Active Collections
By: Elizabeth Wood
4.16
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. Howev…
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1. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
By: E.L. Konigsburg
3.76
Format: None pages,
When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from some… read more
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2. The House on Mango Street
By: Sandra Cisneros
3.31
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schoo… read more
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3. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
By: Robin Sloan
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and… read more
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4. ROAR: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life
By: Selene Yeager , Stacy T. Sims
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Women are not small men. Stop eating and training like one. Because most nutrition products and tra… read more
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5. The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice, #1)
By: John Flanagan
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition for ISBN: They have always scared him in the past -- the Rangers, with th… read more
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6. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
By: Chip Colwell
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to d… read more
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7. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
By: Jamie Ford
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history - the internment of Am… read more
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8. Fire (Graceling Realm, #2)
By: Kristin Cashore
4.40
Format: 205 pages,
It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel lords … read more
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9. Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Practical Guide for Museums
By: None
4.24
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
Managing previously unmanaged collections can be challenging. The process of securing the collectio… read more
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10. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
11. Helpmeet
By: Naben Ruthnum
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more
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"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet
12. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
13. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
14. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
By: Sarah Polley
4.32
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more
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"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory
15. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
By: Eva Jurczyk
3.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who p… read more
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16. Solutions and Other Problems
By: Allie Brosh
4.21
Format: 519 pages, Hardcover
Allie Brosh returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. … read more
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"If you can't win, start playing a different game and score just as many points."-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems
"Death can take away your friends and pets, but it can't take away the weird shit they did."-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems
"That's the scary thing about decisions: you don't know what they are when you're making them."-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems
"Woah there, Scooter...looks like you might be starting to veer towards nihilism...anyway, it's sand time now."-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems
17. Of Women and Salt
By: Gabriela Garcia
3.69
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is… read more
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18. Fine Print Volume 1
By: Stjepan Šejić
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
How do you deal with a broken heart? Junk food? Excessive drinks? Dubious contracts with ancient go… read more
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19. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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20. The End of Men
By: Christina Sweeney-Baird
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unfo… read more
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"No one handed me any of this. I built this weird, challenging, rewarding life in London for myself. Why not me?"-Christina Sweeney-Baird, The End of Men
21. The House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more
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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings
22. What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
By: Isabel Ibañez
3.90
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Bue… read more
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"Is this it, Whit?"-Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
23. A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
By: Archie Bongiovanni
4.37
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. … read more
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24. The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
By: Dan Hicks
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind … read more
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25. Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker (American Alliance of Museums)
By: Mike Murawski
4.02
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Museums everywhere have the potential to serve as agents of change--bringing people together, contr… read more
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26. Active Collections
By: Elizabeth Wood
4.16
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
In recent years, many museums have implemented sweeping changes in how they engage audiences. Howev… read more
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- museums
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27. Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences
By: Valerie Raleigh Yow
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this second editon of Recording Oral History , Valerie Raleigh Yow builds on the foundation of h… read more
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