Jess's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:57:20 -0700 60 Jess's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis]]> 217182475 A vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling leftist Malcolm Harris� “a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable� (Vulture).

Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem can be paralyzing, especially when corporations are actively staving off changes that could save the planet but which might threaten their bottom lines. To quote Greta Thunberg, despite very clear science and very real devastation, the adults at the table are still saying “blah blah blah.� Something has to change—but what, and how?

In What's Left, acclaimed writer and public intellectual Malcolm Harris cuts through the noise and gets real about our remaining options for saving the world. Just as humans have caused climate change, we hold the power to avert a climate apocalypse, but that will only happen through collective political action. Harris outlines the three strategies—progressive, socialist, and revolutionary—that have any chance of succeeding, while also revealing that none of them can succeed on their own. What's Left shows how we must combine them into a single a meta-strategy, one that will ensure we can move forward together rather than squabbling over potential solutions while the world burns.

Vital and transformative, What's Left is the guidebook we need at the moment we need it most. It confirms Malcolm Harris as next-generation David Graeber or Mike Davis—a historian-activist who shows us where we stand and how we got here, while also blazing a path toward a brighter future.]]> 320 Malcolm Harris 0316577413 Jess 0 to-read 4.15 2025 What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis
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]]> <![CDATA[Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World]]> 138505710
Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience―she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?

Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us―and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.

Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now―and an intellectual adventure story for our times.]]> 416 Naomi Klein 0374610320 Jess 0 to-read 4.21 2023 Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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]]> <![CDATA[Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World]]> 61108472 The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip assemblers, showing how Northern California created the world as we know it

Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley, whose products are changing how we do everything from driving around to eating food. It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system.

In PALO ALTO, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing the ideologies, technologies, and policies that have been engineered there over the course of 150 years of Anglo settler colonialism, from IQ tests to the "tragedy of the commons," racial genetics, and "broken windows" theory. The Internet and computers, too. It's a story about how a small American suburb became a powerful engine for economic growth and war, and how it came to lead the world into a surprisingly disastrous 21st century. PALO ALTO is an urgent and visionary history of the way we live now, one that ends with a clear-eyed, radical proposition for how we might begin to change course.]]> 720 Malcolm Harris 031659203X Jess 0 currently-reading 3.92 2023 Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
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]]> <![CDATA[Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Volume 43)]]> 12263024 256 Veronika Fuechtner 0520258371 Jess 4
The arts, culture and politics in Berlin often focused on treating “war neurosis� in individuals, and the societal-level poverty and broken national spirit following the First World War. Even before the Nazis ascended power, analysts argued for and against taking on contemporary politics and how analysts should attempt to shift the broken culture. We hear this comin continue in debates about what role politics plays in the consulting room today.

It is terrifying to read about how so many of the most prominent members of the Berlin psychoanalytic either fled or were killed by the Nazis. The Nazis attempted to remove Jews from psychoanalysis, as they feared the power of a revolutionary cultural force created by and mostly practiced by Jews. In the face of this terror, there was debate about whether analysis should be “preserved at all costs� or whether analytic Institutes should somehow try and compromise with the national socialist party. Many non-Jewish analysts were antisemitic themselves and tried to curry favor with Hitler, even though their own books were banned, for being a part of the Jewish art of psychoanalysis! Spoiler alert: compromise never works. A lesson that the psychology community must take to heart today, when fascist forces would co-opt any kind of healing we do toward harmful ableist and gender critical ideology.

One of the most compelling parts of the book is the origin of varying theories and intellectual debates within the discipline. There were Zionist analysts and anti-Zionist analysts. Analysts differed in their understanding of human nature, and with the central ideas of Freud. Many analysts saw psychoanalysis as a means of changing society for good, while others were apolitical throughout their entire careers.

This is a dense, academic read. It’s a bit dry as a result, but the chapter on (the utterly ridiculous) Georg Groddeck and Count Hermann von Keyserling was utterly juicy and filled with psychoanalytic tea, still piping hot after all these years. These two reminded me A LOT of current culty Instagram “healers.� I have longed for an intellectually rigorous review of the psychology and sociology of these cranks, and reading about some of their forefathers was satisfying in this regard. I also loved reading about the evolution of Karen Horney’s feminism; she is a name I haven’t heard since college but she provided one of the most necessary interventions in the movement’s (corny, misguided)understanding of gender. I’m also super interested Alfred Döblin’s true crime novel “Two Girlfriends Commit Murder� � lesbian psychological pulp at its origin.]]> 3.86 2011 Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Volume 43)
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A fascinating, chilling, academic read. Fuechter provides detailed research and makes connections between the burgeoning analytic movement, the sexological science community, the Marxists of the Frankfurt school, and the contemporary arts movements in Berlin, demonstrating that many analysts were involved in arts and literature themselves, were studying sexology, incorporating socialism into medicine, and that the inspiration was mutual. She highlights correspondences and friendships and rivalries from within the discipline, which echo today.

The arts, culture and politics in Berlin often focused on treating “war neurosis� in individuals, and the societal-level poverty and broken national spirit following the First World War. Even before the Nazis ascended power, analysts argued for and against taking on contemporary politics and how analysts should attempt to shift the broken culture. We hear this comin continue in debates about what role politics plays in the consulting room today.

It is terrifying to read about how so many of the most prominent members of the Berlin psychoanalytic either fled or were killed by the Nazis. The Nazis attempted to remove Jews from psychoanalysis, as they feared the power of a revolutionary cultural force created by and mostly practiced by Jews. In the face of this terror, there was debate about whether analysis should be “preserved at all costs� or whether analytic Institutes should somehow try and compromise with the national socialist party. Many non-Jewish analysts were antisemitic themselves and tried to curry favor with Hitler, even though their own books were banned, for being a part of the Jewish art of psychoanalysis! Spoiler alert: compromise never works. A lesson that the psychology community must take to heart today, when fascist forces would co-opt any kind of healing we do toward harmful ableist and gender critical ideology.

One of the most compelling parts of the book is the origin of varying theories and intellectual debates within the discipline. There were Zionist analysts and anti-Zionist analysts. Analysts differed in their understanding of human nature, and with the central ideas of Freud. Many analysts saw psychoanalysis as a means of changing society for good, while others were apolitical throughout their entire careers.

This is a dense, academic read. It’s a bit dry as a result, but the chapter on (the utterly ridiculous) Georg Groddeck and Count Hermann von Keyserling was utterly juicy and filled with psychoanalytic tea, still piping hot after all these years. These two reminded me A LOT of current culty Instagram “healers.� I have longed for an intellectually rigorous review of the psychology and sociology of these cranks, and reading about some of their forefathers was satisfying in this regard. I also loved reading about the evolution of Karen Horney’s feminism; she is a name I haven’t heard since college but she provided one of the most necessary interventions in the movement’s (corny, misguided)understanding of gender. I’m also super interested Alfred Döblin’s true crime novel “Two Girlfriends Commit Murder� � lesbian psychological pulp at its origin.
]]> <![CDATA[Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation]]> 22760492 292 Janina Fisher 0415708230 Jess 0 to-read 4.51 2016 Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
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]]> <![CDATA[An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society]]> 187951
Terry's overarching argument is that homosexuality served as a marker of the "abnormal" against which malleable, tenuous, and often contradictory concepts of the "normal" were defined. One of the few histories to take into consideration homosexuality in both women and men, Terry's work also stands out in its refusal to erase the agency of people classified as abnormal. She documents the myriad ways that gays, lesbians, and other sexual minorities have coauthored, resisted, and transformed the most powerful and authoritative modern truths about sex. Proposing this history as a "useable past," An American Obsession is an indispensable contribution to the study of American cultural history.]]> 551 Jennifer Terry 0226793672 Jess 0 to-read 3.97 1999 An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society
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]]> <![CDATA[But I Didn’t Say Goodbye: Helping Families After a Suicide]]> 50307826 But I Didn't Say Goodbye are a compilation of what individuals may experience throughout their lifetime as a suicide loss survivor. But I Didn't Say Goodbye: Helping Families After a Suicide tells the story, from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy, Alex, and his family, as they are rocked by suicide and reeling from the aftermath. Through Alex's eyes, the reader will see the transformation of feelings after going through a death by suicide.

New to the third edition, each chapter ends with Alex reflecting 10 years later on his experience, introducing family members and friends in his recollections. Barbara Rubel has combined our modern academic theories of grieving, and the research that supports those theories, and then translated them into a readable story for anyone bereaved by suicide. The revised edition is an evidence-informed and contemporary treatment of a devastating form of loss that uses the artful device of a hypothetical case study to render it in human terms.

Through the story, the reader will understand what losing someone to suicide might be like for a family, how to make meaning in the loss, and ways to experience personal growth. This self-help book was revised to provide guidance and education for clinicians (e.g., mental health providers, social workers, psychologists, school counselors, and case managers) and families to help suicide loss survivors.

