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The Snowden Library New Fiction & Nonfiction
Sept 12th, 2024 |
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Blood in the machine: the origins of the rebellion against big tech
by Brian Merchant
Introduces an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, who took arms against the industrialists automating their work in an all-but-forgotten and deeply misunderstood class struggle that nearly brought England to its knees—and set the stage for the threats posed by big tech today.
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Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari
From the Stone Age through the canonization of the Bible, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, a historian and philosopher explores human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world, addressing the urgent choices we face to manage the threat of nonhuman intelligence for the first time.
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Atlas of AI: power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence
by Kate Crawford
AI is a technology of extraction: both minerals and data. This book shows how a global network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequity. Rather than focusing on code and algorithms, the author offers a material and political perspective on what it takes to make AI, and how it centralizes power.
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Crisis of control: how artificial superintelligences may destroy or save the human race
by Peter J. Scott
We are facing twin threats stemming from exponential advances in technology: access to weapons of mass destruction by rogue forces, and the development of artificial intelligences that could take over infrastructure. The stakes could not be higher. Yet here is a path that might lead us through the crucible and into a future of limitless promise.
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Amphibious soul: finding the wild in a tame world
by Craig Foster
One of the world's leading natural history filmmakers and the man behind the Oscar-winning My Octopus Teacher shows how we can reinvigorate our lives by developing a deep connection to the Earth, nurture our individual wildness and deepen our love for all living things.
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A measure of value: the story of the D'arcy Island Leper Colony
by C. Yorath
Between 1891 and 1924, a small island off Victoria, B.C., was a prison for the "Unfortunates"— called so because they had leprosy, and they were Chinese. Here we follow one of these, Lim Sam, on his journey from China to Victoria and finally to D'Arcy Island, where this little society cared for each other, planted their gardens, and buried their dead.
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Points of interest: in search of the places, people, and stories of B.C.
by David Beers
What makes the vibrant land called British Columbia really special? This anthology marking The Tyee's 20th anniversary includes pieces published over the last two decades with the distinct voices of some of the region's most celebrated writers sharing about the places they call home.
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Rebel girl: my life as a feminist punk
by Kathleen Hanna
The original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill, which embodied the punk scene of the 90s, shares how the relationships and friendships she developed during those years taught her how the punk world has always nurtured and cared for its own.
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Saving time: discovering a life beyond productivity culture
by Jenny Odell
In this hopeful reframing of time, the author takes us on a journey through other temporal habitats, urging us to become stewards of different rhythms of life and to imagine a source of meaning outside the world of work and profit.
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Solitude: the science and power of being alone
by Netta Weinstein, Heather Hansen, Thuy-vy T. Nguyen
Most of us spend a sizable chunk of each day alone. Whether we love it or not, we can make better use of that time. Translating key research findings into actionable facts and advice, this book shows that alone-time can be a powerful space in which to boost well-being in measurable ways.
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The introvert advantage: how to thrive in an extrovert world
by Marti Olsen Laney
Dispelling common myths about introverts, this guide explains how such individuals can recognize their inner strengths, provides tools to help improve personal relationships and communication skills, and presents a series of learning strategies for successfully living in an extrovert world.
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The big six: historical thinking concepts
by Peter Seixas and Tom Morton
How does history become meaningful to students? When they see it as a mystery to be solved, an interpretation to be challenged, and a way to see themselves in the larger fabric of human experience. Each chapter in this book begins with a prominent Canadian author engaging in one of six concepts while writing a work of popular history or historical fiction.
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10 things schools get wrong: and how we can get them right
by Jared Cooney Horvath
What counterintuitive lessons can we learn from the meteoric rise of Mindset Theory in education? Why have computers so overwhelmingly failed to become an academic panacea? In this book, brain and behavioural research, combined with philosophy, puts widely accepted notions about education under the microscope.
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Teaching with your mouth shut
by Donald L. Finkel
This educator's classic explores how to move away from "telling students what they are supposed to know" by examining how to let the books and the students do the talking by inquiring together, writing, and creating other experiences that teach effectively.
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Lead it like Lasso
by Marnie Stockman and Nick Coniglio
Much like Ted Lasso the TV show, this book takes a fresh approach to leadership. Rule #1: "Leadership is Life!" Others include: Define your core values and learn how culture impacts your ability to level up; create a clear vision and purpose for your life to reach your goals; and build your own personal operating system and communication guide.
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Making love with the land: essays
by Joshua Whitehead
In this raw autobiographical collection, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. as he shares his devotion to the world in which we live, and maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial.
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Real ones
by Katherena Vermette
Lyn and her sister, June, are NDNs—real ones, leading complicated lives in Winnipeg, when a bomb drops: their estranged and very white artist mother, Renee, is called out as a "pretendian." As the women are pulled into the backlash, a traumatic story of childhood surfaces alongside a hopeful account of the hard-won battle of Métis people to regain ownership of their identity.
