We Recommend: Contemplation
Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End, Lissa Soep, MA ’95, PhD ’00; Spiegel & Grau. Written or spoken, the voices of our loved ones remain with and sustain us in a sort of afterlife of their own.
Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything, James R. Doty, founder/director, CCARE, and adjunct professor of medicine; Avery. No more wishful thinking—science-backed steps aim to help you transform intentions into reality.
Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World, Nate Klemp, ’01, MA ’02; Sounds True. Remember your pre-device attention span? You can reclaim your focus—and marvel at what you’ve been missing.
Table for Two: Fictions, Amor Towles, MA ’89; Viking. Fate plays a recurring role in these seven stories by a novelist known for the resonance of his work.
Still: The Art of Noticing, Mary Jo Hoffman, MS ’89; Phaidon. Rest your eyes—this display-worthy tome is a former aerospace engineer’s photographic paean to the beauty of nature’s found objects.
