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How Rude! : The teenagers guide to good manners, proper behavior, and not grossing people out

How Rude! : The teenagers guide to good manners, proper behavior, and not grossing people out

— Alex J. Packer, Ph.D.

Nobody’s polite anymore. Why should you be? Because good manners are good for you. They impress people. They build self-esteem. They can help you get what you want from life, friends, fun, success, and respect. And they don’t cost anything. Most etiquette books are preachy and boring. This one keeps you laughing as you learn the basics of polite behavior in all kinds of situations, at home, in public, with friends, with strangers,
Non-Fiction Adults - Teenagers
100 ways America is screwing up the world

100 ways America is screwing up the world

— John Tirman

What do Wal-Mart, Gangsta Rap, and SUVs have in common? They’re all among the hundred ways in which America is screwing up the world. The country that was responsible for many, if not most, of the twentieth century’s most important scientific and technological advancements now demonizes its scientists and thinkers in the twenty-first, while dumbing down its youth with anti-Darwin/ pro-“Intelligent Design” propaganda.
Non-Fiction Adults
Everyone loves you when you’re dead: journeys into fame and madness

Everyone loves you when you’re dead: journeys into fame and madness

— Neil Strauss

John Neil Straus “The Mike Tyson of interviewers” as he;
•Makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep Mötley Crüe out of jail & gets kidnapped by Courtney Love
•Shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young & goes to church with Tom Cruise and his mother
•Picks up psychic clues with the CIA, diapers with Snoop Dogg & prison survival tips from Rick James
Non-Fiction Adults
The memory palace

The memory palace

— Mira Bartok

“People have abandoned their loved ones for much less than you’ve been through,” Mira Bartok is told at her mother’s memorial service. It is a poignant yet truthful observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mother. Although she loved her daughters and did her best to raise them well, Norma Herr began to fear that her daughters would be kidnapped, murdered, or raped.
Non-Fiction Adults
The Jewel of St. Petersburg

The Jewel of St. Petersburg

— Kate Furnivall

The young Valentina Ivanova is the darling of St. Petersburg’s elite aristocracy, charming them with both her classic Russian beauty and her talent for piano. But it is a scandal when she chooses her love, a Danish engineer, not from their stock, or even from Russian blood. Unbending in their opposition, her parents push her into an engagement with a Russian count.
Fiction - Literary & Classics Adults
Miss New India

Miss New India

— Bharati Mukherjee

Anjali Bose’s prospects don’t look great. Born into a traditional lower-middle-class family, she lives in a backwater town with only an arranged marriage on the horizon. But her ambition charm and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her influential expat teacher Peter Champion. And champion her he does, both to powerful people who can help her along the way and to Anjali herself.
Fiction Adults
The October Killings

The October Killings

— Wessel Ebersuhn

Abigail Bukula’s parents were killed in a massacre of antiapartheid activists by white apartheid security forces. Because a young soldier spoke up in her defense, she was spared. Now she’s a lawyer in the new government, but has never forgotten, Leon Lourens, the soldier who saved her life. So when he walks into her office twenty years later she vows to do whatever she can.
Fiction - Mystery & Thrillers Adults
Wheel and come again: An anthology of reggae poetry

Wheel and come again: An anthology of reggae poetry

— Kwame Dawes

Wheel and Come Again is an anthology to delight both lovers of reggae and lovers of poetry. In the past Caribbean poetry seemed split between the English literary tradition and the oral performance of the dub poets. The poems in Wheel and Come Again fuse reggae’s emotional immediacy, prophetic vision, fire and brimstone protest and sensuous eroticism with all the traditional resources of poetry.
Literary & Classics Adults
Joy & Pain

Joy & Pain

— Franklin White

Lala is floating along in life with a great job and Keith, the man who stays by her side all day and night. But when she decides it’s time to start thinking seriously about a family, all her well-laid plans come crashing down. Keith decides he can’t remain totally committed to their relationship, and Lala won’t accept anything less.
Fiction - Romance Adults
So you want to be psychic?

So you want to be psychic?

— Billy Roberts

Psychic powers are those abilities for which contemporary science has no explanation, such as clairvoyance, healing, precognition, telepathy etc. Early man used such skills very effectively before the advent of speech – but most of us have lost these abilities. Psychic development is, therefore, not so much a case of receiving knowledge, but remembering what we have long since forgotten.
Fiction - Sci Fi & Fantasy Adults
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