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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Books about Agility - "Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" by Jeff Sutherland</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jeff Sutherland, one of the co-creators of Scrum, shares his expertise in this transformative book. Through real-world examples and practical guidance, Sutherland explains the principles and practices of Scrum, a popular agile framework. This book offers valuable insights into improving productivity, fostering collaboration, and embracing change to deliver high-quality results. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Mu2yVK</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Books about Agility - "Scrum Mastery: From Good to Great Servant-Leadership" by Geoff Watts</image:title>
      <image:caption>This book is a comprehensive guidebook for Scrum Masters aiming to elevate their skills and effectiveness in facilitating successful Scrum implementations. The book emphasizes the critical role of the Scrum Master as a servant-leader and offers practical strategies and techniques for overcoming common challenges faced in agile teams and organizations. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Ict2by</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Books about Agility - "The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" by Eric Ries</image:title>
      <image:caption>Although primarily focused on startups, Eric Ries' book provides valuable lessons applicable to organizations of all sizes. Ries introduces the concept of the lean startup methodology, emphasizing the importance of validated learning, iterative experimentation, and customer feedback. By embracing an agile mindset, businesses can reduce waste, increase efficiency, and ultimately create successful products or services. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3LYJwVW</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Books about Agility - “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lencioni's insightful work delves into the dynamics of team dysfunction and offers practical solutions for building a cohesive and high-performing team. Through a fictional narrative, this book uncovers the five common dysfunctions that hinder teamwork and provides valuable lessons on trust, conflict resolution, commitment, accountability, and collective results. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3N20tk0</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Books about Agility - "Turn the Ship Around" by David Marquet</image:title>
      <image:caption>The book recounts Marquet's journey of transforming the USS Santa Fe from a struggling, hierarchical organization into one of the highest-performing submarines in the U.S. Navy. Through empowering his crew and implementing a leader-leader model, Marquet demonstrates the power of giving control and decision-making authority to the individuals closest to the action, ultimately creating a culture of excellence and accountability. Get it here: https://amzn.to/42Bkrr3</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Dark Academia - "The Secret History” by Donna Tartt</image:title>
      <image:caption>'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!' Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3N06Nrd</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Dark Academia - "Harry Potter”-Series by J.K. Rowling</image:title>
      <image:caption>Escape to Hogwarts with the unmissable series that has sparked a lifelong reading journey for children and families all over the world! Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news - Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The magic starts here . Get it here: https://amzn.to/3INPTup</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Dark Academia - “If We Were Villains” by M.L. Rio</image:title>
      <image:caption>On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it. A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3IHkAkL</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Dark Academia - "Piranesi” by Susanna Clark</image:title>
      <image:caption>Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. Get it here: https://amzn.to/42hrDHU</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Dark Academia - "Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt</image:title>
      <image:caption>Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3IKzFlI</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books for Pride Month - "Our Wives under the Sea” - by Julia Armfield</image:title>
      <image:caption>Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. Memories of what they had before – the jokes they shared, the films they watched, all the small things that made Leah hers – only remind Miri of what she stands to lose. Living in the same space but suddenly separate, Miri comes to realize that the life that they had might be gone. Get it here: https://amzn.to/43Czwcb</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books for Pride Month - "Heart Stopper” by Alice Oseman</image:title>
      <image:caption>Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised. By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Ca3lFa</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books for Pride Month - "The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller</image:title>
      <image:caption>The legend begins... Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles’ mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals. When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece, bound by blood and oath, must lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice. Get it here: https://amzn.to/45BCQWG</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books for Pride Month - "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid</image:title>
      <image:caption>Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the '80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways. Get it here: https://amzn.to/43DZ1tx</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books for Pride Month - “The House in the Cerulean Sea” by TJ Klune</image:title>
      <image:caption>Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours. Get it here: https://amzn.to/43nLmau</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books of 2022 - "Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt</image:title>
      <image:caption>After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors - until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late... Get it here: https://amzn.to/3IIIE6Q</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books of 2022 - “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus</image:title>
      <image:caption>Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. True chemistry results. Like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ('combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride') proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo. Get it here: https://amzn.to/42d8QNO</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books of 2022 - "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel</image:title>
      <image:caption>In this captivating tale of imagination and ambition, a seemingly disparate array of people come into contact with a time traveller who must resist the pull to change the past and the future. The cast includes a British exile on the west coast of Canada in the early 1900s; the author of a bestselling novel about a fictional pandemic who embarks on a galaxy-spanning book tour during the outbreak of an actual pandemic; a resident of a moon colony almost 300 years in the future; and a lonely girl who films an old-growth forest and experiences a disruption in the recording. Blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, Emily St. John Mandel’s dazzling story follows these engrossing characters across space and time as their lives ultimately intersect. Get it here: https://amzn.to/43OL5gD</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books of 2022 - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he is catapulted back to the brief time they spent playing together as children. Their unique spark is instantly reignited. What comes next is a story of friendship and rivalry, fame and creativity, betrayal and tragedy, perfect worlds and imperfect ones. And, ultimately, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3oEvfG8</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Books of 2022 - "The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches" by Sangu Mandanna</image:title>
      <image:caption>She found magic in the most unlikely of places. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon has lived her life by three rules: hide your magic, keep your head down, and stay away from other witches. An orphan raised by strangers from a young age, Mika is good at being alone, and she doesn't mind it . . . mostly. But then an unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches, and Mika jumps at the chance for a different life. Nowhere House is nothing like she expects, and she's quickly tangled up in the lives and secrets of its quirky, caring inhabitants . . . and Jamie, the handsome, prickly librarian who would do anything to protect his charges, and who sees Mika's arrival as a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat. As Mika finds her feet, the thought of belonging somewhere starts to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and soon Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect the found family she didn't know she was looking for . . . Get it here: https://amzn.to/43bUWNg</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Novels about Artificial Intelligence - "The Fear Index” by Robert Harris</image:title>
      <image:caption>Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the '80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3J0Y1rJ</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Novels about Artificial Intelligence - “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov</image:title>
      <image:caption>The classic collection of robot stories from the master of the genre. In these stories Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age. Earth is ruled by master-machines but the Three Laws of Robotics have been designed to ensure humans maintain the upper hand: A robot may not injure a human being or allow a human being to come to harm A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. But what happens when a rogue robot’s idea of what is good for society contravenes the Three Laws? Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Ni4Ffx</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Book suggestions - Best Novels about Artificial Intelligence - "We are Legion” by Dennis E. Taylor</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty. The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad — very mad. Get it here: https://amzn.to/43qCdxN</image:caption>
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