This document provides summaries for 6 books: 1) The Body by Bill Bryson attempts to make science understandable and entertaining by exploring the human body and its ability to heal itself. 2) Dear Girls by Ali Wong shares humorous and personal letters to her daughters about dating, work, and marriage. 3) Ninth House follows a young woman offered a second chance to attend Yale, where she must monitor secret societies with sinister activities. 4) Brain Based Stress Management teaches stress management techniques like meditation to empty a mental "stress bucket" and tricks the brain into feeling happier. 5) The Fountain of Silence is a historical fiction set in 1957 Spain under Franco, where a young man's photos lead to

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THE INFINITE GAME
By Simon Sinek, Business
Infinite games, like football or chess, the players
are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is
clear. The winners and losers are easily identified.
In infinite games, like business or politics or life
itself, the players come and go, the rules are
changeable, and there is no defined endpoint.
There are no winners or losers in an infinite game;
there is only ahead and behind. The bestselling
author of Leaders Eat Last, Together Is Better,
and Find Your Why, is tackling a new topic. Sinek
believes that leaders who embrace an infinite
mindset, in stark contrast, build stronger, more
innovative, more inspiring organizations. Their
people trust each other and their leaders. They
have the resilience to thrive in an ever-changing
world, while their competitors fall by the wayside.
Ultimately, they are the ones who lead the rest of
us into the future.
THE BODY: A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS
By Bill Bryson, Nonfiction
DEAR GIRLS
By Ali Wong, Memoir
NINTH HOUSE
By Leigh Bardugo, Fantasy
BRAIN BASED STRESS MANAGEMENT
By An Swinnen, Self-help
THE FOUNTAIN OF SILENCE
By Ruta Sepetys, Historical Fiction
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History
of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the
seemingly impossible by making the science of
our world both understandable and entertaining to
millions of people around the globe. Now he turns
his attention inwards to explore the human body,
how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal
itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing
stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a
brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand
the miracle of our physical and neurological make
up. A wonderful successor to A Short History of
Nearly Everything,this book will have you marveling
at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius
of your existence, time and time again. Consider
this a much funnier and more educational version
of High School Biology.
Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her
daughters cover everything they need to know in
life,like the unpleasant details of dating,how to be
a working mom in a male-dominated profession,
and how she trapped their dad. In her hit Netflix
comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month
pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she
even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong
told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts
on marriage, Asian culture, working women, and
why you never see new mom comics on stage
but you sure see plenty of new dads. The sharp
insights and humor are even more personal in
this completely original collection. She shares the
wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and
reveals stories from her life off stage,including the
brutal single life in New York.
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of
Yale’sfreshmanclass.RaisedintheLAhinterlands
by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early
and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends,
dead-end jobs, and much worse. By age twenty, in
fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved
multiple homicide. But at her hospital bed, Alex
is offered a second chance: to attend one of the
world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s
the catch,and why her? Still searching for answers
to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked
by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the
activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight
windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts
of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking
politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest
players. But their occult activities are revealed to
be more sinister and more extraordinary than any
paranoid imagination might conceive.
The psychotherapist author has created a
self-help book to simply explain stress and its
relationship to the brain. Imagining a “stress
bucket” that gets filled every day this book
helps you to learn myriad ways how to empty
your bucket with activities like meditation and
laughter. Designed to be positive, fun, easy,
practical and thought-provoking, it includes a
self-help planner at the back of the book. On the
very last page there is access to a relaxation
recording which is designed to help you reach
the REM stage of sleep which Swinnen says
is the great de-stresser. Included are puzzles,
word searches, spaces for you to draw, color in
and plan. The book teaches you that you are
in control over how you feel, how to deal with
other people using DISC personality types, and
importantly how to “trick” the brain into feeling
happier and healthier. All the techniques are free.
Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship
of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a
dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign
businessmen flood into Spain under the
welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among
them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the
son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid
with his parents hoping to connect with the country
of his mother's birth through the lens of his
camera. Photography, and fate, introduce him to
Ana, whose family's interweaving obstacles reveal
the lingering grasp of the Spanish Civil War, as well
as chilling definitions of fortune and fear. Daniel's
photographs leave him with uncomfortable
questions amidst shadows of danger. He is
backed into a corner of decisions to protect those
he loves. Lives and hearts collide, revealing an
incredibly dark side to the sunny Spanish city.
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