Books

True Biz Sara Nović A residential school for the deaf faces closure, told by a headmistress and two students on opposite sides of language. 1 recommender True Grit Charles Portis A fourteen-year-old hires a drunk marshal to avenge her father, and narrates it fifty years on. 1 recommender True Love Jennifer Lopez Lopez's candid memoir of rebuilding after her divorce and the birth of her twins, a superstar's diaristic reckoning with heartbreak, motherhood, and self-worth. Trust Hernan Diaz The same fortune told four times, each version quietly correcting who was written out of the last. 1 recommender Trust Me, I’m Lying Ryan Holiday An insider account of laundering a rumour up the credibility chain, written by the man who did it. Truth Be Told Larry King King's chatty backstage scrapbook of a lifetime of interviews, the beloved guests, the surprises, the on-air mishaps, and the political encounters. Tudor England: A History Lucy Wooding A full narrative history of Tudor England that takes the religion seriously rather than as backdrop. 1 recommender Tunnel 29 Helena Merriman Students dug from a West Berlin basement under the new wall, and someone was informing throughout. 1 recommender TurboCoach Brian Tracy A workbook-style companion that puts the reader in the coaching chair, drawn from the programme Tracy ran with executives. TurboStrategy Brian Tracy Strategic planning stripped to what a small company can act on this quarter, rather than what a consultancy would bill for. Twelfth Knight Alexene Farol Follmuth She games under a male handle to avoid the abuse, then finds herself tutoring the quarterback in the same game. 1 recommender Twelve Against the Gods William Bolitho A 1929 collection of vivid biographical sketches of twelve great "adventurers," from Alexander the Great to Casanova to Woodrow Wilson, on the price and lure of defying convention. 1 recommender Twelve and a Half Gary Vaynerchuk Vaynerchuk makes the case that soft skills are the real hard skills, breaking down twelve emotional traits, from kindness to accountability, that drive lasting business success. Twilight of the Elites Chris Hayes Hayes argues that a decade of elite failure, from Iraq to the financial crisis, has broken public trust, and that meritocracy itself keeps producing the rot. Typhoid Mary Anthony Bourdain Bourdain the cook turns historian, following Mary Mallon, the Irish cook who spread typhoid across New York and was hunted for it.