February 2021 list by Donalee Jacobs |
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Aftershocks
by Nadia Owusu
An award-winning essayist combines literary memoir and cultural history to examine her personal struggles with her mixed-heritage identity and the emotional trauma of her mother’s abandonment and father’s dark secrets.
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The (Almost) Zero Waste Guide
by Melanie Mannarino
A practical guide on how to go "almost zero waste," featuring 100 tips on how to reduce waste in your everyday life, at home, and in your community.
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American Daughter
by Stephanie Thornton Plymale
The founder of the Heritage Home Foundation nonprofit documents her secret abuse-marked childhood in and out of foster care and what she discovered while investigating the story of her mother’s own harrowing past.
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Business Made Simple
by Donald Miller
An anthology of daily readings by the best-selling author of Blue Like Jazz focuses on the tangible skills that today’s employees and entrepreneurs require to establish a career or company, add value to an organization and build a legacy.
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Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
by Damon Centola
A paradigm-shifting theory about the complex ways that innovative ideas, movements and behaviors spread from marginalized populations to the mainstream offers insight into how to use transformative ideas to promote necessary change throughout the world.
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The Devil You Know
by Charles M. Blow
The New York Times columnist and best-selling author of Fire Shut Up in My Bones presents a rallying call to action that challenges popular myths about race and urges Black Americans to unite against white supremacy.
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The Eagles of Heart Mountain
by Bradford Pearson
A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp.
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The FBI Way: inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence
by Frank Figliuzzi
Featuring illustrative case stories from the author's career as the FBI's former head of counterintelligence, a field-tested playbook for unlocking individual and organizational excellence is based on the FBI's rigorous and closely guarded standards of conduct.
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Featherhood
by Charlie Gilmour
Forging a bond with a clever magpie, a man struggling with the past and his own uncertainties as a parent discovers that the poet father who abandoned him as a baby had a jackdaw companion.
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Human Hacking
by Christopher Hadnagy
The global security expert and best-selling author of Social Engineering draws on psychological insights to counsel readers on how to overcome social awkwardness and isolation to become more empathetic, generous and kind.
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
by Andrea Pitzer
Documents the remarkable survival tale of 16th-century Dutch explorer and talented navigator Williams Barents, whose obsessive quest to chart the remote regions of the Arctic prompted three harrowing expeditions.
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In Search of Wisdom: Life-Changing Truths in the Book of Proverbs
by Joyce Meyer
It is important to gain a thoughtful and practical understanding of the seven foundational principles in the book of Proverbs: Wisdom, Understanding, Prudence, Knowledge, Discretion, Discernment, and Fear of the Lord. If we desire to possess these qualities, we must make a commitment to a deeper understanding and implementation of these values in our daily lives. In Search of Wisdom will enlighten you with God's understanding and teach you the foundational principles and secure God's help in practicing them.
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Kamala's Way: An American Life
by Dan Morain
A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to become Vice President charts how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this country’s most effective power players.
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The Mission
by David W. Brown
A narrative chronicle of NASA’s deep-space mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon, Europa, discusses the remarkable work of scientists who overcame formidable hurdles in their effort to determine if organic life exists elsewhere in our solar system.
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Oliver
by Steven J. Carino
The remarkable, life-changing true story of a lonely man, his lost dog, and the astonishing array of strangers who brought them back together.
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The Princess Spy
by Larry Loftis
The best-selling author of Code Name: Lise chronicles the extraordinary life of OSS spy Aline Griffith, who performed deep-cover intelligence missions during and after World War II throughout the upper echelons of European politics and society.
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Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust
by James B. Comey
The former FBI Director and best-selling author of A Higher Loyalty illuminates the inner workings of America’s justice system and what he believes needs to be done to promote equality and equity in the law.
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The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames
by Justine Cowan
Documents the author’s investigation into her late mother’s tragic experiences as an illegitimate orphan who endured an early life of discrimination, physical abuse and harsh labor serving England’s ruling class at infamous Foundling Hospital.
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This is the Voice
by John Colapinto
The award-winning author of As Nature Made Him draws on diverse sources to explain how the ability to speak distinguishes humans from other species and reflects the most complex and intricate activity that humans can perform.
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Till Murder Do Us Part
by James Patterson
A woman begins to suspect that her husband isn’t actually who he says he is and a teenager has her life upended during the hunt for a missing girl in two true-crime stories from the prolific and best-selling author.
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Under a White Sky
by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? She examines how the very sorts of interventions that have imperiled our planet are increasingly seen as the only hope for its salvation.
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Unmasked
by Andy Ngo
An American journalist tells the story of Antifa, a violent extremist movement, from the very beginning, incorporating stories from his own life along with interviews with former followers and people who have been attacked by them.
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Walk in My Combat Boots
by James Patterson & Matt Eversmann
The decorated war hero who inspired the movie, Black Hawk Down, shares firsthand wartime accounts describing the courageous battlefield sacrifices of men and women from every branch and operational specialty of the U.S. military.
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