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Fiction

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz.
Enjoy this collection of short stories from the Pulitzer Prize winner.

One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper.
The author, who really “gets” men, pulls at emotions while making you laugh out loud.

The People of Forever are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu.
Three women are conscripted by the Israeli army and change in ways they didn’t anticipate.

My Last Empress by Da Chen.
The author reveals passion and obsession set against the upheavals of 19th-century imperial China.

Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers.
The novelist, a veteran of the Iraq war, tells about two soldiers trying to stay alive.

Non-Fiction
Sharp: A Memoir by David Fitzpatrick.
This is a memoir by a young man who began life with advantages and promise, but became so consumed by mental illness that he obsessively cut himself.

Monks: How 40 Days in Thich Nhat Hanh’s French Monastery Guided Me Home by Mary Paterson.
In response to a life crisis, the author seeks refuge in the monastery of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning monk.

Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country – and Why They Can’t Make Peace by Patrick Tyler.
This is an epic portrayal of Israel’s martial culture – which envelops every family.

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss.
The real man behind the fictional protagonist was the son of a slave in this lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, with a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society.

Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience by Laurence Gonzales.
This book acknowledges that, “In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves.”