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- Please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes : essays / by Robinson, Phoebe,author.;
"New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a new essay collection that is equal parts thoughtful, hilarious, and sharp about human connection, race, hair, travel, dating, Black excellence, and more. Written in Phoebe's unforgettable voice and with her unparalleled wit, Robinson's latest collection, laced with spot-on pop culture references, takes on a wide range of topics. From the values she learned from her parents (including, but not limited to, advice on not bringing outside germs onto your clean bed) to her and her boyfriend, lovingly known as British Baekoff, deciding to have a child-free union, to the way the Black Lives Matter movement took center stage in America, and, finally, the continual struggle to love her 4C hair, each essay is packed with humor and humanity. By turns insightful, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartfelt, Please Don't Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes is not only a brilliant look at our current cultural moment, but a collection that will stay with you for years to come"--
- Subjects: Essays.; American wit and humor.;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Bad vibes only : (and other things I bring to the table) : essays / by McInerny, Nora,author.;
In a series of essays that span her childhood to present, Nora introduces us to her mind and her world while inviting us to more closely observe our own. This collection is a response to a society that tells us to live, laugh, and love. It reminds us that we don't have to be oppressively optimistic or obsessed with self-improvement.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Anecdotes.; Essays.; Humor.; Personal narratives.; McInerny, Nora; Self-actualization (Psychology);
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- The tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra : with new and updated critical essays and a revised bibliography / by Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.; Everett, Barbara.; Barnet, Sylvan.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-272).
- Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, d. 30 B.C. (Fictitious character); Antonius, Marcus, 83?-30 B.C (Fictitious character); Generals; Queens; Tragedies.;
- © [2010], c1998., New American Library,
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- Y2K : how the 2000s became everything : (essays on the future that never was) / by Shade, Colette,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229)."Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in. THE EARLY 2000s conjures images of inflatable furniture, flip phones, and low-rise jeans. It was a new millennium and the future looked bright, promising prosperity for all. The internet had arrived, and technology was shiny and fun. For many, it felt like the end of history: no more wars, racism, or sexism. But then history kept happening. Twenty-five years after the ball dropped on December 31st, 1999, we are still living in the shadows of the Y2K Era. In Y2K, one of our most brilliant young critics Colette Shade offers a darkly funny meditation on everything from the pop culture to the political economy of the period. By close reading Y2K artifacts like the Hummer H2, Smash Mouth's "All Star," body glitter, AOL chatrooms, Total Request Live, and early internet porn, Shade produces an affectionate yet searing critique of a decade that started with a boom and ended with a crash. In one essay Colette unpacks how hearing Ludacris's hit song "What's Your Fantasy" shaped a generation's sexual awakening; in another she interrogates how her eating disorder developed as rail-thin models from the collapsed USSR flooded the pages of Vogue; in another she reveals how the McMansion became an ominous symbol of the housing collapse."--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Shade, Colette.; Popular culture; Popular culture; Two thousand, A.D.; Two thousands (Decade); Year 2000 date conversion (Computer systems); Two thousands (Decade);
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- I hope we choose love : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world / by Thom, Kai Cheng,author.;
"What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse."-- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Essays.; Thom, Kai Cheng.; Canadian essays; Conduct of life.; Forgiveness.; Love;
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- Not that bad : dispatches from rape culture / by Gay, Roxane,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references.
- Subjects: Essays.; Rape; Sex crimes;
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- A thousand small sanities : the moral adventure of liberalism / by Gopnik, Adam,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
- Subjects: Essays.; Liberalism; Liberalism;
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- In other worlds : SF and the human imagination / by Atwood, Margaret,1939-;
Includes bibliographical references.
- Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Essays.; Science fiction; Science fiction; Speculative fiction;
- © c2011., Signal,
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- The nineties : a book / by Klosterman, Chuck,1972-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--
- Subjects: Popular culture;
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- Shadow of the lions : a novel / by Swann, Christopher,1970-author.;
"How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? A prestigious boys' boarding school. A best friend's betrayal. A decades-old mystery of a missing student. In this sharp literary thriller, Matthias Glass gets drawn into his past as he attempts to come to terms with the long-ago disappearance of his prep-school roommate -- and to become the man he is meant to be. In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's roommate and best friend Fritz Davenport runs off into the woods after the two boys have an argument -- and vanishes without a trace. Ever since, Matthias has felt responsible, thinking that their fight, about a betrayal of the school's honor code, led to Fritz's disappearance. A decade later, after an early triumph with his first novel, followed by too much partying and too little work, Matthias realizes he has stalled out, become a failure as a writer, a boyfriend, a man. So when he is offered a job at Blackburne as an English teacher, he sees it as a chance to put his life back together. But once on campus, Matthias gets swiftly drawn into the past, and is driven to find out what happened to Fritz. Along the way he must reckon with Fritz's complicated and powerful Washington, D.C., family, the shocking death of a student, and begin to understand his own place in the privileged world of Blackburne. In the spirit of film noir, Shadow of the Lions is a tale full of unexpected turns -- a thriller, but also a moving story that is as much about the mystery as it is about the redemption of a broken friendship and a lost soul"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); English teachers; Missing children; Preparatory school students; Preparatory schools;
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