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Matchup / by Child, Lee,editor.;
"In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille. The stories are edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction);
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Entitled : how male privilege hurts women / by Manne, Kate,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called "jaw-droppingly brilliant." In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and "Cat Person" to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren, Manne shows how privileged men's sense of entitlement--to sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, medical care, bodily autonomy, knowledge, and power--is a pervasive social problem with often devastating consequences. In clear, lucid prose, she argues that male entitlement can explain a wide array of phenomena, from mansplaining and the undertreatment of women's pain to mass shootings by incels and the seemingly intractable notion that women are "unelectable." Moreover, Manne implicates each of us in toxic masculinity: It's not just a product of a few bad actors; it's something we all perpetuate, conditioned as we are by the social and cultural currents of our time. The only way to combat it, she says, is to expose the flaws in our default modes of thought, while enabling women to take up space, say their piece, and muster resistance to the entitled attitudes of the men around them. With wit and intellectual fierceness, Manne sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to our collective care and concern"--
Subjects: Entitlement attitudes.; Male domination (Social structure); Misogyny.; Privilege (Social psychology); Sex role.;
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Pioneer summer : a novel / by Malisova, Elena,author.; Fisher, Anne O.,translator.; Sylvanova, Kateryna,author.;
"This star-crossed gay romance is a #1 bestselling TikTok sensation that took readers by storm, made international news, and catalyzed one of Russia's largest-ever crackdowns on LGBTQ representation. The year is 1986, and Yurka Konev, 16, has been sent off for another summer at Pioneer Camp. Impulsive, forthright, and unfairly branded as a troublemaker, he anticipates the weeks ahead of him with boredom and dread. But when he's pushed into working on the camp's theater production, he meets serious, thoughtful troop leader Volodya. Yurka finds himself drawn to the slightly older boy, and, surprisingly, Volodya seems to like him, too. The two boys grow closer and closer, and though both fear the consequences of their illegal attraction, its gravity pulls them together. Now, 20 years later, Yury returns to the abandoned camp to reminisce on the relationship that changed his life forever -- and discovers that not all history is destined to remain in the past. Cowritten by a Ukrainian-Russian duo, Pioneer summer became a runaway TikTok sensation and #1 bestseller in Russia, reaching such heights of popularity that Putin stepped in to ban it. Now, this swoony romance will transport American readers to another place and time and introduce them to one of the most memorable relationships of their lives"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Gay fiction.; Queer fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Camps; Gay teenagers; Male friendship;
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The band : a novel / by Ma-Kellams, Christine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The biting literary satire of The Sellout meets the pulsing thrill of Mouth to Mouth in this darkly humorous, surreal debut about a seductive, but problematic bond between an unhappily married therapist and the cancelled K-Pop idol she meets at a Los Angeles H Mart"--
Subjects: Black humor.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Male singers; Man-woman relationships; Married women; Popular music; Women psychologists;
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Ruth run : a novel / by Kaufman, Elizabeth,1967-author.;
"An ingeniously twisty, witty, and fast-paced cybercrime chase novel in which the eponymous thief, who has stolen several lifetimes worth of money, flees northern California and makes her way across Oregon, Idaho, and Utah with a slew of men in pursuit, the relationships between herself and her male pursuers shaped by the protagonists' respective interpretations of the traces each leave in the cyberworld"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Computer crimes; Criminals; Robbery; Stalkers;
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A bloom in winter / by Ward, J. R.,1969-author.;
'A Bloom in Winter' is another sexy, high-stakes holiday spinoff instalment of the 'Black Dagger Brotherhood' series about a fighter who has never been a saviour who finds himself falling in love--and trying to rescue--a male who's lost all hope.
