Staff Picks
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Staff Picks
New Women in the Old West : From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story
By Emily Porter
Winifred Gallagher paints a picture of a hostile migration landscape with women—settlers who were White, Black and Asian—coming into their own, laying down the foundation for equal rights for generations to come—while uprooting the lives of Native Americans and Hispanic peoples.
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The Cult of We: Wework, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
By Dylan Schleicher
Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell ask if WeWork was "an outlier, or was it simply the most vivid example of a cultural rot that had formed within twenty-first-century entrepreneurial and investment culture?"
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Becoming Heroines: Unleashing Our Power for Revolution and Rebirth
By Gabbi Cisneros
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin has effectively compiled her experience as CEO of Gaia Project Consulting, LLC, with personal traumas and accomplishments throughout her life, crafting a book that perfectly balances vulnerability and instruction.
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The Comfort of Monsters
By Emily Porter
Richards writes a beautiful ballad to the missing and to those who survive, trying to pick up the pieces without knowing what that means. The pages illustrate the world of those who survive and the many missing faces of those who disappear.
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All the Lonely People
By Gabbi Cisneros
All the Lonely People is a heartfelt story of human friendship that will make any reader feel a little more hopeful about our divided society.
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The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
By Dylan Schleicher
Talking to people you don’t know is one of the best ways to get the most out of every day and to form lifelong bonds of friendship and understanding.
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"I Have Nothing to Hide": And 20 Other Myths about Surveillance and Privacy
By Dylan Schleicher
The so-called “frictionlessness” of online life and commerce is being lubricated by us ceding our right to privacy, and it’s an increasingly slippery slope.
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This is Your Mind on Plants
By Emily Porter
In his new book, Michael Pollan focuses in on three substances that alter human consciousness—opium, caffeine, mescaline—and takes us on a whirlwind exploration through his research on the plants that contain them.
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Vessel: A Memoir
By Gabbi Cisneros
Through non-linear storytelling, Cai Chongda recalls his youth to young adulthood in 1980s China: his family, their homes, struggles with poverty and illness, his work and education, and the waves of Western influence on the village.
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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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