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Books in the National Media May 2024
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This Summer Will Be Different
by Carley Fortune
When her best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy follows her to Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and resist the one man she's never been able to, but his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe. Featured on Good Morning America.
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Summer on Highland Beach: A Novel
by Sunny Hostin
In Highland Beach, the oldest Black resort community in America, Olivia Jones, amid tense family drama, must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor or finally achieve her dream of having a home and family of her own in Highland Beach. Featured on The Sherri Shepherd Show.
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Turtles All The Way Down
by John Green
Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett's son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. Featured on Morning Joe.
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Women and Children First: A Novel
by Alina Grabowski
When a young woman dies under suspicious circumstances at a house party, the private lives of 10 women unravel as they confront this tragedy in their small Massachusetts town where blame is cast, secrets are buried deeper and a shocking truth about that dreadful night begins to emerge. Featured on The Today Show.
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The Book of Ayn: A Novel
by Lexi Freiman
Shunned by the literary establishment, Anna, following Ayn Rand's theory of rational selfishness, is offered a chance to kill the ego causing her pain at a mysterious commune on the island of Lesbos where she explores a very different kind of freedom—communal love. Featured on The Daily Show.
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Children of Anguish and Anarchy
by Tomi Adeyemi
Hunted by King Baldyr, the ruler of the Skulls who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her, Zélie searches for allies in unknown lands to save her people before the Skulls annihilate them for good. Featured on Tamron Hall.
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Indulge: Delicious and Decadent Dishes to Enjoy and Share
by Valerie Bertinelli
The actress and New York Times best-selling author returns with 100 recipes aimed at nourishing both the body and soul with the taste of indulgence including Fancy Tea Sandwiches, Baby Kale with Crispy Garlic and Sausage and Olive Cheese Bites. Featured on The Drew Barrymore Show.
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
by Emmanuel Acho
For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They cover Jews and money. Jews and power. Jews and privilege. Jews and white privilege. The Black and Jewish struggle. Emmanuel asks, Did Jews kill Jesus? To which Noa responds, "Why are Jewish people history's favorite scapegoat?" They unpack Judaism itself: Is it a religion, culture, a peoplehood, or a race? And: Are you antisemitic if you're anti-Zionist? The questions--and answers--might make you squirm, but together, they explain the tropes, stereotypes, and catalysts of antisemitism in America today. The topics are complicated and Acho and Tishby bring vastly different perspectives. Tishby is an outspoken Israeli American. Acho is a mild-mannered son of a Nigerian American pastor. But they share a superpower: an uncanny ability to make complicated ideas easy to understand so anyone can follow the straight line from the past to our immediate moment--and then see around corners. Acho and Tishby are united by the core belief that hatred toward one group is never isolated: if you see the smoke of bigotry in one place, expect that we will all be in the fire. Featured on Morning Joe.
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As Long As You Need: Permission to Grieve
by J. S. Park
Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace. In As Long As You Need, J.S. offers an honest and unrushed engagement with grief, decoding four types of grieving-spiritual, mental, physical, and relational-and offering compassionate self-care and soul-care along the way. If you are struggling to process loss, pain, or grief from the last few years or the last few minutes, J.S. is an experienced and deeply empathetic listener and grief catcher who has held the pain and questions of thousands of patients. While social and cultural narratives about grief are dominated by "letting go, moving on, or turning the page" in his nearly decade of service as a chaplain at a major hospital with a designated level one trauma center J.S. understands firsthand how rushing or suppressing grief only adds a suffocating layer of pain on top of the original wound. From his unique window into the stories of the ill, injured, dying, and their families, J.S. offers you: Permission to dismantle all too common myths about grief and replace them with a guilt-free and unrushed approach to navigating your losses. Encouragement for how entering grief, rather than avoiding it, leads to a hard but meaningful holding of your loss. Empathy and hope if you are struggling with a crisis of faith in the midst of grief. Recognition that grief spans a wide narrative of loss: loss of future, faith, mental health, worth, autonomy, connection, and loved ones. Affirmation that your grief is your own. While the DNA of grief might be universal to the human condition, how you experience and process grief is unique to you. From the ER to deliveries to deathbeds across every sort of illness and injury imaginable, J.S. Park has provided meaningful counseling for people in all walks of life and death. Now, through his book he wants to assure you that, while everybody else might rush past your pain, grief is the voice that says, take as long as you need. Featured on Good Morning America.
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New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
by David E. Sanger
Drawing on interviews with top officials from five administrations, U.S. intelligence agencies, foreign governments and tech companies on the front line, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents this remarkable first draft history chronicling America's return to superpower conflict, the choices that lie ahead and what is at stake of the U.S. and the world. Featured on Book TV.
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Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
by Bettina L. Love
In this prequel to The New Jim Crow, the cofounder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network, chronicling 40 years of educational reform, reveals the devastating effect on 25 black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology and offers a new way forward with all children at its core. Featured on Book TV.
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Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls--and How We Can Take It Back
by Kara Alaimo
In Over the Influence, communication professor and CNN Opinion contributor Kara Alaimo reveals how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls-from our relationships and our parenting to our physical and mental well-being. Over the Influence is a book about what it means to live in the world social media has wrought-whether you're constantly connected or have deleted your accounts forever. Alaimo shows why you're likely to get fewer followers if you're a woman. She explains how fake news is crafted to prey on women's vulnerabilities. She reveals why so much of the content we find in our feeds is specifically designed to hold us back. And she explains how social media has made the offline world an uglier place for women. But we can change this. Alaimo offers up brilliant advice for how to get over the influence-how to handle our daughters' use of social media, use dating apps to find the partners we're looking for, use social networks to bolster our careers, and protect ourselves from sextortionists, catfishers, and trolls. She also explains what we need to demand from lawmakers and tech companies. Over the Influence calls on women to recognize and call out the subtle (and not-so-subtle) sexism and misogyny we find online, reject misinformation that is targeted to us because of our gender, and use our platforms to empower ourselves and other women. Featured on Book TV.
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You Never Know: A Memoir
by Tom Selleck
An American icon and famed actor brings us on his uncharted but serendipitous journey to the top in Hollywood, clearing up misconceptions; sharing dozens of never-before-told stories from both his personal and professional lives; and offering a truly fresh perspective on a changing industry and a changing world. Featured on CBS Mornings.
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No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward
by Kristi Noem
Packed with surprising stories and practical lessons from leading her state through unprecedented change, the 33rd governor of South Dakota helps every citizen understand how positive change really happens, despite the dysfunction in Washington DC, and we can seize this moment to move America forward. Featured on CBS Mornings.
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Say More: Lessons From Work, the White House, and the World
by Jen Psaki
Sharing her journey to the Briefing Room and beyond, a former White House Press Secretary, current MSNBC host and one of the most prominent voices in American politics today explains her straightforward approach to communication and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. Featured on The View.
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The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications
by Emily Oster
Laying out the data on recurrence and treatments shown to lower or mitigate risks for such conditions as preeclampsia, miscarriage and preterm birth, the New York Times best-selling author of Expecting Better, with insights from a lauded maternal fetal medicine specialist, makes the hardest parts of pregnancy a little bit less so. Featured on Tamron Hall.
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