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• BOOK CLUB KIT : Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End

  Gawande, Atul

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  A prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life while isolating the dying, outlining suggestions for freer, more fulfilling approaches to death that enable more dignified and comfortable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : The Body Keeps the Score : Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

  Van der Kolk, Bessel A., 1943-

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  A groundbreaking book on understanding and healing trauma. This important work stands out for its comprehensive overview of trauma's impact on the body, brain, and emotions and features in-depth discussion of various therapeutic approaches, from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : The Boys in the Boat : Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

  Brown, Daniel, 1951-

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  Describes how a group of working class youths from the University of Washington rowing team emerged from obscurity to defeat a field of elite international rivals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Sports fans who love a good "Cinderella story" will cheer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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  As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Caste : the Origins of Our Discontents

  Wilkerson, Isabel

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  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Cinderella Ate My Daughter : Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-girl Culture

  Orenstein, Peggy

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  Reveals the dark side of pink and pretty and offers ways to prevent raising daughters who only care about image. || Genre - Family and relationships, society and culture | Writing style - Engaging, witty

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Citizens of London

  Olson, Lynne

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  The behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, Averell Harriman, and John Gilbert Winant. || Genre - History, World…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : The Coddling of the American Mind : How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

  Lukianoff, Greg

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  The author of the best-selling The Righteous Mind and his co-author controversially link rising rates of depression and anxiety to today's culture of safety, social media and political divides, arguing in favor of traditional wisdom that promotes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Confederates in the Attic

  Dispatches From America's Unfinished Civil War

  Horwitz, Tony, 1958-

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  A journalist leads readers on a journey through the Old South, tangling with the forces of white rage, rebel grit, and regional pride in places where the Civil War is more than a memory. || Genre - History | Tone - Atmospheric

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Daring Greatly

  Brown, Brené

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  Discusses how to embrace vulnerability in order to live a whole, courageous life, explaining that traits typically regarded as character flaws and weaknesses are actually clear paths to engagement and meaningful connections. || Genre - Life stories,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Dead Wake : the Last Crossing of the Lusitania

  Larson, Erik, 1954-

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  It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour, mystery, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Die Is Cast : Arkansas Goes to War, 1861

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  Five writers examine the political and social forces in Arkansas that led to secession and transformed farmers, clerks, and shopkeepers into soldiers. | Genre - History | Tone - Academic | Writing style - Thought-provoking

• BOOK CLUB KIT : The Dressmakers of Auschwitz

  Adlington, Lucy, 1970-

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  At the height of the Holocaust, twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp were selected to design and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon, established by Hedwig Hoss, the camp…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Empire of the Summer Moon

  Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

  Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.), 1953-

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  Describes the actions of both colonizers and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior. ||…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City

  Desmond, Matthew

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  A Harvard sociologist examines the under-represented challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Five Days at Memorial : Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital

  Fink, Sheri

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  A Pulitzer Prize-winning doctor, reporter, and author reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed its generators to reveal how caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions without essential…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Hidden Figures

  the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

  Shetterly, Margot Lee

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  An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : Hidden Valley Road : Inside the Mind of An American Family

  Kolker, Robert

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  Tells the heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, 6 of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. || Genre - Science, family and relationships | Tone -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BOOK CLUB KIT : How Doctors Think

  Groopman, Jerome E.

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  A physician discusses the thought patterns and actions that lead to misdiagnosis on the part of healthcare providers, and suggests methods that patients can use to help doctors assess conditions more accurately. || Genre - Science | Tone -…Read moreRead more of this annotation