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Kenyan student Andrew Kiare to continue high school studies in NYC

[photo courtesy of Andrew Kiare] Andrew Kiare, a friend and student in Kenya affiliated with the non-profit Harambee USA, has … More

collaboration, education, harambee, high school, kenya, nonprofit, scholarship, study abroad, sustainable development

Kenya: Harambee Aquaponics Project

Interesting video describing the attempted project by Harambee USA in Dagoretti in Kenya: “Our mission is to use technology in … More

agriculture, aquaponics, dagoretti, economics, harambee, human development, kenya, nairobi, NGO, nonprofit, organization

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Hello I live here now. 💆🏼‍♀️✨
Salem wishes you a happy December, but it is still Halloween in her heart. 🎃🐾🐈
Here to ask the hard questions — like, can we hang out without scheduling it 6 weeks in advance? Check out my essay on friendssss in the December issue of @phillymag ✏️✨
❤️ 📷: @juliejordanphotography
do no harm but take no shit. 😼
New gig, who dis? Yep, that’s right. Hit me up for all your Philly health and wellness needs from here on out! 💚🧘🏼‍♀️🏋🏼‍♀️🌿 Today I’m officially the editor of @bewellphilly, and Health and Wellness editor of @phillymag. 📷: @claudiaaann
Strolling through the Bok can be... unpredictable.
Taro burgers only. #latergram #foodstagram
Catch me freaking out for the foreseeable future because my feature story on tarot in therapy (with this incredible art) is up on Cosmo!!✨🍸🔮🦂🖊 Link in bio.
Outdoor fall drinks, but put us in a temp-controlled igloo.
Professional wedding guests. 🌺🏝#latergram #asherandbonnie #hawaii
3,672nd poke bowl of this trip 🥑🐠

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2019

Trick Mirror – Jia Tolentino
Women Who Run With The Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Source of Self-Regard – Toni Morrison
In The Dream House – Carmen Maria Machado
Normal People – Sally Rooney
More Than Enough – Elaine Welteroth
The Story of A New Name – Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
The Wise and The Wicked – Rebecca Podos
Luckiest Girl Alive – Jessica Knoll
Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
Becoming – Michelle Obama
Where The Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
Essentialism – Greg McKeown
Eros the Bittersweet – Anne Carson
Educated – Tara Westover

2018 (18 books)

The Yamas and Niyamas – Deborah Adele
Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
The Gifts of Imperfection – Brene Brown
The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner
Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan
Take Out Delivery – Paul Siegell
The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
I Am Having So Much Fun Without You – Courtney Maum
Am I There Yet? – Mari Andrews
Touch – Courtney Maum
Feel Free – Zadie Smith
The Jesuit Guide To (Almost) Everything – James Martin, SJ
Turtles All The Way Down – John Green
Braving The Wilderness – Brene Brown
The Vanity Fair Diaries – Tina Brown
Chasing Phil – David Howard
Ornament And Silence – Kennedy Fraser

2017 (32 books)

Four Reincarnations – Max Ritvo
The Rules Do Not Apply – Ariel Levy
When Breath Becomes Air -Paul Kalanithi
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Milk And Honey  – Rupi Kaur
Like Water – Rebecca Podos
The Lost World – Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
Her Body And Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado
Selected Poems – Adonis
What Happened – Hillary Clinton
Hapax – A.E. Stallings
And The Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The View From The Cheap Seats – Neil Gaiman
The Young Widower’s Handbook – Tom McAllister
Hunger – Roxane Gay
Devil In The White City – Erik Larson
Daring Greatly – Brené Brown
Midnight Salvage – Adrienne Rich
Crush – Richard Siken
Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far – Adrienne Rich
So Sad Today – Melissa Broder
Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
Love Warrior – Glennon Melton Doyle
The Mothers – Brit Bennett
Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi

2016 (26 books)
Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
Born A Crime – Trevor Noah
Yes Please – Amy Poehler
Heartburn – Nora Ephron
Losing It – Emma Rathbone
Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
Running: A Love Story – Jen A. Miller
Between The World And Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Monstress (Vol. 1) – Marjorie Liu
The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo- Amy Schumer
The Girls – Emma Cline
The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
You Look Like That Girl… – Lisa Jakub
The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling
Bloomabilities – Sharon Creech
Pilgrims – Elizabeth Gilbert
Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff
Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan
The Mystery of Hollow Places – Rebecca Podos
Tenth of December – George Saunders
Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman
The Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston

2015 (16 books)
Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman
Writing Down The Bones – Natalie Goldberg
The Performing Word – Frederick W. Reid
Madame Deluxe – Tenaya Darlington
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
salt – Nayyirah Waheed
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
Saga: Book One – Brian K. Vaughn
My Age of Anxiety – Scott Stossel
The Pillowman – Martin McDonagh
The Pale King – David Foster Wallace
Looking for Alaska – John Green
The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer
Laughing at My Nightmare – Shane Burcaw

2014 (18 books)
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
Trespass – Thomas Dooley
Not That Kind of Girl – Lena Dunham
The Opposite of Loneliness – Marina Keegan
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
The Circle – Dave Eggers
The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
Beautiful Ruins – Jess Walter
Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
The Lost Years of Merlin – T.A. Barron
The End of the Suburbs – Leigh Gallagher
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
The Signature of All Things – Elizabeth Gilbert

2013
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Catherine – April Lindner
The Receptionist – Janet Groth
The Killing Joke – Alan Moore
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jeanette Rhys
Freedom – Jonathan Franzen
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson
Lit – Mary Karr
Ex Machina – Brian K. Vaughan
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
Emma – Jane Austen

2013
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
No Death No Fear – Thich Nhat Hanh
Thrall – Natasha Trethewey
Poetry in America – Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Freefall – Joseph Stiglitz
The Dark Tower I, II, III, IV – Stephen King
Song Without Words – Gerald Shea
Bossypants – Tina Fey
A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter – Edward Murphy
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Passage – Justin Cronin
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
29 Gifts – Cami Walker
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
On Writing Well – William Zinsser
The Diviners – Libba Bray
You Are Here – Thich Nhat Hanh
A Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers

2012
The Personal MBA – Josh Kaufman
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Superfreakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
The Flight of Gemma Hardy – Margot Livesey
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
The Singles – Meredith Goldstein
Cereus Blooms At Night – Shani Mootoo
Omeros – Derek Walcott
The Bone People – Keri Hulme
Season of Migration to the North – Tayeb Salih
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
Without a Net – Michelle Kennedy
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? – Mindy Kaling
Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
Tell Them I Didn’t Cry – Jackie Spinner/Jenny Spinner
The Hunger Games Trilogy – Suzanne Collins

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