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FEATURED BOOK OFF THE SHELF: "Friends and family. Restaurants and recipes. Hobbies and history. TV programs the author loved when he could still see and music he enjoys. The schools he attended and the two degrees he attained. The career that eluded him and the physical problems that challenge him. And books, books, books: over 230 of them quoted from or reviewed. All in all, an astonishing work of erudition […]
"In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets, among them a Tea Party activist whose […]
Tulane Baseball Games: Green Wave vs. Southeastern Louisiana: Tuesday, March 6th, 6:30pm – 9:30pm @ Green Wave Green Wave vs. Southeastern Louisiana: Wednesday, March 7th, 6:30pm – 9:30pm @ Green Wave Green Wave vs. Purdue : Friday, March 9th, 6:30pm – 9:30pm (CST) @ Green Wave Green Wave vs Purdue : Saturday, March 10th, 2pm – 5pm (CST) @ Green Wave Green Wave vs. Purdue : Sunday, March 11th, 1:30pm – 4:30pm (CST) @ Green […]
Tulane Baseball Games: Green Wave vs. Lamar University: Tuesday, February 27th, 6:30pm – 9:30pm @ Green Wave Green Wave vs. Lamar University: Wednesday, February 28th, 4pm – 7pm @ Green Wave Green Wave vs. Cal State Fulerton : Friday, March 2nd, 6:30pm – 9:30pm (CST) @ Green Wave Green Wave vs.Cal State Fulerton : Saturday, March 3rd, 2pm – 5pm (CST) @ Green Wave Green Wave vs.Cal State Fulerton : Sunday, March 4th, 1pm – […]
FEATURED BIOGRAPHY: "This "historically engaging and pressingly relevant" biography establishes Shirley Jackson as a towering figure in American literature and revives the life and work of a neglected master. Still known to millions primarily as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America […]
FEATURED GREAT LITERATURE: "Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the […]
FEATURED BOOK OFF THE SHELF: "In the "compelling"* and "pitch perfect"** follow up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, it's six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder squad. But an urgent telephone call beckons Cassie to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. […]
FEATURED NON-FICTION: "Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist. In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she spent hours in unfettered play in her father’s college laboratory. She tells us how she found a sanctuary in […]
FEATURED FICTION: "Charles Wang, a brash, lovable businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, has just lost everything in the financial crisis. So he rounds up two of his children from schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn’t repossessed. Together with their wealth-addicted stepmother, Barbra, they head on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the […]
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