{"id":406,"date":"2019-03-14T12:59:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo-content.kaliumtheme.com\/bookstore\/?p=406"},"modified":"2020-11-20T22:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T19:18:33","slug":"new-noteworthy-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humancapitalinternational.org\/books\/new-noteworthy-books\/","title":{"rendered":"New & Noteworthy Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

JUNK,\u00a0<\/strong>by Les Bohem, read by John Waters. (Audible.) Waters, a Hollywood veteran both in front of and behind the camera, narrates the Emmy-winning screenwriter\u2019s epic story of an alien takeover of Planet Earth, set in present-day Los Angeles.
\nTOO MUCH IS NOT ENOUGH,\u00a0<\/strong>by Andrew Rannells, read by the author. (Penguin Random House Audio.) The star of \u201cThe Book of Mormon\u201d and \u201cGirls\u201d on HBO recounts his coming-of-age from a sexually confused Midwestern teenager to finding his footing as an actor in Manhattan.
\n<strong”>QUEENIE,\u00a0by Candice Carty-Williams, read by Shvorne Marks. (Simon & Schuster Audio.) The \u201cEndeavour\u201d actor gives voice to a 20-something Jamaican-British journalist navigating the trials of interracial dating, in a tale so full of humor she\u2019s been called a \u201cblack Bridget Jones.\u201d
\nSAL & GABI BREAK THE UNIVERSE,\u00a0<\/strong>by Carlos Hernandez, read by Anthony Rey Perez. (Listening Library.) This mystical middle-grade novel set at a magnet school in Miami lends a Cuban-American lilt to the genre of science fiction.
\nREMEMBERING ROTH,\u00a0<\/strong>by James Atlas, read by the author. (Audible.) The biographer narrates an intimate homage to the late novelist, with whom he shared a decades-long, but not uncomplicated, literary friendship.
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What we\u2019re reading:<\/h3>\n

 
\n BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman<\/p>\n

BEARTOWN by Fredrik Backman<\/h4>\n

All the talk about the Varsity Blues admissions scandal and parents bribing college coaches to get their kids into the universities of their choice inspired me to go back and read\u00a0BEARTOWN,<\/strong>\u00a0by Fredrik Backman, the 2017 novel about the three H\u2019s \u2014 hockey, high school and last, best hope \u2014 in a small Swedish town. Nominally a story about the transformative power of sports, it is, like many supposed sports novels (and films, for that matter, and TV shows), actually about friendship, morality and achievement. Whether you have any feelings at all about hockey (I don\u2019t, really), it is impossible not to get swept up in these kids\u2019 lives and what they learn on the ice.
\nAt a time when a lot of cynicism is about to be attached to the whole concept of an athlete, there is a purity here, a sense of pain and joy, that has nothing to do with hackneyed metaphors and everything to do with compelling characters and a wrenching story, beautifully told. (Also: There is a great sequel.)<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a> EDUCATED by Tara Westover<\/p>\n

EDUCATED by Tara Westover<\/h4>\n

All the talk about the Varsity Blues admissions scandal and parents bribing college coaches to get their kids into the universities of their choice inspired me to go back and read EDUCATED,<\/strong>\u00a0by Fredrik Backman, the 2017 novel about the three H\u2019s \u2014 hockey, high school and last, best hope \u2014 in a small Swedish town. Nominally a story about the transformative power of sports, it is, like many supposed sports novels (and films, for that matter, and TV shows), actually about friendship, morality and achievement. Whether you have any feelings at all about hockey (I don\u2019t, really), it is impossible not to get swept up in these kids\u2019 lives and what they learn on the ice.
\nAt a time when a lot of cynicism is about to be attached to the whole concept of an athlete, there is a purity here, a sense of pain and joy, that has nothing to do with hackneyed metaphors and everything to do with compelling characters and a wrenching story, beautifully told. (Also: There is a great sequel.)
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\n<\/a> WONDER by R. J. Palacio<\/p>\n

WONDER by R. J. Palacio<\/h4>\n

All the talk about the Varsity Blues admissions scandal and parents bribing college coaches to get their kids into the universities of their choice inspired me to go back and read WONDER,<\/strong>\u00a0by Fredrik Backman, the 2017 novel about the three H\u2019s \u2014 hockey, high school and last, best hope \u2014 in a small Swedish town. Nominally a story about the transformative power of sports, it is, like many supposed sports novels (and films, for that matter, and TV shows), actually about friendship, morality and achievement. Whether you have any feelings at all about hockey (I don\u2019t, really), it is impossible not to get swept up in these kids\u2019 lives and what they learn on the ice.
\nAt a time when a lot of cynicism is about to be attached to the whole concept of an athlete, there is a purity here, a sense of pain and joy, that has nothing to do with hackneyed metaphors and everything to do with compelling characters and a wrenching story, beautifully told. (Also: There is a great sequel.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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