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The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room

By Amy Low

This honest and emotional memoir presents much needed lessons and advice for navigating uncertainty in the worst of times. Amy Low resides in a room that is her last--her medical team is clear-eyed with her: there is no cure for Stage IV metastatic colon cancer, and the odds of long-term survival are scant.

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The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism

By Joe Conason

Explores "the partisan con artists who have corrupted conservative politics in our time, creating a toxic phenomenon that culminated in the election of Donald Trump, a bumptious fraud whose checkered career and tawdry retinue, including his presidential cabinet, have featured almost every variety of scam. But long before he appeared, Trump's path to power was blazed by the motley horde of swindlers and quacks who preceded him. From the 'professional anti-communists' (whose tactics even J. Edgar Hoover despised) to the 'populist" grifters of the Tea Party movement and the religious charlatans of the 'prosperity gospel' (who provided a pious front for Trump), the right-wing ripoff has remained remarkably consistent, even as personalities change and new technologies emerge: stir up anger and resentment, demonize political opponents, promise vengeance, and collect donations from the gullible"--

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Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net

By Jessica Calarco

Other countries have social safety nets. The U. S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women--women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force , acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo.

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Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future

By Mike Maples, Peter Ziebelman

Based on extensive research and real-world examples, this book upends accepted wisdom about how to achieve success when launching a startup or creating a new product. The breakthrough concepts of Pattern Breakers come from the observations of Mike Maples Jr. , a seasoned venture capitalist, who noticed something strange.

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Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You

By Tessa West

A psychologist's guide to finding your most fulfilling job yet When we're unhappy in our jobs, we often attribute our frustration to a bad manager, boring tasks, and stressful workloads. But our dissatisfaction at work usually stems from a deeper psychological need that's not being met at work, like not getting the recognition you deserve.

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The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning

By Samhita Mukhopadhyay

We can bury the girlboss, but what comes next. The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the story of her personal workplace reckoning and argues for collective responsibility to reimagine work as we know it. "One of the smartest voices we have on gender, power, capitalist exploitation, and the entrenched inequities of the workplace.

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December

For nearly 40 years, we have partnered with authors, publishers, and businesses to get books to speaking and training events, business conferences, company book clubs, and reading lists—moving books and ideas into the business world every single day. These are the books we moved the most in December 2023.

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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By Johann Hari

"The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it-from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies"--

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Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness

By Carrie Sheffield

In the vein of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy comes a young woman's memoir chronicling her harrowing journey from despair to salvation that showcases the depths and resilience of the human spirit and empowers readers on their own paths toward healing, forgiveness, and redemption. Carrie Sheffield grew up fifth of eight children with a violent, mentally ill, street-musician father who believed he was a modern-day Mormon prophet destined to become U.