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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise April 2020 Special eBook Edition! You must have a current Wilton Library card to use these services. If you are a non-Wilton resident, please check with your hometown library for these services.
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Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life
by Marie Kondo
What it is: anecdotes, studies and strategies for promoting workplace fulfillment through focused organization and productivity.
Who wrote it? Marie Kondo, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Scott Sonenshein, the psychologist author of Stretch
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Why Did I Come into This Room? A Candid Conversation About Aging
by Joan Lunden
What it's about: the laugh-out-loud realities of aging, sharing insights into and personal experiences with such taboo subjects as hot flashes, sex-drive changes and ageism.
Author alert: Lunden is an award-winning broadcast journalist and women’s health advocate, and author of Had I Known: A Memoir of Survival (2015).
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener
What it is: a chronicle of the author's experience at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory and, of course, progress.
Kirkus Reviews called it: "A funny, highly informative, and terrifying read." (November 2019)
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The Boy Who Felt Too Much: How a Renowned Neuroscientist and His Son Changed Our Image of Autism Forever
by Lorenz Wagner
What it's about: Reveals how the author, inspired by his son Kai's disorder, upended the conventional wisdom about autism through groundbreaking research. He devised a radical new theory: people like Kai don't feel too little; they feel too much. Their senses are too delicate for this world.
Author alert: Henry Markram is considered "the Elon Musk of neuroscience" -- the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain.
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| Sick: A Memoir by Porochista KhakpourWhat it's about: the author's journey through decades of misdiagnosed health problems due to late-stage Lyme disease, and her health's effects on her professional and romantic lives -- and her sometimes complicated relationship with her own body.
Read it for: the honesty with which Khakpour discusses the psychological fallout of her physical illness, which is a topic that could use more attention. |
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| Autism in Heels: the Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum by Jennifer Cook O'TooleWhat it is: an upbeat and inspirational guide/memoir that urges readers (and the medical establishment) to reevaluate stereotypical ideas about what autism looks like, especially the ways gender can effect the expression of autistic traits.
Why it's important: The author goes to great lengths to encourage people to view autism as more of a difference than a "disease," and how her diagnosis came as a relief instead of something negative. |
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-year-old boy with Autism
by Naoki Higashida
What it is: a journey into the mind of a remarkable 13-year-old Japanese boy with severe autism. This eBook shares firsthand insights into a variety of experiences associated with the disorder, from behavioral traits and misconceptions to perceptions about the world and social awareness.
Author alert: Co-translated by David Mitchell, the Man Booker Prize finalist author of Cloud Atlas
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These eBooks may be downloaded in the Libby By OverDrive app or viewed online on our OverDrive page. For more information on borrowing eBooks, visit http://www.wiltonlibrary.org/ebooks-eaudiobooks-and-emagazines |
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