"From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O'Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow war raged amid and away from the major battlefiel

 
Trippy - the peril and promise of medicinal psychedelics

"When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto London~o, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier.His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center included four nighttime ceremonies during which participants imbibed a vomit-inducing plant-based brew that contained DMT, a powerful mind-altering compound. The ayahuasca trips provided

 
Throne of grace - a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West

"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the res

 

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