The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
By: Paul Tough
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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1. Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
By: None
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work … read more
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2. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
By: Robert D. Putnam
2.00
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling A… read more
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3. Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do About it
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.15
Format: None pages,
America is becoming a class-based society. It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of … read more
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4. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
By: Frank Bruni
3.51
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasiona… read more
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5. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
6. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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7. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
By: Ron Lieber
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Revi… read more
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8. Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
By: Jeffrey J. Selingo
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Seling… read more
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9. My Side of the River
By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more
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10. Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College
By: Becky Munsterer Sabky
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Named one of Grown & Flown 's “Best Book on College Admissions and Paying for College” “The most h… read more
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11. The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
By: Helen Thorpe
4.26
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker) writer comes a powerful and moving… read more
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"Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside this buildin…"-Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
12. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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13. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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14. The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
By: Paul Tough
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Indelible and extraordinary.”—Tara Westover, author of Educated: A Memoir, New York Times Book Rev… read more
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15. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs
By: Johann Hari
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more
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16. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
By: Joseph Henrich
4.12
Format: 706 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientis… read more
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"The assembly of the innovation engine that propelled the Industrial Revolution becomes easier to see once we recognize how the psychology of premodern Europeans had been quietly evolving in the backg…"-Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
17. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
By: Clive Thompson
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson, a brilliant and immersive anthropological reckoning with… read more
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"More than introversion or logic, though, coding selects for people who can handle endless frustration."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
"When you meet a coder, you're meeting someone whose core daily experience is of unending failure and grinding frustration."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
"For years, coders have been programming computers so that they perform repetitive tasks for us. Now they automate our repetitive thoughts."-Clive Thompson, Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
18. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST
By: Martin Baron
4.20
Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition
“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more
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19. True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News
By: Cindy L. Otis
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"If I could pick one book to hand to every teen—and adult—on earth, this is the one. True or False … read more
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20. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
By: Anthony Abraham Jack
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how—and why—disadvantaged students … read more
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21. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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