- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
24 copies, 300 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Resettling Your Brain in the Age of Cheap Pleasures"--
We are living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. Lembke explores new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain-- and what to do about it....
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
10 copies, 37 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From professor of psychology at U. C. Berkeley and one of the foremost experts on the science of emotions comes a groundbreaking and essential exploration into the history, science, and understanding of awe, and a guide for how we might all cultivate a deeper sense of awe and transform our lives and our world Awe, one of the most elusive emotions, is hard to pin down. How do we begin to measure the goosebumps we feel when we first see the Grand Canyon,...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book
970.004 NESTEROF
1 available
970.004 NESTEROF
1 available
On Shelf
Castle Valley Library - Adult Audio-Visual
CD 970.004 NESTER
1 available
CD 970.004 NESTER
1 available
Description
"From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy"--
Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy's most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form. Profiles important events and humorists from the 1880s to the present.
t was one...
164) Leap
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Castle Valley Library - Castle Valley Local Interest
CV 298 WILLIAMS
1 available
CV 298 WILLIAMS
1 available
Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book
298 WIL
1 available
298 WIL
1 available
On Shelf
Moab Library - Locked Cabinet
298 WILL
1 available
298 WILL
1 available
Description
A spiritual meditation on Hieronymus Bosch's fifteenth-century Flemish masterpiece "The Garden of Delights," a triptych in which he depicts Paradise, Earthly Delights, and Hell.
165) Shubeik lubeik
Author
Description
"Author, illustrator, and translator Deena Mohamed presents a literary, feminist, Arab-centric graphic novel that marries magic and the socio-political realities of contemporary Egypt. Shubeik Lubeik--a fairytale rhyme meaning 'Your Wish is My Command' in Arabic--is the story of three characters navigating a world where wishes are literally for sale; mired in bureaucracy and the familiar prejudices of our world, the more expensive the wish, the more...
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
9 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. In their major New York Times bestseller, The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow fundamentally challenge these assumptions and recast our understanding of human history. We...
Author
Description
An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jill BialoskySomething terrible has happened and I don't know what to do. An unnamed narrator's life is unraveling. Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at
...168) Stolen: a novel
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Description
"On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa--daughter of S�ami reindeer herders--sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these "stolen" animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile up, uninvestigated. But reindeer are not just the S�ami's...
Author
Description
"In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native S�ami reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivv�ar, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse's daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book
700.103 DEDERER
1 available
700.103 DEDERER
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, 'What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men?' Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the...
171) Path of light
Author
Description
Path of Light treks back through time as author and explorer Morgan Sjogren retraces the 1920s expeditions led by Charles L. Bernheimer into the heart of Glen Canyon and Bears Ears National Monument. Mindful of the pervasive effects of colonization and motivated by a deeply personal care for the land, Sjogren asks what it means to be an explorer while learning from the people who have loved the land for millennia and moments. Path of Light walks...
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
145 copies, 2160 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
92 copies, 1204 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
92 copies, 1204 people are on the wait list.
Description
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results. Like science,...
173) Checkout 19
Author
Formats:
Description
"In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles in the back pages of her exercise book, thrilling to the first sparks of her own inventiveness. As she grows, she becomes one on whom nothing is lost. Not the novels an eccentric customer slips her at the grocery store where she works as a checkout clerk, or the indelible outline of the careening creature himself. Not the growing heaps of books in which she loses--and finds--herself....
174) Pond
Author
Description
The charms of bananas and oatcakes in the morning and Spanish oranges after sex; the small pleasures and anxieties of throwing a party, exchanging salacious emails with a new lover, sitting in the bath as it storms outside. Broken oven knobs prompt a meditation on survival that's both haunting and playful; a sunset walk leads to an unsettling encounter with a herd of cows; the discovery of an old letter recalls an impossible affair.
Author
On Shelf
Moab Library - Adult Audio-Visual
CD 910.916 GRANN
1 available
CD 910.916 GRANN
1 available
Checked Out
53 copies, 550 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
28 copies, 234 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
28 copies, 234 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
Author
On Shelf
Moab Library - Adult Audio-Visual
CD F WALLS
1 available
CD F WALLS
1 available
Moab Library - Adult Audio-Visual
PLAYAWAY F WALLS
1 available
PLAYAWAY F WALLS
1 available
Checked Out
19 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
14 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
14 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
Author
Formats:
Checked Out
31 copies, 207 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
7 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The ... author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed the vital sensations of...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book
580.92 SEVIGNY
2 available
580.92 SEVIGNY
2 available
Checked Out
5 copies, 34 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Description
"The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists...
Author
Formats:
Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
Author
On Shelf
Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book
305.8 KIMMER
1 available
305.8 KIMMER
1 available
Checked Out
12 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
Description
As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness -- the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural -- to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows...