Summary: "Do you ever say that you'll take care of yourself after you finish your to-do list? The personal, revealing stories in this book will convince you to put yourself at the top of that list. Self-care and life balance are what we all neglect most. These 101 true stories will show you how to take care of your physical and mental health. You'll be inspired by other people who have taken back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 CHIBurroughs, William S.
Contents: William's welcome (What are you here for?) (2:03) -- A Thanksgiving prayer (2:22) -- Naked lunch excerpts (You got any eggs for Fats?) ; Dinner conversation (The snakes) (7:16) -- Ah Pook the destroyer ; Brion Gysin's all purpose bedtime story (2:46) -- After-dinner conversation (An atrocious conceit) ; Where was he going (11:40) -- Kill the badger! (2:42) -- A new standard by which to measure...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BURSummary: "This explosive, intersectional collection of essays, fiction, poems, plays, and more, explores the universality of human reproductive experiences, as well as their distinct individuality. An enlisted sailor must choose between her military career and keeping an unexpected pregnancy. A mother of three decides to become a surrogate, but is unprepared for everything that happens next. A trans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 ICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 ISummary: "In a collection of more than 150 original pieces created by members of POPS (Pain of the Prison System) the Club around the country, high-school students express their sorrow, confusion, anger, bewilderment, hopes, and dreams through poetry, essays, haiku, rap lyrics, drawings, paintings, photos, and collages. They tell stories that reflect different circumstances and experiences, but all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Out of the Woods Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.8 DRESummary: From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MBAKerouac, Jack
Summary: Features the complete recorded works, many released for the first time, of "beat generation" writer and poet Jack Kerouac.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Rhino Records] 1990
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESKerouac, Jack
Contents: The legend of Duluoz -- Poetry -- On spontaneous prose -- The modern spontaneous method -- On Bop and the Beat Generation -- On Buddhism -- Selected letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 KERDaum, Meghan
Summary: "A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life In her celebrated 2001 collection, My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The Unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 DAUTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLSummary: A compilation of essays on claiming control of your life, whether it's reducing clutter in your home or learning to say "no" without guilt. The authors share the fulfillment that comes from focusing on what matters most in your life-- your family, your friends, and even your self.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 CHIConroy, Pat
Summary: "A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life by Pat Conroy is a new nonfiction collection of letters, interviews, and magazine articles spanning Conroy's long literary career, supplemented by touching pieces from the beloved author's many friends. A Lowcountry Heart collects some of Conroy's most charming pieces of short nonfiction, many of them addressed directly to his readers with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 CONTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 TOLLiontas, Annie
Summary: "Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Kinsley, Michael E.
Summary: "Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit." The largest age cohort in history--the notorious baby boomers--is approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring things or changing the world? Was it about keeping all your marbles? Or is the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 KINRothschild, Hannah
Summary: "Annie McMorrow, 31 and not recovered from the end of her long-term relationship, is an assistant to film producer Carlo Spinetti and then to his chilling wife Rebecca Winkleman Spinetti whose father started Winkleman Fine Art in Curzon St. Annie has spent her meagre savings on a dusty painting from a junk shop to give to her new, unsuitable, boyfriend who never shows up for his birthday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015