Part 1 offers a basic understanding of suicide postvention, suicide loss survivors, complicated grief, mourning theories, the American death system, and the impact on clinician survivors. Chapters have been substantially updated, based on mourning models and the latest research. The chapters in Part 2 build upon one another sequentially, from the day of the suicide to the anniversary of the death. At the end of each chapter, there are follow-up questions to explore in counseling sessions, support groups, therapy sessions, or at home. Also, at the end of each chapter, Alex, at the age of 21, reflects back on how his father's death by suicide has changed his life, wounding him, but also helping him to grow.]]> 220 Barbara Rubel 1892906023 Jess 0 currently-reading 3.84 1999 But I Didn’t Say Goodbye: Helping Families After a Suicide
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]]> <![CDATA[Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy]]> 211080280 192 Lucas Wilson 1805011324 Jess 0 to-read 4.29 Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy
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]]> <![CDATA[Psychoanalysis Under Occupation (Psychoanalytic Political Theory)]]> 57643718 232 Lara Sheehi 1138596205 Jess 0 to-read 4.46 Psychoanalysis Under Occupation (Psychoanalytic Political Theory)
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]]> Somebody's Daughter 54860610 One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins.

For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands her. She thinks she understands him too. He's sensitive like her, an artist, and maybe even just as afraid of the dark. She's certain that one day they'll be reunited again, and she'll finally feel complete. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there.

Through poverty, puberty, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley returns to her image of her father for hope and encouragement. She doesn't know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates; when the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley finally finds out why her father is in prison. And that's where the story really begins.

Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she provides a poignant coming-of-age recollection that speaks to finding the threads between who you are and what you were born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.]]> 224 Ashley C. Ford 1250305977 Jess 0 currently-reading 4.02 2021 Somebody's Daughter
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]]> <![CDATA[The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets]]> 18808278
where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from?

why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages?

how the custom of kissing began?

whether there really was a female pope?

why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince?
The answers to these and countless other intriguing questions are given in this compulsively readable, feminist encyclopedia. Twenty-five years in preparation, this unique, comprehensive sourcebook focuses on mythology anthropology, religion, and sexuality to uncover precisely what other encyclopedias leave out or misrepresent. The Woman's Encyclopedia presents the fascinating stories behind word origins, legends, superstitions, and customs. A browser's delight and an indispensable resource, it offers 1,350 entries on magic, witchcraft, fairies, elves, giants, goddesses, gods, and psychological anomalies such as demonic possession; the mystical meanings of sun, moon, earth, sea, time, and space; ideas of the soul, reincarnation, creation and doomsday; ancient and modern attitudes toward sex, prostitution, romance, rape, warfare, death and sin, and more.

Tracing these concepts to their prepatriarchal origins, Barbara G. Walker explores a "thousand hidden pockets of history and custom in addition to the valuable material recovered by archaeologists, orientalists, and other scholars."

Not only a compendium of fascinating lore and scholarship, The Woman's Encyclopedia is a revolutionary book that offers a rare opportunity for both women and men to see our cultural heritage in a fresh light, and draw upon the past for a more humane future.]]> 1124 Barbara G. Walker Jess 0 to-read 4.38 1983 The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
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]]> <![CDATA[Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers]]> 48765886 What makes sex magnificent? What are the qualities of extraordinary erotic intimacy and what are the elements that help to bring it about? Is great sex the stuff that people remember nostalgically from the honeymoon phase of their relationships, or can sex improve over time?

Magnificent Sex is based on the largest, in-depth interview study ever conducted with people who are having extraordinary sex. It gathers the nuggets for remarkable sex from the experts, distilling them into an attainable blueprint for ordinary lovers who want to make erotic intimacy grow over the course of a lifetime. Looking at factors including individual and relational qualities, empathic communication and the myths and realities of magnificent sex, this book offers accessible and evidence-based guidance for lovers and therapists alike.

It is replete with frank and often humorous interviews with straight and LGBTQ individuals and couples, those who are vanilla and kinky, monogamous and consensually non-monogamous and healthy and chronically ill. This illuminating book explores the implications of the findings to develop a model that effectively tackles the common problems of low desire and frequency. The cure for low desire is to create desirable sex!]]> 204 Peggy J. Kleinplatz Jess 0 to-read 3.94 Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers
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]]> <![CDATA[Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor]]> 27258388
We see Taylor the child actress exchanging dogs and horses for husbands. We see Burton emerging from the mists and brimstone of Wales to be the greatest theatrical animal of his generation. The pair come together in Rome during the making of Cleopatra, which gives Lewis the opportunity for a major farcical set-piece. We then enter a world of jewels and private jets, vodka, yachts and furs - the splendid vulgarity of the Sixties, where the narrative of Taylor and Burton becomes a Pop Art story.

Then, inevitably, it all goes wrong, with alcoholism, violence, recrimination and divorce ( twice ) - with Burton, whom Lewis depicts as a Faustus figure, damned by fame, dead at fifty-eight.

Stephen Fry has said, 'It is one of the very best biographies I have ever read. One of the best books about fame, desire, Hollywood and mid-to-late twentieth century culture ever written. Inside which, brilliant, hilarious and sensitive insights on all manner of subjects fizz and froth. Magnificent, terrible, tragic, triumphant.']]> 605 Roger Lewis 0857381725 Jess 0 to-read 3.65 Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
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]]> Texas: The Great Theft 23282285
"A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"�Miami Herald

An imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa shows herself to be at the height of her powers with her latest novel. Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Texas is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex borderland. Boullosa views border history through distinctly Mexican eyes, and her sympathetic portrayal of each of her wildly diverse characters—Mexican ranchers and Texas Rangers, Comanches and cowboys, German socialists and runaway slaves, Southern belles and dancehall girls—makes her storytelling tremendously powerful and absorbing.

Shedding important historical light on current battles over the Mexican–American frontier while telling a gripping story with Boullosa's singular prose and formal innovation, Texas marks the welcome return of a major writer who has previously captivated American audiences and is poised to do so again.

Carmen Boullosa (b. 1954) is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. Author of seventeen novels, her books have been translated into numerous world languages. Recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship, Boullosa is currently Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York.

Samantha Schnee is founding editor and chairman of the board of Words Without Borders. She has also been a senior editor with Zoetrope, and her translations have appeared in the Guardian, Granta, and the New York Times.]]> 283 Carmen Boullosa 1941920004 Jess 4 currently-reading
The first 50 pages are the author nimbly charting the passage of this news through the community, as servants tell masters tell wives tell friends tell errand boys tell fishermen, etc. The effect is both gossipy and also a people's history. Boullosa holds the enormous complexity of each of the character's points of view. We are inside each character's head as they evaluate how they feel about Nepomuceno, the vaquero, and the sheriff and what they stand to lose or gain from a war between the two factions. The narrator describes herself as a "busybody." We learn who is fucking whom and who has an upset stomach alongside learning who is benefitting from the gringos slowly stealing land across Mexico. Boullosa represents how various native tribes, the gringos, Mexicans of all social classes, children and adults, men and women, all hold various opinions of what's going on. The narrator is very matter-of-fact: she shares who has raped and who has been raped, and then the story moves on.

This is a fantastic way to learn the multiplicities of fictionalized history. However, it's a LOT to keep in one's mind. I was reading this before bed and got really confused.


]]> 3.67 2013 Texas: The Great Theft
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This novel was so cool! Boullosa takes a plot from history -- the folk hero, a wealthy Mexican landowner's son named Nepomuceno, defends a drunken cowboy from the incompetent gringo sheriff. The sheriff insults Nepomuceno, calling him "a dirty greaser," shots are fired, and Nepomuceno shoots the sheriff.

The first 50 pages are the author nimbly charting the passage of this news through the community, as servants tell masters tell wives tell friends tell errand boys tell fishermen, etc. The effect is both gossipy and also a people's history. Boullosa holds the enormous complexity of each of the character's points of view. We are inside each character's head as they evaluate how they feel about Nepomuceno, the vaquero, and the sheriff and what they stand to lose or gain from a war between the two factions. The narrator describes herself as a "busybody." We learn who is fucking whom and who has an upset stomach alongside learning who is benefitting from the gringos slowly stealing land across Mexico. Boullosa represents how various native tribes, the gringos, Mexicans of all social classes, children and adults, men and women, all hold various opinions of what's going on. The narrator is very matter-of-fact: she shares who has raped and who has been raped, and then the story moves on.

This is a fantastic way to learn the multiplicities of fictionalized history. However, it's a LOT to keep in one's mind. I was reading this before bed and got really confused.



