Storytelling is a skill that everyone can develop. In The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman, Carmine Gallo “reveals the communication and leadership secrets of the Amazon founder, showing readers how to sharpen their writing, storytelling and communication skills to build the company or career of their dreams.” Once you are finished, check out the rest of our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, science, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman	Gallo, Carmine
Going Rogue	Evanovich, Janet
The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth	Rifkin, Jeremy
Egypt’s Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth	Darnell, John & Darnell, Colleen
Now Is Not the Time to Panic	Wilson, Kevin
Before Your Memory Fades	Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World	Sax, David
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times	Obama, Michelle
Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity	Taseer, Shahbaz
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music	Breihan, Tom
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency	Greenberg, Andy

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In Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way, Kieran Setiya writes a deeply personal and thought-provoking book, not only drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, but fiction, history, memoir, film, comedy, social science, and stories from his own experience. He offers a map for navigating rough terrain, from personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world. Once you are finished, check out the rest of our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, science, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way	Setiya, Kieran
Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder	Shatner, William & Brandon, Joshua
Mad Honey: A Novel	Picoult, Jodi & Boylan, Jennifer Finney
The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth	Preston, Diana
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis	Proulx, Annie
You Don’t Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine	Skalietska, Yeva
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions	Grandin, Temple
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness	House, Patrick
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard	Felton, Tom
Demon Copperhead	Kingsolver, Barbara
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom	Tamimi, Ahed & Takruri, Dena
The Family Outing: A Memoir	Hempel, Jessi
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology	Miller, Chris
Curse of the Reaper	Mcauley, Brian
Everything the Light Touches	Pariat, Janice
Livid: A Scarpetta Novel	Cornwell, Patricia
A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning With Our Past and Driving Social Change	Chugh, Dolly
The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime	Dudley, Renee & Golden, Daniel

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When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come. Her time with the president is encapsulated in The Fight of Our Lives: My Time With Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World. Zelenskyy is a lawyer, constitutional scholar, and entertainer who won his election, battled corruption, and united his country against Russian tyranny. Check out our other political and historical works in our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, science, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
The Fight of Our Lives: My Time With Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World /a>	Mendel, Iuliia
Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber	Borowitz, Andy
They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent	Kendzior, Sarah
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa	Towey, Jim
Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House … Yet	Vitali, Ali
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World	Vince, Gaia
Run Time	Howard, Catherine Ryan
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta	Hannaham, James
Operation Pineapple Express	Mann, Scott & Meek, James Gordon
Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match	Thorne, Sally
I Walk Between the Raindrops: Stories	Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison	MacIntyre, Ben
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage	Holt, Nathalia
The Two Lives of Sara	West, Catherine Adel
Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future	Collins-Dexter, Brandi
The Book of Goose	Li, Yiyun
Ghost Eaters	Chapman, Clay
Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America	Donovan, Joan; Dreyfuss, Emily; & Friedberg, Brian
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization	Tyson, Neil deGrasse
Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street	Fabré, Cin
The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves	Horowitz, Alexandra
The Bad Angel Brothers	Theroux, Paul
Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence	Reynolds, Nicholas
Fairy Tale	King, Stephen

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Have you ever thought about who programmed the first modern computer? Kathy Kleiman would like to introduce us to the six women who programmed the ENIAC, the first modern computer, at the end of World War II, in her book, Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer. Check out our other scientific works in our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, science, social issues, and politics. Happy Autumn!

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Title	Author	Status
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer	Kleiman, Kathy
The It Girl	Ware, Ruth
Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-a History, a Crisis, a Plan	Holder, Eric & Koppelman, Sam
Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith	Christopher, Adam
How to Raise an Antiracist	Kendi, Ibram X.
Miss Aldridge Regrets	Hare, Louise
Other Names for Love	Soomro, Taymour
Upgrade	Crouch, Blake
The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America	Sweet, John Wood
Gangland	Hogan, Chuck
The Awoken	Howes, Katelyn Monroe
Do No Harm	Pobi, Robert
I’m Glad My Mom Died	McCurdy, Jennette
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe	Maraniss, David
Stay Awake	Goldin, Megan
Diana, William & Harry	Patterson, James & Mooney, Chris
Elizabeth Finch	Barnes, Julian
Mindreader: Find Out What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are	Lieberman, David J.
Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis	Macy, Beth

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Ever wonder what happened before the Big Bang? Laura Mersini-Houghton, an expert on the multiverse and the origins of the universe offers a new account of the events before the Big Bang in Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond. Check out our other scientific works in our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, science, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
Before the Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond	Mersini-Houghton, Laura
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: a 10,000-year History	Morris, Ian
The Hop: A Novel	Clarke, Diana
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us	Yong, Ed
Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away With Anything	Bullough, Oliver
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier	White, April
Life Ceremony	Murata, Sayaka. Trans by Ginny Tapley Takemori.
Portrait of an Unknown Woman	Silva, Daniel
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now	Tur, Katy
Ashton Hall	Belfer, Lauren
Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them	Bainbridge, John, Jr.
The Locked Room	Griffiths, Elly
The Poet’s House	Thompson, Jean
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us	Brusatte, Steve
A Way Out of No Way: A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story	Warnock, Raphael G.
The Self-Healing Mind: An Essential Five-step Practice for Overcoming Anxiety and Depression, and Revitalizing Your Life	Brown, Gregory Scott.
Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker’s Wife, and Mussolini’s Daughter Outwitted the Nazis	Mazzeo, Tilar J.
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation	Villarosa, Linda
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People	Mead, Walter Russell
Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America	Pfeiffer, Dan
Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald	Hill, Michael. Foreword by Christopher Buckley.

