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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Oprah Winfrey · Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Through deeply personal conversation, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood influences the people we become.  They challenge us to shift from focusing on, "What's wrong with you?" or "Why are you behaving that way?,"...

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Beautiful Country: A Memoir

Qian Julie Wang · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." YetIn Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country." YetIn Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to "beautiful country."...
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Dr. Lembke · Dutton
Format: Hardcover

This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We're living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs,...
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.Nobody needs telling there isn't enough time. We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless...
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Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century

Tim Higgins · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary; to others he's a mercurial huckster. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets; his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous...
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All In: An Autobiography

Billie Jean King · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career--six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby...
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Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

Amy Stanley · ?Scribner
Format: Paperback

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother's. But after three divorces - and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family's approval - she ran away to make a life for herself...
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The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II

Mari Eder · Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII -- in and out of uniform,...
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