In Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You’re Worth, Mika Brzezinski borrows from her experiences as co-host of a morning talk show and interviews a wide range of professional women such as director Nora Ephron, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and broadcaster Joy Behar about their experiences in moving up in their careers. Knowing Your Value also blends personal stories with the latest research about women in the workplace. The end result is a brutally honest and witty exploration of the roadblocks and pitfalls that are unique to women. Brzezinsky provides an in-depth look at how professional women achieve recognition and financial success in an unbalanced workforce that often overlooks their worth.
Humanitarian Greg Mortenson chronicles his attempt to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard in an astonishing and uplifting story, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time. Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer, completed a treacherous climb of Pakistan’s K2 and became inspired when he encountered impoverished mountain villagers. He promised to build them a school and over the course of the next ten years he stood by his promise and built fifty-five schools, providing balanced education especially for girls in one of the most dangerous and isolated regions in the world. Read the rest of this entry »