Category Notable Nonfiction

White Fragility

White Fragility Robin Diangelo Racism In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’…

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When Character was King

When Character was King Peggy Noonan Memoir No one has ever captured Ronald Reagan like Peggy Noonan. In When Character Was King, Noonan brings her own reflections on Reagan to bear as well as new stories—from Presidents George W. Bush…

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Today I Made a Difference 

Today I Made a Difference Joseph W. Underwood Inspirational Everyone remembers that teacher who made a difference. The one who went the extra mile to truly affect lives, whose lessons carried as much importance outside the classroom as inside. This…

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The Undoing Project

The Undoing Project Michael Lewis Business Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science,…

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The Small and the Mighty

The Small and the Mighty Sharon McMahon Non Fiction In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone…

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The Pride of Aggieland

The Pride of Aggieland Homer Jacobs Non Fiction Few schools, if any, have undergone the transformation of Texas A&M University. Founded in 1876 as a land-grant college for men interested in agricultural and mechanical studies, Texas A&M today is a…

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A New New Thing

A New New Thing Michael Lewis  Business In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a…

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In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood Truman Capote True Crime On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There…

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