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By Michelle Obama
The former First Lady offers a series of reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us.
By Tom Felton
From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton's life on and off the big screen.
By Ralph Macchio
Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, there hasn't been a week Ralph Macchio hasn't heard friendly shouts of "Wax on, wax off" or "Sweep the leg!"
By Matthew Perry
Friends actor Matthew Perry takes us on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction, and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare.
By Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of Appalachia. It’s the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a trailer, with nothing beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, and a talent for survival.
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
Non-fiction. Mukherjee begins this story in the late 1600s, when a polymath, Robert Hooke, and a cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, looked down their microscopes.
By Kate Atkinson
The author of Life after Life transports us to the Jazz Age. Shrines of Gaiety is set in London's Soho clubs where peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling.
By Ian McEwan
Lessons asks if we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from past traumas?
By Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns for the 18th book in this series. Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the investigators' lives after many years.
By Michael Connelly
LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch's "white whale" - a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.
By Patti Smith
Non-fiction. A deeply moving and idiosyncratic visual book featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular life -inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.
By Maria Ressa
Non-fiction. From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, journalist Maria Ressa challenged corruption in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy.

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