Staff Picks
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Staff Picks
Windswept : Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women
By Emily Porter
Annabel Abbs looks at walking with a feminist's eye, writing about Simone de Beauvoir, Nan Shepherd, Frieda Lawrence, Georgia O’Keefe, and many more who walked and found inspiration that deeply impacted their lives.
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The Reading List
By Lauren Kohlenberg
This novel evokes the magical feeling that arises when you enter a book-filled space. It tells of the power of a community space, the impact of found family, and the reach of a carefully crafted story.
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The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
By Dylan Schleicher
There are so many things to learn—about Wall Street, about short selling, about social media’s growing influence on investing, about the gamification of trading—in the individual stories Ben Mezrich tells and how they connect to one another. But the real magic is in the writing itself.
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L.A. Weather
By Gabbi Cisneros
As everyone in the novel finds their own way of working through (or avoiding) their own difficulties, the family drama gets more tense.
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
By Dylan Schleicher
We face both urgent crises and profound, existential challenges as a species, but we have the ability to cooperate—and to change and evolve the ways in which we do. Nichola Raihani explains how important that ability has been to our success in the past, and how likely it is to determine our fate.
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Three Rooms
By Emily Porter
It tells a universal story that so many of us experience in our own lives when finding our footing: the struggle of making it on our own for the first time, meeting strangers that become good acquaintances—if not a friendship of sorts—and finding ourselves throughout the journey.
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The Secret History of Food: Strange But True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat
By Gabbi Cisneros
The Secret History of Food is a wild ride through history and the human body—how food has impacted them both and, in turn, how food has been impacted by both.
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Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
By Emily Porter
Seeing Ghosts unravels her family’s generational grief and reveals how it followed her mother’s life as well as her own.
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Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
By Dylan Schleicher
We live in a world in flux, but the word “flux” is also a verb, and an ability we can all develop to help us navigate the profound changes we’re living through.
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Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
By Gabbi Cisneros
Second-wave feminism may have been guided by the women's liberation movement of the seventies, but its continuation is sustained and shaped by each of us.
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