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Ever wonder what it’s like to be wealthy? Laura Thompson knows. Her new book, Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies, uncovers the lives of such heiresses as Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American “Dollar Heiress,” Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress and Patty Hearst, the notorious heiress to a newspaper fortune turned terrorist. Check out our other historical works in our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, to current affairs, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies	Thompson, Laura
Fake	Katz, Erica
Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits	Acho, Emmanuel
Life Without Children: Stories	Doyle, Roddy
Margaret Truman’s Murder at the CDC	Truman, Margaret & Land, Jon
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior	Prado, Ric
I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir	Fierstein, Harvey
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure	Werb, Daniel
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now	Yang, Jeff; Yu, Phil; & Wang, Philip
Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education	Rosiak, Luke
The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953	Frank, Jeffrey
French Braid	Tyler, Anne
Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power	Bluestein, Greg
Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid—the Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar, and Achieving Extraordinary Health	Perlmutter, David
The End of Getting Lost	Kirman, Robin
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age	Duncan, Dennis
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees	Aikins, Matthieu
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything	Weill, Kelly
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It	Abramson, John
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird	Davis, Jack E.
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire	Elkins, Caroline
Scorpica	Macallister, G. R.
Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling	Franscell, Ron
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty	Thompson, Neal
The Midnight Ride: A Thriller	Mezrich, Ben
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free	Weinman, Sarah

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If you have seen the Netflix series, The Good Place, you may appreciate the ethical dilemmas that the main characters face while reaching, well, the good place. Michael Schur, creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, gives us a funny guide to living an ethical life in How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question. Check out our other thought provoking works in our Popular Reading collection. Titles range from commentary, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, to current affairs, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question	Schur, Michael
It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable—and How We Can Stop It	Greenblatt, Jonathan
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again	Hari, Johann
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking	Mlodinow, Leonard
Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America	Sharpton, Al
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?	Smith, Julie
God: An Anatomy	Stavrakopoulou, Francesca
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing	Thanhauser, Sofi
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them	Walter, Barbara F.
Money Magic: An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life	Allende, Isabel
The Last House on the Street	Chamberlain, Diane
Fuccboi	Conroe, Sean Thor
Devil House	Darnielle, John
Strangers I Know	Durastanti, Claudia
Greenwich Park	Faulkner, Katherine
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections	Jurczyk, Eva
Wahala	May, Nikki
A Previous Life	White, Edmund
Fear of Black Consciousness	Gordon, Lewis R.
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy	Leonard, Christopher
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas	Raff, Jennifer
Baby Steps Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth, and How You Can Too	Ramsey, Dave
Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World	Reid, Eliza
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments	Thompson, Erin L.
The Arc	Hoen, Tory Henwood
Cleopatra and Frankenstein	Mellors, Coco
Nightshift	Ladner, Kiare

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Seriously? Three of my favorite interests in one book! Gregory Benford’s Shadows of Eternity involves a SETI librarian–on the moon–deciphering and interpreting alien messages; need I go on? Check out our other interesting selections to occupy your time over spring break. Titles range from fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, to current affairs, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
Shadows of Eternity	Benford, Gregory
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern	Beard, Mary
A History of the Index: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age	Duncan, Dennis
Orwell’s Roses	Solnit, Rebecca
Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life	Sloss, Daniel
The Book of Mother	Huisman, Violaine
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World	Goodman, Peter S.
Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine	Heath, David
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays	Hurston, Zora Neale; Gates, Henry Louis; & West, Genevieve
Money Magic: An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life	Kotlikoff, Laurence
The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade	Rooks, A. E.
The Echo Chamber	Boyne, John
The School for Good Mothers	Chan, Jessamine
Seasonal Work: Stories	Lippman, Laura
Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind a Raisin in the Sun	Shields, Charles J.
The Good Son	Mitchard, Jacquelyn
Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen	Chance, Zoe
When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town (Cases of the FBI’s Original Mindhunter)	Douglas, John E. & Olshaker, Mark
Brown Girls	Andreades, Daphne Palasi
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss	O’Connor, Mary-Frances
The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System	Opoku-Agyeman, Anna Gifty. Intro by Tressie Mcmillan Cottom
Recitatif: A Story	Morrison, Toni. Intro by Zadie Smith
Taste for Poison, A: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them	Bradbury, Neil

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Whoops! Wrong Seneca! Anyway, you can pick up Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living from our Popular Reading shelves. For other interesting selections to occupy your time, see our books below ranging from fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, to current affairs, social issues, and politics.

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Title	Author	Status
Breakfast With Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living	Fideler, David
King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King	De Vise, Daniel
The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained	Olusoga, David
In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes With Anthony Bourdain	Vitale, Tom
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine	Subin, Anna Della
Fixed: How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving	Herman, Amy E.
American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History	Michel, Casey
Boy Underground	Hyde, Catherine Ryan
Bright Burning Things	Harding, Lisa
Call Us What We Carry: Poems	Gorman, Amanda
Harsh Times	Vargas Llosa, Mario
A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind	Burgess, Ann Wolbert
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home	Warzel, Charlie & Petersen, Anne Helen
The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better	Wine, Thatcher
Fight Night	Toews, Miriam
I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness	Watkins, Claire Vaye
My Monticello	Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole
The Survivors	Schulman, Alex
The American Art Tapes: Voices of American Pop Art	Jones, Nicolette & Jones, John
Cokie: A Life Well Lived	Roberts, Steven V.
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III	Roberts, Andrew
Observations by Gaslight: Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes	Faye, Lyndsay

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