August 2020 list by Donalee Jacobs
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All the Way to the Tigers
by Mary Morris
The award-winning author of The Jazz Palace describes how a catastrophic injury forced her to cancel a dream vacation and contemplate permanent disability before a reading of Death in Venice inspired her life-changing tiger-spotting safari.
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The Buddhist on Death Row
by David Sheff
Explores the spiritual transformation of death-row inmate Jarvis Jay Masters, describing the brutal suffering that led him to the discipline of meditation and his embrace of the philosophies of Buddhism.
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Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris
by Arthur J. Magida
Documents the story of artist Noor Inayat Khan, the daughter of an Indian Sufi mystic who joined the British SOE during World War II and became the only wireless operator in Paris during the crucial months leading up to D-Day.
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Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All
by Suzanne Nossel
The CEO of PEN America and former executive director of Amnesty International USA outlines vital steps for maintaining open democratic debates that respect diversity while defending free speech and cultivating a more inclusive society.
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Deep Delta Justice
by Matthew Van Meter
Tells the story of a lawyer and his defendant, who together changed American law during the height of the Civil Rights era.
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Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher
by Max Allan Collins
The authors of Scarface and the Untouchable document Prohibition agent Eliot Ness' years-long and possibly fatal manhunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" against a backdrop of the 1936 World's Fair in Cleveland.
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The End of Alzheimer's Program
by Dale E. Bredesen
The New York Times best-selling author of The End of Alzheimer’s lays out a specific plan to help everyone prevent and reverse cognitive decline or simply maximize brainpower.
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The Fixed Stars
by Molly Wizenberg
A best-selling memoirist describes how, as a married woman with a toddler, she found herself drawn to a female attorney during jury duty and began to question her identity and desires and let go of ideals that no longer fit.
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How to Argue with a Racist
by Adam Rutherford
Explains how being an enlightened citizen on the matter of race today requires people to know what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference.
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It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
by Stuart Stevens
A leading Republican political operative presents an unflinching exposé of today's Republican party that argues that the Trump administration is a logical outcome for a morally bankrupt party still largely motivated by racism, political grandstanding and fiscal inequality.
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The Lazy Genius Way
by Kendra Adachi
Be productive without sacrificing peace of mind with the Lazy Genius strategy of focusing on what really matters and ignoring what doesn't. If you need a comprehensive self-help strategy but are tired of reading stacks of self-help books, here is an easy way that actually works.
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Live Free or Die: America (and the World) on the Brink
by Sean Hannity
The Fox News host and best-selling author of Conservative Victory argues that the leftist radicalism that he believes undermined American democracy in the 1960's must be purposefully fought again during the 2020 election to prevent progressive changes.
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The New Corner Office: How the Most Successful People Work from Home
by Laura Vanderkam
Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, a self-starter or someone who prefers detailed directions, you can do your clearest thinking and deepest work at home--and have more energy left over to achieve personal goals or fuel bigger professional ambitions.
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security, and social fabric.
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True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump
by Jeffrey Toobin
The CNN chief legal analyst and best-selling author of American Heiress presents a behind-the-scenes account of the Mueller investigation to explain how in spite of associate convictions and an impeachment, Donald Trump has survived to run for reelection.
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