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Staff Picks
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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Staff Picks
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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News & Opinion
2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards Call for Entries is Now Open!
Any book published in the U.S. within the year 2021 is eligible to submit, and submissions to the awards are free.
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ChangeThis
The Three Pressure Traps
By Dane Jensen
How we navigate pressure in key moments and over the long haul has a huge impact on the trajectory of our life and how much we enjoy the journey.
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New Releases
Books to Watch | August 31, 2021
By Dylan Schleicher, Gabbi Cisneros, Emily Porter
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Staff Picks
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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Book Giveaways
Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
Power isn't just for the few at the top; it is potentially for everyone. You have power—and the power to use it.
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Staff Picks
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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Staff Picks
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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ChangeThis
Run Slower: The New Superpower for Our Sped Up World
By April Rinne
In an upside-down world that coaxes, cajoles, and coerces you to run ever faster, your key to true success and growth is to do the opposite: learn how to run slower.
