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A year with the seals : unlocking the secrets of the sea's most charismatic and controversial creatures
by Alexandra Morris
"It might be their large, strangely human eyes or their dog-like playfulness, but seals have long captured people's interest and affection, making them the perfect candidate for an environmental cause, as well as the subject of decades of study. Alix Morris spends a year with these magnetic creatures and brings them to life on the page, season by season, as she learns about their intelligence, their relationships with each other, their ecosystems, and the changing climate. Morris also gets to know all of the competing interests in the intense debate about the newly recovered seal populations in our coastal waters, from local fishermen whose catch is often diminished by savvy seals, to tribes who once relied on seal-hunting for food, clothing, and medicine, to seal rescue workers and biologists, to surfers and swimmers now encountering seal-hunting sharks in coastal waters. A Year with the Seals is a rare look at what happens when conservation efforts actually work, and how human tampering with ecosystems continues to have unexpected consequences. But it's also a gripping adventure story of a journalist determined to understand seals and our relationship with them for herself"
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With Her Own Hands : Women Weaving Their Stories
by Nicole Nehrig
Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting--throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig wonderfully explores in this captivating book, textile work has often been a way for women to exercise power. When their voices were silenced and other avenues were closed off to them, women used the tools they had--often a needle and thread--to seek freedom within the restrictive societies they lived in. Spanning continents and centuries, With Her Own Hands brings together remarkable stories of women who have used textiles as a means of liberation, from an eighteenth-century Quaker boarding school that used embroidered samplers to teach girls math and geography to the Quechua weavers working to preserve and revive Incan traditions today, and from the Miao women of southern China who, in the absence of a written language, pass down their histories in elaborate "story cloths" to a midcentury British women's postal art exchange. Textiles have been a way for women to explore their intellectual capacities, seek economic independence, create community, process traumas, and convey powerful messages of self-expression and political protest"
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Invisible ADHD : proven mood and life management for smart yet scattered women
by Shanna Pearson
"ADHD is diagnosed three times less frequently in girls and women than in boys and men, although it is equally common in both. For that reason, and because women are more likely to have the inattentive form of ADHD than the disruptive hyperactive form generally diagnosed in boys, their struggles are often invisible to the outside world. Internally, it is a different story. Because their dopamine-starved brains are always seeking stimulus, drama and chaos seem to follow them from their work and home lives to their personal relationships. The outward manifestations of these internal symptoms-indecision, emotional fragility, habitual lateness, or confrontational behaviors- earn countless creative, intelligent, and hardworking women labels like "drama queen," "flaky," or just plain unreliable. As a result, many find themselves stuck in life, unable to achieve the personal and professional goals that seem to come to others so effortlessly. After after being diagnosed with ADHD in her twenties, Pearson has dedicated her career to helping others harness the strengths and manage the challenges of living with ADHD. In Invisible ADHD, she writes from the perspective and knowledge of what actually works, based on deep experience with more than a hundred thousand individual coaching sessions over the course of two decades, and a lifetime of mastering her own severe ADHD. Using proprietary strategies and exercises developed to help her clients succeed in love, life, and business, Pearson's straight-shooting book will help any woman who struggles with the symptoms of ADHD to communicate better, strengthen personal and professional bonds, and learn to trust herself enough to reach for what she truly wants in life"-- Provided by publisher
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Ghosts of Hiroshima
by Charles R. Pellegrino
"Based on years of forensic archaeological research combined with interviews of more than two hundred survivors and their families, Ghosts of Hiroshima is a you-are-there account of ordinary human beings thrust into extraordinary events, during which our modern civilization entered its most challenging phase--a nuclear adolescence that, unless we are very wise and learn from our past, we may not survive
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Rope : how a bundle of twisted fibers became the backbone of civilization
by Tim Queeney
A sailor explores the history of rope through the story of civilization—from Magellan's world-circling ships, to the 15th-century fleet of Admiral Zheng He, to Polynesian multihulls with crab claw sails, he shows how without rope, none of their adventurous voyages and discoveries would have been possible. Illustrations.
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Slip : life in the middle of eating-disorder recovery
by Mallary Tenore Tarpley
Paints a nuanced picture of eating disorder recovery through memoir, journalism, and scientific research, introducing a “middle place” framework that embraces setbacks as part of healing while drawing on interviews and studies to reexamine treatment practices and long-held assumptions.
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Rehab : an American scandal
by Shoshana Walter
Tells the stories of four individuals from different backgrounds to expose how America's addiction treatment system often reinforces inequality, neglects science-based care, and profits from suffering—and offers a critique of punitive policies and a call for more equitable, effective paths to recovery.
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Stan and Gus : art, ardor, and the friendship that built the Gilded Age
by Henry Wiencek
Explores the friendship and collaboration between an influential architect and a renowned sculptor against the backdrop of the American Renaissance, tracing their artistic achievements, personal struggles, and the turbulent cultural landscape that culminated in a shocking scandal. Illustrations. Index.
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New Young Adult Nonfiction
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The mysterious Virginia Hall : World War II's most dangerous spy
by Claudia Friddell
"Virginia Hall was an athletic, outdoorsy girl who dreamed of joining the foreign service and becoming an ambassador. Despite numerous setbacks, including losing her leg to gangrene after an accident, Virginia never wavered in her determination to serve her country. After the outbreak of World War II, a chance meeting on a train changed her life. Virginia joined the Allied Intelligence services as one of its first women agents, where she organized French resistance fighters, performed daring rescues, andprovided the Allies with intelligence that was key for ousting the Nazis"
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The highest calling : conversations on the American Presidency
by David M. Rubenstein
The New York Times best-selling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the U.S. presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Maggie Haberman, Ron Chernow and more
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