Staff Picks
Friendship
- Helene F.
- Saturday, November 14, 2020
Collection
Friendships near and far
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Firefly. The Complete Series
Published in 2003
The future is nothing like you've imagined. Neither are its heroes.
Stranger Things.
. Season 1
Published in 2017
1983, Indiana. A young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family, and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one very strange little girl.
Tomo
Friendship Through Fiction
Published in 2012
"One year after the tsunami, this benefit fiction anthology helps teens learn about Japan and contribute to long-term relief efforts"-- Provided by publisher.
Friendship
The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
Published in 2020
"An engaging and deeply reported investigation of friendship: its evolution, purpose, and centrality in human and nonhuman lives alike. The bonds of friendship are universal and elemental. In Friendship, journalist Lydia Denworth visits the front lines of the science of friendship in search of its biological, psychological, and evolutionary foundations. Finding it to be as old as life on the African savannas, she also discovers that friendship is reflected in our brain waves, detectable in our genomes, and capable of strengthening our cardiovascular and immune systems. Its opposite, loneliness, can kill. As a result, social connection is finally being recognized as critical to our physical and emotional well-being. With warmth and compassion, Denworth weaves together past and present, field biology and cutting-edge neuroscience, to show how our bodies and minds are designed to make friends, the process by which social bonds develop, and how a drive for friendship underpins human (and nonhuman) society. With its refreshingly optimistic vision of the evolution of human nature, this book puts friendship at the center of our lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Friendship
Published in 2013
What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyze it, and how has modern technology altered its very definition? In this fascinating exploration of friendship through the ages, one of the most thought-provoking philosophers of our time tracks historical ideas of friendship, gathers a diversity of friendship stories from the annals of myth and literature, and provides unexpected insights into our friends, ourselves, and the role of friendships in an ethical life. A. C. Grayling roves the rich traditions of friendship in literature, culture, art and philosophy, bringing into his discussion familiar pairs as well as unfamiliar - Achilles and Patroclus, David and Jonathan, Coleridge and Wordsworth, Huck Finn and Jim. Grayling lays out major philosophical interpretations of friendship, then offers his own take, drawing on personal experiences and an acute awareness of vast cultural shifts that have occurred.
The Friendship Crisis
Finding, Making, and Keeping Friends when You're Not a Kid Anymore
Published in 2004
Serenity
Firefly Class 03-K64. No Power in the 'verse
Published in 2017
"When a call for help to find a missing friend takes the crew to an Alliance post in the Outer Rim, they encounter a new force building strength to fight the battle of the Browncoats in a somewhat controversial fashion. Putting their grievances aside, they embark on a rescue mission."-- Provided by publisher.
Friendsgiving
Celebrate Your Family of Friends
Published in 2017
"Friendsgiving is everything you love about Thanksgiving -- think beloved Turkey Day feast -- without the things you dread, like nagging family members and awkward conversations. This epic Friendsgiving guide includes everything you need to throw a memorable occasion -- twenty-five delicious recipes, handy timelines, shopping tips, leftover strategies, music suggestions, and so much more." -- Back cover.