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New Adult 000 - 300s Nonfiction 000 - Computer Science, Knowledge, and Systems 100 - Philosophy and Psychology 200 - Religion 300- Social Science, Law, and Education |
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Stronger Than You Think: Building Lifelong Resilience
by PhD Hamby, Sherry
Resilience isn't something you either have or don't. Instead, it is a modifiable process--meaning anyone can learn, practice, and benefit from it across every stage of life. Drawing on more than thirty years studying violence, trauma, and recovery, Dr. Hamby reveals that the
key to becoming more resilient lies in harnessing the necessary resources and assets to thrive after hardship. She calls this your resilience portfolio. The more and different kinds of strengths in your portfolio--in the form of internal assets like meaning-making and regulatory skills, and external resources like supportive social networks and physical environments--the more quickly you can bounce back from adversity, and the better prepared you'll be to weather future hardship. Accessing and nurturing these strengths is simpler than you think. Through client stories and her own journey of resilience, Dr. Hamby walks readers step-by-step through evidence-backed tools and
strategies for regulating impulses and emotions, modifying your social and physical ecologies to promote greater wellbeing, and infusing your day-to-day with a deeper sense of purpose.
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Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
by David Epstein
We live in a world that gives us seemingly infinite choices and prizes freedom above all else. We have an unprecedented number of options regarding what to do, who to be, and how to spend our time. All that choice is wonderful; it is also overwhelming. The irony is that total freedom can be paralyzing, and unlimited resources don't necessarily lead to the biggest breakthroughs. In fact, overvaluing complete
freedom can be disastrous for everything from starting a company to harnessing creativity to finding personal satisfaction. David Epstein argues that all of us--individuals, businesses, institutions, even
societies--can benefit from narrowing our options. He dives into the science and practice of constraints, exploring exactly when and how guardrails can be beneficial, whether we're working with limited resources or using self-imposed boundaries to tap unexpected wells of focus and innovation. Original, galvanizing, and deeply researched, Inside the Box tells absorbing stories of people and organizations that embraced constraints to transform themselves, and the world--as well
as a few that struggled from a lack of limits.
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The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
by Arthur C. Brooks
If you struggle to discern life's meaning, you're not alone. Millions
today describe a growing sense of emptiness, a lack of purpose and significance. And there's a reason: Rapid cultural, economic, and technological changes have rewired our brains, reducing their ability to perceive depth and purpose. In The Meaning of Your Life, social
scientist and happiness expert Arthur C. Brooks shows you how to push back against these changes and find the meaning you need to live a happy, fulfilling life. Relying on cutting-edge science, he offers practical, evidence-based strategies for breaking free of the powerful trends and personal habits that dull your focus on the why of your life. Drawing on the great philosophers and the world's faith traditions, he shows how everyone can--and must--approach life's most important and
mysterious questions and provides a blueprint that will help even the most skeptical person find a life of spiritual transcendence, passionate love, and true calling. What is the meaning of my life? is not an unanswerable question, but rather the start of a pilgrimage into unexplored corners of your consciousness. The Meaning of Your Life is your handbook for this journey.
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Joyful, Anyway
by Kate Bowler
You can't always be happy, but you can be joyful, anyway. We live in a culture convinced that chasing happiness will optimize our bodies, our minds, our relationships, our lives. But in the meantime, bad news usually stays bad: illness, chronic pain, grief, and disappointment don't obey our timelines or vision boards. We are left wondering why, if we're doing everything right, life still feels so hard. Honest and bracingly tender, Joyful, Anyway proves that experiencing joy does not depend
on resolving everything that makes life difficult. Drawing on a decade of living with serious illness and a lifetime studying America's obsession with progress, Kate Bowler shows why people so busy chasing
happiness miss out on actual joy. Joy reminds us that no matter what, life is still worth loving. For every time we ask is this it?, joy will
answer: There is more.
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The Anatomy of Awakening: The 5 Hidden Codes to Activate Self-Healing, Unlock Your Higher Consciousness, and Live Your Divine Destiny
by Sue Morter
Using an approach keyed to the higher states of consciousness within
all of us, The Anatomy of Awakening opens what Dr. Sue describes as a vibrational combination lock, activating deeper levels of awareness and helping us become more masterful in how we live, feel, and respond.