]]> <![CDATA[Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays]]> 17142
With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic wit, Baldwin fearlessly articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in such famous essays as “The Harlem Ghetto,� “Everybody’s Protest Novel,� “Many Thousands Gone,� and “Stranger in the Village.�

Here are the complete texts of his early landmark collections, Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961), which established him as an essential intellectual voice of his time, fusing in unique fashion the personal, the literary, and the political. “One writes,� he stated, “out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.� With singular eloquence and unblinking sharpness of observation he lived up to his credo: “I want to be an honest man and a good writer.�

The classic The Fire Next Time (1963), perhaps the most influential of his writings, is his most penetrating analysis of America’s racial divide and an impassioned call to “end the racial nightmare…and change the history of the world.� The later volumes No Name in the Street (1972) and The Devil Finds Work (1976) chart his continuing response to the social and political turbulence of his era and include his remarkable works of film criticism. A further 36 essays—nine of them previously uncollected—include some of Baldwin’s earliest published writings, as well as revealing later insights into the language of Shakespeare, the poetry of Langston Hughes, and the music of Earl Hines.]]> 869 James Baldwin 1883011523 Jess 0 4.66 1998 Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
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]]> The Little Book of Saints 10899242 192 Christine Barrely 0811877477 Jess 4 3.89 2009 The Little Book of Saints
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Beautiful pictures, portraits taken from religious art. I used them to decoupage prayer candles. For example, sent the patron saint of librarians to my friend who is a librarian. The selection of saints could have been much more diverse and weird.
]]> <![CDATA[Your turn for care: Surviving the aging and death of the adults who harmed you]]> 19956336 183 Laura Brown 1623475929 Jess 0 to-read 4.20 2012 Your turn for care: Surviving the aging and death of the adults who harmed you
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]]> Costumes By Karinska 175456 192 Toni Bentley 0810935163 Jess 0 to-read 4.57 1995 Costumes By Karinska
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]]> The Surrender 40527192 Alternate cover edition for ISBN 0007221509 / 9780007221509
For previous cover edition see here

Few women do it and even fewer will admit to it. But in Toni Bentley's daring and intimate memoir, The Surrender, she pulls the sheets back on an erotic experience that's been forbidden since the Bible and celebrates "the joy that lies on the other side of convention, where risk is real and rapture resides." From Story of O to The Kiss to The Sexual Life of Catherine M., readers have been enthralled with sexually subversive memoirs by women. But even those erotic classics didn't navigate the psychosexual terrain that Bentley does when she meets a lover who introduces her to a radical and unexpected pleasure, to the "holy" act that she came to see as her awakening.

The Surrender is a witty, intelligent, and eloquent exploration of one woman's obsession that will be sure to leave readers questioning their own desires.

]]> 208 Toni Bentley 0007221509 Jess 0 to-read 3.43 2004 The Surrender
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]]> <![CDATA[Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together]]> 212924187 From celebrated trans activist and author of Mutual Aid Dean Spade comes a practical manifesto for how to live out your radical political values in your intimate relationships

Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the pandemic and climate change-induced disasters to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. Many of us feel mobilized to organize and collectively combat these issues on both a personal and political level, often dedicating our lives to the forwarding of progressive ideas and the daunting goal of trying to bend the world toward justice.

But too often we think of our political values as outward-facing positions again dominant systems of power. Rarely, if ever, do we pursue the same kind of justice close to home, in our relationships to ourselves and to those closest to us. No matter how ardently we want to see the world change, our lives and connections will continue to stagnate unless we liberate ourselves from the cultural scripts that too often dictate our behavior toward others.

How do we become intentional about our levels of connection? How do we separate our expectations of love from the baggage left to us by our parents? How do we divest from the idea that one romantic partner will be the solution to all our problems? This book offers a roadmap for how to bring our best thinking about freedom and justice into step with our desires for healing and connection.

Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Love in a F*cked-Up Worldis a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, preparing us for the work of changing the world.
]]> 352 Dean Spade 164375646X Jess 0 to-read 4.37 Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
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]]> Chelsea Girls 380853 276 Eileen Myles 0876859325 Jess 0 to-read 3.83 1994 Chelsea Girls
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]]> <![CDATA[The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir]]> 214175247 An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in “slummy, one-horse towns�; obsessive desire; bursts of comedy; and indispensable friendships, reflecting on the way art, music, and a deep connection to nature helped her on a singular journeyto become a beloved, Grammy-nominated artist.

Neko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans.InThe Harder I Fight, the More I Love You,Casebrings her trademarkcandor andprecisionto a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisiblegirl “raised by two dogs and a space heater� in rural Washington state toher improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. In luminous, sharp-edged prose, Caseshows readers what it’s like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child, to take refuge in the woods around her home, and to channel themonotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music, camaraderie, and shared experience into art.

The Harder I Fight, the More I Love Youis a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face.


]]> 271 Neko Case 1538710501 Jess 0 to-read 4.07 2025 The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous]]> 51710349 Harvard University’s Joseph Henrich, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, delivers a bold, epic investigation into the development of the Western mind, global psychological diversity, and its impact on the world

Perhaps you are raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar.

Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries? Did these differences have an impact on the development of the laws, economic systems, and governments that now dominate the world?

In W.E.I.R.D. Minds, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world.

Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, W.E.I.R.D. Minds explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history.]]> 706 Joseph Henrich 0374710457 Jess 0 to-read 4.12 2020 The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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]]> The Way to Rainy Mountain 155882 The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies.

"The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of origin as old as the earth.

"The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself." —From the new Preface]]> 88 N. Scott Momaday 0826304362 Jess 0 currently-reading 3.79 1969 The Way to Rainy Mountain
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]]> Someone 17332207
Our first glimpse of Marie is as a child: a girl in glasses waiting on a Brooklyn stoop for her beloved father to come home from work. A seemingly innocuous encounter with a young woman named Pegeen sets the bittersweet tone of this remarkable novel. Pegeen describes herself as an "amadan," a fool; indeed, soon after her chat with Marie, Pegeen tumbles down her own basement stairs. The magic of McDermott's novel lies in how it reveals us all as fools for this or that, in one way or another.

Marie's first heartbreak and her eventual marriage; her brother's brief stint as a Catholic priest, subsequent loss of faith, and eventual breakdown; the Second World War; her parents' deaths; the births and lives of Marie's children; the changing world of her Irish-American enclave in Brooklyn - McDermott sketches all of it with sympathy and insight. This is a novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived; a crowning achievement by one of the finest American writers at work today.

Membership]]> 232 Alice McDermott 0374281092 Jess 0 to-read 3.77 2013 Someone
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]]> <![CDATA[Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape]]> 13533774 160 David Hinton 1611800161 Jess 0 to-read 4.25 2012 Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape
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]]> I Ching: The Book of Change 23848011
In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching , David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as ever-changing yet harmonious, Hinton reveals the seed from which Chinese philosophy, poetry, and painting grew. Although it was and is widely used for divination, the I Ching is also a book of poetic philosophy, deeply valued by artists and intellectuals, and Hinton's translation restores it to its original lyrical form.

Previous translations have rendered the I Ching as a divination text full of arcane language and extensive commentary. Though informative, these versions rarely hint at the work's philosophical heart, let alone its literary beauty. Here, Hinton translates only the original strata of the text, revealing a fully formed work of literature in its own right. The result is full of wild imagery, fables, aphorisms, and stories. Acclaimed for the eloquence of his many translations of ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy, Hinton has reinvented the I Ching as an exciting contemporary text at once primal and postmodern.]]> 160 David Hinton 0374220905 Jess 0 currently-reading 3.61 2015 I Ching: The Book of Change
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]]> The Devil Finds Work: Essays 743831
Bette Davis's eyes, Joan Crawford's bitchy elegance, Stepin Fetchit's stereotype, Sidney Poitier's superhuman black man...These are the movie stars and the qualities that influenced James Baldwin...and now become part of his incisive look at racism in American movies.

Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist, offering us a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions.Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained us and shaped our consciousness.And here, too, is the stunning prose of a writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality, justice, and social change.

From The Birth of a Nation to The Exorcist --one of America's most important writers turns his critical eye to American film.]]> 144 James Baldwin 0385334605 Jess 5 4.27 1976 The Devil Finds Work: Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[Take Back Your Life: Recovering From Cults & Abusive Relationships]]> 234869 384 Janja Lalich 0972002154 Jess 0 to-read 4.32 1994 Take Back Your Life: Recovering From Cults & Abusive Relationships
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]]> <![CDATA[The Myth of Meaning in the Work of C. G. Jung]]> 253996 Aniela Jeffé explores the subjective world of inner experience. In so doing, she follows the path of the pioneering Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung, whose collaborator and friend she was through the final decades of his life. Frau Jaffé shows that any search of meaning ultimately leads to the inner "mythical" realm and must be understood as a limited subjective attempt to answer the unanswerable. Any conclusion drawn from such a quest is one's very own - its formulation is one's own myth.]]> 186 Aniela Jaffé 3856305009 Jess 0 to-read 4.14 1970 The Myth of Meaning in the Work of C. G. Jung
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]]> The Art Book 567616 515 Phaidon Press 0714836257 Jess 3 3.86 1997 The Art Book
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hundred Years� War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917�2017]]> 41812831
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.� Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.

Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.

Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.]]> 336 Rashid Khalidi 1627798552 Jess 5 4.50 2020 The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
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]]> <![CDATA[In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women]]> 169572 156 Alice Walker 0156028638 Jess 4 4.11 1973 In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
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]]> <![CDATA[Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals]]> 45894050 A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century.

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family.

In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work.

Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them—domestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty—and whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires.]]> 441 Saidiya Hartman 0393357627 Jess 5 4.43 2019 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
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]]> Healing into Life and Death 263053
Drawing on years of first-hand experience working with the chronically ill, here Levine presents originaltechniques for working with pain and grief. Addressing the choiceand application of treatment, discussing the development of a merciful awareness as ameans of healing, and providing practical meditation techniques as well as personal anecdotes from his career, Levine has crafted a valuable resource for anyone dealing with pain—physical or mental.]]> 309 Stephen Levine 0385262191 Jess 0 to-read 4.39 1987 Healing into Life and Death
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]]> Her First American 716784 304 Lore Segal 1565849493 Jess 5 currently-reading 3.77 1985 Her First American
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average rating: 3.77
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]]> <![CDATA[Autism in Polyvagal Terms: New Possibilities and Interventions (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)]]> 209035515 A vital new framework for working with clients on the spectrum.


By presenting the autism diagnosis through the lens of a disordered nervous system—that is, by applying Polyvagal Theory—this book opens new avenues for intervention and treatment, while challenging age-old assumptions of what autism means and how it presents itself.


Here, Sean Inderbitzen—a therapist as well as someone living with autism—encourages clinicians to conceptualize their autistic clients� difficulties with social interactions and cognitive flexibility through a polyvagal lens. Inderbitzen argues that individuals with autism can be thought of as having deficits in accessing their ventral vagal nervous system—the system which promotes flexibility and connection to others. The book explores strategies to address these challenges through familiar tools such as motivational interviewing, clinical social work pedagogy, sensorimotor psychotherapy, mindfulness, biofeedback, and cultivating a sense of safety. Autism in Polyvagal Terms is an essential new text for anyone who works with individuals on the autism spectrum.]]> 186 Sean M. Inderbitzen 1324053224 Jess 0 to-read 4.21 Autism in Polyvagal Terms: New Possibilities and Interventions (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief]]> 381426 Deavere Smith's "Twilight," and Invisible Man to The Woman Warrior , in the process demonstrating that racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation, and social health. Her investigations reveal the common interests that social, legal, and literary histories of race have always shared with psychoanalysis, and situates Asian-American and African-American identities in relation to one another within the larger process of American racialization. A provocative look at a timely subject, this study is essential reading for anyone interested in race studies, critical theory, or psychoanalysis.]]> 271 Anne Anlin Cheng 0195151623 Jess 0 to-read 4.13 2000 The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief
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]]> Lilith 81069444 In the Garden of Eden, at the beginning of time, an outrageous lie is born: that women are inferior.

Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him. She refuses - and is banished forever from Paradise.

Demonized and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Endowed with Wisdom, she knows why Asherah - God's wife and equal, the Queen of Heaven - is missing. Lilith has a plan: she will rescue Eve, find Asherah, restore balance to the world and regain her rightful place in Paradise.

Lilith's quest for justice drives her throughout history, from the ziggurats of Ancient Sumer to the court of Israel's Queen Jezebel, and to the side of a radical preacher in Roman Judea. In the modern age, as she observes the catastrophic consequences of a world built on inequality, Lilith finally understands what must be done to correct the wrong done to women - and all humankind - at the beginning of time.

Inspired by ancient myths and suppressed scriptures, Lilith is a thought-provoking and ambitious novel with an evocative literary voice and a triumphantly engaging heroine.]]> 336 Nikki Marmery 1639105719 Jess 0 to-read 3.63 2023 Lilith
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]]> The Grace of Wild Things 61150756 An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explores found family, loss, and the power of a girl's imagination, from the acclaimed author of The Language of Ghosts and The School Between Winter and Fairyland.

Grace has never been good at anything except magic—not that anyone believes her. While other children are adopted from the orphanage, nobody wants Grace. So she decides to make a home for herself by running away and offering herself as an apprentice to the witch in the nearby woods. After all, who better to teach Grace to use her magic? Surely the witch can’t be that bad.

But the witch is that bad—she steals souls for spells and gobbles up hearts. So Grace offers a deal: If she can learn all 100½ spells in the witch’s grimoire, the witch will make Grace her apprentice. But if Grace fails, the witch can take her magic. The witch agrees, and soon an unexpected bond develops between them. But the spells are much harder than Grace expected, and when a monster from the witch’s past threatens the home Grace has built, she may have to sacrifice more than her magic to save it.

Inspired by Anne of Green Gables, this is a magical story of found family, loss, and the power of a girl’s imagination.]]> 360 Heather Fawcett 0063142627 Jess 0 to-read 4.10 2023 The Grace of Wild Things
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel]]> 34227894 Schoolyard rivalries. Baking disasters. Puffed sleeves. Explore the violet vales and glorious green of Avonlea in this spirited adaptation.

The magic of L.M. Montgomery’s treasured classic is reimagined in a whimsically illustrated graphic-novel adaptationperfect for newcomers and kindred spirits alike. When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan who can help manage their family farm, they have no idea what delightful trouble awaits them. With flame-redhair and an unstoppable imagination, eleven-year-old Anne Shirley takes Green Gables by storm. Anne’s misadventures bring a little romance to the lives of everyone she meets: her bosom friend, Diana Barry; the town gossip, Mrs. Lynde; and that infuriating tease, Gilbert Blythe. From triumphs and thrills to the depths of despair, Anne turns each everyday moment into something extraordinary.]]> 231 Mariah Marsden 144947960X Jess 0 to-read 4.30 2017 Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel
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]]> Intermezzo 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Jess 0 to-read 3.87 2024 Intermezzo
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]]> <![CDATA[Please Scream Quietly: A Story of Kink]]> 60660140 296 Julie L Fennell 1538168774 Jess 0 to-read 4.00 Please Scream Quietly: A Story of Kink
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]]> A Haunted House 20423012 32 Virginia Woolf Jess 5 3.36 A Haunted House
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]]> <![CDATA[Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead]]> 59366182 In this “fun, page-turner of a novel� (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.

Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she’s there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace.

In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace’s old friend. She can’t bear to ignore the kindly old woman who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can’t bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace’s death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence.

With a “kindhearted heroine we all need right now� (Courtney Maum, New York Times bestselling author), Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling and “delightfully weird reminder that we will one day turn to dust and that yes, this is depressing, but it’s also what makes life beautiful� (Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza Girl).]]> 256 Emily R. Austin 198216736X Jess 0 to-read 3.85 2021 Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
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]]> Bunny (Bunny, #1) 42815544
But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.]]> 307 Mona Awad 0525559736 Jess 0 to-read 3.53 2019 Bunny (Bunny, #1)
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]]> Girls Gone Old 34759192
"Girls Gone Old is timely, not only in regard to its unabashed third and fourth wave feminism. The essays collected here cover pop culture icons, class and wealth, addiction, rape culture, even the popularity of Donald Trump. On this last, she writes, "I think this is the real divide in this country: the social principles of empathy, vs the social principles of greed." It is this kind of insight, discovered through the laying bare of her own actions and decisions, that makes Girls Gone Old so admirable."—Sara Rauch, BUST

"Much of the action in Girls Gone Old, the provocative essay collection by Fiona Helmsley, goes down in New York City in the 1990s -- when St. Mark's Place was still the epicenter of cool, before the internet ruined everything. Helmsley lived the gritty East Village life most of us were too scared to live, and the triumph of her collection lies in her ability to convey both the horrors of that time and place, as well as the singular appeal. We might yearn for a lost Gotham we never really experienced; Helmsley's nostalgia, or rather nostalgie de la boue, is all too real."� Greg Olear]]> 200 Fiona Helmsley 0996421858 Jess 0 to-read 4.41 2017 Girls Gone Old
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]]> <![CDATA[Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love]]> 57577289 In this honest discussion of mental health, the founder of Therapy for Women explores our reasons for drinking alcohol—and the benefits of taking a break.

When “retired party girl� and popular therapist Amanda White admitted she was an alcoholic, it wasn’t because she’d done something outrageous while under the influence, like land herself in jail or get married in Vegas. It was because she realized three things: 1. Alcohol was making her life worse. 2. Moderation wasn’t helping. 3. She could not be a therapist if she continued to use alcohol to numb her life. Something needed to change—not just her relationship with alcohol, but her relationship with herself.

