Silicon Valley Reads 2022: The Power of Kindness, Resilience & HopeLike this list

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• Enough About Me

  the Unexpected Power of Selflessness

  Lui, Richard, 1967-

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  Silicon Valley Reads 2022 selection. When his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, award-winning journalist Richard Lui left his national news anchor job to care for Dad, no small decision. But decisions to be selfless are rarely so…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• See No Stranger

  a Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

  Kaur, Valarie,

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  Silicon Valley Reads 2022 selection. Valarie Kaur is a renowned Sikh activist; she argues that Revolutionary Love is the call of our times. When we practice love in the face of fear or rage, it has the ability to transform an encounter, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Dream Called Home

  a Memoir

  Grande, Reyna,

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  Silicon Valley Reads 2022 selection. A Dream Called Home tells the story of Reyna’s pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree and to find her place and a home in her adoptive country.

• The Story of Arthur Truluv

  a Novel

  Berg, Elizabeth,

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  Silicon Valley Reads 2022 selection. For the past six months, Arthur Moses's days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl With the Louding Voice

  a Novel

  Daré, Abi,

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  Silicon Valley Reads 2022 selection. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice” the ability to speak for herself and decide her own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Authenticity Project

  Pooley, Clare,

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  Silicon Valley Reads 2022 selection. Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren't really honest with each other. But what if they were? So he writes in a plain, green journal, the truth about his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dare to Be Kind

  How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World

  Velasquez, Lizzie,

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  The author shares her experiences in being bullied because of her unusual appearance caused by a medical condition and uses them to explore the causes behind cruelty and how they can be redirected to produce kindness and improve the world.

• How to Be a Good Creature

  a Memoir in Thirteen Animals

  Montgomery, Sy,

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  A naturalist and adventurer, Montgomery discusses the personalities and quirks of thirteen animals who have profoundly affected her, exploring themes of learning to become empathetic, creating families, coping with loss, and the otherness and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Glory Was I Had Such Friends

  a Memoir

  Silverstein, Amy,

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  Memoirist Amy Silverstein tells the story of an extraordinary group of women who surrounded and supported her through the long, emotional fight to stay alive as she waited for her second heart transplant in twenty-five years.

• Conditional Citizens

  On Belonging in America

  Lalami, Laila

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  In this deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Talk

  a Memoir in Conversations

  Jacob, Mira, 1973-

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  Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Hope

  a Survival Guide for Trying Times

  Goodall, Jane, 1934-

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  In this book, Jane Goodall explore one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Told through stories from a remarkable career and fascinating research, The Book of Hope touches on vital questions including: How…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Proud

  My Fight for An Unlikely American Dream

  Muhammad, Ibtihaj, 1985-

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  Olympic medalist fencer, named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People, Ibtihaj Muhammad tells a story of the tremendous obstacles, racism, and pressures she has overcome as the first Muslim American woman to compete in hijab in a sport…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clock Dance

  Tyler, Anne,

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  Willa Drake receives a phone call telling her that her son’s ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the-moment decision to look after this woman will lead Willa into uncharted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beauty of Your Face

  a Novel

  Mustafah, Sahar,

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  A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter. Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Stories Are Love Stories

  a Novel

  Percer, Elizabeth,

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  A group of survivors are thrown together in the aftermath of two major earthquakes that strike San Francisco within an hour of each other. This is an achingly beautiful and lyrical novel about the power of nature, the resilience of the human…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

  a Novel

  Simonson, Helen

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  Major Ernest Pettigrew leads a quiet life until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Bus to Wisdom

  Doig, Ivan,

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  Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, but when Gram has to have surgery in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lightest Object in the Universe

  Eisele, Kimi,

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  If the grid went down, how would you find someone on the other side of the country? How would you find hope? After a global economic collapse and failure of the electrical grid, amid escalating chaos, Carson, heads west on foot toward Beatrix, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Stars Go Dark

  a Novel

  McLain, Paula,

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  Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. Weaving together actual cases of missing persons, trauma…Read moreRead more of this annotation