We align with five transformative universal principles or quantum codes to reveal a greater Truth: Access our inner guidance and clarity; Move from overthinking into aligned action; Regulate the nervous system
and change the way we experience life; See beyond limiting
narratives; Integrate light and shadow to empower everyday life. With the precision of a master teacher and the heart of a mystic, Dr. Sue reveals the sacred 'codes' that dissolve the illusion of separation and awaken the God Presence in every breath, cell, and choice.
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Reparenting the Inner Child: The New Science of Our Oldest Wounds and How to Heal Them
by Flatiron Author to Be Revealed Mar 2026
As adults, we often fall into patterns that feel irrational or out of character--shutting down, lashing out, people-pleasing, or self-sabotaging. Beneath those reactions lies our inner child, a younger
part of us still trying to get its needs met the only way it knows how.
We all carry the imprint of our earliest years. Childhood is brief, yet its impact is lifelong. Reparenting the Inner Child offers a clear, compassionate path to self-integration, combining practical exercises, somatic tools, and guided reflections to help us create the safety, love, and boundaries we've always needed. Through her holistic framework that models individual development, Dr. LePera explains how we can cultivate the emotional maturity and regulation to respond calmly
instead of reacting, to embrace desire instead of shame, and to
question the stories we've long believed about who we have to be.
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I Belong to Me: A Survivor's Guide to Recovery and Hope After Religious Trauma
by Tia Levings
What does it mean to heal from trauma caused by the people, beliefs, and practices of your faith? And to rebuild a sense of self, when high-control religion said you shouldn't have one? Indoctrinated from early childhood to obey, conform, and want what others wanted for her, Tia Levings learned love and acceptance meant being someone other than herself. After years of abuse in a violent marriage and high-control religion, Tia Levings escaped with her children (a story told in her memoir, A Well-Trained Wife) and thought the hardest was behind her. But leaving was just the beginning. With an audacious persistence to reclaim her life, Tia set off on a 15-year quest to psychological peace. The result is an emotionally regulated, actualized, self-aware woman who is able to tell her harrowing story without retraumatizing herself --
a woman who can reach back to help others claim what's theirs.
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Self-Help from the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us about Living
by Peter Jones
Peter Jones was teaching medieval history at a university in Siberia
when his third icy winter there plunged him into a dark place. Luckily,
he knew something few of us know-- that for all its reputation for darkness and superstition, the Middle Ages were the golden age of self-help. So he set out on a journey to explore the wisdom of medieval scholars, saints, and mystics, looking for an alternative path through
the challenges of modern life. Never in history, Jones marvels in Self-Help from the Middle Ages, has so much energy and talent gone into studying how the mind works as in the medieval centuries. Although today we think of the Seven Deadly Sins as a catalog of forbidden behavior, in the Middle Ages, at the height of their currency, they were
a path to self-knowledge and self-forgiveness. Together, pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed, gluttony and lust were a psychological map that
laid out seven basic patterns of thought, showing how our thinking can go astray and how we can find our way home. In Self-Help from the Middle Ages, Jones explores each sin, searching the hellscapes of Hieronymous Bosch and Giotto, the intimate confessions of Dante and Margery Kempe, and the personal struggles of Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena. Along the way he discovers a treasure trove of lost truths about temptation, frustration, addiction, compulsion, burnout, rage, fear, anxiety, and grief that still pulse with life. With beautiful illustrations drawn from medieval art and literature, his book is a gift to all who love history and anyone who has ever sought wisdom from the past.
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My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past
by Tracy Clark-Flory
Tracy Clark-Flory had a sister out there, somewhere. She knew that her mom, Deb, was sent to a home for unwed mothers as a pregnant teenager in the Sixties. After placing her baby for adoption, Deb was committed to a mental institution in her grief. Decades later, she had Tracy, who grew up as an only child longing for her sister. Now, in her thirties and a mother herself, Tracy takes a DNA test in hopes of finding her sister--and she does. Newly connected with her half-sister Kathy, both daughters start asking questions about the past that their mom, who had died years earlier, could no longer answer. Tracy sets out to make sense of what happened back in 1965. She learns that their mom was pulled into a racist and sexist system designed to turn bad girls
into proper women and wives. Tracy realizes that her own life has been profoundly shaped by her mom's past, but she also uncovers a bigger story about patriarchal control, mother-daughter dynamics, and the
way that shame keeps us divided--both within ourselves and from each other.
