High Identity

It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Lea Farver vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Cari, 37, was a devoted mother, reliable employee, and loyal friend - not the type to shirk responsibilities, abandon her son, and run off on an adventure while her dying father took his last breaths. Yet, the many texts from her phone indicated she had done just that. While Cari's boyfriend, Dave Kroupa, and her supervisor were bewildered by her abrupt disappearance, they accepted the texts at face value. Her mother, Nancy Raney, however, was alarmed and reported Cari missing.

I should have died. Sometimes I wish I did. At least then I wouldn’t be alone. After my parents’ divorce, my mom moved on with her yoga-teaching boyfriend and my dad threw himself into work, leaving me to figure out how to navigate my new reality on my own. Transitioning from an all-girls school in Malibu to the elite Arlington Park Academy in the suburbs of Chicago means more changes than I can handle. I feel like I’m drowning, losing myself…craving the sense of belonging I lost. Then the overly enthusiastic class president and my next-door neighbor, Emily, claims me as her new ...

Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are simply not true—and act based on these misperceptions. In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, expert in media and politics Dannagal Goldthwaite Young offers a comprehensive model that illustrates how political leaders and media organizations capitalize on our social and cultural identities to separate, enrage, and—ultimately—mobilize us.

With signature depth and insight, Gregory V. Diehl explores what it means to live as a man who embraces the boldest romantic ideals, a man who pursues romantic self-expression, self-determination, and self-actualization as life’s most meaningful undertaking in a world set against it. His new book reveals the hidden depths of masculine intimacy and passion, romantic compatibility, men’s unignorable sexual burden, and the challenging quest to fall in love and bond with one’s complementary soulmate for life in a state of willing interdependence between the masculine and feminine.

In The Red Mirror, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova uses social identity theory to explain Putin's leadership. The main source of Putin's political influence, she finds, lies in how he articulates the shared collective perspective that unites many Russian citizens. Under his tenure, the Kremlin's media machine has tapped into powerful group emotions of shame and humiliation - derived from the Soviet transition in the 1990s - and has politicized national identity to transform these emotions into pride and patriotism.

Librarian Carter Matheson is determined to enjoy himself on a Scottish bus tour for fans of mystery author Dame Vanessa Rayburn. Sure, his ex, Trevor, will also be on the trip with his new boyfriend, leaving Carter to share a room with a stranger, but he can’t pass up a chance to meet his favorite author. Carter’s roommate turns out to be John Knight, a figure as mysterious as any character from Vanessa’s books. His strange affect and nighttime wanderings make Carter suspicious. When a fellow traveler’s death sparks rumors of foul play, Carter is left wondering if there’s anyone on the tour he can trust.

Is there such a thing as truth? What about trust? How much hurt can one person survive? I’ve opened my heart and had it ripped out, stomped on, and even drowned. It’s taking everything in me not to curl in on myself and let the world fade away. No one should have to go through the pain I have. The only thing keeping me from slipping under is the love the guys have shown me. They’re the only ones I know I can depend on. At least, I hope so. I found something. Something that changes everything. I don’t know if The Society is what I think it is. Can I tell the guys, or are they in on ...

I have a secret. Several actually. Only the guys know who I really am. I finally know the truth about my family, but now I have even more questions. The only people that can answer them are Luca, Skyler, Noah, Vince, and Gavin. They’ve introduced me to a world I never imagined existed. One that comes at a cost. One I can’t tell anyone else about. I’m balancing two lives. Sometimes I’m a normal teen, getting ready for the homecoming dance and falling for my gorgeous boyfriend. The rest of the time, I’m sneaking around and answering to The Society. When everything falls apart, the ...

We all know how identities - notably, those of nationality, class, culture, race, and religion - are at the root of global conflict, but the more elusive truth is that these identities are created by conflict in the first place. In provocative, entertaining chapters, Kwame Anthony Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument with engrossing historical tales and reveals the tangled contradictions within the stories that define us.

