A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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 A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel with a stormy plot by Charles Dickens which is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met.

The novel was introduced in the Encyclopedia as Adventure Fiction as the protagonists face danger constantly of being killed and imprisoned. As Dickens' best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is claimed to be one of the best-selling novels of all time. In 2003, the novel was ranked 63rd on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The novel has been adapted for film, television, radio, and the stage which has continued to influence popular culture. 

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About the Author

Charles John Huffam Dickens, born in 1812, was an English writer and social critic. He grew up in a poor family and dropped out the school when he was twelve to work in a boot-blacking factory. His life experience influenced his novel 'Oliver Twist' which was the second of his fourteen major novels. 

Dickens created the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works offered him unprecedented popularity during his lifetime. His novels and short stories are widely read today. When he died in 1870, he was buried in POETS' CORNER in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day. 

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Rating: 4.5/5

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: William Collins

Publishing Date: July 2, 2013 (Reprint edition)

Edition Language: English

Genre: Classic Literature & Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

ISBN-10: 0007350899

ISBN-13: 978-0007350896

Pages: 464 (Paperback)

 

WOLFPACK by Abby Wambach

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Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York City, New York Timesbestselling author, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for women to unleash their individual power, unite with their pack, and emerge victorious together.

Abby Wambach became a champion because of her incredible talent as a soccer player. She became an icon because of her remarkable wisdom as a leader. As the co-captain of the 2015 Women’s World Cup Champion Team, she created a culture not just of excellence, but of honor, commitment, resilience, and sisterhood. She helped transform a group of individual women into one of the most successful, powerful, and united Wolfpacks of all time.

In her retirement, Abby’s ready to do the same for her new team: All Women Everywhere.

In Wolfpack, Abby’s message to women is:

We have never been Little Red Riding Hood. We Are the Wolves.
We must wander off the path and blaze a new one: together.

She insists that women must let go of old rules of leadership that neither include nor serve them. She’s created a new set of Wolfpack rules to help women unleash their individual power, unite with their Wolfpack, and change the landscape of their lives and the world: from the family room to the board room to the White House.

· Make failure your fuel: Transform failure to wisdom and power.
· Lead from the bench: Lead from wherever you are.
· Champion each other: Claim each woman’s victory as your own.
· Demand the effing ball: Don’t ask permission: take what you’ve earned.

In Abby’s vision, we are not Little Red Riding Hoods, staying on the path because we’re told to. We are the wolves, fighting for a better tomorrow for ourselves, our pack, and all the future wolves who will come after us.

About the Author

Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and the highest all-time international goal scorer for male and female soccer players. She is an activist for equality and inclusion and the New York Times bestselling author of Forward: A Memoir. Abby is co-founder of Wolfpack Endeavor, which is revolutionizing leadership development for women in the workplace and beyond through her champion mindset, individualized coaching, and team-bound focus. Abby lives in Florida with her wife and three children.

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Rating: 4.7/5

Author: Abby Wambach

Publisher: Celadon Books

Publishing Date: 9 April 2019

Edition Language: English

Genre: Soccer, Library & Information Science, Self-Help for Success

ISBN-10: 1250217709

ISBN-13: 978-1250217707

Pages: 112 (Hardcover)

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Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle

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The first book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

The inspiring and hilarious instant New York Times bestseller from the beloved writer, speaker, activist, and founder of Momastery, whose memoir Love Warrior was an Oprah’s Book Club selection.

Glennon Doyle’s hilarious and poignant reflections on our universal (yet often secret) experiences have inspired a social movement by reminding women that they’re not alone. In Carry On, Warrior, she shares her personal story in moving, refreshing, and laugh-out-loud new essays and some of the best-loved material from Momastery. Her writing invites us to believe in ourselves, to be brave and kind, to let go of the idea of perfection, and to stop making motherhood, marriage, and friendship harder by pretending they’re not hard. In this one woman’s attempt to love herself and others, readers will find a wise and witty friend who shows that we can build better lives in our hearts, homes, and communities.

About the Author

Glennon Doyle (born March 20, 1976) is an American author and activist known for her #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, and a few more of her work such as Get Untamed, Love Warrior, and Carry On, Warrior. Doyle is also the creator of the online community Momastery and is the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women-led nonprofit organization supporting women, families, and children in crisis -- raised over $30 million. 

Glennon hosts the WE CAN DO HARD THINGS Podcast. She lives in Florida with her wife Abby Wambach (retired Soccer player) and three children.

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Rating: 4.7/5

Author: Glennon Doyle

Publisher: Scribner

Publishing Date: April 2, 2013

Edition Language: English

Genre: Motherhood (Books), Women's Biographies, Personal Transformation self-help

ISBN-10: 1451697244

ISBN-13: 978-1451697247

Pages: 288 (Hardcover)

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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“It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently entertaining . . . So impressive is its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky's work ‘will be remembered hundreds of years from now,' and that it is a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.'”
―Jim Holt, The New York Times Book Review

Major New York Times bestseller Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient

Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

In his mega-bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.

System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation―each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives―and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.

About the Author

Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן‎, born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973; Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982; Tversky & Kahneman, 1974), and developed prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979).

In 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers. In the same year, his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, which summarizes much of his research, was published and became a best seller. He is professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. Kahneman is a founding partner of TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He is married to Royal Society Fellow Anne Treisman.

In 2015 The Economist listed him as the seventh most influential economist in the world.

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Rating: 4.6/5

Author: Daniel Kahneman 

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (First edition)

Publishing Date: October 1, 2011

Edition Language: English

Genre: Popular Applied Psychology, Medical Cognitive Psychology, Medical General Psychology

ISBN-10: 0374275637

ISBN-13: 978-0374275637

Pages: 512 (Hardcover)