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Sheine Lende: a prequel to Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger
When her mother and a local boy go missing after a strange interaction with a fairy ring, Shane and her ghost dogs, along with friends and family, search for them even though they may not be anywhere in this world—or this place in time.
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Little moons
by Jen Storm
It’s been a year since Reanna’s big sister, Chelsea, went missing on her way home from school. Without any idea of what happened, Reanna and her family struggle to find closure. Driven away by memories, Reanna’s mom moves to the big city. Left behind on the reserve, Reanna and her little brother go to live with their dad. She feels lonely, abandoned… but she is not alone.
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Headshot
by Rita Bullwinkel
An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of success. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers has her own reasons for making it to Reno with the goal to be named the best in the country through a series of raw, intense face-offs.
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The life impossible
by Matt Haig
When Grace Winters is left a house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, she arrives in Ibiza with no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. By the author of the Midnight Library.
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Blessings
by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Ostracized for his love of another boy, Obiefuna navigates being banished to a Christian boarding school while his family grapples with his absence and they all face the potential repercussions of proposed legislation to outlaw same sex relationships in Nigeria.
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Caledonian Road
by Andrew O'Hagan
A celebrated art historian and professor sees his life come crumbling down during a year in London in this biting portrait of British class, politics and money, as told through the lives of five interconnected families. By the author of Shuggie Bain.
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Lies and weddings
by Kevin Kwan
Forced to attend his sister's wedding to seduce a woman with money and get his family out of debt, Rufus Leung Gresham, the future Earl of Greshambury, finds their plans—and reputation—going up in flames when a secret tryst and tragedy come to light. By the author of Crazy Rich Asians.
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The pairing
by Casey McQuiston
When they accidentally book the same European food and wine tour, estranged exes Theo and Kit, trapped with each other for three weeks in the romantic capitals of France, Spain and Italy, make a wager to a be the first to seduce their tour guide in order to prove to themselves that they're over each other. By the author of Red, White & Royal Blue.
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Slow dance
by Rainbow Rowell
Fourteen years after they went their separate ways, 30-something Shiloh, a divorced, single mom living back in the same house she grew up in, attends a high school friend's wedding in hopes of seeing Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until she lost him.
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When the world fell silent
by Donna Jones Alward
Having lost her husband in the trenches and with no one else to turn to, Charlotte Campbell now lives with in-laws who treat her like the help. It is baby Aileen, her joy and light, who spurs her to dream of a better life. But when tragedy strikes in Halifax Harbour, nothing will ever be the same.
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The glassmaker
by Tracy Chevalier
From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this epic follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure.
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Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung
As China's civil war ravages and engulfs their once-privileged lives, four resourceful daughters defy tradition and flee their homes as the Communist army closes in, charting a path across a war-torn nation to independence in Taiwan.
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The bright sword: a novel of King Arthur
by Lev Grossman
Arriving at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, gifted young knight Collum instead finds only a handful of knights left after the Battle of Camlann, and together, joined by Merlin's apprentice Nimue, set out to rebuild Camelot in a world out of balance. By the author of the Magicians trilogy.
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Shanghai
by Joseph Kanon
After escaping the Gestapo, Daniel Lohr arrives in Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side-by-side, and as he tries to navigate his uncle's world in the city's fabled nightlife, he tries to stay one step ahead of murder and outrun his own past. By the author of The Good German.
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The secret history of Audrey James
by Heather Marshall
After Audrey invites her secretly-Jewish friend Ilse to stay, two Nazi officers commandeer her house for their own use, and the girls find themselves trapped in Berlin. To keep Ilse safe, Audrey must use her performance skills, and as she plays along with her new housemates, she learns that not everyone is loyal to Hitler. But resistance risks betrayal... By the author of Looking for Jane.
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The swan's nest
by Laura McNeal
In 1845, when Elizabeth Barrett, confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness, begins a correspondence with fellow poet Robert Browning, they fall in love with each other's words and shock her conservative, close-knit family and the literary world.
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The secret life of sunflowers
by Marta Molnar
This novel begins with the discovery of a diary once belonging to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law, who inherited his paintings—they were all she had, and they were worthless. She was a 28 year old widow with a baby in the 1800s, without any means of supporting herself, living in Paris where she barely spoke the language, yet managed to introduce Vincent's legacy to the world.
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The seventh veil of Salome
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she deserves. By the author of Mexican Gothic.
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By any other name
by Jodi Picoult
Across centuries, two women, Melina Green and Emilia Bassano, one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female playwrights.
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The Briar Club
by Kate Quinn
In 1950 Washington, D.C. during the McCarthy era, at a female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room and draws her misfit housemates into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose an enemy in their midst.
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The underground library
by Jennifer Ryan
When the Blitz destroys Bethnal Green Library in London, librarian Juliet Lansdown, along with two other women, relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city's residents shelter nightly, determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up, but tragedy upon tragedy threatens to destroy what they've built.
