Washoe County Library System

Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion? Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive kid who has forged an unconventional path through adolescence, Rhett seems to find greater satisfaction in being unhappy. The very rejection of joy is his own kind...

Imagine if there was a map that showed people how to get from where they are now to the most brilliant, rich, fulfilling, and dazzling life they could ever dream of. Twelve of the most successful people living in the world have followed this mappages They share their seemingly impossible journeys, and reveal that everyone was born with everything they need to live the greatest dreams, and that by doing so they will fulfill their missions, find everlasting...

"A wildly irreverent take on the coming-of-age story that turns a search for belonging into a riotous satire of identity politics. Starting at a prestigious private Australian girls' school, fifteen-year-old Ziggy Klein is confronted with an alienating social hierarchy that hurls her into the arms of her grade's most radical feminists. Tormented by a burgeoning collection of dark, sexual fantasies, and a biological essentialist mother, Ziggy sets...