May 2021 list by Donalee Jacobs
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Antitrust
by Amy Klobuchar
Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today—and Amy Klobuchar, the widely respected senior senator from Minnesota, is leading the charge. This fascinating history of the antitrust movement shows us what led to the present moment and offers achievable solutions to prevent monopolies, promote business competition, and encourage innovation.
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A Chosen Destiny: My Story
by Drew Mcintyre
In this thrilling, no-holds-barred memoir, WWE Champion Drew McIntyre tells the incredible roller-coaster story of his life, from a small village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to the bright lights of WWE.
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Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case
by Caitlin Rother
Weaving stunning new details into a personal yet objective examination of the sensational case, an award-winning investigative journalist explores the mysterious death of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, who was found hanging from a second-story balcony of her multimillionaire boyfriend’s San Diego mansion in 2011.
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
by Niall Ferguson
Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics and network science, one of the world’s most renowned historians explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters.
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Effortless: Make it Easier to Do What Matters
by Greg McKeown
The New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism offers simple strategies for making the most essential activities the easiest ones, so you can achieve the results you want, without burning out.
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Finding the Mother Tree
by S. Simard
The world’s leading forest ecologist, in her first book, draws us into the intimate world of trees where she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truth — that trees are a complex, interdependent circle of life.
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I Am Here: The Journey from Fear to Freedom
by Ashley Lemieux
Learn to move through pain to find clarity and healing using author, entrepreneur, and social media influencer Ashley LeMieux's unique "Clarity Mapping" tool that will inspire and empower you to chart a course toward the future you deserve.
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
by Stephen Budiansky
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Journey to the Edge of Reason is the first biography to fully draw upon Gödel's voluminous letters and writings-including a never-before-transcribed shorthand diary of his most intimate thoughts-to explore his profound intellectual friendships, his moving relationship with his mother, his troubled yet devoted marriage, and the debilitating bouts of paranoia that ultimately took his life.
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
by Bill O'Reilly
The authors, in this tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, take on the Mob, tracing the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the U.S., turning the most legendary criminal and their true-life escapades into a riveting crime story.
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
by Julian Sancton
Drawing on the Belgica’s crew’s diaries and journals and exclusive access to the ship’s logbook, an epic tale of a polar expedition that went terribly awry follows the crew, as they, condemned to months of endless night and plagued by a mysterious illness, descend into madness.
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Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity
by Justin Baldoni
The actor, director and social activist builds on his popular TED talk to speak openly about the consequences of toxic masculinity, sharing insight into how to create a system of accountability to help men develop more compassionately.
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Mental Immunity
by Andy Norman
A philosopher shows how to rid ourselves of breaks in logic that cause destructive thinking and extremism, and provides the tools to inoculate our minds and keep them safe from becoming infected by bad ideas.
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Murder at the Mission
by Blaine Harden
Documents the early 19th-century story of the Whitman and Spalding missionary families, exploring how after becoming the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon they embarked on propagandist agendas that fueled a massive and culturally catastrophic westward migration.
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My Time Will Come
by Ian Manuel
Full of unexpected twists and turns as it describes a struggle to attain the glory of redemption, this at once wrenching and inspiring story shows how the author endured the savagery of the U.S. prison system and how his victim forgave him and advocated for his freedom.
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Pregnant Girl
by Nicole Lynn Lewis
A teen mother's intimate, fearless account of America's damaging response to teen pregnancy, the systemic issues that exacerbate it, the insurmountable barriers to college for parenting students, and a blueprint for helping young families overcome the odds.
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Sunshine Girl
by Julianna Margulies
Filled with intimate stories and revelatory moments, this deeply powerful memoir from the award-winning actress is a riveting self-portrait of a woman whose resilience in the face of turmoil will leave readers intrigued and inspired.
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Things Worth Dying For
by Charles J. Chaput
With a balance of wisdom, candor, and scholarly rigor the beloved Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia takes on life's central questions: why are we here, and how can we live and die meaningfully?
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The Water Defenders
by Robin Broad
Based on over a decade of research and their own role as international allies of the community groups in El Salvador, the authors tell the story of ordinary people in this country who rallied together to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning their main water source.
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Why Peacocks?
by Sean Flynn
An award-winning magazine writer humorously chronicles his first year as the owner of a peacock and examines the history of the bird from the bible to Charles Darwin and travels the globe to learn more about them.
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The Windsor Diaries, 1940-45
by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard—who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom—provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the British Royal Family.
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The Wreckage of My Presence
by Casey Wilson
In this collection of essays, the author shares her thoughts on the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood, introduces the not-quite-typical family that made her who she is, and persuasively argues that lowbrow pop culture is the perfect lens through which to understand human nature.
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Yearbook
by Seth Rogen
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys.
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