Nonfiction

DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE

Barack Obama

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father&mda...

WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of the greatest writers of our time, a "social science soldier" and a bright, enthusiastic mind. We Should All Be Feminists is probably her most personal, intimate book to date, a very special, one-of-a-kind look at fe...

THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON

George Clason

Travel back in time as George S. Clason takes you back to Babylon in his enlightening, insightful book on financial investment and financial success. The original version now restored and revised, this series of delightful short stories teaches econo...

THE FOOD LAB: BETTER HOME COOKING THROUGH SCIENCE

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Have you ever wondered about the science behind cooking an amazing meal? Like, how do the pros pan-fry a delicious steak with that charred crust, huh? One could say that it takes years of experience and that you won't be able to master the art of coo...

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR

Paul Kalanithi

Thirty-six ears old Paul Kalanithi found out that he has lung cancer and it is the stage IV. He was a father, he can be a legendary neurosurgeon, but he received a death sentence. In one breath moment, he became a patient for his colleagues. From the...

INDIA AFTER GANDHI: THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST DEMOCRACY

Ramachandra Guha

Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocke...

TRIBE: ON HOMECOMING AND BELONGING

Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger describes in the "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging" a very urgent and relevant cultural themes of our decade. It is all about the bereavement of solitary congregations. It is not he alone speaks about that problem. For example, you...

THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS

Rebecca Skloot

In 1951, a poor black southern American woman (mother of 5 children) Henrietta Lacks went to the gynecological clinic because of a painful lump. She did not know at that time that she would die a few months later because of a highly malignant form of...

DARING GREATLY

Brene Brown

Or How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Paperback. Very regularly many of us have filling uncertainty or experience risks. Our inner universe can be described as emotional exposure sometimes and we are...

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Candice Millard

Candice Millard is internationally known for writing gripping, revealing, historically correct biographies of world-famous people like Roosevelt and Garfield. And now she's back with Hero of the Empire, an exciting, riveting chronology of Churchill's...