Choosing not to drink can be daunting. It’s everywhere in our culture, our socializing, and our destressing. And it can seem black or white: you drink, or you don’t (and if you don’t, people ask why). That’s where Not Drinking Tonight comes in. Judgement-free and relatable, Amanda helps you unpack your relationship with alcohol by showing you how to:

Find out why you drink. Whether it’s a glass of wine after work or a weekly bar crawl, your drinking habits can be the result of everything from biology to trauma.

Heal your relationship with alcohol. Understand how your relationships have been affecting your life, and learn how to set boundaries and create true self care.

Build the sober life you love. Learn what comes next—how to maintain your social life, navigate sex and relationships, and love yourself.

Not Drinking Tonight isn’t a program to stop drinking. It’s the first book to help you address the root issues that cause you to reach for a drink, and create a life you love—one that is not perfect, but is messy and real and one you are fully present for.]]> Amanda E. White 1549136348 Jess 0 to-read 4.20 Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love
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]]> <![CDATA[Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History]]> 163117 544 Klaus Theweleit 0816614490 Jess 0 to-read 4.24 1979 Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History
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]]> The Argonauts 22929741
Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making.

Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.]]> 160 Maggie Nelson 1555977073 Jess 5 4.04 2015 The Argonauts
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]]> <![CDATA[Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body]]> 126133971 Featuring critical essays, erotica, and stitched-up memories, Gender/Fucking explores sexual arousal as a site of knowledge about the self and world.

Taking the idea of intellectual masturbation a bit too literally, Florence Ashley draws on their experiences as a transfeminine activist, academic, and slut to interrogate what it means to live in a gendered body in our difficult yet occasionally loving world. With personal essays about the fetishization of trans bodies, recovering from surgery, and losing hope, Florence’s collection celebrates the queer messiness of sex and identity.

Through the embrace of its raw and lyrical prose, Gender/Fucking invites the reader into the intimate world of academic smut to ask what it means to be horny on main in a sex-negative world—and what power it might hold.]]> 160 Florence Ashley 1955904936 Jess 5 4.38 Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body
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]]> <![CDATA[Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking]]> 30753841
In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new culinary voice. Chef and writer Samin Nosrat has taught everyone from professional chefs to middle school kids to author Michael Pollan to cook using her revolutionary, yet simple, philosophy. Master the use of just four elements—Salt, which enhances flavor; Fat, which delivers flavor and generates texture; Acid, which balances flavor; and Heat, which ultimately determines the texture of food—and anything you cook will be delicious. By explaining the hows and whys of good cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will teach and inspire a new generation of cooks how to confidently make better decisions in the kitchen and cook delicious meals with any ingredients, anywhere, at any time.

Echoing Samin’s own journey from culinary novice to award-winning chef, Salt, Fat Acid, Heat immediately bridges the gap between home and professional kitchens. With charming narrative, illustrated walkthroughs, and a lighthearted approach to kitchen science, Samin demystifies the four elements of good cooking for everyone. Refer to the canon of 100 essential recipes—and dozens of variations—to put the lessons into practice and make bright, balanced vinaigrettes, perfectly caramelized roast vegetables, tender braised meats, and light, flaky pastry doughs.

Featuring 150 illustrations and infographics that reveal an atlas to the world of flavor by renowned illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will be your compass in the kitchen. Destined to be a classic, it just might be the last cookbook you’ll ever need.

With a foreword by Michael Pollan.]]> 480 Samin Nosrat 1476753830 Jess 0 abandoned 4.39 2017 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood at the Root (Blood at the Root, #1)]]> 198688474
Ten years ago, Malik's life changed forever the night his mother mysteriously vanished and he discovered he had uncontrollable powers. Since then, he has kept his abilities hidden, looking out for himself and his younger foster brother, Taye. Now, at 17, Malik is finally ready to start a new life for both of them, far from the trauma of his past. However, a daring act to rescue Taye reveals an unexpected connection with his long-lost a legendary conjurer with ties to a hidden magical university that Malik’s mother attended.

At Caiman University, Malik’s eyes are opened to a future he never could have envisioned for himself� one that includes the reappearance of his first love, Alexis. His search for answers about his heritage, his powers, and what really happened to his mother exposes the cracks in their magical community as it faces a reawakened evil dating back to the Haitian Revolution. Together with Alexis, Malik discovers a lot beneath the surface at feuding covens and magical politics, forbidden knowledge and buried mysteries.

In a wholly unique saga of family, history and community, Malik must embrace his legacy to save what's left of his old family as well as his new one. Exploring the roots and secrets that connect us in an unforgettable contemporary setting, this heart-pounding fantasy series opener is a rich tapestry of atmosphere, intrigue, and emotion.]]> 432 LaDarrion Williams 0593711920 Jess 0 to-read 4.04 2024 Blood at the Root (Blood at the Root, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The French Touch: Decoration and Design in the Most Beautiful Homes of France]]> 1932777 240 Daphn? de Saint Sauveur 0821224646 Jess 0 to-read 4.71 1989 The French Touch: Decoration and Design in the Most Beautiful Homes of France
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]]> Fashion Now 2 859038 640 Terry Jones 3822842419 Jess 2 3.84 2005 Fashion Now 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness]]> 1098486
Saks was only eight, and living an otherwise idyllic childhood in sunny 1960s Miami, when her first symptoms appeared in the form of obsessions and night terrors. But it was not until she reached Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar that her first full-blown episode, complete with voices in her head and terrifying suicidal fantasies, forced her into a psychiatric hospital.

Saks would later attend Yale Law School where one night, during her first term, she had a breakdown that left her singing on the roof of the law school library at midnight. She was taken to the emergency room, force-fed antipsychotic medication, and tied hand-and-foot to the cold metal of a hospital bed. She spent the next five months in a psychiatric ward.

So began Saks's long war with her own internal demons and the equally powerful forces of stigma. Today she is a chaired professor of law who researches and writes about the rights of the mentally ill. She is married to a wonderful man.

In The Center Cannot Hold, Elyn Saks discusses frankly and movingly the paranoia, the inability to tell imaginary fears from real ones, and the voices in her head insisting she do terrible things, as well as the many obstacles she overcame to become the woman she is today. It is destined to become a classic in the genre.]]> 340 Elyn R. Saks 140130138X Jess 0 to-read 4.29 2007 The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
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]]> <![CDATA[The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness]]> 496585 The Divided Self is a unique study of the human situation.

Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.

The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real.' He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of his schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.]]> 218 R.D. Laing 0140135375 Jess 0 to-read 4.10 1960 The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
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]]> A Magical Girl Retires 197448796 A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.

Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.

But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all in white—her guardian angel. Ah Roa is a clairvoyant magical girl on a mission to find the greatest magical girl of all time. And our protagonist just may be that special someone.

But the young woman’s initial excitement turns to frustration when she learns being a magical girl in real life is much different than how it’s portrayed in stories. It isn’t just destiny—it’s work. Magical girls go to job fairs, join trade unions, attend classes. And for this magical girl there are no special powers and no great perks, and despite being magical, she still battles with low self-esteem. Her magic wand . . . is a credit card—which she must use to defeat a terrifying threat that isn’t a monster or an intergalactic war. It’s global climate change. Because magical girls need to think about sustainability, too.

Park Seolyeon reimagines classic fantasy tropes in a novel that explores real-world challenges that are both deeply personal and universal: the search for meaning and the desire to do good in a world that feels like it’s ending. A fun, fast-paced, and enchanting narrative that sparkles thanks to award-nominated translator Anton Hur, A Magical Girl Retires reminds us that we are all magical girls—that fighting evil by moonlight and winning love by daylight can be anyone's game.

Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur.]]> 160 Park Seolyeon 0063373262 Jess 0 to-read 3.57 2022 A Magical Girl Retires
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]]> <![CDATA[Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice]]> 61399139
The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of those trials for the survivors of their abuse.
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The conventional retributive process fails to serve most survivors; it was never designed for them. Renowned trauma expert Judith L. Herman argues that the first step toward a better form of justice is simply to ask survivors what would make things as right as possible for them. In Truth and Repair , she commits the radical act of listening to survivors. Recounting their stories, she offers an alternative vision of justice as healing for survivors and their communities.
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Deeply researched and compassionately told, Truth and Repair envisions a new path to justice for all.]]> 272 Judith Lewis Herman 1541600541 Jess 0 to-read 4.21 Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
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]]> The Best of LIFE, 1973 123663228 302 Jess 5 foundational-texts 5.00 The Best of LIFE, 1973
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]]> <![CDATA[A Beatrix Potter Treasury (Peter Rabbit)]]> 2280830 192 Beatrix Potter 0723259577 Jess 5 4.52 1978 A Beatrix Potter Treasury (Peter Rabbit)
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Social Work in End-Of-Life and Palliative Care]]> 6350082
Reith and Payne trace the development of palliative care and the important role of social work within it. The book s unique sociological focus on required practitioner knowledge of death, dying, and bereavement helps balance out the prevalent psychological focus of other books in the field. Chapters in the book focus on practice skills and interventions. Extensive use of case materials throughout the text help students and practitioners juggle the precarious balance of helping their clients keep hope for the future while understanding the truth that people are moving towards death. Unlike many books that focus on medical issues, this book addresses ethical issues faced by social workers and helps them guide their clients through this difficult journey.

