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Mary Batten Author Of Life in Hot Water

From Mary's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Coming Up Short is a memoir by Robert Reich, who was Secretary of Labor under President Clinton. He advised other presidents on labor matters and writes from his vast experience fighting for American workers over many decades. He writes from his personal and professional experience fighting against bullies and advocating for workers and their families. He foresaw the the rise of oligarchs that we have today and the widening income gap between the one percent of wealthy Americans and everyone else in the U.S. This is an inside view, spiced with many anecdotes, of our current political situation and how we got to this point in our history.

By Robert B. Reich ,

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2 authors picked Coming Up Short as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in so many important ways, and still has lots of work to do

"Important and galvanizing.” —Senator Bernie Sanders

"Essential reading for understanding this moment in American history.” —Molly Jong-Fast, New York Times bestselling author of How to Lose Your Mother

A thought-provoking, principled, clear-eyed chronicle of the culture, politics, and economic choices that have…


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The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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By Joan Didion ,

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1 author picked Notes to John as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES

'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN

'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE

A recently discovered journal from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.

In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had 'a rough few years'. She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.

For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions…


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