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At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York / by Gopnik, Adam,author.;
"A vivid memoir that captures the energy, ambition, and romance of New York in the 80s from the beloved New Yorker writer, to stand alongside his bestselling Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife Martha Parker left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young and the arty and ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. At the Stranger's Gate builds a portrait of this moment in New York through the story of their journey -- from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Gopnik transports us to their tiny basement room on the Upper East Side -- the smallest apartment in Manhattan -- and later to SoHo, where he captures a unicorn: an affordable New York loft. Between tender, laugh-out-loud reminiscences, including affectionate portraits of New York luminaries from Richard Avedon to Robert Hughes and Jeff Koons, Gopnik takes us into the corridors of Condé Nast, the galleries of MoMA and many places between to illuminate the fascinating world capital of creativity and aspiration that is New York, then and now"--
Subjects: Gopnik, Adam; Gopnik, Adam;
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A stranger on the beach [sound recording] / by Campbell, Michele,1962-author.; LaVoy, January,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by January LaVoy."From the bestselling author of It's Always the Husband comes a novel about a love triangle that begins on a fateful night ... There is a stranger outside Caroline's house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought she'd have. But her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aidan, shows up as a bartender at the same party where Caroline and her husband have a very public fight, it doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary. As her marriage collapses around her and the lavish lifestyle she's built for herself starts to crumble, Caroline turns to Aidan for comfort ... and revenge. After a brief and desperate fling that means nothing to Caroline and everything to him, Aidan's obsession with Caroline, her family, and her house grows more and more disturbing. And when Caroline's husband goes missing, her life descends into a nightmare that leaves her accused of her own husband's murder. A Stranger on the Beach is Strangers on a Train meets Fatal Attraction in Michele Campbell's edge-of your-seat story of passion and intrigue."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Adultery; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Murder; Stalking; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
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Stories From a Stranger : Every Person Has a Story. by Prosper, Hunter.;
'Stories From a Stranger' is a collection of 100 deeply personal stories - covering universial experiences such as love and heartbreak, growth and resilience - brought to life by the creator of the wildly popular TikTok account @HunterProsper.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies; SELF-HELP / Motivational & Inspirational; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues;
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Strangers in the land : exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America / by Luo, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From New Yorker editor and writer Michael Luo, a vivid, urgent history of two centuries of Chinese exclusion and the birth of anti-Asian feeling in America. In 1889, when the Supreme Court upheld the Chinese Exclusion Act-a measure barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States that remained in effect for more than fifty years -- Justice Stephen Johnson Field characterized the Chinese as a people "residing apart by themselves." They were, Field concluded, "strangers in the land." Today, there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States, yet this label still hovers over Asian Americans. In Strangers in the Land, Luo traces anti-Asian feeling in America to the first wave of immigrants from China in the mid-nineteenth-century: laborers who traveled to California in search of gold and railroad work. Their communities almost immediately faced mobs of white vigilantes who drove them from their workplaces and homes. In his rich, character-driven history, Luo tells stories like that of Denis Kearney, the sandlot demagogue who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement, and of activists who fought back, like Massachusetts Senator George Frisbie Hoar and newspaperman Wong Chin Foo. After the halt on immigration in 1889, the Chinese-American community who remained struggled to survive and thrive on the margins of American life. In 1965, when LBJ's Immigration and Nationality Act forbade discrimination by national origin, America opened its doors wide to families like those of Luo's parents, but he finds that the centuries of exclusion of Chinese-Americans left a legacy: many Asians are still treated, and feel, like outsiders today. Strangers in the Land is a sweeping narrative of a forgotten chapter in American history, and a reminder that America's present reflects its exclusionary past"--
Subjects: United States.; Chinese Americans; Chinese;
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The stranger in the mirror : a novel / by Constantine, Liv,author.;
Addison's about to get married, but she's not looking forward to the big day. It's not her fiancé; he's a wonderful man. It's because Addison doesn't know who she really is. A few years ago, a kind driver found her bleeding next to a New Jersey highway and rescued her. While her physical wounds healed, Addison's memory never returned. She doesn't know her real name. Or how she ended up injured on the side of a road. Or why she can't shake the notion that she may have done something very, very bad ... In a posh home in the Boston suburbs, Julian tries to figure out what happened to his loving, caring wife, Cassandra, who disappeared without a trace two years ago. She would never have left him and their seven-year-old daughter Valentina of her own free will -- or would she? As these two lives intersect, The Stranger in the Mirror hooks readers with riveting drama, told with Liv Constantine's hallmark blend of glamour, tense psychological thrills, and jaw-dropping twists.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Amnesiacs;
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Strangers in a new land : what archaeology reveals about the first Americans / by Adovasio, J. M.; Pedler, David.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.A look at 35 archaeological sites across the Americas which are being excavated in order to determine the date of the first arrival of Native Americans.LSC
Subjects: Paleo-Indians.; Excavations (Archaeology);
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Strangers in the house : a prairie story of bigotry and belonging / by Savage, Candace,1949-author.; David Suzuki Institute.;
Subjects: Blondin, Napoléon Sureau dit.; Racism;
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I won't go with strangers / by Geisler, Dagmar,1958-;
As Lu waits in the rain after school, many people offer to take her home but she will only go with someone on the list of those allowed to pick her up. Includes resources for adults and a form for the reader to make his or her own list, with a parent or guardian's help.LSC
Subjects: Strangers; Safety education; Kidnapping; Children and strangers;
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The stranger at the wedding : a novel / by Gauntlett, A. E.,author.;
"Before love at first sight, there were things no one saw. Annie never much believed in love. That is, until meeting Mark. After crossing paths on morning commutes, they connect at a group counseling session for trauma survivors. Each recognizes something in the other, though both hide their own troubled pasts. It's a whirlwind romance that propels Annie through their courtship, all the way to her wedding day-a day she couldn't have predicted for herself once upon a time yet now feels surer about than anything in her life. But as Annie stands at the altar, casting her eyes over the rows of well-wishers, she spots a stranger in the crowd, and she soon learns that her new life isn't going to be the happily ever after that she had planned. Who is the stranger at the wedding? What really happened to Mark's first wife? And was Annie and Mark's meeting as random as it first appeared, or is something more sinister at work? A sizzling thriller, The Stranger at the Wedding will make you think twice before saying "I do.""--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Strangers; Weddings;
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Strangers at the Red Door : A Novel. by Bock, Dennis.;
In 'Strangers at the Red Door', a foreign ghostwriter visiting Hong Kong partners up with the disembodied spirit of the most dangerous novelist in China to find a local bookseller whos been disappeared by the authorities after attempting to smuggle the novelists subversive masterpiece onto the mainland. Dennis Bock lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of 'The Good German'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Magical Realism; FICTION / Political;
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