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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ronson investigates the strange things we are willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with the personalities of our loved ones to indigo children to hyper successful spiritual healers. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives, for instance a pop singer whose greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, and the scientist designated to greet those aliens when they arrive. Ronson throws himself into the stories....
Author
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, Westover recounts her childhood growing up in a strict Mormon family, ruled by an erratic father, and living off the grid in Idaho. Westover compellingly sketches her years growing up, her relationships with siblings, encounters in the town nearby, and the events that eventually drove her to leave and pursue formal education.
7) Welcome to paradise, now go to hell: a true story of violence, corruption, and the soul of surfing
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, Oahu's paradisical North Shore turns into a fiery hell. Its normal population of sixteen thousand more than triples and this explosion of mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, and Europeans creates one of the most combustible milieus on earth. Waves, like gold and oil, are a limited resource and, as such, are fiercely fought over by the visiting hoards, the surf industry, other Hawaiian...
Author
Publisher
John F. Blair, Publisher
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Cave is a dank basement bar in the small Southern town of Waterville, overflowing with cheap beer, good blues, and local oddballs. The newest bartender is whip-smart tomboy Josie, who hopped a bus from the Appalachian backwoods on a quest to discover who she is and where she belongs. What she finds is the Cave and the love of a charming regular named Danny. Armed with lessons from mythology and Plato's philosophy, Josie navigates the ups and downs...
11) Seoulmates
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hannah Cho had the next year all planned out--the perfect summer with her boyfriend, Nate, and then a fun senior year with their friends. But then Nate does what everyone else in Hannah's life seems to do--he leaves her, claiming they have nothing in common. He and all her friends are newly obsessed with K-pop and K-dramas, and Hannah is not. After years of trying to embrace the American part and shunning the Korean side of her Korean American identity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen years old. Able to leap tall buildings, probably, if she felt like it. More likely to be napping with her four black cats; or cobbling together a particle accelerator out of lent, lentils, and safety pins ; or rocking out on drums/guitar/saxophone/zither; or painting a swirling feral sewer mural; or forcing someone to say "swirling feral sewer mural" 13 times fast...and pointing and laughing.
13) Slacker
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
Directed by Richard Linklater, presents a day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people. Shooting on sixteen mm for a mere $3,000, writer-producer-director Linklater and his crew of friends threw out any idea of a traditional plot, choosing instead to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as compelling as the last.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (07 hr., 23 min., 01 sec.))
Language
English
Description
Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin and Silk Road, of radicalism and pornography. This is the Dark Net.
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