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2 - Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey · Crown
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I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud.... |
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3 - Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson · Random House
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless... |
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4 - The Beauty of Living Twice
Sharon Stone
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She was one of the most renowned actresses in the world--until a massive stroke cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life, and the slow road back to wholeness and health.... |
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5 - Untamed
Glennon Doyle · The Dial Press
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In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and author of the bestselling sensations Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice... |
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6 - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant
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Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort... |
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8 - A Promised Land
Barack Obama
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark... |
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9 - This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
Don Lemon · Little, Brown and Company
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The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak... |
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10 - A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
Scott Weidensaul
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An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration.In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch... |
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11 - Just As I Am
Cicely Tyson · HarperCollins Publishers
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At last, the Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer, Cicely Tyson, tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life. |
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14 - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor · Riverhead Books
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No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly.There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species,... |
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15 - The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
Rob Kenner · Atria Books
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The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy - before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood he was dedicated to building up.In... |
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