Blog / Staff Picks

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

Book Review by Lauren Kohlenberg

Bess Kalb’s debut memoir, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, is a delightfully honest and heartfelt homage to the life and legacy of her beloved grandmother, Bobby.

Blog / ChangeThis

Performing While Transforming: How to Meet the Leadership Test of Our Time

By William C. Taylor

By devising ways to manage time, handle stress, overcome setbacks, and sustain morale, executives and entrepreneurs can meet the challenge of performing while transforming—and pass the leadership test of our time.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | February 1, 2022

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen

By Porchlight

You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, to follow the rules, to wait your turn, to not make waves. Zoe Chance shows us that, used intelligently, influence is like a superpower that brings great ideas to life.

Blog / Editor's Choice

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Sofi Thanhauser has compiled a social history of five materials—Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool—explaining not only how we have shaped them, but how they have shaped us.

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Olga Dies Dreaming

Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros

Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut novel is as much romantic comedy as it is a search for a balanced personal and political manifesto.

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Reimagining Capitalism and Activism

By Tom C. W. Lin

The Capitalist and the Activist is an attempt to put into words the larger story of activism, capitalism, and social change unfolding around us. It is a hopeful story of promises and perils. It is a story that we all share and can all shape together.

Blog / New Releases

Books to Watch | January 25, 2022

By Porchlight

Blog / Book Giveaways

How We Eat: The Brave New World of Food and Drink

By Porchlight

An entertaining and timely exploration of how our food—from where it’s grown to how we buy it—is in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet, from a global expert on consumer behavior.

Blog / Editor's Choice

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

Peter Goodman takes a close look at the robber barons of the modern era, explaining how they have grabbed the gains of globalization and profited off the pandemic, undermined working people, economic stability, and even our very democracy in the process.