Can you imagine living in thirteen houses and five countries by the time you were nine years old? Even that seems excessive for members of the military. You might think it’s unusual, but you don’t question it too much as a child growing up like that because that’s all you’ve ever known. But, when the authorities show up at your house and you find out your family has been living a lie and your name isn’t even your own, you know something isn’t right. Tyler Wetherall writes about the experience of living life on the run and her drug-smuggling Dad’s attempts to stay one step ahead of the law in No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run. 

It’s common knowledge that the best teams are more than just the people that make up those teams but working together in a collaborative way can be very challenging and so often success is eludes those teams. Studies and stats show passionate, hard working people consistently outperform teams, but there are a small number of Dream Teams that buck those trends and manage to pull off amazing things together, well beyond what any single person can do. How can you be a better team player? Is there a secret sauce? Shane Snow, author of Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart, talks about it on this episode of Conversations.

From obsessively taking selfies to tweaking what you look like with filters and apps, it seems that technology has played a role in muddying the waters of what’s acceptable, beautiful and desirable. Not to mention, society’s never-ending struggle with defining what’s too fat, too thin, perfect and problematic is a topic that everyone has an opinion about. Even before anything was available for folks to read, Kristan Higgins’ novel Good Luck With That was causing quite a stir online as she challenged readers to think about their views of weight and body image.