1/28/2025: The Powe r of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. P ink
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From Daniel H. Pink comes a new book about the transforming pow er of that crucial and misunderstood emotion\, regret. "Regret is not dang erous or abnormal\, it is healthy and universal\, an integral part of bein g human\," Daniel H. Pink writes in his provocative and eye-opening new bo ok. "Done right\, it needn't bring us down\; it can lift us up." Drawing f rom \;new research in social psychology\, neuroscience\, biology\, and more\, as well as from more than ten thousand people in thirty-five count ries around the world who responded to his World Regret Survey&mdash\;the largest of its kind ever conducted&mdash\;Pink challenges the idea of regr et being a drag on our self-esteem and outlook. In fact\, understanding ho w regret actually works and using those insights to reframe our perspectiv e of it will help us reclaim regret as an indispensable emotion that can h elp us make smarter decisions\, perform better at work and school\, and br ing greater meaning to our lives. As he did in his other paradigm-changing books\, Pink sets down a dynamic new way of thinking about regret and fra mes his ideas in ways that are clear\, accessible\, and pragmatic. Packed with true stories of people's regrets as well as practical takeaways for r eimagining regret as a positive force in your own life\, The Power of Regret shows how we can live richer\, more engaged lives&mdash\;with no regrets.
\n2/25/2025: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
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If you knew the date of your death \, how would you live your life?
\nIt's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side\, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman\ , a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they wi ll die. The Gold children&mdash\;four adolescents on the cusp of self-awar eness&mdash\;sneak out to hear their fortunes.
\nThe prophecies info rm their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast\, s earching for love in '80s San Francisco\; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician\, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy\; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11\; and bookish Varya throws her self into longevity research\, where she tests the boundary between scienc e and immortality.
\nA sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and dep th\, \;The Immortalists \;probes the line between destiny and choice\, reality and illusion\, this world and the next. It is a deep ly moving testament to the power of story\, the nature of belief\, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
\n3/25/2025: < a href="https://jaxpl.na4.iiivega.com/search/card?id=cd686e08-5054-5e87-9e 0b-14fd45c266de&\;entityType=FormatGroup">The Churchill Sisters: Th e Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine&rsquo\;s Daughters by Rachel Trethewey
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As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins\, Winston and Clemen tine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famou s father. Rachel Trethewey's biography\, The Churchill Sisters\, tells their story. Bright\, attractive and well-connected\, in any other f amily the Churchill girls&mdash\;Diana\, Sarah\, Marigold and Mary&mdash\; would have \;shone. But they were not in another family\, they were Ch urchills\, and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From the ir father&mdash\;'the greatest Englishman'&mdash\;to their brother\, golde n boy Randolph\, to their eccentric and exciting cousins\, the Mitford Gir ls\, they were surrounded by a clan of larger-than-life characters which o ften saw them overlooked. While Marigold died too young to achieve her pot ential\, the other daughters lived lives full of passion\, drama and trage dy. Diana\, intense and diffident\; Sarah\, glamorous and stubborn\; Mary\ , dependable yet determined&mdash\;each so different but each imbued with a sense of responsibility toward each other and their country. Far from be ing cosseted debutantes\, these women were eyewitnesses at some of the mos t important events in world history\, at Tehran\, Yalta and Potsdam. Yet t his is not a story set on the battlefields or in Parliament\; it is an int imate saga that sheds light on the complex dynamics of family set against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. Drawing on previously unpublished fa mily letters from the Churchill archives\, The Churchill Sisters brings Winston's daughters out of the shadows and tells their remarkable s tories for the first time.
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