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"Bad Blood"by John Carreyrou
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John Carreyrou takes you step by step through the downfall of would-be medtech giant Theranos in this deeply researched, behind-the-scenes look at a fraud in action.
Starting in 2003, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes bullied co-workers and hoodwinked investors as she sold herself as a revolutionary thinker who would change the life of any American who took medication. You will be astonished by the credulity and arrogance of Silicon Valley's brightest minds who helped fuel the company's rise to a $9 billion dollar valuation that was built on lie after lie.
While I have been a fan of business books since Connie Bruck's classic "Predator's Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders," you don't have to love Wall Street tales to be swept up into this delicious and detailed account of ambition and venom.
-Stephanie Curtis
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From "Everything Under" to "Overstory": The 2018 Man Booker Prize shortlist Just half a dozen authors remain in contention for the prestigious fiction award: Anna Burns, Esi Edugyan, Daisy Johnson, Rachel Kushner, Richard Powers and Robin Robertson.
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This rapper tried to use neuroscience to get over her ex "My Own Devices" by Dessa
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Dessa is a singer and writer from Minneapolis who spent years trying to fall out of love and get over her ex. Nothing seemed to help — until she visited a research lab for a brain scan. She writes about the experience in her new book.
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An almost-too-real portrait of modern Russia "A Terrible Country" by Keith Gessen
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"It's very harsh and it's full of violence and incongruities, but it's also truly fully of the Russian spirit," says bookseller Kate Jacobs.
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Javier Cercas uncovers the truth behind Spain's "Impostor" "The Impostor" by Javier Cercas
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In his new book, Javier Cercas unravels the lies that created the life of Enric Marco — a man who for years portrayed himself as a Holocaust survivor and Spanish Civil War hero.
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Activist DeRay McKesson on why he's making "The Case for Hope" "On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope" by DeRay McKesson
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In his new book, activist and author Deray McKesson tells his personal story and shares his thinking about activism.
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How to make the Gothic bitingly modern "A Room Away from the Wolves" by Nova Ren Suma
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Nova Ren Suma takes all the classic Gothic novel tropes — an old house, a cursed ring, evil stepsisters, a dark family legacy — and gives them a bracing update.
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A look at America through the promises of its beginning "These Truths" by Jill Lepore
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By engaging with our country's past — and present — in an intellectually honest way, Jill Lepore has created a book that truly does encapsulate the American story in all its pain and triumph.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson delivers an uncomfortable wake-up call for some "Accessory to War" by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang
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An "unspoken alliance" between scientists and the military had been brewing for millennia prior to Hiroshima. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis Lang excel at detailing this union and its possible future.
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Apocalypse? Naw. "Woman World" is a laid-back utopia "Woman World" by Aminder Dhaliwal
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Aminder Dhaliwal's popular Instagram comic chronicles life in a world where men have gone extinct. It turns out, without men, life is pretty mellow — making for a sly critique of patriarchy.
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Investigative journalist aims to expose ills of privately run prisons "American Prison" by Shane Bauer
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"American Prison" is the remarkable story of a journalist who spent four months working as a corrections officer — and a horrifying exposé of how prisoners are treated by a profiting corporation.
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Homer's "unwilling" women are no longer quiet Told from the perspective of Achilles' concubine, Briseis, Pat Barker's "The Silence Of The Girls" brings new life to the women of Homer's "Iliad."
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