1-Sentence-Summary: Green Illusions will open your mind to the true nature of our problem with energy by explaining the potential dangers and inefficiencies of alternative energy sources like wind, hydrogen, solar, and nuclear, and identifies the real culprit of our energy crisis and how to stop it.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Mighty Be Our Powers shares the inspirational story of Leymah Gbowee who helped bring together an influential group of women that were tired of the unrest in their country and whose efforts eventually led to the end of a devastating and long-lasting civil war.
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1-Sentence-Summary: A Promised Land is former president Barack Obamaโs memoir in which he explains how he got into politics, what it was like for him to be president of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and how he felt during some of his biggest achievements, like passing the Affordable Care Act.
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1-Sentence-Summary: A Higher Loyalty shares James Comeyโs experiences as the director of the FBI and outlines what he learned about leadership, ethics, and politics throughout his life, career, and experiences with President Trump who was the reason he lost his job in May of 2017.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Ethics Of Ambiguity explains existentialist philosophy in a postโWorld War II setting, showing us how we can accept the absurdity of life and use its randomness to create rather than despair.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Warmth Of Other Suns is the story of how and why millions of Black Americans left the South between 1915 and 1970 to escape the brutality of the Jim Crow Laws and find safety, better pay, and more freedom in what is known today as The Great Migration.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Just Mercy explains why the United States judicial system is so broken, including how its bias toward women, Blacks, minorities, and others makes communities and the entire country a worse place and what author Bryan Stevenson is doing with his Equal Justice Initiative to try to stop these injustices.
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1-Sentence-Summary: First They Killed My Father is Loung Ungโs account of the horrific events that she and her family had to go through while living in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s and explains how it devastated their country, the way it separated their family, and how Loung got through it all.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The End Of Poverty will help you develop a kinder and more compassionate heart by opening your eyes to the terrible state of the poorest countries in the world, how they got to be this way, and why solving this problem is in our best interests and may be easier than we think.
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1-Sentence-Summary: On Tyranny makes you more vigilant of the warning signs of oppression by identifying itโs political nature, how to protect yourself and society, and what you can do to resist dangerous leadership.
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