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O sinners! : a novel / by Cuffy, Nicole,author.;
"Faruq Zaidi, a young journalist reeling from the recent death of his father, a devout Muslim, takes the opportunity to embed in a cult called The Nameless. Based in the California redwoods and shepherded by an enigmatic Vietnam War-veteran named Odo, The Nameless adhere to the 18 Utterances, including teachings such as "THERE IS NO GOD BUT THE NAMELESS," "ALL SUFFERING IS DISTORTION," and "SEE ONLY BEAUTY." Faruq, skeptical but committed to unraveling the mystery of The Nameless, extends his stay over months, as he gets deeper into the cult's inner workings, compassionate teachings, and closer to Odo. Faruq himself begins to unravel, forced to come-to-terms with the memories he has been running from while trying to resist Odo's spell. Told in three seamlessly interwoven threads between Faruq's present-day investigation, Odo's time before the formation of the movement as a Black infantryman during the Vietnam War, alongside three other Black soldiers, and a documentary script that recounts The Nameless' clash with a Texan fundamentalist church, O SINNERS! examines both longing and belonging. Ultimately the novel asks: What is it that we seek from cults and, inevitably, from each other?"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Belonging (Social psychology); Cults; Journalists; Veterans;
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Home is where the birds sing / by Rylant, Cynthia.; Harnett, Katie.;
Illustrations and text celebrate the many things--both big and small--that make a place feel like home.LSC
Subjects: Home; Belonging (Social psychology); Families;
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The boy crisis : why our boys are struggling and what we can do about it / by Farrell, Warren,author.; Gray, John,1951-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Boys; Boys;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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After nightfall / by Banner, A. J.,author.;
Gripping thriller about an engagement party gone fatally awry. Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you. Years later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. But seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining everyone's evening. After an awful night, your friend's battered, lifeless body is found at the bottom of a rocky cliff. Newly engaged Marissa Parlette is living this nightmare. She should be celebrating her upcoming wedding, but she can't shake the image of her friend lying dead on the beach. Did she fall? Was she pushed? Or did she take a purposeful step into darkness? Desperate for answers, Marissa digs deep into the events of the party. But what she remembers happening after nightfall now carries sinister implications: the ugly sniping, the clandestine meetings, the drunken flirtations. The more she investigates, the more she questions everything she thought she knew about her friends, the man she once trusted, and even herself. Bestselling author A. J. Banner keeps readers on a razor-sharp edge in this intricately plotted novel of psychological suspense ... in which nothing is as it seems.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Female friendship; Alienation (Social psychology); Death; Investigations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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This is your brain on stereotypes : how science is tackling unconscious bias / by Kyi, Tanya Lloyd,1973-; Shannon, Drew,1988-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Explores how to recognize stereotypes, why they can be harmful and how to combat them.LSC
Subjects: Stereotypes (Social psychology); Discrimination; Prejudices;
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Universal human : creating authentic power and the new consciousness / by Zukav, Gary,author.;
"The author of the legendary #1 New York Times bestseller The Seat of the Soul shows us step-by-fascinating-step how to create a life of love and where that now leads"--
Subjects: Choice (Psychology); Consciousness.; Control (Psychology); Creative ability.; Love.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Social change.;
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Deep cuts : a novel / by Brickley, Holly,author.;
"For anyone who loved High Fidelity and wants a woman's perspective on the early aughts music scene, Deep Cuts is both a love story between two people whose timing is always off, and a love letter to the thing that moves all of us-music"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Belonging (Social psychology); Composers; Man-woman relationships; Music;
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Supplication : a novel / by Abi-Nakhoul, Nour,author.;
"A hallucinatory literary horror novel set deeply in the consciousness of a woman exploring a changed and frightening world. Our protagonist wakes up in a basement, tied to a chair, with a man looming over her. But someone has a knife. We follow her as she emerges from captivity into an unnamed, nightmarish city, seeking some meaning to her new reality. As figures emerge from the night, some offer sanctuary, and others judgement, but she keeps moving, making her way through this fever dream of a narrative. SUPPLICATION is a haunting, embodied tale of displacement, fear, and the quest for respite."--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Alienation (Social psychology); Cities and towns; Fear; Women;
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Rules of estrangement : why adult children cut ties and how to heal the conflict / by Coleman, Joshua,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to reestablish contact with their adult children"--
Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology); Parent and adult child.; Parents; Adult children; Interpersonal conflict.; Conflict management.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Outrage machine : how tech amplifies discontent, disrupts democracy--and what we can do about it / by Rose-Stockwell, Tobias,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Over the last two decades, there has been an inescapable rise of anger and aggression across our planet. Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent online, Western governments are turning towards authoritarianism and populism, and extremist groups are rising across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful opinions, we're seeing more threats and frightening news, and we're reacting faster and less rationally. The cause is hidden in plain sight: for the first time, almost all of the information we consume as a species is being controlled and curated by algorithms designed to capture our emotional attention. This, media researcher and strategic advisor Tobias Rose-Stockwell argues, is the outrage machine. It is the wide-cast net of social media that is propelled by tech, has been exploited by all of us, and which has been allowed to steadily replace our newspapers, emergency communication systems, town halls, churches, and more. In the vein of The Righteous Mind and Factfulness, Outrage Machine is a big-think book that explores the unintended consequences of this alarming shift in today's smartphone era--and shows us how to navigate the world we now live in. First, he explains how and why we've become addicted to not just technology, but outrage itself. Since social media algorithms now favor the most inflammatory content because it gets the highest engagement, the levels of righteousness, certainty, and extreme judgment in our daily interactions have increased as well. Next, he shows us why we're more prone to panic, and how the immediate dispersion of our panic can be more dangerous than the threat itself-and can bypass necessary confirmation of the accuracy and potential harm of this information. Rose-Stockwell also explores how the original intent of many of our social tools has been compromised, from improving click-through rates for charitable causes to catalyzing our current culture of click-baiting and sensationalism on an unparalleled scale. Fortunately, Outrage Machine is not just a warning--it's also a critical guide that clearly explains the underlying machinery that has come to control us, and a compass to help guide people toward reflection rather than reaction. The culmination of 15 years of research and inquiry, this book gives readers a language with which to comprehend what is happening to society, and offers new mental models for how to manage our time, our technology, and our attention. It also offers big-picture recommendations for how to redesign these platforms, as well as methods for fixing this broken system before it "fixes" us"--
Subjects: Democracy.; Information society.; Social media; Social media.; Hate;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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