As the curtains draw on the fourth season of LIT Society, our book podcast, and our baby, it’s a moment brimming with sentimentality and anticipation for what’s to come. This season, we’ve embarked on a…
Popular obsession with genealogy has some twisted roots. Let’s talk about it – but first: An award-winning actress and gladiator receives a call from her parents on a routine afternoon. Their nervous hesitations let her know something is wrong. She turns her car around, drives to the home, and sits in the living of the people she’s known all her life as mom and dad, her protectors, her withholding parents. There, in that familiar home, they share a secret that begins to unravel the loose ends of her childhood memories.
In a memoir that is part true crime, part horror, a pop princess details how her life was taken captive by her family and how we all just stood by and watched.
From the streets of Baltimore to the big screen, this actress has done a lot of living. You may have heard about her, read the blogs, and listened to the gossip revolving around her marriage to megastar Will Smith, but this is her life, her story, in her own words.
In an intimate letter to his son, a father explains his identity and fears within the galaxy of America, its race invention, and the mythology it has produced.
From Herman Petty to LaVan Hawkins, Franchise tells the hidden history of the intertwined relationship between fast food and civil rights.
(Be prepared for surprises and thought-provoking discussions about this book for years to come!)
An English ship embarks on a covert mission to steal Spanish treasure, but as hunger and exhaustion seize the men, they enact a mutiny. Ultimately, it is not just the seamen who are on trial but the very ideology of colonialization. In this true story, who will live, who will die, and which side will be proved right by history?
Shoes, shoes, shoes. A young runner follows his passion for creating an athletic shoe worn by winners around the world. Following him from the columns of Greece to the boardrooms of Japan, we watch courtside as he builds an iconic brand that is today a part of global culture and fashion.
It’s 2009, and Tiffany, an intelligent, hard-working, first-generation American, faces foreclosure and bankruptcy. How did this happen? More importantly, how can you be sure this never happens to you?! Fortunately, this is only the beginning of Tiffany’s story.
Remember: Both sides of the field aim to win, but one team has a better system. Stop making goals and start changing your habits. Atomic Habits is yet another self-help book telling us we’re not the problem while assuring us that we are most definitely the problem. Its pages offer practical guidance and real-life anecdotes to illustrate that new habits make new results.
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