Recommended by Mary Ellen Jukoski
Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It
by Joshua Cooper Ramo
Format: print
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Publisher’s Description
Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History’s grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to improve lives, increases the gap between rich and poor. Read more…
The Guernsey, Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Format: downloadable audio book (free!)
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Publisher’s Description
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. Learn more…
Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
by Bill Gates, Sr.
Format: print
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Publisher’s Description
A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up” — lessons that he learned growing up in the Great Depression, and which he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more…
