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Notes from a young Black chef : a memoir
by Kwame Onwuachi
The Top Chef star and "30 Under 30" Forbes honoree traces his culinary coming-of-age in both the Bronx and Nigeria, discussing his eclectic training in acclaimed restaurants while sharing insights into the racial barriers that have challenged his career. Illustrations.
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Walking : one step at a time
by Erling Kagge
Language reflects the idea that life is one single walk; the word "journey" comes from the distance we travel in the course of a day. Walking for Kagge is a natural accompaniment to creativity: the occasion for the unspoken dialogue of thinking. Walking is also the antidote to the speed at which we conduct our lives, to our insistence on rushing, on doing everything in a precipitous manner--walking is among the most radical things we can do.
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They were her property : white women as slave owners in the American South
by Stephanie E. Jones-rogers
White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
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The second mountain : the quest for a moral life
by David Brooks
The best-selling author of The Road to Character presents a thought-provoking exploration of the qualities of a meaningful life, drawing on inspirational examples to offer advice about personal philosophies, a vocation, faith, relationships and community life.
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Point of View : Me, New York City, and the Punk Scene
by Chris Stein
At once a chronicle of one music icon's life among his punk and New-Wave heroes and peers, and a love letter to the city that was the backdrop and inspiration for those scenes, Point of View transports us to another place and time.
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Murder by the book : the crime that shocked Dickens's London
by Claire Harman
Traces the lesser-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, revealing how the killer organized his defense by blaming his behavior on a popular crime novel. By the prizewinning author of Jane's Fame.
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Monet : the late years
by George T. M. Shackelford
In the later years of his life, Claude Monet (1840-1926) stayed close to home, turning to his extraordinary garden at Giverny for inspiration. This beautiful publication examines the last phase of Monet's career, beginning in 1913, bringing together approximately 60 of his greatest works from this period.
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Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for seniors
by Marsha Collier
Provides information for seniors on the social networking sites Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, covering such topics as staying safe on the Internet, using email, setting up a Facebook profile, and finding trending topics on Twitter.
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Everything in its place : first loves and last tales
by Oliver Sacks
A posthumous collection by the best-selling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat features Sacks' signature compassion and erudition in essays exploring his diverse interests and remarkable late-career neurological case histories.
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Deaf Republic
by Ilya Kaminsky
Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear--they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, these poems confronts our time's vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
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Dangerous minds : Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the return of the far right
by Ronald Beiner
In Dangerous Minds , Ronald Beiner traces the deepest philosophical roots of such right-wing ideologues as Richard Spencer, Aleksandr Dugin, and Steve Bannon to the writings of Nietzsche and Heidegger--and specifically to the aspects of their thought that express revulsion for the liberal-democratic view of life.
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