Staff Picks
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Staff Picks
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
By Dylan Schleicher
The rocket scientists who figured out how to break us free from Earth’s gravity and get us to the moon usually get all the glory. Earl Swift tells their story, too, but goes beyond them to tell the tale of the engineers who made the final leg of the last three missions to the moon—aboard lunar rovers—possible.
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Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
By Gabbi Cisneros
If Vanessa Zoltan can make such thoughtful, universal, contemporary, and personal connections with a nineteenth-century gothic Romance novel, I think that there are endless possibilities for what we can learn from the abundance of diverse authors and stories that exist today.
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Objects of Desire: Stories
By Emily Porter
Clare Sestanovich gives us a peek into the desires of modern life, lives that are figuring out the everyday, and writes lovely short stories that give us snippets of all these lives that tie together.
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Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses
By Dylan Schleicher
David Buckmaster takes on issues as personal as how to advocate for better pay for yourself, and as broad as how to change the system to rid it of its persistent racial and gender disparities and finally provide equal pay for equal work.
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The Sea We Swim In: How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World
By Dylan Schleicher
We must be deliberate about choosing what stories we tell, and what stories we believe, because they are the waters we swim in—the way we construct our own realities.
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Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer
By Gabbi Cisneros
Doree Shafrir’s compassion for herself as a late bloomer will inspire readers to treat themselves with as much self-respect and patience, too,
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Distant Fathers
By Emily Porter
This beautiful ode to her life shows Marina Jarre finding her place in the world and deciphering her past.
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Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs from You the Most
By Gabbi Cisneros
Influence and Impact is an essential guide to either overcome or avoid the feeling of dissatisfaction with your job.
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Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
By Dylan Schleicher
If you know and love the story of the Allies cracking the Nazi's Enigma Machine, you're going to want to know the story of what came next—the Tunny, the Colossus, and an intelligence operation that laid the foundation for artificial intelligence.
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Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win
By Dylan Schleicher
Most of us feel like we’re getting ripped off by the current healthcare system, and that there is little to nothing we can do about it. The first part of that is true; the second part is not.
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