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  • From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the…

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death…

    By Katherine Boo rating of short cover   ( 19093customer ratings) Random House Publishing Group, February 2012 Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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  • The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped   North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as…

    Escape from Camp 14

    By Blaine Harden rating of short cover   ( 8013customer ratings) Penguin Group US, March 2012
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  • For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment From…

    No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the…

    By Kevin Maurer, Mark Owen rating of short cover   ( 13200customer ratings) Penguin Group US, September 2012
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  • "Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century." —Rachel Maddow, author of Drift Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball…

    The Signal and the Noise

    By Nate Silver rating of short cover   ( 5256customer ratings) Penguin Group US, September 2012 Business & Finance, Economics
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  • Researcher and thought leader Dr. Brené Brown offers a powerful new vision that encourages us to dare greatly: to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly, and to courageously…

    Daring Greatly

    By Brene Brown rating of short cover   ( 2467customer ratings) Penguin Group US, September 2012 Self Improvement, Self-Esteem
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  • Why do some children succeed while others fail?The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool…

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    How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and…

    By Paul Tough rating of short cover   ( 2977customer ratings) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2012 Social Science, Sociology
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  • We have become obsessed by food: where it comes from, where to buy it, how to cook it and—most absurdly of all—how to eat it. Our televisions and newspapers are filled with celebrity chefs, latter-day…

    You Aren't What You Eat

    By Steven Poole rating of short cover   ( 45customer ratings) McClelland & Stewart, September 2012 Cultural Studies, Popular Culture
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  • A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of…

    Free Will

    By Sam Harris rating of short cover   ( 5551customer ratings) Free Press, March 2012 Sociology, Marriage & Family
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  • The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't…

    Bringing Up Bebe

    By Pamela Druckerman rating of short cover   ( 9265customer ratings) Penguin Group US, February 2012
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