February 2017 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
by Ronald Epstein
A general-public guide to mindfulness as part of a safe, patient-centered health-care and medical practice describes the renowned author's perspective-changing experiences as a Harvard Medical student at the sides of doctors who practiced in very different ways.
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
by Tiffany Dufu
An inspiring memoir by a leading figure in the women's leadership movement counsels women on how to cultivate the essential skills of reevaluating expectations, setting realistic goals and meaningfully engaging with others in order to thrive in personal and professional arenas.
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How to Murder your Life: A Memoir
by Cat Marnell
A former beauty editor at Lucky describes her secret life as a prescription-drug addict and bulimic who manipulated doctors into supporting her destructive lifestyle, recounting the early experiences that shaped her addictions and her struggles to balance her literary ambition with her disease.
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It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's #1 Failed State
by Jonathan Starr
A hedge fund manager-turned-founder of a secondary school in Somaliland describes the profound cultural differences, broken promises and safety threats that challenged the school's mission, sharing the stories of remarkable students who made difficult sacrifices to pursue their educations, including a nomad boy who left his family and a girl who waged a hunger strike.
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Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life
by Peter Walsh
Whether you are selling your family home, blending households into a new home, or cleaning out your aging parents’ home, sorting through a lifetime’s worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful experience. In Let It Go, Peter will help you turn downsizing into a rejuvenating life change with his useful tips and practical takeaways.
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The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
by Meik Wiking
A guide to the Danish philosophy of well-being shares advice and ideas for taking healthy breaks, living in the moment, creating positive atmospheres, building relationships and finding the richness of life in everyday small comforts.
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A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
by Walter Alvarez
The famed geologist and author of T. Rex and the Crater of Doom surveys the cosmic, geologic and evolutionary forces that have shaped our planet, outlining a science-based approach to "Big History" that illuminates such topics as evolution, the movement of the continents and humanity's unique ascendance.
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
by Coretta Scott King
The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist presents her full life story, as told before her death to one of her closest confidants.
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No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon
by Erik Weihenmayer
The first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest describes his solo trek kayaking the Colorado River and discusses how a person’s inner light, sometimes snuffed out through injury, disease or tragedy, can be ignited through courage and taking risks.
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The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters
by Emily Esfahani Smith
A guide to smarter ways to pursue a life of fulfillment and significance identifies the reasons why the pursuit of happiness remains elusive for most people, drawing on the latest cognitive research and cultural insights to outline how to develop a "meaning mind-set" to achieve purpose and interpersonal connections.
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Reality is not What it Seems: The Elementary Structure of Things
by Carlo Rovelli
The theoretical physicist author of the best-selling Seven Brief Lessons on Physics traces how the human image of the world has changed throughout history, demonstrating the evolution of the idea of reality while touching on subjects ranging from the Higgs boson to quantum gravity.
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Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Collecting never-before-seen archival material—including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause—a #1 New York Times best-selling author asserts that Jack the Ripper was actually vain and charismatic painter Walter Sickert. (Original edition published as Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed).
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