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AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter
by Josh Tyrangiel
Josh Tyrangiel's AI for Good explores how everyday, non-technical professionals—such as doctors, teachers, and bureaucrats—are using artificial intelligence to solve practical, human-scale problems. Rather than focusing on abstract Silicon Valley tech or apocalyptic doomsday scenarios, the book profiles pragmatic "countercultural" leaders who use AI to augment human judgment and improve inefficiencies in medicine, vaccine logistics, and government services.
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Clive Cussler Cold Fire
by Graham Brown
High above the Arctic Ocean, American C-17 carries a cutting-edge laser of immense power and successfully shoots down a ballistic missile hundreds of miles away. Then the aircraft goes dark, vanishing off radar. It's been hijacked, the crew murdered at their stations. The President orders a small research vessel operated by NUMA to lead the search. But the Russians and Chinese are also zeroing in on the plane. The mystery deepens, revealing that the great nations of the world are being manipulated by a single man with a deadly plan of revenge.
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The Housewife
by Natalie Barelli
Jodie always dreamed of being a housewife. And after a whirlwind romance, she marries renowned psychologist Dr. Roy Davies and moves into his perfect Beverly Hills home. But the fairy tale fades fast, as Roy's late wife, Deborah, seems to loom over the house. Jodie begins to suspect Roy was behind Deborah's death. And the deeper she digs, the darker Roy's past appears. Jodie knows she should go to the police, but that would require revealing her own secret--a secret that could destroy her. Still, the truth about Roy is worse than she imagined--and now, trapped in a house built on lies, she must find a way out before she becomes the next perfect wife to vanish.
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Land
by Maggie O'Farrell
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. It's 1865, and the country is ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger. Tomás is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. The British soldiers, due to arrive any day, expect the work to be completed, but Tomás is sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again.
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The Shampoo Effect
by Jenny Jackson
When Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, Massachusetts, she falls head-over-heels for Van Whittaker. Born and raised in this picturesque coastal village, Van is close with the same crowd he grew up with. Together, the group runs wild through the marshes, beaches, and bars of Greenhead. Then Bailey, a member of the group, discovers that she's pregnant with Van's baby. The balance of the group's friendship is thrown off. Caroline is cast out and what she does next--in a potent mix of fury and heartbreak--exposes long-held secrets and works the entire town of Greenhead into a lather.
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Alan Opts Out
by Courtney Maum
Alan Anderson is a powerful advertising executive who has built a successful life and thriving business by making people buy stuff they don't actually need. He's up for the biggest pitch of his career and the account everyone wants: US Dairy. Cow's milk sales are plummeting, and the C-Suite wants to see trendy oat milk kicked to the curb. But when an anarchist farmer tanks Alan's presentation, Alan bombs the pitch. He does, however, end the day with an epiphany: No longer will he exploit the insecurities of others in the service of capitalism. Alan is opting out. His wife is horrified, as she's a series of social tests away from finally becoming part of the elite women's club in their adopted town of Greenwich, Connecticut. She watches in horror as Alan moves into their backyard playhouse to live off the land. But instead of shocking the neighbors, Alan's commitment to a less-is-more lifestyle seems to be catching on. Could everyone want what Alan's not selling?
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Choke Point
by Brad Thor
A devastating series of bombings tears through Bangkok, killing scores of American citizens. The President calls in Scot Harvath, America's top spy, trained to operate outside the law and probe the dark corners others can't...or won't. But the bomber Harvath is pursuing isn't a terrorist. He's one of ours. As Harvath closes in on the bomber, a devastating truth emerges: China has quietly deployed its most elite intelligence unit to Thailand. Their objective is to ignite chaos, trigger a military coup, and seize control of a narrow but critical piece of land. If the plan succeeds, Beijing will secure a key gateway between two oceans, eroding American naval dominance. China will control the ultimate geopolitical choke
point--a plan Harvath refuses to allow.
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Dolly All the Time
by Annabel Monaghan
If they start by pretending, can they end with something real? Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn't solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home. So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield--annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family--with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it's in her nature to help. But Stewart's proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She's never relied on anyone besides herself--can she really start now?
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Famesick: A Memoir
by Lena Dunham
In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain. As Dunham takes readers through her journey, tracking her rise to fame in three acts, it becomes clear that the spotlight casts long shadows, distorting the relationships she once held dear and isolating everyone in its glare. She learns to live with what she can't change and turns her regrets into wisdom that can carry her forward, as she reconnects to what, and who, she loves.
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The Land and Its People: Essays
by David Sedaris
In this new collection, recorded live, Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend. He realizes that time takes its toll: scrolling through his address book, he counts those he couldn't bear to outlive, and realizes how many are already gone. He finds it's easy to agree with the lady waving a sign that reads, Enough Is Enough. And yet, life holds much to delight in: the massive testicles of a ram, a trip abroad with his sisters, a really excellent reptile video, a pair of well-made cotton underpants. Throughout these essays--at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound--Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity our fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.
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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
by Patrick Radden Keefe
In the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6 captured video of a young man pacing on the balcony of a luxury tower on the Thames. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped into the river. Miles away, Rachelle Brettler worries when her son Zac doesn't come home from a weekend away. Days later, police officers tell her Zac is dead. She and her husband insist he wasn't suicidal. But while investigating his death, they learn Zac had a fictitious alter ego: an heir to a Russian oligarch's fortune. Under this guise, Zac was entangled with a slippery London businessman and a murderous gangster. Yet Scotland Yard is unable--or unwilling--to bring the perpetrators they accuse of murder to justice. Read about the Brettlers' quest to solve the riddle not just of how their son died, but of who he really was in life.
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A Pair of Aces
by Victoria Christopher Murray
Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney and Manhattan's first Black female prosecutor, has her sights set on the one and only Lucky Luciano, head of New York City's five largest organized crime families. No one has thought to approach the mob through its role in prostitution--until Eunice. Polly Adler runs a high-class brothel with a client list filled with well-known names, both the famous and the infamous. But Lucky has put her girls in danger, and Polly finally sees the chance to end his reign once and for all. Together, Eunice and Polly assemble evidence bit by bit under the nose of the man they're trying to convict. Their alliance--of two women from vastly different worlds--launches the most sensational trial New York City has ever seen.
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Villa Coco
by Andrew Sean Greer
An aspiring archivist determined to begin a “serious” life after an undistinguished undergraduate career takes up residence in the Italian countryside. Here, he becomes the all-purpose assistant to the Baronessa, known to her friends as Coco, a defiantly youthful and naturally flamboyant woman of ninety-two. Amid a chaotic and colorful group of characters, he does his best to catalog the villa’s extensive collection of art and antiques. He tumbles into an affair with a married man, complicating his future plans considerably. And when the Baronessa loses someone close to her, he becomes an unwitting accomplice in her great and final plan: to locate the love of her life and be reunited before it’s too late.
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Whistler
by Ann Patchett
When Daphne Fuller and her husband visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now 53, Daphne hasn't seen Eddie since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. While their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again. Whistler tells the story about how love endures, and how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.
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