March 2017 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Between Heaven and the Real World: My Story
by Steven Curtis Chapman
Christian music legend Steven Curtis Chapman shares an intimate account of his person life, his family relationships and the stories behind some of the most beloved songs of his iconic career.
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Gizelle's Bucket List: My Life With a Very Large Dog
by Lauren Fern Watt
A lightbeat, epic account of how the 20-something author brought her giant English Mastiff to her first tiny New York apartment after college, while navigating boyfriends, first jobs, her mother's illness and a bucket list that involves her dog's participation.
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval N Harari
The New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens examines the civilized world's phenomenal achievements in the areas of famine, disease and war while making provocative predictions about the evolutionary goals of the 21st century.
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Lies We Believe about God
by William P Young
The best-selling author of The Shack presents a conversational exploration of 33 common misunderstandings about ideas that people have and share about God, drawing on personal anecdotes that refute critical perspectives about his character, "Papa."
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Miracle Mindset: A Mother, Her Son, and Life's Hardest Lessons
by JJ Virgin
The celebrity health expert and New York Times best-selling author of The Virgin Diet describes the mindsets that helped her family in the wake of a devastating hit-and-run accident that nearly ended her son's life, sharing advice on how to transform negative beliefs and habits to become positive and empowered.
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Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy
by Mo Gawdat
The vice president of business innovation at Google's [X] draws on his personal expertise with logic and problem solving to outline strategic approaches to algorithm brain science designed to help readers to work through serious loss and grief with an ultimate goal to securing an optimal sense of well-being.
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
by Michael Finkel
Documents the true story of a man who endured a hardscrabble, isolated existence in a tent in the Maine woods, never speaking with others and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins, for 27 years, in a portrait that illuminates the survival means he developed and the reasons behind his solitary life.
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