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Tambu's own education at one point is put on hold because there is no money to pay school fees. When this happens, she clears a field, plants maize and sells the ears to finance her education.

Upon Nhamo's death, Tambu is sent to school. The purpose of education is not for education's sake but so that the educated member of the family will help support the rest of the family. As Tambu is considering her role in adulthood, she imagines being able to buy pretty clothes for her younger sisters and provide adequate food so her mother will grow strong and healthy.

Tambu studies hard and wins a place at Sacred Heart, a school run by nuns for further education. With America's stagnant institutions failing to keep pace with technological change, we grow more polarized as tech platforms supplant our will while feasting on our data. Yang introduces us to the various "priests of the decline" of America, including politicians whose incentives have become divorced from the people they supposedly serve.

The machinery of American democracy is failing, Yang argues, and we need bold new ideas to rewire it for twenty-first-century problems. Inspired by his experience running for office and as an entrepreneur, and by ideas drawn from leading thinkers, Yang offers a series of solutions, including data rights, ranked-choice voting, and fact-based governance empowered by modern technology, writing that "there is no cavalry"--it's up to us.

This is a powerful and urgent warning that we must step back from the brink and plot a new way forward for our democracy. Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently.

With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live? It inspires, supports, and offers easy ways to replace old, planet-hurting habits with new healthy ones.

Kindness can also mean much more. In this timely, insightful guide, Henry James Garrett lays out the case for developing a strong, courageous, moral kindness, one that will help you fight cruelty and make the world a more empathetic place.

So, how could a book possibly make you kinder? In these pages, building on his academic studies in metaethics and using his signature-sweet animal cartoons, Henry James Garrett sets out to do just that, exploring the sources and the limitations of human empathy and the many ways, big and small, that we can work toward being our best and kindest selves for the people around us and the society we need to build.

So truthful, bold, clear, candid and convincing that I read it in one breathless sitting Stephen Fry One night three years ago Josh Roberts went to a party. The next morning he awoke to discover his mind had collapsed. In a matter of days he went from being a fun loving, seemingly successful twenty-something to a hot mess of tears and nerves.

Since then, he's been mending his mind, rediscovering happiness and learning to live his nervous life. Anxious Man is the story of all this.

Told with originality, wit and great humour, it's an essential guide for mental health and a thought-provoking exploration of the millennial condition. Vicky Roberts mother of author of Anxious Man.

His remaining child, Bryony, has always been the family's golden girl and Terence comes to realise that his one duty in life is to protect her from the world's malign forces, whatever that may take. But as he starts to follow his grieving daughter's movements and enforce a draconian set of rules, his love for Bryony becomes a possessive force that leads to destruction.

In The Future We Choose, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac--who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of have written a cautionary but optimistic book about the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity. The authors outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement's climate targets.

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