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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester, Hardcover. The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—our proprietary relationship with the land—through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future.
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Plus, receive recommendations for your next Book Club read. This reading group guide for Group includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Christie Tate. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. Introduction Christie Tate is a high-achieving workaholic with an apartment in an up-and-coming Chicago neighborhood and the highest-ranking student in her law school class. Topics & Questions for Discussion 1. Inventing Equality. The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed at the end of the Civil War.
On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood in front of a crowd in Rochester, New York, and asked, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” The audience had invited him to speak on the day celebrating freedom, and had expected him to offer a hopeful message about America; instead, he’d offered back to them their own hypocrisy. How could the Constitution defend both freedom and slavery? How could it celebrate liberty with one hand while withdrawing it with another? The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia, Hardcover. ★ 2020-02-24Self-deprecating reflections on the peaks and valleys of modern fatherhood.Comedian Birbiglia and his wife, Stein, parlay their individual creative talents into a funny and wise memoir on parenting.
Fusing good humor and raw honesty with selections from Stein’s evocative poetry, Birbiglia narrates his journey into parenting using material previously adapted for the Broadway stage. From the outset, the author admits to having “a low tolerance for children because I’ve lost a lot of great friends to kids.” He was up front about that fact since he and wife Stein got married in 2008, but when she casually mentioned that having children would “be different” for them, Birbiglia knew he was in store for some major changes.
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Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can’t shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. Happy Tees for Happy People Insta: GetHappyTees by GetHappyTees. The Light of Days - Judy Batalion. One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters—a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now.
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis. Stolen eBook by Richard Bell. “’BOY LOST,’ read the advertisement placed in a newspaper by the father of one of the five free boys kidnapped in Philadelphia in 1825.
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Richard Bell has researched inventively and mastered a vast body of scholarship, as we would expect from so distinguished a historian. But he also imbues his tale with the deep humanity of a great novelist. “Stolen is historical storytelling at its best. “A fascinating story.” Brother & Sister by Diane Keaton. Book by David M. Rubenstein, Carla Hayden. “With his legendary passion for American history, David Rubenstein’s conversations with scholars and authors bring our country’s story to life in a new way.
The American Story illuminates the humanity, motivations, and lesser-known stories behind some of our country’s most notable leaders with lessons that are important for all of us today.” —Bill Gates “David Rubenstein draws out compelling stories and unexpected insights in dialogues with some of the most important historians in America. Self Reiki.
Sleep. Harness the power of sleep for optimal health and well-being For total wellness, healthy sleep is as important as exercise and diet, but most people--even those who exercise conscientiously and always eat healthily--put little or no effort into ensuring they sleep well.
New sleep science tells us that poor sleep is linked to obesity, diabetes, cancer, and a shorter life span. We also know that different people require different amounts of sleep, and that age and gender play a role in how much sleep we need and when we need it. This book puts sleep in context as one of the foundations of good health and, crucially, gives you more than 50 practical sleep strategies so that you can reset your sleep patterns to suit you. It is the only accessible, giftable book, grounded in sleep science, to provide so many practical sleep strategies across such a broad spectrum.
How much sleep do you need at this point in your life? Simple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life by Sarah Ban Breathnach, Hardcover. Updated and expanded for everyone who loved the original Simple Abundance — and a whole new generation that needs it now more than ever — this mega-bestselling guide continues to lead countless women to more fulfilling, harmonious, and joyful lives. First published in 1995, Simple Abundance topped the New York Times Bestseller list for over two years and is responsible for introducing two hugely popular concepts—the "Gratitude Journal" and the term "Authentic Self.
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Trauma is our response to an experience in which we feel powerless or lacking agency. Until now, researchers have treated these conditions as different, but they actually lie along a continuum. This groundbreaking book examines the cultural norms that impede resilience in America, especially our collective tendency to disconnect stress from its potentially extreme consequences and override our need to recover.
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Dr. Qubein is president of High Point University, an extraordinary institution with 4,800 undergraduate and graduate students from 51 countries. For the Love of Peanuts: Contemporary Artists Reimagine the Iconic Characters of Charles M. Schulz (9780762466795): Elizabeth Anne Hartman, Peanuts Global Artist Collective: Books. Keto Diet Cookbook by Dr. Josh Axe. Food the Cookbook. How To by Randall Munroe: 9780525537090. “The creator of the popular, extremely excellent and not a little nerdy webcomic ‘xkcd’ cleverly illustrates a guide of complicated solutions to simple tasks, thinking up Rube Goldbergian solutions to tasks as common as digging a hole.”
—USA Today “[How To] tackles problems from the mundane—such as how to move to a new house—to those that may trouble a mad scientist building her first lava moat. Everything Is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo: 9780525534990. Praise for Everything is Figureoutable: “Everything is Figureoutable is a whirlwind of power, humor, pragmatism, and grace. Marie Forleo writes exactly the way she lives—with full-on enthusiasm, no-bullshit directness, and a ferocious commitment to self-accountability. This woman is the real deal, people. This book will change lives.” Inside Out - Demi Moore - Digital Audiobook. Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir. Edison: Edmund Morris: 9780812993110: Amazon.com: Books. Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something like Grace: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas: 9780062956439: Amazon.com: Books. A History of the World in 6 Glasses: Tom Standage: 9780802715524: Amazon.com: Books.
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These professional home organization experts live for color-coded shelves, matching baskets and labeled jars to help their A-list clients achieve organization nirvana.” —Today The book is a master class on how to arrange even your most unattractive belongings—and spaces—in an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-navigate way.” Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War (9780062937483): Ray Lambert, Jim DeFelice: Books. UnSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation: Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson: 9781400065660: Amazon.com: Books. Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man: Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic: 9781501135958: Amazon.com: Books. When's Happy Hour?: Work Hard So You Can Hardly Work: Betches: 9781501198984: Amazon.com: Books.
Furious Hours by Casey Cep. “She explains as well as it is likely ever to be explained why Lee went silent after To Kill a Mockingbird. (The clue’s in Cep’s title.) And it’s here, in her descriptions of another writer’s failure to write, that her book makes a magical little leap, and it goes from being a superbly written true-crime story to the sort of story that even Lee would have been proud to write.” —Michael Lewis, The New York Times Book Review “[A] well-told, ingeniously structured double mystery—one an unsolved serial killing, the other an elusive book—rich in droll humour and deep but lightly worn research” —The Economist. Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery: Tom Cotton: 9780062863157: Amazon.com: Books. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Daniel James Brown: 0884832131572: Amazon.com: Books.
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience: fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the “firsts” that fill him with wonder and catch him completely unprepared, Fredrik Backman doesn’t shy away from revealing his own false steps and fatherly flaws, tackling issues both great and small, from masculinity and mid-life crises to practical jokes and poop.
Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter by Tom Clavin, Hardcover. HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE YOU MAKE by John Leland. New York Times reporter Leland (Why Kerouac Matters, 2007, etc.) chronicles the year he spent communing with the “oldest old,” gleaning as much of value about his own life as about those he followed. How We Work. Penguinrandomhouse.
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