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Losing My Religion - How I lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace Mary Hynes's pick:
Losing My Religion - How I lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace
By William Lobdell
"Lobdell is a religion beat writer at the L.A. Times who watches his faith crumble as he plies his trade. Lobdell's faith - as "important to me as breathing" - would not survive. An incredibly honest book by a tough-minded reporter."
Breaking Lorca Nora Young's pick:
The Design of Business
By Roger Martin
""Design Thinking" is a big buzzword these days, but Martin, who teaches at the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto, shows why it's key to opening up an organization's creativity."
The Pirate's Dilemma Sook-Yin Lee's pick:
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
By Matt Mason
"An essential handbook for anyone wanting to adapt and make a living in the new economy of open source production and distribution."

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Alligator by Lisa Moore

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Catherine Gildiner's teenage years are the subject of her second memoir, After the Falls.

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