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    Hidden Valley Road

    by Robert Kolker

    Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. Their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia.
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    Wow, No Thank You.

    by Samantha Irby

    Samantha Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She’s left Chicago and moved to a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason jar salads. The essays in this collection draw on the raw, hilarious particulars of Irby’s new life. Wow, No Thank You. is Irby at her most unflinching, riotous, and relatable.
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    I’m Still Here: Reese’s Book Club

    by Austin Channing Brown

    In I’m Still Here, Austin Channing Brown invites readers to confront apathy and exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals. In the words of Glennon Doyle, “Austin Channing Brown introduces herself as a master memoirist. This book will break open hearts and minds.”
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    Breath

    by James Nestor

    There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing.  Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
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    Personality Isn’t Permanent

    by Benjamin Hardy

    Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality—a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors—is innate and unchanging. Filled with strategies for reframing your past and designing your future, Personality Isn’t Permanent is a guide to breaking free from the past and becoming the person you want to be.
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    Action Park

    by Andy Mulvihill and Jake Rossen

    Often called “Accident Park,” “Class Action Park,” or “Traction Park,” Action Park was an American icon. The amusement playland placed no limits on danger or fun.  Action Park is the first-ever unvarnished look at the history of this DIY Disneyland, as seen through the eyes of Andy Mulvihill, the son of the park’s founder. Andy’s story is equal parts hilarious and moving, chronicling the life and death of a uniquely American attraction, a wet and wild 1980s adolescence, and a son’s struggle to understand his father’s quixotic quest to become the Walt Disney of New Jersey.
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    The Buddha and the Badass

    by Vishen Lakhiani

    This book will disrupt your deeply held beliefs about work, success, and, indeed, life. Vishen Lakhian takes you on a journey to awaken the Buddha and the Badass inside you, a process that will disrupt the way you work altogether.
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