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November 2025
LEADING WITH INTENTIONALITY & INNOVATION – NONFICTION
In Delivering the Wow: Culture as Catalyst for Lasting Success, Royal Caribbean chairperson Richard Fain shows how the company built the world’s most innovative ships, delighted guests, and created one of the strongest service cultures in the travel industry. Drawing on vivid stories from 33 years at the helm, Fain explains how a remarkable culture was forged through alignment, intentionality, continuous improvement, and response. The secret to success that Laysha Ward reveals in Lead Like You Mean It: Lessons on Integrity and Purpose from the C-Suite sounds deceptively simple.…
THE STRANGE FRONTIER OF THE MIND – NONFICTION
In The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains, neurologist Pria Anand reveals all that the medical establishment has dismissed, as often seen in the stories of women and Black, brown, displaced, and disempowered people. This collection of medical stories reflects the compelling paradox that even the most peculiar symptoms can show us something universal about ourselves. In Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer’s Guide Through the Sleeping Mind, sleep expert Michelle Carr explores the science of dreaming,…
ON TOXIC GRIT WITH AMANDA GOETZ – NONFICTION
In Toxic Grit: How to Have it All and (Actually) Love What You Have, executive and single mom Amanda Goetz offers a bold roadmap for redefining ambition in a culture of burnout. Through storytelling, science-backed frameworks, and practical tools, she helps women unlearn hustle culture, reclaim joy, and build systems that redefine how we approach ambition. Moderated by Amber Berger, founder of the Well Drop, a wellness platform and podcast. Buy Toxic Grit: How to Have it All and (Actually) Love What You Have – Goetz…
HOW AI RESHAPES TEACHING & LEARNING WITH DR. ERNESTO LEE – NONFICTION
In AI and the Art of Productive Struggle: How AI Reshapes Teaching and Learning, Dr. Ernesto Lee, DBA, argues that AI’s greatest strength – removing friction – is education’s greatest threat. Students need productive struggle to build genuine understanding, yet every AI tool promises to make learning “effortless.” How can we harness AI’s remarkable capabilities while preserving the cognitive effort that creates real learning? Buy AI and the Art of Productive Struggle: How AI Reshapes Teaching and Learning – Lee…
ON ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM & HOPE: THE HUMAN URGE TO THRIVE – NONFICTION
Inspired by a lifetime of activism, Catherine Coleman Flowers’ Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope is a collection of personal and political essays highlighting trailblazers who have fought for environmental and social justice. Flowers draws on history to illuminate and contextualize the most pressing issues of the moment, from climate change and human rights to rural poverty and reproductive justice. Ten years in the making, Alan Weisman’s Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World,…
LANGUAGE & ART IN THE AGE OF AI – NONFICTION
Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language is a captivating exploration of how internet algorithms are changing language and communication. Aleksic uses original surveys, data, and internet archival research to usher us through a new linguistic landscape, while illuminating how communication is changing in both familiar and unexpected ways. In Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Emmy-winning composer Lucas Cantor Santiago reflects on his journey from technology skeptic to collaborating with AI to complete Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony.…
THE NEW TECH RACE: AI VISIONARIES & THE FUTURE – NONFICTION
In AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence, journalist Gary Rivlin closely follows founders and venture capitalists and brings readers into the world of AI development in Silicon Valley. In a narrative shot through familiar names such as Musk, Zuckerberg, and Gates, Rivlin gives readers a deep understanding of what’s around the corner for AI. Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip tells the astonishing story of how Nvidia,…
THE INSTABILITY & INHERENT DANGER OF AI – NONFICTION
In The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything, James Barrat shares tools to navigate the complex and often chaotic landscape of modern AI during an unprecedented era of technological growth. Through interviews with AI pioneers, he delves into the unstable trajectory of the technology’s development, its potential for modest benefits – and its potentially catastrophic consequences. In More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, Adam Becker investigates the implausible and often immoral visions of tomorrow imagined by tech titans such as Elon Musk,…