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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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
by David Horowitz
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America — and the world. One of the nation’s foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author, and a mentor to many of Donald Trump’s key advisers, David Horowitz presents a White House battle plan to to reshape the American political landscape.
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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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The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
by Yuval Levin
In The Fractured Republic, Yuval Levin, author of The Great Debate, argues that the politics of nostalgia is failing twenty-first-century Americans. Both parties are blind to how America has changed over the past half century. Levin argues for modernizing politics in a way that avoids both radical individualism and a centralizing statism and instead revives the middle layers of society—families and communities, schools and churches, charities and associations, local governments and markets.
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The Genius of Birds
by Jennifer Ackerman
An award-winning, science, nature and human biology writer explores recent research indicating that birds are much more intelligent than previously thought and are capable of deceiving and manipulating, eavesdropping, gift-giving, playing, sharing and much more.
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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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Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
by John Stubbs
A detailed portrait of the man behind Gulliver's Travels traces his early loss of a parent, the contradictions that marked his character and his achievements as a political writer and dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.
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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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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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Norse Mythology
by Neil Gaiman
The New York Times best-selling author of A View From the Cheap Seats presents a bravura rendering of the major Norse pantheon that traces the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and the exploits of its characters, illuminating the characters and natures of iconic figures Odin, Thor and Loki.
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
by Simon Ings
Stalin and the Scientists weaves together the stories of scientists, politicians, and ideologues into an intimate and sometimes horrifying portrait of a state determined to remake the world. By relying on antiquated ideas of biology, Stalin not only destroyed the lives of hundreds of brilliant scientists, he caused the death of millions through famine. But from atomic physics to management theory, and from radiation biology to neuroscience and psychology, these Soviet experts also made breakthroughs that forever changed agriculture, education, and medicine. A masterful book that combines research and storytelling while deepening our understanding of Russian history.
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
by Bret Baier
Fox News Channel’s chief political anchor and the host of the #1 rated Special Report With Bret Baier explores the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower through the lens of his last three days in office in January 1961, revealing Ike to be a model of strong yet principled leadership that is desperately missing in America today.
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