In Streetwise, Lloyd Blankfein traces his unlikely rise from Brooklyn public housing to the top of Goldman Sachs, offering a candid look at ambition, risk, resilience, and power. His story begins with cramped apartments, part-time jobs, and a fierce desire to escape his circumstances, then follows his path through Harvard, law, commodities trading, and eventually […]
Pause. Notice. Transform.🌟
In The Magic of Mindful Self-Awareness, Matt Tenney offers a practical path to quieting overthinking, easing anxiety, and finding peace in ordinary moments. Drawing from his own transformation during a prison sentence, Tenney shows that suffering often comes not from life’s events, but from the stories we tell ourselves about them. Through simple practices like […]
Run Toward Light 🌟🏃
Andy Glaze has run through deserts, mountains, heat, injury, grief, and exhaustion—but his hardest miles were the ones that brought him back to himself. In this powerful memoir, Glaze traces a life shaped by addiction, childhood trauma, loss, fatherhood, firefighting, and the strange salvation he found in ultrarunning. From rock bottom to 100-mile races, from […]
A Deadly Double Life
In London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the haunting death of nineteen-year-old Zac Brettler, a charismatic London teenager who fell from a luxury apartment into the Thames in 2019. After his death, Zac’s parents discovered that their son had been living a shocking double life—posing as “Zac Ismailov,” the son of a Russian oligarch, and […]