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There are rivers in the sky
by Elif Shafak
Sweeping across centuries and stretching from Mesopotamia to London, this novel conjures a trio of characters living in the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time—The Epic of Gilgamesh. By the author of the Island of MIssing Trees.
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The Hazelbourne ladies motorcycle and flying club
by Helen Simonson
In the summer of 1919, Constance, sent as a lady's companion to Hazelbourne-on-Sea, is welcomed by Poppy, a baronet's daughter who runs a ladies' motorcycle club, but as the country prepares to celebrate its hard-won peace, the club realizes the freedoms they gained during the war are fading away. By the author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
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All the glimmering stars
by Mark T. Sullivan
In the 1990s, two Ugandan teens are kidnapped and forced into the Lord's Resistance Army where they try to survive captivity and a leader bent on destroying their inherent goodness. By the author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky.
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The warm hands of ghosts
by Katherine Arden
In 1918, field nurse Laura Iven returns to Belgium to uncover the truth about her brother Freddie's supposed death in combat, while Freddie, unable to return to the killing fields, takes refuge with a mysterious man who has the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.
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Navola
by Paolo Bacigalupi
In Navola, a city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, Davico di Regulai must demonstrate his mastery of Navolese diplomacy as he prepares to take the reins of power from his father, and discovers his fate depends on what lies buried in the heart of his adopted sister.
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Emily Wilde's map of the Otherlands
by Heather Fawcett
A professor and expert in faerie folklore sets out to map the realms of their world, still not ready to accept a marriage proposal from Wendell Bambleby, in the second novel of the series following Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries.
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The dark wives
by Ann Cleeves
When a body is found by a care home for troubled teens—a murder linked to the disappearance of a 14-year-old resident—DI Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate, but when a second body is found near standing stones in the Northumberland countryside, superstition and folklore collide with the truth.
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A lesson in dying
by Ann Cleeves
When the headmaster at Heppleburn School is murdered, his widow tops the list of suspects while the caretaker comes forward to defend her, in the first in the Inspector Ramsay series.
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The unwedding
by Ally Condie
Recently divorced Ellery Wainwright, staying alone at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, finds the place beautiful but unsettling, especially after a mudslide traps her and the other guests with a murderer who has already claimed two victims.
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The off season
by Amber Cowie
Jane wants nothing more than to bond with her new contractor husband and his daughter, living on site at a fixer-upper riverside resort. But she's unsettled by the cold, quiet presence of the hotel's owner, Peter, who is overseeing Dom's renovations. When she starts asking questions, Dom grows distant, and as the flooding river threatens the resort. Jane works to uncover exactly who she married and what she's involved in.
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Eruption
by Michael Crichton and James Patterson
Two of the world's mostprolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades. Based an early manuscript by Crichton and completed by Patterson after his death.
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Camino ghosts
by John Grisham
Bay Books shop owner Bruce Cable is reunited again with best-selling author Mercer Mann to solve another murder on Camino Island, Florida, in the third novel in Grisham's Camino series.
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What have you done?
by Shari Lapena
When the body of Diana Brewer is discovered in a hayfield by a local farmer, sleepy little Fairfield, Vermont, a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects and a place of fear and paranoia where everyone wants answers.
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Death at La Fenice
by Donna Leon
When renowned opera conductor Helmut Wellauer is found dead in his dressing room, the victim of cyanide poisoning, Guido Brunetti, the Vice Commissario of the Venice Police, must sift through several suspects to find a killer.
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To our graves
by Paul Nicholas Mason
When grade 12 student is stabbed to death in the chapel at an private school on the shores of Lake Ontario, school adminstrators are desperate to locate the culprit outside the school, even as Detective-Sergeant Diane Stewart of the Kingston Police Force suspects that the murderer is a member of the school community.
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The god of the woods
by Liz Moore
When a camp counselor discovers the 13-year-old daughter of the summer camp's owners has disappeared, just like her brother did 14 years earlier, a panicked search begins, and soon the secrets of the Van Laar family and the local blue-collar community working in its shadow are revealed.
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This is why we lied
by Karin Slaughter
While on their honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge, investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must solve a murder when the Lodge's manager is found dead, and investigating the McAlpine family and other guests, they realize everyone here is lying—about their past, to their family, to themselves.
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One perfect couple
by Ruth Ware
Landing on a tropical paradise where they'll compete against four other couples to win a cash prize, Lyla and Nico, starring on the new reality TV show One Perfect Couple, find themselves trapped on a storm-swept island where they all must band together for survival as a killer walks among them.
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Tom Clancy: shadow state
by M. P. Woodward
Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself cut off from his comrades at The Campus just when he needs them most. He's smack dab in the middle of an international conspiracy, and this may be too much for even him to handle.
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One of our kind
by Nicola Yoon
Moving their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, hoping to find a community of like-minded people, Jasmyn becomes increasingly unsettled by many residents' detachment from the world. When she discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders, she must save her loved ones from embracing the Liberty way before it's too late.
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