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In The Light We Carry, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. She considers the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle Obama believes that we can all lean on a set of tools to help us better navigate change and remain steady within flux.

Did you know President Obama coached his daughter’s basketball team? While serving as President? Did you also know that he got destroyed in a previous election run, which most people have no idea about? These secrets, and so much more, are available in this short work that will both educate and inspire. Learn how Obama found his calling, how he mastered speaking (he didn’t start out very good), and how he overcome so many obstacles, including the crushing election defeat mentioned above. Number 44 is part biography, part self-help, all inspiration.

This collection features seminal commencement speeches to inspire graduates everywhere. After four (or five, or six…) years of midterms, lectures, finals, and research papers, it is finally time for students to apply their education to a career and progress to the next chapter of life. However, in a flailing economy, the mission to create a successful career has turned into a more daunting task. This compilation of commencement speeches, a perfect gift for students and parents alike, will generate an optimistic outlook and fuel excitement for the future.