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Flawless | An Excerpt from the Big Ideas & New Perspectives Category

By Elise Hu

A cutting-edge journalistic exposé of self-care consumerism, using the extreme case South Korea to both celebrate the astounding growth of K-Beauty and South Korean pop culture as a global export and examine the dark implications for women in a looks-obsessed patriarchy, in a debut that asks the question: What is the future of beauty?

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The Measure of Our Age | An Excerpt from the Big Ideas & New Perspectives Category

By M T Connolly

An elder justice expert uncovers the failures in the systems that are supposed to protect us as we age, and provides a battle plan for families and policy-makers to counter the greed and incompetence.

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Birth | An Excerpt from the Big Ideas & New Perspectives Category

By Rebecca Grant

A gripping blend of rigorous, intimate on-the-ground reporting and deep social history of reproductive health that follows three first-time mothers as they experience pregnancy and childbirth in today’s America.

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Building a Pro-Black World | An Excerpt from the Big Ideas & New Perspectives Category

By Cyndi Suarez

Learn to create a nonprofit organization and society in which Black people can thrive.

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The Stories We Tell About Money

By Brett Heaton Juarez

Just like a river begins as a small, trickling, stream, our financial growth is a slow but steady process that just needs time to get going, writes money expert Brett Heaton Juarez.

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January 23, 2024

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How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

By Porchlight

Do you have a burning passion to make a lot of money in business? Are you ready to turbocharge your chances of professional and personal success?

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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Narrative & Biography

By Jasmine Gonzalez

These are the books selected for the 2023 Narrative & Biography category, curated by Porchlight's Managing Editor Jasmine Gonzalez.

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Sideman | An Excerpt from the Narrative & Biography Category

By Mark Rivera

While most successful sidemen are lucky to spend a decade in the music business, multi-instrumentalist Mark Rivera is working on his fifth.

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Strong Female Character | An Excerpt from the Narrative & Biography Category

By Fern Brady

A memoir as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, Strong Female Character is both a remarkable coming-of-age tale and a dark but poignant tribute to life at the intersection of womanhood and neurodiversity.