Provides comprehensive treatment of both the dying phase and bereavement; Provides international literature and Web sites; Integrates macro and group practice interventions; Offers frequent case examples and extensive case studies; Uses client writing and poems;]]> 239 Margaret Reith 1933478586 Jess 2 4.20 2009 Social Work in End-Of-Life and Palliative Care
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]]> <![CDATA[The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness]]> 43306206
The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free to determine our own future free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It’s a philosophy that’s profoundly liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves.

The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom. Now that The Courage to Be Disliked has been published for the first time in English, so can you.]]> 288 Ichiro Kishimi Jess 0 abandoned 3.89 2013 The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
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]]> <![CDATA[Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story]]> 40113187 Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story brings together the work of four distinguished scholars who have devoted years of research to uncover the life and artistic accomplishments of Pamela Colman Smith. Known to millions as the creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, Pamela Colman Smith (1878--1951) was also a stage and costume designer, folklorist, poet, author, illustrator of ballads and folktales, suffragette, and publisher of books and broadsheets.

This collaborative work presents: a richly illustrated biography of Pamela's life with essays on the events and people that influenced her including Jack Yeats, Ellen Terry, Alfred Stieglitz, Bram Stoker, and William Gillette. There is also a chronological survey of her folktales, art, and poetry and an exploration of her lasting legacy.

Over 400 color images of Pamela's non-tarot art have been curated from her publications including A Broad Sheet, The Green Sheaf, Blue Beard, Annancy stories, Russian ballet, costumes, stage designs, Irish magazines, book illustrations, posters, and much more.

This 440-page volume also includes:
* Select pages including autographs with sketches and scribblings reproduced from Pamela's 1901--1905 Visitors book
* Pamela's personal documents, correspondence, portraits, and photographs
* Rare archival material from several leading museums and libraries
* Extensive Bibliography of 525 entries
* Index with over 2,000 listings

Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story is the most comprehensive and exhaustive collection of works by and about Pamela Colman Smith published to date.]]> 440 Stuart R. Kaplan 157281912X Jess 0 to-read 4.35 Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story
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]]> <![CDATA[Tarot and the Archetypal Journey: The Jungian Path from Darkness to Light]]> 41805304
"Sallie Nichols, in her profound investigation of the Tarot has performed an immense service. Her book enriches and helps us to understand the awesome responsibilities laid upon consciousness. She has done this not in an arid fashion but derived from her own experience of the Tarot and its strangely translucent lights. As a result her book not only lives but quickens life in whomever it touches." --Laurens van der Post

Replaces ISBN 978-0-87728-515-1]]> 416 Sallie Nichols 1578636590 Jess 0 to-read 4.02 1980 Tarot and the Archetypal Journey: The Jungian Path from Darkness to Light
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]]> <![CDATA[Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr]]> 481646 490 Mary K. Greer 0892816074 Jess 0 to-read 4.29 1995 Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses: Maud Gonne, Moina Bergson Mathers, Annie Horniman, Florence Farr
author: Mary K. Greer
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]]> <![CDATA[Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation]]> 408546 304 Mary K. Greer 1564145883 Jess 0 to-read 4.22 1984 Tarot for Your Self: A Workbook for Personal Transformation
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]]> <![CDATA[Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence]]> 171255 ]]> 168 Judith Butler 1844675440 Jess 0 to-read 4.21 2004 Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
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]]> <![CDATA[Dwelling in Possibility: Searching for the Soul of Shelter]]> 17805124 When we live heart and soul, we dwell. When we belong to a place, we dwell. Possession, they say, is nine-tenths of the law, but it is also what too many houses and towns lack. We are not possessed by our home places. This lost quality of dwelling--the soul of buildings--haunts most of our houses and our landscape.
Dwelling in Possibility is a search for the ordinary qualities that make some houses a home, and some public places welcoming.
"Like Thoreau, Mr. Mansfield is a keen observer and, in his neck of New Hampshire, a granitic critic of the rushed life." -- The Wall Street Journal]]> 240 Howard Mansfield 0872331679 Jess 0 to-read 3.61 2013 Dwelling in Possibility: Searching for the Soul of Shelter
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sufferings of Young Werther]]> 10773231 The Sufferings of Young Werther is the classic Sturm und Drang tale of youthful angst and tragedy. The acclaimed translator Stanley Corngold brings new passion and precision to Goethe's timeless novel of obsessive love and madness in this magnificent new translation.

Goethe's themes of unrequited love, the pain of rejection, deepening despair, and their tragic consequences are as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1774. His hugely influential novel informed the writing of, among others, Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann.

In translating The Sufferings of Young Werther, Corngold follows the German text closely, never knowingly using a word that was not current in English at the time the novel was written and yet maintaining a modern grace and flair. The result is an eagerly awaited translation that speaks to our time through the astonishing liveliness of Goethe's language—as well through the translator's own.]]> 160 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0393079384 Jess 0 currently-reading 3.71 1774 The Sufferings of Young Werther
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]]> The 48 Laws of Power 1303 Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control � from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.

In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling� and “fascinating,� Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.

Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master�), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness�), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally�). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.]]> 452 Robert Greene 0140280197 Jess 0 to-read 4.11 1998 The 48 Laws of Power
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]]> <![CDATA[Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men]]> 224552
He says he loves you. So...why does he do that?

You’ve asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men—and change your life. In Why Does He Do That? you will learn

•The early warning signs of abuse
� The nature of abusive thinking
•Myths about abusers
•Ten abusive personality types
•The role of drugs and alcohol
•What you can fix, and what you can’t
•And how to get out of an abusive relationship safely

“This is without a doubt the most informative and useful book yet written on the subject of abusive men. Women who are armed with the insights found in these pages will be on the road to recovering control of their lives.”—Jay G. Silverman, Ph.D., Director, Violence Prevention Programs, Harvard School of Public Health]]> 408 Lundy Bancroft 0425191656 Jess 5 4.47 2002 Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
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]]> The Vagabond 89842 ]]> 224 Colette Gauthier-Villars 0374528047 Jess 4 3.99 1910 The Vagabond
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book published: 1910
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lesson of the Master (The Art of the Novella series)]]> 398136
Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "Art makes life," The Lesson of the Master is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonist—a gifted young writer—meets and befriends a famous author he has long idolized, he is both repelled by and attracted to the artist's great the emotional costs of a life dedicated to art.

With extraordinary psychological insight and devastating wit, the novella asks the question of whether art is, ultimately, demeaning or ennobling for the artist, while capturing the ambiguities of a life devoted to art, and the choices artists must make. The expatriate James knew these choice well by the time he published the novella in the Universal Review in 1888, and the work reveals him at the height of his powers.

The Art of The Novella Series

Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.]]> 100 Henry James 0974607843 Jess 0 3.66 1888 The Lesson of the Master (The Art of the Novella series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartbreak, Mourning, Loss. Volume 2: The Brain in Love]]> 28917285 184 Ginette Paris 0692587853 Jess 0 to-read 4.86 Heartbreak, Mourning, Loss. Volume 2: The Brain in Love
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartbreak, Mourning, Loss, Volume 1: Detach or Die]]> 28869223 226 Ginette Paris 0692574905 Jess 0 to-read 4.58 Heartbreak, Mourning, Loss, Volume 1: Detach or Die
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]]> Devotional Cinema 1546482
For film to have a devotional quality both absolute and relative time must be active and present not only present but functioning simultaneously and invigorating one another. Transformative film rests in the present and respects the delicate details of its own unfolding."]]> 54 Nathaniel Dorsky 1931157065 Jess 0 to-read 4.29 2003 Devotional Cinema
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]]> <![CDATA[The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change]]> 174268110
Drawing from their decade of work with the organization Conceivable Future, Kallman, a sociologist and Rhode Island State Senator, and Ferorelli, an activist and former Climate Bureau editor, offers both informed perspective and practical steps for taking meaningful action in combating the climate crisis, while also making smart, balanced decisions when it comes to starting and maintaining a family.

First, The Conceivable Future explores what the real threats are to reproductive, gestational, and infant health ( it's inequality, heat, and fossil fueled pollution), and debunks the myths of personal carbon footprint, and the harmful legacy of population control. The authors examine the successes and impediments of women-led movements around the world, and share what they've learned through ten years of organizing to bring attention to the reproductive crisis that is climate change.

Finally the book looks at what can be done about the climate crisis today. By taking these steps, we can both understand the crisis on its own terms, and stay rooted in the human scale, where our lives retain their full meaning.

