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Want to see what other RCLS card holders are reading this month in Non-Fiction?
It's everything from Best Sellers to self-improvement to true-crime.
Try out one of these top twenty picks.
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom · Doubleday
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance · Harper
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book."... |
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A Murder in Music City: Corruption, Scandal, and the Framing of an Innocent Man
MICHAEL BISHOP · Prometheus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the grisly event. A few months later a judge's son is convicted of the crime. Decades after the slaying, Michael Bishop, a private citizen, stumbles... |
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Block City: Incredible Minecraft Worlds: How to Build Like a Minecraft Master
Kirsten Kearney · Harry N. Abrams
Format: Print book
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Minecraft - a humble computer game about placing blocks - is a global phenomenon that has captured the imagination of more than 36 million players around the world. Often described as a digital version of LEGO, Minecraft offers an open-ended playing field where players design and build... |
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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
Eric Metaxas · Viking
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes a brilliant and inspiring biography of the most influential man in modern history, Martin Luther, in time for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document... |
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Wes Moore · Spiegel & Grau; Reprint edition
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Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes... |
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Bossidy, Larry
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The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job.Larry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram C |
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The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw · Random House
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing... |
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The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Ian Morgan Cron · InterVarsity Press
Pages: 220
Format: Print book
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Ignorance is bliss -- except in self-awareness. What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships -- and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality... |
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg · Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Wall Street Journal Financial TimesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work.... |
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell · Back Bay Books; 1 edition
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
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In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann · Doubleday
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - AMAZON EDITORS' PICK FOR THE BEST BOOK OF 2017 "Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." - Dave Eggers, New York Times Book ReviewShelf Awareness's Best Book of 2017Named a best book of the year by Wall... |
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A Raisin in the Sun (Modern Library Series)
Lorraine Hansberry · Modern Library
Pages: 135
Format: Book
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"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes... |
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie KondoÌ„ · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover
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This #1 New York Times best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying, organizing, and storing.Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still... |
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * Newsday... |
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