Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
Start With Why: The Inspiring Million-Copy Bestseller That Will Help You Find Your Purpose by Simon Sinek
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Reading Level: very good
The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of LEADERS EAT LAST and TOGETHER IS BETTER. In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, in ...Show more
Creative Differences and Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
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Category: Culture and Ideas
A selection of short fiction accompanies this warm, funny novella by the bestselling author of the Rosie series If not for money, then maybe for love. Three years ago, Emily was a struggling literary author when she met Scott, a struggling screenwriter. Combining her elegant writing with his gripping ...Show more
Murli la: Songs and Stories of the Tiwi Islands by Ngarukuruwala Women’s Group
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Category: Culture and Ideas
A joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture of the Tiwi Islands through song. The songs presented in this book hold cultural, genealogical, geographical and spiritual knowledge that has been passed down through thousa ...Show more
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
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Category: Culture and Ideas
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ...Show more
How To Stage A Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft by Rory Cormac
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Category: Culture and Ideas
An engaging and incisive investigation into the shadowy world of secret statecraft and covert action, by a leading expert on the topic. Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning to secret statecraft and the hidden ha ...Show more
The Writing Deck - 52 Prompts to Inspire Your Creativity by Campbell Emily
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Jump-start writing projects with this colorful card deck of engaging prompts. Whether retelling a familiar story from a different perspective, describing a scene without using adjectives, or writing a story in the style of Jane Austen, these exercises break down the process of writing into small, doable ...Show more
A Few Minutes of Design - 52 Activities to Spark Your Creativity by Emily Campbell
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Category: Culture and Ideas
"A marvelous invitation to anyone with an interest in creativity, invention, and design." (Michael Bierut) This colorful, handy card deck presents fifty-two exercises and activities to jump-start your creative juices, free you from creative block, start a new project, or finish an existing one. Each ex ...Show more
Joan Didion: What She Means by Joan Didion ; Hilton Als (Editor); Connie Butler (Editor); Ann Philbin (Introduction by); Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi
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Category: Culture and Ideas
An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics - including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and Andy Warhol. In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer a ...Show more
Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists: A Sparkling Miscellany of Literary Lists by Henry Eliot
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Category: Culture and Ideas
A sparkling miscellany of literary triviaWho had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts? Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world literature, compil ...Show more
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
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Category: Culture and Ideas
A gorgeous fantasy horror – a book about stories and fairytales with family and love at its dark heart… Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman (Stardust, Coraline), Susanna Clarke (Piranesi) and Let the Right One In. Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. The last of their lines, ...Show more
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair. Getting Lost is the diary kept by ...Show more