21st century

Kwame Alexander offers a memoir with poetry, letters, recipes and other personal artifacts. He provides an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with.

"While reporting on the war in Ukraine, George Butler has created striking and intimate illustrations to introduce us to the people behind the headlines. His drawings, made in a variety of places from missile-scarred streets to nursing homes, vividly capture stories of family, tragedy, and perseverance"--Provided by publisher.

An investigation into the collapse of youth mental health, and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. Social psychologist Jonathon Haidt explores how the rise of the "phone-based childhood" has coincided with the rise in rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide in children. He explains how the increase in technology use by children interferes with social and neurlogical development, and proposes four simple rules that might help to stop the epidemic of mental illness in children and restore a more humane childhood.

Depression can feel like a lonely room. No matter how desperate the struggle, the door is nowhere in sight. In My Therapist Told Me to Write This: Poems for Our Daughters, the narrator reminds us that there's always someone out there who cares, even during our darkest hour. Written for a metaphoric daughter, this poetry collection illustrates what it means to keep going when your mental health wanes and your mind tells you to quit.

Whether she's writing letters to her younger self, advocating for women's rights or adapting fairy tales to process an abusive relationship, Len's voice is bold, unashamedly frank and unmistakably hers. The poems in this collection, both funny and fiercely feminist, announce a formidable new talent. Moving deftly between English and Scots, poyums is as approachable as it is affecting.

Farewell Yellow Brick Road is a full-color celebration of Elton John's record-breaking, globe-spanning farewell tour?from the first show in Allentown, PA in 2018, to the final show in Stockholm in 2023. Featured concerts include Elton?s dazzling performances at Los Angeles? Dodger Stadium in November 2022, the finale of which streamed live on Disney+. Fans will be treated to a behind-the-scenes glimpse into every aspect of these spectacular shows, including Elton?s legendary touring wardrobe by Gucci, the set design, official tour photography, and more. On this epic visual journey, Elton reaches back in time to reflect on key moments from his life on the road and to reminisce about the beginning of his career. Readers also get a rare glimpse at Elton?s personal archive of posters, sketches, and never-before-seen photographs and postcards. A poignant foreword by David Furnish, Elton?s husband and manager, as well as the tour?s creative director, rounds out this incredible insider?s look. Join Elton on his remarkable, career-affirming farewell.

"The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to LGBTQ+ communities"--.

Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than half Of life is death but I can? t die Enough for all the life I see In Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains ? a shrewd composer of American stories? (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of Jefferson Davis, wanders through the afterlife, reckoning with the nuances of America? s, as well as his own, racial history. Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time? s manifold potential to mend.

"A volume of 40 speeches [from 1945 onwards], contextualized, explained and then given, in their fundamental passages . . ."--BTCat.

"Through deep reporting over two years in farming villages and on factory floors, Chang shows how women [in Egypt] resist the pressure to give up, despite living in a country where history and tradition confine them to narrow roles and a globalizing economy has led, counterintuitively, to a conservative turn of society that discourages women from entering the workforce at all. She shares with us the rarely heard voices of ordinary women in Egypt and why its economic history continues to fail them"--Provided by publisher.