The Library
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus, Richard Preston, Anchor.
The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus where there is no cure. The Hot Zone tells the dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth...
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Empowering Outperformance: A contemporary strategy for grandgoal achievement, Dixie Dansercoer, Die Keure Publishing.
Dixie Dansercoer is a lifelong adventurer who has placed his focus on Polar exploration running many record-breaking expeditions that raised the bar for what seemed impossible. The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with inspirational insights with respect to high performance and provide...
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker PhD, Scribner.
The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert. We all know that sleep is a fundamental aspect of our lives, but we are reminded in this enganging work which, unexpectedly, also happens to be funny. Matthew Walker reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep explaining how we can...
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The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers, Martin Doyle, W. W. Norton & Company.
A fresh work on environmental history of the disparate regions of the United States and how rivers have shaped American politics, economics, and society from the beginning of the Republic to today.
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The Color Of Magic, Terry Pratchett, Corgi.
If you have never read a Terry Pratchett novel, this is the perfect one to get you hooked on this Discworld saga. This book denounces that the world is supported on the back of a giant turtle, luggage moves on hundreds of little legs, dragons exist only if you believe in them, and we learn what...
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Skipping Christmas, John Grisham, Doubleday.
John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is Skipping Christmas, a modest but funny novel about the tyranny of December 25th. The author builds up a funny but increasingly terrifying picture of how tight-knit communities...
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The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, Faber & Faber.
The Remains of the Day is a book about a thwarted life. It is about how class conditioning can turn you into your own worst enemy, making you complicit in yoru own subservience. It is a book for anyone who feels they have ever held themselves back when something that truly mattered was within their...
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Nouveau One, Michael Kaiser, CreateSpace Independent Publishing.
Nouveau One reads like a mystery/thriller novel. It hits the ground running right at the beginning and its fast pace propels you to the finish. You don't know which of the characters are good or bad. It is difficult to root for someone in particular, but this is in part what makes this novel so...
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The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis, Harper One.
This is without a doubt an unorthodox look in the world of the devil. There are only two characters - Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below" and his nephew, Woodworm - who write to each other and through Screwtape’s letters we discover the finer nuances of temptation of...
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The Magic of Ordinary Days, Ann Howard Creel, Penguin Books.
During World War II, in the quite lands of rural Colorado, an exhilirating flirtation reshapes the life of a studious minister's daughter, pressing her to marry a man she hardly knows. It isn't a typical love story, but the story plot is quite touching.
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The White Man's Burden, William Easterly, Penguin Books.
The full title of this book is "The White Man's Burden : Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good" where William Easterly contrasts the approaches proposed by Jefferey Sachs in the book suggestion I made earlier. It is not a smackdown, but the author builds...
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The End of Poverty : Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey Sachs, Penguin Books.
Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. This is a very hopeful book. Based on a tremendous amount of data the author makes a strong moral, economic, and political case for why countries should battle poverty with the same...
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