Erica's Staff Picks

Erica is an Adult Services Librarian at Southeast Regional. These are some books she enjoyed!

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Book cover for "Bonk"
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4.7 stars
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Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
Book cover for "Freakonomics"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Offers an alternative view of how the economy works.
Book cover for "Midnight in the garden of good and evil"
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
THE LANDMARK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MUSICAL COMING SOON TO BROADWAY • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review 30th Anniversary Edition...
Book cover for "The nineties"
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Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--
Book cover for "Me and white supremacy"
Star rating for Me and white supremacy
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it ... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy...
Book cover for "Superfreakonomics"
Star rating for Superfreakonomics
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
In a follow-up to "Freakonomics," the authors offer a new analysis of how the economy really works. Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
Book cover for "A walk in the woods"
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4.3 stars
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Traces the author's adventurous trek along the Appalachian Trail past its natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts.
Book cover for "Come as you are"
Star rating for Come as you are
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
"A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski's game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life"--
Book cover for "How Stella learned to talk"
Star rating for How Stella learned to talk
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A true story and guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who has taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using simple paw-sized buttons associated with different words.
Book cover for "Poverty, by America"
Star rating for Poverty, by America
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...
Book cover for "Sapiens"
Star rating for Sapiens
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:

#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers' Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates

Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.

From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution—a

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