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61) Yearbook
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"A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys"--
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[2022]
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English
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"From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a ... collection of nonfiction--funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient--which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? Is science fiction now writing us? So what if beauty...
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2018.
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English
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When Broad City star Abbi Jacobson announced that she planned to drive across the country alone, she was met with lots of questions and opinions. Why wasn't she going with friends? Wouldn't it be incredibly lonely? The North route is better! Was it safe for a woman? The Southern route is the way to go! You should bring mace! And a common one: Why? But Abbi had always found comfort in solitude and needed space to step back and hit the reset button....
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2021.
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The author combines some of her best loved essays with new pieces. Her topics range from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, she writes about the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. -- adapted from cover.
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In Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness.
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Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multi-talented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson. Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn't afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming with emotion, she shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood, introduces the not-quite-typical family that made her who she is, and...
67) After Henry
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Displaying the same uncanny gifts for observation, portraiture, and understanding that marked her two prior celebrated essay collections--Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album--Joan Didion takes us inside the overlapping worlds of American politics and media during the 1980s, her focus the defining narratives and image-making during the Reagan presidency and 1988 presidential race. Elsewhere, Didion, a Berkeley alumnus, chronicles return...
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Contains "a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his habitual greeting, "Hey, Out There." Ranging across diverse subjects such as favorite recent reads, the challenge...
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2019
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English
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"Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In [this collection of essays], Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are"--Publisher's...
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Taiwan style volume 66
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2021.
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中文(繁體)
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她自小看著有頭家娘風範的外婆與母親,進出廚房,起灶架鍋,張羅數十家人員工日常吃食,宴請東南亞與中東等地賓客,哄嚷熱烈,直到滷肉飯、蒸冬瓜肉餅、芋棗甚至一碗煲粥,俱成為她日後的念想。 她曾與外婆、母親,三代女子,穿行在大稻埕與永樂市場,買鮑參翅肚、麵龜椪餅、胡椒肉桂蠶豆,見識老鋪的講究,練就一套對古早物什的擇選標準。...
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2019.
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English
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"For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet--and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In ... dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens ... essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well as hopeful glimpses of a far...
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2019.
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English
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A breakout writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture with verve, deftness, and intellectual ferocity--for readers who've wondered what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the internet.--
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[2015]
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English
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"[Bragg] explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the region's varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoon bread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this...
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Jiu ge wen ku volume 1128
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2013.
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中文(繁體)
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Jiuge's best Chinese prose of 2012 edited by Yin Di. The writings included are mostly from literary heavyweights like Yu Guangzhong, Bai Xianyong (Kenneth Pai,) Lin Qingxuan, Ma Sen, Chen Wenqian, Zhang Yi, Liu Kexiang, Wang Jianzhuang, Zhang Xiguo, Liang Xuan, Yang Zhao, Ma Jiahui, etc. There are two winners in 2012: the octogenarian Wang Dingjun with his completed his memoir, and Chen Yizhi who also has a war-time memoir for her father's generation....
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