The Conceivable Future is a must-read for all who want to make a difference in the world--and secure a sustainable future for all our families.]]> 384 Meghan Elizabeth Kallman 1538179695 Jess 0 to-read 4.29 The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change
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]]> Paradise Lost 15997 Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.

Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.]]> 453 John Milton 0140424393 Jess 0 currently-reading 3.83 1667 Paradise Lost
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]]> <![CDATA[Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose]]> 56644004
Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and can be delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia, encompassing everyone from Black Plague flagellants to ballerinas dancing on broken bones to competitive eaters choking down hot peppers while they cry. Masochism is a part of us. It lives inside workaholics, tattoo enthusiasts, and all manner of garden variety pain-seekers.

At its core, masochism is about feeling bad, then better—a phenomenon that is long overdue for a heartfelt and hilarious investigation. And Leigh Cowart would they are not just a researcher and science writer—they’re an inveterate, high-sensation seeking masochist. And they have a few Why do people engage in masochism? What are the benefits and the costs? And what does masochism have to say about the human experience?

By participating in many of these activities themselves, and through conversations with psychologists, fellow scientists, and people who seek pain for pleasure, Cowart unveils how our minds and bodies find meaning and relief in pain—a quirk in our programming that drives discipline and innovation even as it threatens to swallow us whole.
]]> 237 Leigh Cowart 154179804X Jess 3 4.09 2021 Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose
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As a psychotherapist and also a freak, I find I can make topicss more interesting for myself if I learn about them through a sexual lens. I have been meaning to learn more about the controversial world of chronic pain theory and management for a while now. I read this book first, before any others written by psychologists trying to sell a way to cure pain with the mind, because Leigh is someone who courts pain, inflicts it and enjoys it, rather than someone trying to solve it. I had heard Leigh on a podcast before reading this. Unfortunately, I think I learned everything from the podcast before reading it in the book. (The snakebite incident, which appears in Lorimer Moseley's Ted Talk "Why Things Hurt," also appears in this book, and apparently in other books about pain. The hadith of social work...we truly only remember things if they're little stories.) These essays appeared in magazines first, and they are written in a breezy, funny pop science style, though highly researched. I wanted more in-depth information on several topics and will have to read another book to find it. The vivid descriptions of gore were way too much for me and I skipped over a lot. As others have said, it's more of a memoir with some science for structure.
]]> <![CDATA[The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World]]> 118287 The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Kissinger, She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain enormously difficult to describe in words--confronted with it, Virginia Woolf once noted, "language runs dry"--it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme instances to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry analyzes the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of torture and warfare, and shows how to be fictive. From these actions of "unmaking" Scarry turns finally to the actions of "making"--the examples of artistic and cultural creation that work against pain and the debased uses that are made of it. Challenging and inventive, The Body in Pain is landmark work that promises to spark widespread debate.]]> 400 Elaine Scarry 0195049969 Jess 0 to-read 4.14 1985 The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
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]]> <![CDATA[Shoes: A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More]]> 42176
Shoes , now with over 357,000 copies in print, is an obsessive, over-the-top extravaganza-chunky, full-color, and irresistible, it contains page after page of seductive photographs and information about women's shoes.

Created for the woman who's a passionate shoe lover-and what woman isn't?-- Shoes features over 1,000 glorious photographs, most of them taken for the book. Includes Footnotes (fascinating facts about shoes); Foot Soldiers (profiles of master shoemakers from David Little to Andrea Pfister); and The Shoe that Left an Imprint, focusing on one shoe that changed history-remember Courrage's futuristic go-go boot? Shoes is, as they say, to die for.]]> 506 Linda O'Keeffe 0761101144 Jess 0 3.83 1996 Shoes: A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More
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]]> <![CDATA[Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones, #1)]]> 958277 69 Barbara Park 0679826424 Jess 5 foundational-texts 3.97 1992 Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones, #1)
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average rating: 3.97
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America]]> 78132243 352 Joy-Ann Reid 0063068796 Jess 0 to-read 4.52 2024 Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America
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]]> <![CDATA[Living with Dying: A Comprehensive Resource for End-Of-Life Healthcare Practitioners]]> 205938777 0 Joan Berzoff Jess 0 to-read 0.0 Living with Dying: A Comprehensive Resource for End-Of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
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]]> A Sand Book 27070952 A Sand Bookis a poetry collection in nine parts,a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter.It exploresthe negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane Sandy to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre at Sandy Hook, from the sand in the gizzards of birds to the desertified mountains of Haiti, from Attar's Conference of the Birds to Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls to Twitter, a sand book is about change and quantification, the relationship between catastrophe and cultural transmission. It moves among houses of worship and grocery stores, flitters between geological upheaval and the weird weather of the Internet. In her long-awaited follow-up toMercury,Reines has written her most ambitious work to date, but also her most visceral and satisfying.]]> 120 Ariana Reines 0986437360 Jess 0 to-read 4.13 2019 A Sand Book
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]]> Initiated: Memoir of a Witch 43886044
An initiation signals a a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brought into the craft through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia's mother, a practicing witch herself, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was 13 years old, Amanda's real life as a witch only began when she underwent a series of spontaneous initiations of her own.

Descending into the underworlds of poverty, sex work, and misogyny, Initiated describes Amanda's journey to return to her body, harness her power, and create the magical world she longed for through witchcraft. Hailed by crows, seduced by magicians, and haunted by ancestors broken beneath the wheels of patriarchy, Amanda's quest for self-discovery and empowerment is a deep exploration of a modern witch's trials - healing ancient wounds, chafing against cultural expectations, creating intimacy - all while on a mission to re-enchant the world. Peppered with mythology, tales of the goddesses and magical women throughout history, Initiated stands squarely at the intersection of witchcraft and feminism. With generosity and heart, this book speaks to the is it possible to live a life of beauty and integrity in a world that feels like it's dying?

Declaring oneself a witch and practicing magic has everything to do with claiming authority and power for oneself, of taking back our planet in the name of Love. Initiated is both memoir and manifesto calling the magical people of the world to take up their stand up, be brave, describe the world they want, then create it like a witch.]]> 352 Amanda Yates Garcia 1538763052 Jess 0 to-read 3.99 2019 Initiated: Memoir of a Witch
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]]> <![CDATA[The Greek Islands (Eyewitness Travel Guides)]]> 46120
With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten up every page, "DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Greek Islands" truly shows you around this destination as no one else can.]]> 408 D.K. Eyewitness Travel 0756626374 Jess 0 currently-reading 4.01 1995 The Greek Islands (Eyewitness Travel Guides)
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]]> <![CDATA[Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability]]> 123495423 Young adults with intellectual disability tell the story of their own experience of higher education



How do students with intellectual disability experience higher education? Creating Our Own Lives addresses this question through the eyes of participants themselves. In relating their experiences and aspirations, these student perspectives mount a powerful challenge to assumptions that intellectual disability is best met with protection or segregation.



Taken together, the essays expose and contradict the inherently ableist claim that individuals with intellectual disability cannot be reliable storytellers. Instead, their deeply informative stories serve as a corrective narrative. The first of the four sections, “Laying the Why Everyone Belongs in College,� focuses on belonging and inclusion; the second, “Opening Up Overcoming Doubt and Uncertainty,� conveys the optimism of this generation of advocates through stories of personal hardship, hopeful perseverance, and triumph over adversity; the third, “Inclusion as Diversifying Student Experiences,� supports the understanding of diverse student experiences in inclusive higher education; and the fourth, “Supporting Peer Mentoring and Advice,� offers guidance to those reimagining and creating educational spaces.



Students with disabilities belong in higher education. Not only does this book serve as an important record of students enrolled in inclusive higher education programs, it is also an unprecedented resource, packed with information and inspiration both for parents seeking opportunities for their children and for individuals with intellectual disability who aspire to attend college.



