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The Supreme Gift: Love Is the Greatest Thing in the World by Paulo CoelhoContrary to what we are used to hearing, the greatest treasure in the spiritual life is not faith, but love. No matter what your religious beliefs are, this feeling is, without doubt, the most rewarding way to live. In The Supreme Gift, Paulo Coelho offers a real and powerful message that will help us incorporate love into our daily life and experience all its transformational power in our lives.
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Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Ibram X. KendiRecall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia: You will not replace us. Recall the string of mass shooters across the globe--in Oslo, Christchurch, Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburgh--who claimed their crimes were a defense against White genocide. These incidents only scratch the surface: Popular and ruling politicians in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of preventing demographic change. In Chain of Ideas, bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age, and how we can free ourselves from it.
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Streetwise is a delightfully honest, sharp and often very funny reckoning with the author’s education in finance, human nature, and the workings of the world. It abounds with lessons about leading teams of brilliant, aggressive, competitive people and harmonizing them around shared goals; changing when times are hard and when they’re good; managing risk; and knowing a crisis is at hand before it swamps you so you can guide your team to the further shore. Lloyd Blankfein is famed for his calm hand on Goldman Sachs’s tiller during the global financial crisis, and that story is told in full here, among many other decisive episodes. |
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Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird by Keith O'Brien.In the fall 1974, Larry Bird--one of the greatest players to ever pick up a basketball--was lost, and in danger of slipping away. He had dropped out of Indiana University, spurning legendary Hoosiers head coach Bobby Knight. He returned home to the second poorest county in Indiana, and he got a job hauling trash. It could have ended right there for Bird, were it not for two men: Bob King and Bill Hodges.In the spring of 1975, during one of the darkest chapters of Bird's life, King and Hodges convinced Bird to play basketball at Indiana State University, a college that couldn't even fill its arena, much less compete with Bobby Knight. Then, King and Hodges built a team of players around Bird who were just like him: they were castoffs and leftovers, ready to work. Four years later, this unheralded team would put together one of the greatest seasons in American sports history. By the time it was over, more than 50 million people would tune in to watch Indiana State play in the NCAA finals against Magic Johnson and Michigan State. What happened that night would change college basketball and the NBA.
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The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love by Alice HoffmanFourteen beloved authors celebrate the life-changing bond with their canine companions in this heartwarming essay collection edited by New York Times bestselling author and lifelong dog lover Alice Hoffman. A love letter to the loyal companions who enrich our lives and teach us about empathy, joy, and unconditional love, this anthology offers a blend of laughter, tears, and inspiration that will resonate with anyone who has been fur-ever touched by the love of a dog.
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Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America by Andrew McCarthyA "You don't really have any friends, do you, Dad?" A seemingly innocuous, if direct, question from Andrew McCarthy's son left him reeling. McCarthy did have friends, but like so many other men, the necessities of modern adult life had forced his friendships to the background. At one point his friends had been instrumental in broadening his horizons, bolstering his courage, providing safe harbor. Now, McCarthy found himself questioning what had happened to those friendships, whether he needed them, what he valued, and what he had to offer. Who Needs Friends charts McCarthy's journey over nearly ten thousand miles behind the wheel, following him on often-unexpected travels through Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, the Chihuahuan Desert, the Rocky Mountains with one driving purpose: to reconnect.
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