"At sixty, Daniel Asa Rose was a successful Massachusetts novelist, memoirist, and columnist for Esquire, GQ, Washington Post Book World and elsewhere, when, out of the blue (but not really), his wife filed for divorce. Before he slips completely into the cocktail of depression, doubt, self-loathing and anger that he mixes for himself, his lifelong friend Tony calls with a proposition: a trip back to the place where, forty years before, their hippy...

"Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon -- the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended...

Vital Lies, Simple Truths' is a penetrating analysis of the ways we deceive ourselves. Daniel Goleman draws on evidence of all kinds - from brain function to social dynamics - to reveal how we skew our most intimate relationships, our day-to-day lives, and our common reality by burying painful insights and memories. This self-deception is our means of psychic self-preservation, the currency of survival in which an entire society colludes. But although...

"Sarah's story begins as she's researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who taught her and her classmates to question everything -- in the end, even the reality of historical atrocities. As she digs into the effects of his teachings, her life takes a turn into the fantastical when her wife, Marta, is notified that she's been investigated for sexual misconduct at the university...

Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by" -- metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. --from publisher description.

"A monk leads a simple life. He studies his books late into the evening and searches for truth in their pages. His cat, Pangur, leads a simple life, too, chasing prey in the darkness. As night turns to dawn, Pangur leads his companion to the truth he has been seeking."-- Provided by publisher.

"Denial helps us manage difficult information rather than face the truth -- about ourselves, our loved ones, and the world around us. But it can also stymie progress and upend our ability to take action in our lives. Here, Dr. Jane Greer shows us how to recognize, battle, and ultimately conquer denial in our lives, so we may face the truth and move forward"-- Provided by publisher.

An introduction to the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for the rights of African Americans in the United States.

"Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister of a monster, and now unwilling bride to the much-older, power-hungry Theseus. Young, naïve, and idealistic, she has accepted her lot in life, resigned to existing under the sinister weight of Theseus's control and the constant watchful eye of her handsome stepson Hippolytus. When supposedly pious Hippolytus assaults her, Phaedra's world is darkened in the face of...