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This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it--your friends, your neighbors and you. A fresh approach toward our cultural and sensical relationship to sound, this melodic examination of the world of music explores two big questions: How do we listen to music and why do we listen to it in the first place? From a range of factors that shape our experience of sound--biology, age, illness and more--Listen challenges the ve...

I'm starting a service... available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there's a restaurant you want to go to, but you feel awkward going on your own.Maybe a game you want to play, but you're one person short.Or perhaps you'd like someone to keep a space in the park for your cherry blossom viewing party...Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told by his boss, "It makes no difference whether you're here or not...

A memoir by the Oscar-winning, platinum-selling rapper and producer. The hustle still continues for hip-hop OG Juicy J as he shares his invaluable story as an unwavering force in the music industry.Jordan Houston's rise to stardom was never easy. He began his journey on the streets of Memphis in the 1980s, always inspired by music and with big dreams of becoming a superstar rapper, producer, and executive.Jordan stuck to his plan with determin...

Colorful, vivid storytelling.... for anyone looking for a road to reinvention." --Kristin NewmanA soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas, whisking us through the countries that brought her new love, self-discovery, and the inspiration to launch the first international feminist travel magazine, Unearth Women. At twenty-six years old, life looked a certain way for Nikki Vargas. She'd settled in New York ...

This book is, at its core, about music and the people who listen to it--your friends, your neighbors and you. A fresh approach toward our cultural and sensical relationship to sound, this melodic examination of the world of music explores two big questions: How do we listen to music and why do we listen to it in the first place? From a range of factors that shape our experience of sound--biology, age, illness and more--Listen challenges the ve...

The fourth novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following a new group of customers in a magical time-traveling Tokyo caféThe regulars at Café Funiculi Funicula are well-acquainted with the whimsical ability it grants them to take a trip into the past--as well as the strict rules involved, including that each traveler must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee gets cold. In Toshikazu K...

*A Reader's Digest Best Book of 2023* *A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book* *A Book of the Month Club Pick* *A Brit+Co Book to Read in 2023* *A Town & Country Best Book to Read in May* *A Good Morning America Buzz Book Pick* An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer in this propulsive and sweeping story of family, identity, and the American experience. Set in New York and China over three dec...

A tour de force. Brilliant. Passionate. Deeply caring." -Eddie S. Glaude Jr., New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own "There are stories that must be told." Acclaimed novelist and scholar Daniel Black has spent a career writing into the unspoken, fleshing out, through storytelling, pain that can't be described. Now, in his debut essay collection, Black gives voice to the e...

*An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick* *A "Next Big Idea Book Club" Must Read* *A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April* *A BookRiot Science Book to Add to Your TBR* *A Wired Book to Read for Spring* *A TODAY Show Summer Book* *A Washington Post Book to Read This Summer* *One of the Chicago Tribune's 52 Books for Summer 2023* "A dazzling feat of imagination and synthesis."-Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of An Immense World A spellbin...

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Coming soon! The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin will be available Sep 03, 2024.

Great characters, lots of action, and a razor-sharp plot. Good stuff. Really good." --Marc Cameron, author of Tom Clancy Oath of Office THE NEXT INSTALLMENT IN THE PULSE-POUNDING GANNON SERIES FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING COAUTHOR OF JAMES PATTERSON'S MICHAEL BENNETT SERIES Mike Gannon always wanted to go to Alaska. That's why when a bucket-list grizzly bear trip to the Klondike comes up, he's on it with both feet. But as he arrives ...

The incredible story of the most decorated chaplain in US military history and his path to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.Father Emil Kapaun, a humble priest, went far beyond the call of duty during World War II and the Korean War. Often found with the combat medics on the front lines, unarmed, ministering to the wounded, and known for his intense devotion to the soldiers whom he called "my boys, " Kapaun became the most decorated chap...

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It's f*cking great!!! Raw, intimate, hilarious, actually inspiring." -Jon StewartA dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her tumultuous upbringing and uproarious career path into Hollywood.There are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn't be telling you. Many of them are in this book: some are embarrassing (like her three year spell of celibacy that she tried to break with a guide of s...

After the deadliest hurricane to hit Sanibel Island in a century, Doc Ford must stop a gang of thieves-and worse-during the twelve hours of chaos that follow the passing of a storm's eye. A month before a killer hurricane hits Florida, Doc Ford gets a heads-up from a state department pal that during recent natural disasters, a group of paramilitary contractors have used the poststorm chaos as a license to steal-and kill. Doc doesn't give the w...

The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew.An unflinching confrontation of humanity's dark side, Brian De Palma's crime drama film Scarface gave rise to a cultural revolution upon its release in 1983. Its impact was unprecedented, making globe-spanning waves as a defining portrait of the gritty Miami street life. From Al Pacino's masterful characterization of Tony Montana to the iconic "Say ...

An eye-opening guidebook for professionals looking to overcome their chronic stress, burnout, and "busy brain" symptoms, using a simple eight-week planDid you know that: An estimated forty million adults in the United States have anxiety, Eleven million people in the United States have adult-onset attention deficit disorder, andInsomnia and sleep disorders cost the United States over ninety-six billion dollars annually.Traditional methods in n...

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize finalistWe read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more fully human.Shannon...

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