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Queer fiction.; Werewolf fiction.; Vampire fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Romance fiction.; Erotic fiction.; Novels.; Man-man relationships; Shapeshifting; Vampires; Werewolves;
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Two for the road / by Doyle, Roddy,1958-author.;
"Another round of two pints from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of Roddy Doyle. Two men meet for a pint--or three--in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights and mourn friends gone: David Bowie, Prince, Princess Leia and Young Frankenstein. Around them the world of Brexit, Trump, and referendums storm, but some things--good things--never change"--Publisher description.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Male friendship; Bars (Drinking establishments);
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Black tunnel white magic : a murder, a detective's obsession, and '90s Los Angeles at the brink / by Jackson, Rick,author.; Connelly, Michael,1956-writer of foreword.; McGough, Matthew,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This is the story of Rick Jackson, a famed LA homicide detective and eventual cold case investigator, and the case that he's never managed to let go. In June 1990, a white male UCLA student was found stabbed to death in a tunnel near the infamous Spahn Ranch, where Charles Manson and his followers had lived. That night, Jackson and his partner, Frank Garcia, were called on the scene and soon focused their investigation on the young man's two male roommates, one Black and one white. Nothing about the case made sense, though- not the relationship between these young men, not the potential influence of Wicca (then a trend among youth, and closely tied to the moral panic around Satanism), not the justice system that tried the two roommates very differently, and not Los Angeles itself, which was and remains a fraught tinderbox of racial bias and violence. In straightforward, matter-of-fact prose, Jackson takes us through the events as he and his partner experienced them, with no foreknowledge of information that would emerge later in the case. Readers will feel as though they are a fly on the wall, piecing together the truth about what happened to Ron Baker as the detectives did themselves, day by day and clue by clue"--
Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; Personal narratives.; Murder; Murder; Race relations.;
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The storyteller [sound recording] : tales of life and music / by Grohl, David,author,narrator.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author."In The Storyteller, a collection of moments from all periods of his life, Dave Grohl offers something rare--a real, raw, and honest portrait of an extraordinary life made up of ordinary moments. From his visceral love for music and his fellow musicians, to his deep connection to his hometown of Springfield, Virginia, to the way he writes with awe about raising his daughters, Dave Grohl tells stories like he writes songs--from his soul. Packed with reflections on touring with Scream, joining Nirvana and watching it all crumble, creating Foo Fighters when his life was a crossroads, and now crisscrossing the world as a family man, The Storytelling is brimming with life, humor, and Dave's clear-eye perspective on fame"--Book jacket.
Subjects: Biographies.; Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; Grohl, David.; Foo Fighters (Musical group); Nirvana (Musical group); Drummers (Musicians); Male singers; Rock groups; Rock musicians;
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Girl decoded : a scientist's quest to reclaim our humanity by bringing emotional intelligence to technology / by El Kaliouby, Rana,author.; Colman, Carol,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and scientist provides an intimate view of her personal transformation as she follows her calling-to humanize our technology and how we connect with one another. Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male. Growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, el Kaliouby was raised by a strict father who valued tradition-yet also had high expectations for his daughters-and a mother who was one of the first female computer programmers in the Middle East. Even before el Kaliouby broke ground as a scientist, she broke the rules of what it meant to be an obedient daughter and, later, an obedient wife to pursue her own daring dream. After earning her PhD at Cambridge, el Kaliouby, now the divorced mother of two, moved to America to pursue her mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us. The majority of our communication is conveyed through nonverbal cues: facial expressions, tone of voice, body language. But that communication is lost when we interact with others through our smartphones and devices. The result is an emotion-blind digital universe that impairs the very intelligence and capabilities-including empathy-that distinguish human beings from our machines. To combat our fundamental loss of emotional intelligence online, she cofounded Affectiva, the pioneer in the new field of Emotion AI, allowing our technology to understand humans the way we understand one another. Girl Decoded chronicles el Kaliouby's journey from being a "nice Egyptian girl" to becoming a woman, carving her own path as she revolutionizes technology. But decoding herself-learning to express and act on her own emotions-would prove to be the biggest challenge of all"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; El Kaliouby, Rana.; Women computer scientists; Women scientists; Egyptian American women; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence;
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