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Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (Author)
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and...
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Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson
Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting...
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Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel by Jo Nesbo
This killer will get inside your head. Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his...
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Mona Shah
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I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Given that this is the author's first novel, it is surprisingly good and perhaps among the best thriller I have read. It is a battle...
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Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane returns with a masterpiece to rival his earlier novel Mystic River—with an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love,...
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
This brilliantly written book defies easy categorization and might have gone a number of ways. For the same reason, it appeals to a range...
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These are a few of MoJo's favorite ...Books
MoJo’s recommendations for the most captivating, notable, brilliant, thought-provoking, and talked-about books that we have read this...
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended By Chris Voss
Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent,...
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Mona Shah
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A Shot to Save the World by Gregory Zuckerman
This is a dazzling, blow-by-blow chronicle of the most consequential scientific breakthrough of our time - the COVID-19 vaccine. It’s a...
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Mona Shah
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The Kill Switch By Adam Jentleson
In this interesting book, Adam Jentleson, an aide to former Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid, explains why the U.S....
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Mona Shah
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The Spy and The Traitor by Ben Macintyre
If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of...
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Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
Bahcall, who trained as a physicist and management consultant before becoming a biotech entrepreneur, urges us to consider organizational...
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
The coronavirus pandemic forced Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier to accept the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry virtually, instead...
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Mona Shah
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Endurance by Alfred Lansing
This book tells the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure...
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Mona Shah
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Numbers Don’t lie by Vaclav Smil
This is an eclectic book, with topics ranging from people, populations, and countries, through to energy use, technical innovation, and...
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The Premonition by Michael Lewis
The Premonition, is the https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/690219/the-premonition-by-michael-lewis/9780393881554story of a group of...
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Mona Shah
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Originally published in Swedish, this is a charming debut novel by Backman. A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on...
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The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood
Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, Bad Muslim Discount is a hilarious, timely, and...
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
This is a fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations. It is part scientific quest and part historical insight. Some highlights...
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The Ride of A Lifetime: Lessons Learned From 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company By Bob Iger
Bob Iger shares leadership skills he’s gained in more than 45 years, starting out at ABC in 1974 and at Disney since 1995. It is...
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