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A Time to Gather: How Ritual Created the World--And How It Can Save Us
by Bruce Feiler
Since time immemorial, humans have turned to ritual to connect us in periods of change. Until today. Birth rituals and coming-of-age rituals have plummeted; fewer than half of Americans are married; only one
in three is buried. It took us ten thousand years to establish cultural
norms around how we mark collective life transitions, writes Bruce
Feiler. It took us fifty years to dismantle them. Can this threat to
society be reversed? To find out, Feiler went on a round-the-world
ritual road trip, attending--and participating in--life rituals in sixteen countries on six continents. These spectacles, some rarely seen, include a mass baptism in the Vatican, a tribal bride price negotiation in South Africa, an adolescent tooth filing in Bali, six weddings in Las Vegas, and ten funerals in Ireland. Beyond the decline in traditional rituals, Feiler discovered that we are in the midst of a ritual renaissance that is pushing back against apathy, loneliness, and digital saturation. Fed up with top-down scripts, everyday people, from boomers to Gen Z, are reimagining collective rituals at a remarkable pace, inventing fresh
ways to gather around life, love, health, and family--and forging
thriving communities in the process. A Time to Gather is both a
stirring adventure and practical manual. It's a landmark guide to
modern ritual; a tool kit for turning everyday moments into
unforgettable celebrations; and an invitation to reconnect and rejoice--together.
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The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, Deepmind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
by Sebastian Mallaby
Even by the standard of a tech industry stacked with so-called geniuses, Demis Hassabis is a special case. Born poor in North London to immigrant parents, a chess prodigy by age five and wizard coder in his teens, he turned down a seven figure offer before turning 18 to feed
his insatiable scientific curiosity at Cambridge. Later, he added a neuroscience PhD to his computer science skills to pursue the dream of artificial general intelligence, the ultimate goal being to unravel the mysteries of biology and theoretical physics and to usher in super-abundance. Alongside a small group of fellow travelers, that is the path he is still on, leading the AI research at Google, winning a Nobel Prize along the way, and imagining machines that will compound, or possibly supplant, the human understanding of the universe. Despite Hassabis's pivotal role inside Google's engine room, this is not a Silicon Valley
story. Hassabis deals with the Valley and takes its money, but remains outside and furiously critical of it, lambasting its leaders in conversation with Mallaby. The end of this race cannot be known, but as this great book shows us, Hassabis's quest to will a new form of cognition into
the world is a defining story for our era.
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Law on Trial: An Unlikely Insider Reckons with Our Legal System
by Shaun Ossei-Owusu
The law promises justice. Too often, it delivers inequality. This contradiction raises a basic question: Why does a legal system that claims to stand for fairness and equality fail to uphold these ideals over and over? In Law on Trial, legal scholar and Bronx native Shaun Ossei-Owusu draws on more than a decade of observation and reflection―
first as a scholar of inequality, then as a law student, practicing lawyer, and now as an Ivy League law professor―to provide an unvarnished account of the legal system. He reveals that the promise of justice is
too often a convenient fiction invoked by lawyers, recited by textbooks, and betrayed in practice.
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Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
by Quinn Slobodian
A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of
our postliberal age. Everyone's got an Elon take. He's a messiah; a menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn't a glitch in the system--he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in, power up, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect, the more he owns you.
If Fordism defined the capitalism of the twentieth century, Muskism
may define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state.
Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom.
His cars run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us. Muskism sells itself as the future
but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It's pro-natalist but anti-immigrant, futurist but reactionary. It speaks of humanity but warns against empathy. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff cut through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy, where to be free means to serve a Technoking. Muskism isn't about the man. It's about the machine that made him--and the world he's making next.