Braiding together Western, South-Asian, and Qur'anic storytelling styles, the author illuminates what it means to exist in a world that demands something different from each of her identities. With lyrical prose and scholarly precision, she weaves her personal experiences with incisive social commentary to uncover the meaning of faith and belonging, love and betrayal, family and womanhood. In so doing, she offers us a vision of freedom that isn't measured in fabric.

I've been lied to, lied about, and lived a lie. I've been beaten and broken. I'm done being the victim. I trusted the wrong people. I let them into my life, my heart, and they turned on me. In one moment, my life changed. I know whom I can count on and who truly cares about me. My guys. Each day the attacks turn more personal. It started with the football team, but now the entire school seems to have something to say about me. I want to be strong, but each word feels like a punch. Not even my own home is the escape I need it to be. Fans of B.L Brunnemer & Autumn Reed will love this slow-...

The more answers I get, the more questions I have. only know one thing for certain. I need my guys. All of them. I let myself get comfortable. I found a rhythm and thought life might actually calm down for a while. That I might find a new normal, but the Society needs something from me. My guys tell me I can trust them, their parents, and the organization they belong to. My mom’s journal says I can’t. There’s no time to hesitate. No time to overthink. I have to do what I’ve been asked. This is bigger than me or my guys. There’s more at stake than I could have ever realized. Fans ...

I had love and lost it. I don’t want that pain again. I have to make a choice. All I wanted was a week off from the drama. I should have known better than to think we could pretend to be normal when we’re anything but. The Society is more than an organization. It’s a lifestyle and it’s time I accept that. The life I want is within reach, but there are consequences I’ll have to face. I wish it was as simple as telling them what I want, but it’s not only my life that will change. Someone is going to have to make a sacrifice, but who? How long can I toe the line before I have to ...

Progress comes with a price. For every step forward I take, someone slips further away. There’s more to this world than I imagined. More secrets, more people, more confusion. Meeting members our age only raises more questions. I’m not sure I want the answers. I thought the guys and I were past the hard part. We’ve come so far in the past few months and things have been going in the direction I hoped. I should have known better than to think it could ever be easy. I can’t be the only one fighting for us. Do we have what it takes to make our relationship work, or is this the beginning...

Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the embodied experience of race in deep, challenging ways.

One little lie. Now I second guess everything. This is no way to live. It’s time to uncover the truth, once and for all. Tennyson said it’s better to have loved and lost it than to have never loved at all. Well, that man clearly overestimated the amount of pain and suffering I could tolerate. The more I discover, the more uncertain I am of everything my life has become in Arlington Park. As the lies and deception reveal themselves, I have to make a choice. Protect myself, my father, or the guys. There’s no perfect answer, but living in this limbo is taking its toll. It’s time to ...

My heart is split in five. The future I want feels impossible. I can’t hold back. Not anymore. Every step forward is followed by a hard shove ten feet back. I want things to work with the guys, all of them, but keeping the sun from setting seems easier and more likely to happen. Just when I think we’re making progress, the Society steps in and once again messes things up, giving the guys something else to fight over. They say the best things in life are free. I don’t believe that for a second. I just have to hope the price isn’t too high. Nothing Left to Hide is the sixth book in ...

Identity Crisis takes listeners from the bruising primaries to an election night whose outcome defied the predictions of the pollsters and pundits. The book shows how fundamental characteristics of the nation and its politics - the state of the economy, the Obama presidency, and the demographics of the political parties - combined with the candidates' personalities and rhetoric to produce one of the most unexpected presidencies in history.

A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multigenerational transformation from what is called Black to what is assumed to be White. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a "Black" father from the segregated South and a "White" mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of "Black blood" makes a person Black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he'd never rigorously reflected on its foundations....

A masterful new look at privacy in the twenty-first century, The Fight for Privacy takes the focus off Silicon Valley moguls to investigate the price we pay as technology migrates deeper into every aspect of our lives: entering our bedrooms and our bathrooms and our midnight texts; our relationships with friends, family, lovers, and kids; and even our relationship with ourselves.