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Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Here are forty-seven inspirational pieces that are smart, hip, accessible, and rich with insight; forty-seven bite-sized stories of struggle, triumph, and contemplation based on sharp observations and anecdotes from the author's life. Each chapter begins with a verse from the Tao, followed by anecdotes and observations that give the teachings of Lao Tzu's applicability to contemporary life. Each chapter concludes with a section that offers an actionable...
Author
Series
Publisher
BOA Edititons, Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the startling scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad boyfriend--a junkie named Mr. Disgusting, long story--and her efforts to restart her life since haven't exactly gone as planned. For one thing she's got another bad boyfriend. She calls this one Dark, and he happens to be married to one of Mona's clients. Dark and his wife aren't the only complicated clients on Mona's roster...there's also...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Tao is a student at venerable master Kerozen's martial arts school. With his friends Rakai and Lee-Tou and his not-girlfriend Katimini, he tries to follow the teachings of the masters at the school--or, more often, finds a way around the masters' advice. Tao does not lack for ambition, but he has a tendency to get himself into trouble"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Tao is a student at master Snow's martial arts school. With his friends Rayi and Lee and his not-girlfriend Kat, he tries to follow the teachings of martial arts masters--or, more often, finds a way around the masters' advice"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tao is a fearless samurai apprentice studying to become a virtuoso martial artist. But when you're naturally good at pranks, practical jokes, and other silly antics (including trying to teach kung fu moves to the big, lazy cat, Bruce Lee), it's hard to concentrate on learning how to slay dragons.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An entertaining and insightful homage to Tom Hanks, America's favorite movie star, from the New York Times bestselling author of the cult sensation The Tao of Bill Murray. In The World According to Tom Hanks, through deep research and interviews, Gavin Edwards will explore and celebrate how Tom Hanks lives his life, mirroring the way that he embodies optimism and integrity in his movie roles. This book, paired with original illustrations from acclaimed...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love -- with a place, or a painting, or a person -- and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss -- from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A philosopher and mother mines classic Daoist texts of Chinese philosophy for wisdom relevant to today's parents. The ancient Chinese philosopher Mencius compared children to tender sprouts, shaped by soil, sunlight, water, and, importantly, the efforts of patient farmers and gardeners. At times children require our protection, other times we need to take a step back and allow them to grow. Like sprouts, a child's character, tendencies, virtues,...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Five months pregnant and struggling with a creative block, JoAnna Novak becomes obsessed with the enigmatic abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin. She is drawn to the contradictions in Martin's life as well as her art -- the soft and exacting brushstrokes she employs for grid-like compositions that are both rigid and dreamy. But what most calls to JoAnna is Martin's dedication to her work in the face of paranoid schizophrenia. Uneasy with the...
12) American blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1846. The territory of New Mexico has fallen to United States forces. Hugh Falconer - tracker, trapper, explorer, mountain man - rides to Taos to rendezvous with old friends at the wilderness outpost of Turley's Mill. Falconer doesn't know it but he's heading into a deadly trap. Mexicans and Indians have united against the new American lords of the land. Falconer finds himself among the handful of trappers and traders surrounded by an angry mob bent...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"...Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home--in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart."--Dust...
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future we're hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the conventional ideas of where we'll end up next. Section by section--Watch/Worlds/Burn--the book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse....
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1998].
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: The Importance of Living is a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang's prescription is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invoke humor to maintain a healthy attitude, and never forget that there will always be plenty of fools around who are willing-indeed, eager-to be busy, to make themselves useful, and to exercise power while you bask in the simple joy...
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