Deanna Anthony
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Instant New York Times Bestseller!
This “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is “a real page turner!” (Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan) that "feels like a love letter" (USA Today) to booksellers and librarians—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.
To be a bookseller or librarian…
You...
This “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is “a real page turner!” (Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan) that "feels like a love letter" (USA Today) to booksellers and librarians—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson.
To be a bookseller or librarian…
You...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 499 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Every generation inherits the problems created by the ones before them, but no generation will inherit as many problems--as many crises--as the current generation of young people. From the devastations of climate change to the horrors of gun violence, from rampant transphobia to the widening wealth gap, from the lack of health care to the lack of housing, the challenges facing the next generation can feel insurmountable. But change, even revolution,...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An editor for The Washington Post's Style section offers a look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary, spotlighting how it has survived decades of social and cultural change and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas of feminism. For all of its pomp and kitsch, the Miss America pageant is indelibly written into the American story of the past century. From its origins as a summer's-end tourist draw, it blossomed...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An examination of how the romantic narrative from Pride and Prejudice was born out of Gothic horror, how it influenced pop culture since its publishing, and how it has reinforced harmful cultural concepts of real-life romance"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The rules of being a rodeo queen: no creases, no boyfriends, no mistakes. With more crowns to her name than hairs on her head, Sierra Quintanilla knows the rulebook inside out. And with Closed Circuit, the reality-TV-meets-rodeo-tour competition, back for a second season, she's ready to play her part to perfection. But no one is actually perfect. And nothing is more dangerous to a rodeo queen than desire... As a teenager, Diablo Sosa was sentenced...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
NOTE:
The January 6th Report appendices on pages 693–716 can be accessed via the QR code below, along with the hyperlinks from the chapter endnotes and witness testimony transcripts.
Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report by the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.
On January
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sahara, a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who feels like an all-around failure, finds hope, answers, and unexpected redemption when she sets out to find the truth about The Unfortunates--the unlucky subset of black undergrads who have been mysteriously disappearing.
Sahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year at Elite University, she feels like a failure: her body is too curvy, her love life is nonexistent, her family is disappointed in...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From her blog, "Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women," Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. Here, she features the stories that most affected her, chronicling her own journey toward sexual freedom. We meet Yami, a pansexual Canadian of Malawian heritage, who describes negotiating the line between family dynamics and sexuality. There's Esther, a cis-gendered hetero...