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Redlined

By Richard W. Wise

Biographies and Memoirs

The year 1974. Boston's Jamaica Plain is a community skating along the razor's edge of decline. The banks have REDLINED. Now, someone has begun systematically torching those abandoned buildings and the charred body of Sandy Morgan, a dedicated young neighborhood…

Rebel Rising

By Rebel Wilson

Biographies and Memoirs

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a “lively and reflective celebrity memoir seasoned with comedy and sincerity” (Kirkus Reviews) about Rebel Wilson’s unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself. This “beautiful, brave book,” (Jenna Bush…

Recent Advances in Material, Manufacturing, and Machine Learning

By Awanikumar P. Patil

General Nonfiction

The role of manufacturing in a country’s economy and societal development has long been established through their wealth generating capabilities. To enhance and widen our knowledge of materials and to increase innovation and responsiveness to ever-increasing international needs, more in-depth…

Raising Good Humans

By Hunter Clarke-Fields

Nonfiction

A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, mindfulness mentor, parenting coach, and mother of two Hunter Clarke-Fields offers parents practical and breakthrough strategies for conflict resolution and positive communication. Parents learn to…

Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage Book 23)

By Richard Lim

History

Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering…

Principles for Success

By Ray Dalio

Business

An entertaining, illustrated adaptation of Ray Dalio’s Principles, the #1 New York Times bestseller that has sold more than two million copies worldwide. Principles for Success distills Ray Dalio’s 600-page bestseller, Principles: Life & Work, down to an easy-to-read and…

Privileging Place

By Meaghan Stiman

General Nonfiction

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spaces In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place, Meaghan Stiman examines the experiences of predominantly upper-middle-class suburbanites who bought second homes in the city…