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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the world to find the good death by Caitlin Doughty
Mortician Caitlin Doughty does it again with her second book, this time not about cremation, but still about death, don’t worry! In From Here to Eternity, she reviews her experiences in countries around the world, teaching us what she learned about how different cultures care for their dead. We learn about different rituals and ceremonies, and compare them to our own.
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The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game by Mary Pilon
The Monopolists explores the fascinating and little-known origins of the board game Monopoly. Though long marketed as the brainchild of an unemployed father during the Great Depression, Monopoly was in fact lifted almost entirely from a game that was invented thirty years earlier by a progressive feminist. Lizzie Magie created The Landlord’s Game to demonstrate how landowners were unjustly enriching themselves at the expense of renters.
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In Pieces by Sally Field
Looking back on her life on and off the screen, Sally Field brings a mature, sensitive, and poignant reading to her intimate, hauntingly honest, as well as authentic and fresh memoir,
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How the Universe Works
In How the Universe Works prominent Astrophysicists, Astronomers, and Scientists including Phil Plait, Michelle Thaller, Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku, among others, take viewers on a journey of the incredible, fascinating, and mind-blowing inner workings of the cosmos.
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett’s first historical fiction novel is amazing. It’s about the lives of African American maids/nannies who served white women in the 1960’s, particularly in Mississippi.
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Push by Sapphire
In 2009 “Precious”, the movie that is based on Push, was highly acclaimed and received multiple Academy Awards. I wanted to know what all the hype was about, but I wouldn’t watch the movie because I was afraid it would be unsettling. So, I decided to read the book. The book is intense. I was not prepared for its graphic nature. Both the language and subject matter are very disturbing, albeit authentic to the author’s traumatic experience.
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The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
In this comprehensive account, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution,
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Scorecasting by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim
Co-written by a sportswriter and an economist, Scorecasting uses statistics to examine and debunk popularly held ideas about sports. Focusing primarily on baseball, basketball, and football, it explores such topics as home-field advantage, referee bias, hot streaks, and why certain types of players are overvalued.
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Still Foolin’ ‘Em by Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal has just turned 65 as he reflects on his personal and professional life while providing his observations on aging in his memoir,
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The Russian Five by Keith Gave
In the final years of the Cold War, the struggling Detroit Red Wings hockey team was desperate to find players that could help them turn their franchise around. At the time, some of the best players in the world were playing for a state-controlled team in the Soviet Union. Because these players could not leave their current team without facing prison time or other serious consequences, most NHL teams were not interested in them. The Red Wings, however, were determined to get Russian players for their team by whatever means necessary.
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The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper
George Santayana an influential 20th century writer once wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. Kyle Harper in The Fate of Rome, the riveting story of the decline and fall of Rome reveals a lesson fo
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Sycamore Row by John Grisham
If you have read and enjoyed John Grisham’s first novel A Time to Kill, I believe you will enjoy Sycamore Row as well.