Makayla Adkins, Olivia Baist, Brandon Baldwin, George Barham, Marquavious Barnes, Katie Bartlett, Steven Brief, De'Onte Brown, Meghan Brozaitis, Mary Bryant, Gracie Carrol, Taylor Cathey, Maia Chamberlain, Antonio E. Contreras, Kim Dean, Elizabeth Droessler, Katie Ducett, Keiron Dyck, Rachel Gomez, Deriq Graves, Micah Gray, Maggie Guillaume, Cleo Hamilton, Nathan Heald, Joshua R. Hourigan, Hannah Lenae Humes, Courtney Jorgensen, Eilish Kelderman, Kailin Kelderman, Kenneth Kelty, Kaelan Knowles, Karlee Lambert, Kate Lisotta, Rachel Mast, Elise McDaniel, Emma Miller, Jake Miller, Lydia Newnum, Brenna Mantz Nielsen, Carly O’Connell, Nadia Osbey, Stirling Peebles, Breyan Pettaway, Amanda Pilkenton, True Rafferty, Taylor Ruppe, Lawrence Sapp, Tyler Shore, Brianna Silva, Alex Smith, Elliott Smith, Phillandra Smith, Payton Storms, Allen Thomas, Kylie Walter, Stephen Wanser, Sayid Webb, Breana Whittlesey, Luke Wilcox, Adam Wolfond.]]> 269 Michael Gill 1452964068 Jess 0 to-read 4.50 Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability
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]]> <![CDATA[Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple: A New Way to Bake Gluten-Free (with Vegan Options for Most Recipes)]]> 57652165 Cannelle et Vanille's Aran Goyoaga shares 100 recipes that showcase how uncomplicated and delicious gluten-free baking can be. Her previous cookbook was a Most-Anticipated Fall Cookbook from Food & Wine, Food52 and Bon Appetit, a New York Times Holiday Books Pick, and a2020 James Beard Award Semifinalist.Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple is all about easy-to-follow, gluten-free recipes for enticing breads, cakes, pies, tarts, biscuits, cookies, and includes a special holiday baking chapter.Aran also shares her gluten-free all-purpose baking mix so you can whip up a batch to keep in your pantry. An added bonus is that each recipe offers dairy-free substitutions and some are naturally vegan as well. With inventive, well-tested, recipes and Aran's clear guidance (plus 145 of her stunning photos), gluten-free baking is happily unfussy, producing irresistibly good results every time.Recipes •One-Bowl Apple, Yogurt, and Maple Cake•Double Melting Chocolate Cookies•Honeyed Apple Pie•Buttery Shortbread•Lemon Meringue Tartlets•Baguettes, brioche, and boules•Crispy Potato, Leek, and Kale Focaccia Pie•Pumpkin and Pine Nut Tart•And so many more tempting recipes]]> 321 Aran Goyoaga 1632173719 Jess 5 4.63 Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple: A New Way to Bake Gluten-Free (with Vegan Options for Most Recipes)
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I was not a baker even before my celiac diagnosis in 2008. But these detailed, demanding recipes have been fun and rewarding. Lots of very cool dairy free inventions. Gorgeous photography. I literally want to go to a cookie exchange now.
]]> <![CDATA[When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress]]> 450534
When the Body Says No is an impressive contribution to research on the physiological connection between life's stresses and emotions and the body systems governing nerves, immune apparatus and hormones. With great compassion and erudition, Gabor Maté demystifies medical science and, as he did in Scattered Minds , invites us all to be our own health advocates.]]> 320 Gabor Maté 0676973124 Jess 0 to-read 4.21 2003 When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
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]]> <![CDATA[Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia]]> 75739729 Radical alternatives to consent and trauma.

Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent, limit consent, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience. Saketopoulou thereby shows why sexualities beyond consent may be worth risking-and how risk can solicit the future.

Moving between clinical and cultural case studies, Saketopoulou takes up theatrical and cinematic works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter, to chart how trauma and sexuality join forces to surge through the aesthetic domain. Putting the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche in conversation with queer of color critique, performance studies, and philosophy, Sexuality Beyond Consent proposes that enduring the strange in ourselves, not to master trauma but to rub up against it, can open us up to encounters with opacity. The book concludes by theorizing currents of sadism that, when pursued ethically, can animate unique forms of interpersonal and social care.]]> 272 Avgi Saketopoulou Jess 5 mommy 4.52 2023 Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
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]]> <![CDATA[Stolen Life (consent not to be a single being)]]> 35070126 Stolen Life—the second volume in his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten undertakes an expansive exploration of blackness as it relates to black life and the collective refusal of social death. The essays resist categorization, moving from Moten's opening meditation on Kant, Olaudah Equiano, and the conditions of black thought through discussions of academic freedom, writing and pedagogy, non-neurotypicality, and uncritical notions of freedom. Moten also models black study as a form of social life through an engagement with Fanon, Hartman, and Spillers and plumbs the distinction between blackness and black people in readings of Du Bois and Nahum Chandler. The force and creativity of Moten's criticism resonate throughout, reminding us not only of his importance as a thinker, but of the continued necessity of interrogating blackness as a form of sociality.]]> 336 Fred Moten 0822370581 Jess 0 to-read 4.53 2018 Stolen Life (consent not to be a single being)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain]]> 50021854 A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research.Chronic pain is an epidemic. Fifty million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain.Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the founder of the Pain Psychology Center in Los Angeles, was in grad school when he started experiencing chronic pain and it completely derailed his life. He saw multiple doctors and received many diagnoses, but none of the medical treatments helped. Frustrated with conventional pain management, he developed Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a mind-body protocol that eliminated his own chronic pain and has transformed the lives of thousands of his patients.PRT is rooted in neuroscience, which has shown that while chronic pain feels like it's coming from the body, in most cases it's generated by misfiring pain circuits in the brain. PRT is a system of psychological techniques that rewires the brain to break out of the cycle of chronic pain.The University of Colorado-Boulder recently conducted a large randomized controlled study on PRT, and the results are remarkable. By the end of the study, the majority of patients were pain-free or nearly pain-free. What's more, these dramatic changes held up over time. The Way Out brings PRT to readers. It combines accessible science with a concrete, step-by-step plan to teach sufferers how to heal their own chronic pain.]]> 224 Alan Gordon 0593086848 Jess 0 to-read 4.41 2020 The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain
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]]> The Dream and the Underworld 33026 The Myth of Analysis and Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hillman develops the first new view of dreams since Freud and Jung. In a profound extension of Jung's ideas of the collective unconscious, Hillman goes back to classical theories in terms of the poetics of mythology. He relates our dreaming life to the myths of the underworld--the dark side of the soul, its images and shadows--and to the gods and figures of death. This leads to a revisioning of dream interpretation in relation to the psychology of dying. He concludes with the long section on specific dream images and themes as they appear in psychological praxis.]]> 243 James Hillman 0060906820 Jess 0 to-read 4.19 1975 The Dream and the Underworld
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]]> Paradise Rot 39216527 A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery

Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seems ever more alive. Jo’s sensitivity, and all her senses, become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, and dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.

This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval, presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire. A complex, poetic and strange novel about bodies, sexuality and the female gender.]]> 160 Jenny Hval Jess 0 to-read 3.49 2009 Paradise Rot
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]]> <![CDATA[The Electricity of Every Living Thing]]> 37831997 A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to terms with an Asperger's diagnosis.

In August 2015, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path. She wanted to understand why she had stopped coping with everyday life; why motherhood had been so overwhelming and isolating, and why the world felt full of inundation and expectations she can't meet. Setting her feet down on the rugged and difficult path by the sea, the answer begins to unfold. It's a chance encounter with a voice on the radio that sparks a realisation that she has Asperger's Syndrome.

The Electricity of Every Living Thing tells the story of the year in which Katherine comes to terms with her diagnosis. It leads to a re-evaluation of her life so far - a kinder one, which finally allows her to be different rather than simply awkward, arrogant or unfeeling. The physical and psychological journeys become inextricably entwined, and as Katherine finds her way across the untameable coast, she also finds the way to herself.

This book is a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it means to be different and, above all, how we can all learn to make peace within our own unquiet minds.]]> 288 Katherine May 1409172503 Jess 0 to-read 3.95 2018 The Electricity of Every Living Thing
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]]> <![CDATA[Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships]]> 39395992 Living on Automatic not only introduces the concept of emotional conditioning, including how it occurs and becomes entrenched in our minds, but also explains how individuals can "decondition" themselves to become more adept at choosing and negotiating more rewarding relationships.



Authored by two psychiatrists, the text draws from more than 80 years of their combined psychotherapy work with thousands of people. The authors focus on helping readers to understand their roles in relationships and to develop more rewarding relationships. Case studies and questions are provided to illustrate emotional conditioning and the personality roles that emerge from it. Readers will learn why people choose the mates that they do; why the ways we learn to relate as children often do not change later in life; and how to observe and engage in introspection to begin to decondition themselves from auto-pilot, knee-jerk emotional responses, allowing for the formation of better relationships with their spouse or partner, children, and other family members.

"Living on Automatic" has won the following book awards:

Award-Winning Finalist in the Best New Non-Fiction category of the 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest

Foreword INDIES Finalist 2018 Book of the Year Award in Adult Nonfiction, Family & Relationships Category]]> 224 Homer B. Martin MD 1440865183 Jess 0 to-read 5.00 2018 Living on Automatic: How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships
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]]> Courtney Love: The Real Story 223828 256 Poppy Z. Brite 0684848007 Jess 0 to-read 3.66 1997 Courtney Love: The Real Story
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]]> <![CDATA[Profit First for Therapists: A Simple Framework for Financial Freedom]]> 81071093 318 Julie Herres Jess 0 to-read 4.44 Profit First for Therapists: A Simple Framework for Financial Freedom
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