The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul

Deborah Rodriguez

"[Deborah] Rodriguez paints a vivid picture of Afghan culture. . . . As if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner."--Kirkus Reviews After hard luck and heartbreak, Sunny finally finds a place to call home--in the middle of an Afghanistan war zone. There, the thirty-eight-year-old serves up her America...

Think Like a Freak

Steven D. Levitt

In this Freak 'how-to' guide, the mavericks behind the Freakonomics phenomenon teach you their secrets: how to challenge conventional wisdom, unravel life's secret codes and think differently - that is, think like a Freak. Levitt and Dubner see the world like no-one else. Now you can too. "My gut reacti...

Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Deathchamber

Allen Ginsberg

Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, GarcYa Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry....

Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World

John Freeman (Editor)

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.   In the past five year...

Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

Daniel Lieberman

In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we are told, is exercise - voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. However, most of us struggle to stay fit, and our attitudes to exercise are plagu...

As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World 1 (manga)

Natsumi Inoue; jimmy; Miraijin Miraijin A

It's brains over brawn in this new isekai adventure! One day when leaving work, a salaryman dies and is reborn in another world as the weak child of the noble Louvent family. Using his "appraisal" skill, which lets him see the stats of others, young Ars Louvent recruits the best people to his side in or...