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• Season of the Witch

  Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love

  Talbot, David, 1951-

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  Required reading for any citizen of San Francisco, this book explores some of San Francisco's most fascinating time in history.

• The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up

  the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

  Kondō, Marie,

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  When you hold your possessions in your hands do they spark joy? This Japanese anti-hoarding manual will change the way you view and treat your objects, clothes and possessions.

• When Breath Becomes Air

  Kalanithi, Paul,

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  A beautiful, shattering memoir of new father and newly minted neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, who was just 36 years old when he was diagnosed with late stage lung cancer.

• Being Mortal

  Medicine and What Matters in the End

  Gawande, Atul,

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  A clarion call from a doctor in the trenches to reform the way modern medicine treats us at the end of life.

• Modern Romance

  Ansari, Aziz, 1983-

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  Co-written with a social scientist, this witty, wise book explores current dating practices.

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  The Atlantic writer and journalist's profoundly moving memoir of growing up black in America.

• Spark Joy

  An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up

  Kond¿џ, Marie,

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  Need a little more help and inspiration tidying up? Marie Kondo follows up her blockbuster Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up by providing step-by-step folding illustrations for every piece of clothing, plus inspirational drawings of perfectly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fairyland

  a Memoir of My Father

  Abbott, Alysia

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  A memoir of a girl raised by her bohemian, bisexual single father in San Francisco before and during the era of AIDS, which eventually claims her father.

• Dark Money

  the Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

  Mayer, Jane,

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  Journalist Jane Mayer spent five years exhaustively researching the Koch brothers and their unseen and profound influence on the U.S. government and its financial institutions.

• The Power of Habit

  Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

  Duhigg, Charles,

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  A fascinating, accessible exploration of the science behind productivity.