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.

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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)

Think Again by Adam Grant

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#1 New York Times Bestseller 

“THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning require much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again, Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I’ve never felt so hopeful about what I don’t know.”
—Brené Brown, Ph.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead

The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. We think too much like preachers defending our sacred beliefs, prosecutors proving the other side wrong, and politicians campaigning for approval--and too little like scientists searching for truth. Intelligence is no cure, and it can even be a curse: being good at thinking can make us worse at rethinking. The brighter we are, the blinder to our own limitations we can become.

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds--and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.

About the Author

Adam M. Grant (born August 13, 1981) is an American science author, psychologist, and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology, where he had been a top-rated professor for seven straight years (2011-2017). During high school, he was named an All-American in 1999 in diving. He worked as a professional magician during college. 

This #1 New York bestselling author has penned down some books, which have sold millions of copies and been translated into 35 languages. He is one of TED's most popular speakers whose talks have been viewed over 25 million times, and his podcast WorkLife has topped the charts. He has been recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune's 40 under 40. He has received a distinguished scientific achievement award from American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. His work has been praised by many celebrities and famous individuals including J. J. Abrams, Bill and Melinda Gates. 

He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and their three children.

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Rating: 4.6/5

Author: Adam Grant

Publisher: Viking

Publishing Date: February 2, 2021

Edition Language: Eglish

Genre: Cognitive Psychology, Popular Psychology Personality Study, Business Motivation & Self-Improvement

ISBN-10: 19884878107

ISBN-13: 978-1984878106

Pages: 320 (Hardcover)

Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change-makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.

Look for Brené Brown’s new podcast, Dare to Lead, as well as her ongoing podcast Unlocking Us!

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG

Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas and has the courage to develop that potential.

When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it’s necessary to do good work.

But daring leadership in a culture defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill-building around traits that are deeply and uniquely human. The irony is that we’re choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the exact same time as we’re scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines and AI can’t do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection, and courage, to start.

Four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown has spent the past two decades studying the emotions and experiences that give meaning to our lives, and the past seven years working with transformative leaders and teams spanning the globe. She found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question:

How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?

In this new book, Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BS style that millions of readers have come to expect and love.

Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.”

Whether you’ve read Daring Greatly and Rising Strong or you’re new to Brené Brown’s work, this book is for anyone who wants to step up and into brave leadership.

About the Author

Casandra Brené Brown (born 1965) is an American professor, lecturer, author, ad podcast host. Brown holds the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and is a visiting professor in management at McCombs Schools of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. 

She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and. is the author of four #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gift of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, and Braving the Wilderness. Her newest book is titled Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversation, Whole Hearts.

Brené's TED talk--The Power of Vulnerability--is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 35 million views. Brené lives in Houston, Texas with her husband, Steve, and their children, Elle and Charlie.

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Rating: 4.7/5

Author: Brené Brown

Publisher: Random House (Large print edition)

Publishing Date: July 23, 2019

Edition Language: English

Genre: Popular Social Psychology & Interactions, Leadership & Motivation, Personal Transformation Self-Help

ISBN-10: 0593171128

ISBN-13: 978-0593171127

Pages: 400 (Paperback)

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Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

 REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK

A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection

“True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.” Social scientist Brené Brown, Ph.D., MSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives—experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. 

In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging.

Brown argues that we’re experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe about ourselves and each other. She writes, “True belonging requires us to believe in and belong to ourselves so fully that we can find sacredness both in being a part of something and in standing alone when necessary. But in a culture that’s rife with perfectionism and pleasing, and with the erosion of civility, it’s easy to stay quiet, hide in our ideological bunkers, or fit in rather than show up as our true selves and brave the wilderness of uncertainty and criticism. But true belonging is not something we negotiate or accomplish with others; it’s a daily practice that demands integrity and authenticity. It’s a personal commitment that we carry in our hearts.” Brown offers us the clarity and courage we need to find our way back to ourselves and to each other. And that path cuts right through the wilderness. Brown writes, “The wilderness is an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it’s the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand.”

About the Author

Casandra Brené Brown (born 1965) is an American professor, lecturer, author, ad podcast host. Brown holds the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and is a visiting professor in management at McCombs Schools of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. 

She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and. is the author of four #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gift of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, and Braving the Wilderness. Her newest book is titled Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversation, Whole Hearts.

Brené's TED talk--The Power of Vulnerability--is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 35 million views. Brené lives in Houston, Texas with her husband, Steve, and their children, Elle and Charlie.

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Rating: 4.7/5

Author: Brené Brown

Publisher: Random House Trade

Publishing Date: August 27, 2019 (Reprint edition)

Edition Language: English

Genre: Social Science Research, Cultural Anthropology, Interpersonal Relations

ISBN-10: 0812985818

ISBN-13: 978-0812985818

Pages: 208 (Paperback)