Embrace the Possible
by Edith Eva Eger
Recommended by 4 notable people, including Bill Gates and Morgan Housel
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Reading The Choice feels like sitting with a survivor who moves between vivid wartime recollections and later-life reflections about choosing to live. Its strongest value is the combination of scene-level testimony — specific memories that anchor the horror — with plainspoken exhortations about resilience that many readers find galvanizing. The main limitation is a tonal flip: the book alternates narrative with prescriptive passages, and readers expecting a detached history may find the advice-driven sections repetitive or too conversational for sustained historical analysis.
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A New York Times Bestseller ?I?ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger?s story?The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we?ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.??Oprah ?Dr. Eger?s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Psychology, History, and Social Sciences.
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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft; co-chair of the Gates Foundation
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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