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Behind the beautiful forevers : [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity]

The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War

Billion dollar loser : the epic rise and spectacular fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"

The sixth extinction : an unnatural history

Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman

The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit

Latitude : the true story of the world's first scientific expedition

People who eat darkness : the true story of a young woman who vanished from the streets of Tokyo and the evil that swallowed her up

Tiananmen moon : inside the Chinese student uprising of 1989

Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith /-

The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation

Deep state target : how I got caught in the crosshairs of the plot to bring down President Trump

Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated woman

The deepest South of all : true stories from Natchez, Mississippi

The lost cause : the trials of Frank and Jesse James

Trillions : how a band of Wall Street renegades invented the index fund and changed finance forever

Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage

Lawrence in Arabia : war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East

The tunnels : escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill

Outlaw platoon : heroes, renegades, infidels, and the brotherhood of war in Afghanistan

The midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times

The taking of Jemima Boone : colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America

Helter skelter : the true story of the Manson murders

A death in the islands : the unwritten law and the last trial of Clarence Darrow

Try out these detective and mystery stories.

A song for the dark times : an Inspector Rebus novel

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Two awesome hours : science-based strategies to harness your best time and get your most important work done

The 80/20 principle : the secret of achieving more with less

Confessions of an organized homemaker : the secrets of uncluttering your home and taking control of your life

Decluttering at the speed of life : winning your never-ending battle with stuff

How to get sh*t done : why women need to stop doing everything so they can achieve anything

The other side of organized : finding balance between chaos and perfection

Art before breakfast : a zillion ways to be more creative, no matter how busy you are

Getting things done for teens : take control of your life in a distracting world

It's about time : the art of choosing the meaningful over the urgent

The home edit life : the no-guilt guide to owning what you want and organizing everything

The modern organic home : 100+ DIY cleaning products, organization tips, and household hacks

The deadline effect : how to work like it's the last minute--before the last minute

The clutter connection : how your personality type determines why you organize the way you do

The year of no nonsense : how to get over yourself and on with your life

The joy of missing out : finding balance in a wired world

How to manage your home without losing your mind : dealing with your house' s dirty little secrets

Stop clutter from stealing your life : discover why you clutter and how you can stop

The kids are in bed : finding time for yourself in the chaos of parenting

Organizing for life : declutter your mind to declutter your world

Buddha standard time : awakening to the infinite possibilities of now

U Chic. College girls' real advice for your first year (and beyond!)

My fringe hours : discovering a more creative and fulfilled life

The organized student : teaching children the skills for success in school and beyond

Take your time : how to find patience, peace & meaning

The CHAOS* cure : clean your house and calm your soul in 15 minutes

Deep work : rules for focused success in a distracted world

Simplify your life : get organized and stay that way!

Getting things done : the art of stress-free productivity

Momentous events in the life of a cactus

Best of Daniel Tiger's neighborhood. Neighborhood friends collection.

Absolutely Alfie and the worst best sleepover

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Pandora's jar : women in Greek myths

Natalie Haynes

292.211 /Haynes
Nonfiction

The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still, today, a wealth of novels, plays and films draw their inspiration from stories first told almost three thousand years ago. But modern tellers of Greek myth have usually been men, and have routinely shown little interest in telling women's stories. And when they do, those women are often painted as monstrous, vengeful or just plain evil. But Pandora--the first woman, who according to legend unloosed chaos upon the world-- was not a villain, and even Medea and Phaedra have more nuanced stories than generations of retellings might indicate. Now, in Pandora's Jar, Natalie Haynes--broadcaster, writer and passionate classicist-- redresses this imbalance. Taking Pandora and her jar (the box came later) as the starting point, she puts the women of the Greek myths on equal footing with the menfolk. After millennia of stories telling of gods and men, be they Zeus or Agamemnon, Paris or Odysseus, Oedipus or Jason, the voices that sing from these pages are those of Hera, Athena and Artemis, and of Clytemnestra, Jocasta, Eurydice and Penelope.

I love Haynes' novel "A Thousand Ships" as well as her podcast, "Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics." This book is also a delight. Haynes provides an incredibly engaging and enjoyable relook at the women of Greek myths, from Medea to Pandora to Clytemnestra to the Amazons. She goes back to the original texts, shows the differences in how their stories are told, how later authors and artists intepreted these women, and how their stories echo into the 21st century. -Anne M