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Eliza Reid, the First Lady of Iceland, examines her adopted homeland’s attitude toward women―the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement. Reid’s own experience as an immigrant from small-town Canada who never expected to become a first lady is expertly interwoven with interviews with dozens of sprakkar (“extraordinary women”) to form the backbone of an illuminating discussion of what it means to move through the world as a woman, and how the rules of society play more of a role in who we view as “equal” than we may understand. Secrets of the Sprakkar is a powerful and atmospheric portrait of a tiny country that could lead the way forward for us all. Family Guy writer, and HBO star Gary Janetti’s Start Without Me, is a collection of hilarious, laugh out loud, true life stories about the small moments that add up to a big life. Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy are the duo behind the bestselling book No Hard Feelings:The Secret Power of Embracing Emotion at Work, and the wildly popular @LizandMollie Instagram account. Their new book is an insightful and approachable illustrated guide to handling our most difficult emotions. are the co-authors (and Liz is the illustrator) of the bestseller No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotion at Work. Their new book is Big Feelings: How To Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay. Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd, Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom–and now for the first time in audio, narrated by Wil himself! An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist Alexandra Billings — an actor, singer, author, teacher, and activist who has appeared on numerous television shows, including Amazon’s Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning Transparent. Emmanuel Acho is the New York Times bestselling author of “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,” a call to break through our limits and say yes to a life of infinite possibility. His new book is “Illogical: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President’s Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital―a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam. The author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bittersweet outlook on life, and why we’ve been so blind to its value. The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic’s happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. In Imaginable, Jane McGonigal draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable. She is a future forecaster and designer of reality games created to improve real lives and solve real problems.Past Events