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All of OPL’s staff recommendations in one page. You can browse the different lists based on topics, format or genres, or you can read some of the more detailed blog posts about specific items. If you can’t find what you are looking for, you can always #AskALibrarian online or in a branch!

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World Logic Day

Rationality What It Is Why It Seems Scarce Why It Matters

Good Thinking : Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World

Games for your Mind : The History and Future of Logic Puzzles

Irrationality : A History of the Dark Side of Reason

Thinking and Being

The Philosopher's Toolkit : How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room

New Year, New Voices

Resolve to kick-start your 2022 reading by exploring new, dynamic authors in OPL's poetry collection!

Umbilical Cord

Why I Was Late

Phantompains : Poems

With/holding

Letters in A Bruised Cosmos

Barangay : An Offshore Poem

Girl Running

I Love You, Call Me Back : Poems

Retrospective 2021

What Strange Paradise

Unreconciled Family Truth and Indigenous Resistance

The Afghanistan Papers : A Secret History of the War

Neujahrskonzert 2021 : New Year's concert 2021

Jonny Appleseed : A Novel

Bring Back Our Girls : The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls

Just the Hits 2021

COVID-19 : the pandemic that never should have happened and how to stop the next one

NISHGA

Linked.

Sights and sounds of the season

Christmas With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

When Christmas Comes Around

Holiday Cookbook

Wonderland

A Sentimental Christmas With Nat "King" Cole and Friends : Cole Classics Reimagined

Classic Christmas

Vivaldi at Christmas

Winter Tales

Christmas Classical Essentials

George Balanchine's The nutcracker

Offers of Support, Advice, and Affirmation

Sis, Don't Settle : How to Stay Smart in Matters of the Heart

Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults : A Guide for Professionals and Families

Collective Wisdom : Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice From Women Over 50

Dear Black Girl : Letters From your Sisters on Stepping Into your Power

Affirmations for Turbulent Times : Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind

Special Topics in Being A Human : A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way About Caring for People, Including Myself

Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty : Affirmations for the Real World

Zen Wisdom for the Anxious : Simple Advice From A Zen Buddhist Monk