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3 New, Potentially Good Reads for April
From a people-pleaser’s memoir to an Ocean’s Eleven-like heist, here are three books that came out this month that might be of interest to those in the jewelry industry.
New York--From a people-pleaser’s memoir to an Ocean’s Eleven-like heist, here are three books that came out this month that might be of interest to those in the jewelry industry.
National Jeweler selected them from the list of new releases for April listed on book discussion site GoodReads.
1. Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much
Comedian and journalist Faith Salie, of NPR’s “Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” reflects on why she has tried so hard her entire life to please other people, a phenomenon many people--especially women--experience at home and in the workplace. This book is 272 pages.
2. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon and Mars
Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the story of the women mathematicians who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1940s and ‘50s and transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellite and made space exploration possible. This book is 352 pages.
3. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
This non-fiction book details how the librarians of this historically significant West African city smuggled thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts out of Timbuktu and to safety after Al Qaeda militants seized control of Mali. This book is 288 pages.
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