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The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy
by Steven J. Ross
Americans today like to believe that the end of World War II brought a new era of tolerance in the United States. But antisemitism and racism went up-not down-after the war's end. Violence broke out in cities
across the country, and the number of organized hate groups more
than doubled from 1940 to 1946. In this shocking account of a resurgence of White Supremacy in America, celebrated historian
Steven J. Ross reveals how four key leaders-Emory Burke, J. B. Stoner, James Madole, and George Lincoln Rockwell-worked together to “finish the job Hitler had begun,” launching deadly attacks on Jews and
African Americans and building a network of terrorists across the U.S.
In response to this “war of hate,” three men-Arnold Forster of the Anti-Defamation League, George Mintzer of the American Jewish Committee, and James Sheldon of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League-along with dozens of men and women, launched a multipronged effort: They infiltrated, monitored, and undermined these hate groups, putting their own safety on the line and scoring important victories that, today, have been all but forgotten.
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Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness
by Megan Eaves-Egenes
People, plants and animals all depend on the natural night--both its darkness and its starlight--for so much, from regulating our sleep cycles to providing the inspiration for myths and legends across the millennia. But darkness is disappearing, and with it, our view of the stars. The constant glow of streetlights, of headlights streaming down highways, and wasteful glare from skyscrapers left shining all night have created
so much light pollution that the majority of Americans can no longer
see the Milky Way or experience the restful embrace of a natural night. As the dark becomes ever more elusive, it is a critical moment to stop, look up, and consider what we lose with the disappearing stars. In Nightfaring, Megan Eaves-Egenes travels around the world to better understand our deep connection to the dark. Finding solace in the
stars at a time of difficulty in her own life, she embarks on a journey from New Zealand to Uzbekistan, Italy to Japan, Germany to the Himalaya, exploring the many ways that humans have depended on, feared, and mythologized darkness. Blending travel and nature writing with history and self-discovery, Megan writes of how the stars have helped her chart the course of her own life--just as they've guided humankind for as long as we've slept beneath them.
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Not Our Problem: The True Story of an Afghan Refugee, an American Promise, and the World Between Them
by Abdulhaq Sodais
In an Afghan village, a boy learns his letters under a mullah's stick and dreams of a life free of the Taliban; in Virginia, a cadet learns to read a map and lead a platoon into combat. Years later, on a wind-scoured ridgeline overlooking Zabul Province, helicopters roaring overhead, Afghan interpreter Abdulhaq Sodais and U.S. Army Lieutenant Spencer Sullivan must learn to trust each other if they hope to survive.
In 2021, when the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban
reassert their rule, disappearing, torturing, and killing U.S.
collaborators, including Abdulhaq's fellow interpreters. Yet Abdulhaq's applications for asylum in America are repeatedly denied. In
alternating voices, this story traces the cross-continental distance between a promise and its keeping, interrogating a world in crisis
while celebrating how friendship can outlast the war that created it.
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Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life
by Alex Mayyasi
For their first-ever book, longtime contributor Alex Mayyasi and the
hosts of NPR's Planet Money present brand new stories and insights gathered from more than a decade of reporting that reveal ways AI might help you or replace you, demystify dating markets, and show
how pro sports’ "dumbest" contract holds the secret to building wealth. Taking readers on adventures to a smartphone factory in Patagonia, a raisin cartel in California, and an Indigenous reserve in Canada that might just have a solution for the housing crisis, Planet Money shows how economics shapes our world, and how we can harness key principles to make our own lives a little richer.
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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, Britain's spy agency, captured video of a
young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of Riverwalk, a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped into the river. In a quiet London neighborhood several miles away, Rachelle Brettler was worried about her son. Zac had told her that he had gone to stay with a friend, but then he did not come home. Days later, a police car pulled up and two officers relayed the dreadful news: her son was dead. In their unbearable grief, Rachelle and her husband, Matthew, struggled to understand what had happened to Zac. As they would soon discover, however, there was a lot they did not know about their son. Only after his death did they learn that he had adopted a fictitious alter-ego: Zac Ismailov, son of a Russian oligarch and heir to
a great fortune. Under this guise, Zac had become entangled with a slippery London businessman named Akbar Shamji, and a murderous gangster known as Indian Dave. As the Brettlers set about investigating their son's death, they were pulled into a different and more dangerous London than the one they'd always known, and came to believe that something much more nefarious than a suicide had claimed Zac's life. But to their immense frustration, Scotland Yard seemed unable--or unwilling--to bring the perpetrators to justice.
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