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Title: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Author: Seth Godin

Recommended by: Seyed-Youns Sadat-Nejad

About: This lifechanging manifesto shows how you have the potential to make a huge difference wherever you are. There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there's a third team, the linchpins. These people figure out what to do when there's no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.

Title: Educated: A memoir

Author: Tara Westover

Recommended by: Mary Lee

About: Tara Westover was seventeen when she first set foot in a classroom. Instead of traditional lessons, she grew up learning how to stew herbs into medicine, scavenging in the family scrap yard and helping her family prepare for the apocalypse. She had no birth certificate and no medical records and had never been enrolled in school.

Title: Gone Girl

Author: Gillian Flynn

Recommended by: Hamid Dehkordi

About: On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge.

Title: Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge

Author: Ann Johnson

Recommended by: Sherif Hanna

About: In Hitting the Brakes, Ann Johnson illuminates the complex social, historical, and cultural dynamics of engineering design, in which knowledge communities come together to produce new products and knowledge. Using the development of antilock braking systems for passenger cars as a case study, Johnson shows that the path to invention is neither linear nor top-down, but highly complicated and unpredictable.