February 2018 list by Donalee Jacobs |
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5 Days to a Clutter-Free House
by Sandra Felton
A professional organizer and a time-management expert team up to create a quick, easy plan to de-clutter your home in five days.
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The Best Team Wins: The New Science of High Performance
by Adrian Gostick
The New York Times bestselling authors of The Carrot Principle and All In deliver a breakthrough, groundbreaking guide for building today's most collaborative teams—so any organization can operate at peak performance.
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
by Lauren Slater
Lauren Slater offers an explosive account not just of the science but of the people--inventors, adherents, detractors, and consumers--behind our licensed narcotics, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, up through Prozac, Ecstasy, 'magic mushrooms,' the most cutting-edge memory drugs, and neural implants. In so doing, she narrates the history of psychiatry itself and illuminates the signature its colorful little capsules have left on millions of brains worldwide, and how these wonder drugs may heal or hurt us.
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Dead People Suck: A Guide for Survivors of the Newly Departed
by Laurie Kilmartin
Death is not for the faint of heart, and sometimes the best way to cope is through humor. No one knows this better than comedian Laurie Kilmartin. She made headlines by live-tweeting her father's time in hospice and her grieving process after he passed, and channeled her experience into a comedy special, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad. This is her hilarious guide to surviving (sometimes) death, dying, and grief without losing one's mind.
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Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception and Double Lives
by Tina Alexis Allen
Actress and playwright Tina Alexis Allen's memoir goes inside her privileged suburban Catholic upbringing that was shaped by her formidable father. When Tina was eighteen her father discovered the truth about her sexuality and shocked her with his honest response. He, too, was gay.Soon he made Tina his heir apparent at the travel agency. Drawn deeper into the business, Tina soon became suspicious of her father's frequent business dealings. Digging deeper, she uncovered a disturbing facet beyond the stunning double-life of the father she thought she knew. A riveting true tale stranger and twistier than fiction, Hiding Out is an astonishing story of self-discovery, family, secrets, and the power of the truth to set us free.
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The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream
by Bryan Mealer
Mealer relates the multi-generation story of his family's move to and life in Texas. Beginning In 1892 and moving through history to the present, Mealer's family live on the edge of the greatest oil boom in American history and the intersection of riches, poverty and religion that form modern day Texas. The Kings of Big Spring is an indelible portrait of fortune and ruin as big as Texas itself. In telling the story of four generations of his family, Bryan Mealer also tells the story of how America came to be.
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
by Francisco Cantú
For Francisco Cantú the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He is posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, and learns to track other humans. He hauls in the dead and deliver to detention those found alive. Plagued by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. But when a friend travels to Mexico to visit his dying mother and does not return, Cantú discovers that the border has migrated with him, and now he must know the whole story.
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Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation
by Robert Roth
Once a skeptic, Roth trained under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the twentieth century’s foremost scientist of consciousness and meditation, and has since become one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world. In Strength in Stillness, Roth breaks down the science behind Transcendental Meditation and highlights the three distinct types of meditation—Focused Attention, Open Monitoring, and Self-Transcending. He showcases the evidence that the third, Self-Transcending, or Transcendental Meditation, is a uniquely accessible, effective, and efficient way to reduce stress, access inner power, and build resilience.
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What Are We Doing Here?
by Marilynne Robinson
Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexis de Tocqueville, inform our political consciousness or discussing how beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life.
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
by Daniel H Pink
In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Pink shows that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. He distills cutting-edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.
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