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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

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Feb 01, 2026

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Definitely a skip especially if you are thinking he might talk about getting into business with MJ at some point in the timeline. He doesn’t. Seems like he, like many businessmen, failed his way into becoming something bigger. He had the dream, but it seems like his success was mostly because of the people he happened to know that wanted to see Nike thrive and put their all into making shoes that would be high quality. Plus the whole chapter about how one of his best salesmen was just annoying to him. The guy gets into an accident that put him in a wheelchair and Knight’s reaction is basically “ew, gross”. Like he’s embarrassed to be seen with him. So much emphasis on people’s weight at random times and probably more casual racism than I could possibly name when it came to his interactions with the Japanese. Like I know we had just come out of some wars and probably his parents taught him a lot of that, but he didn’t seem to realize it was bad until well into the 2000s. Not a lot of good insight if you’re looking to be inspired. It did inspire me to never go out of my way to build an empire but I wasn’t planning on that anyway.

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different.Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything.

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Little Weirds

Jenny Slate

Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find: × The smell of honeysuckle × Heartbreak × A French-kissing rabbit × A haunted house × Death × A vagina singing sad old songs × Young geraniums in an ancient castle × Birth × A dog who appears in dreams as a spiritual guide × Divorce × Electromagnetic energy fields × Emotional horniness × The ghost of a sea captain × And more I hope you enjoy these little weirds. Love, Jenny Slate

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant” first book Wordslut and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit Cultish, Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying work yet. “Magical thinking” can be broadly defined as the belief that one’s internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external Think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid chaos, but in The Age of Magical Overthinking, Montell argues that in the modern information age, our brain’s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to an eleven. In a series of razor sharp, deeply funny chapters, Montell delves into a cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, from how the “Halo effect” cultivates worship (and hatred) of larger than life celebrities, to how the “Sunk Cost Fallacy” can keep us in detrimental relationships long after we’ve realized they’re not serving us. As she illuminates these concepts with her signature brilliance and wit, Montell’s prevailing message is one of hope, empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human selves. If you have all but lost faith in our ability to reason, Montell aims to make some sense of the senseless. To crack open a window in our minds, and let a warm breeze in. To help quiet the cacophony for a while, or even hear a melody in it.

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One Golden Summer

Carley Fortune

A radiant, new escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune I never anticipated Charlie Florek. Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. Now Alice lives behind a lens. As a photographer, she’s most comfortable on the sidelines, letting other people shine. Lately though, she’s been itching for something more, and when Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry’s Bay. But as soon as they settle in, their peace is disrupted by the roar of a familiar yellow boat, and the man driving it. Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he’s all grown up—a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun. Sun-slanted days and warm nights out on the lake with Charlie are a balm for Alice’s soul, but when she looks up and sees his piercing green gaze directly on her, she begins to worry for her heart. Because Alice sees people—that’s why she is so good at what she does—but she’s never met someone who looks and sees her right back.

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Nonfiction focused on social identity, diversity, equity, inclusivity, class, and belonging. Together, we find history, identity, love, compassion, and community.

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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

Sharon McMahon

America’s favorite government teacher offers thrilling, heartfelt stories of ordinary American heroes.Most pundits and historians sell a dangerously naïve version of the American story—either praising its most consequential figures uncritically or criticizing them unfairly. Sharon McMahon believes the truth is more human. In her debut book The Small and the Mighty, she tells the inpiring stories of twelve Americans--regular people with human foibles--whose extraordinary heroism in the face of mounting trials created the character of our country. With the same clarity and candor that's earned her millions of fans, McMahon follows the daughter of formerly enslaved parents who sparked a reformation in Black education, a Japanese immigrant who nearly died in combat and became a consequential Senator, and even the electrician who saved her husband’s life. Her unforgettable prose and meticulous research tell the story of America from the perspective of the unsung heroes whose devotion to their country will restore your faith in the American dream.The portraits of our nation’s most improbable champions, innovators, and rebels in this book celebrate the United States and reveal our common humanity. The Small and the Mighty is the encouragement we all need in an age of doomscrolling and division.

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Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender

From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time. Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle.... But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself. Felix Ever After is an honest and layered story about identity, falling in love, and recognizing the love you deserve.

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Frankenstein propaganda dismantling🧟

So I have never read the story of Frankenstein…nor have i really watched anything film wise about it…but am i the only one going through a bit of a shock about what this story is actually about and not the Halloween propaganda that we are shown in media…

I’ll explain…so i thought (based on nothing but some loose information via Halloween advertising) that frankenstein was about a mad scientist that created a monster… like hard stop…

which i guess is partially true…and maybe that’s just what fits the Halloween aesthetic…because this story is NOT that at all…

It might just be me…🤣🤣🤣

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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)

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I need good advice.

I really don't think I want to read this series, not only is SJM super problematic, but the series being apart of the category of poorly written booktok books, it really doesn't make me pick up any of the books. I want to at least give then up to a thrift store, but should I? I have this lingering feeling to just give it a try, I mean I did spend money on the whole series so it would seem justified. But I need advice still! Should I give it to a person who would enjoy this more or keep it for myself? (Please don't say that cancel culture shouldn't be involved in books. It was my mistake not to research more into how bad SJM is when I bought this series 3 years ago. SJM should be held accountable for what she did and how wrongly she writes her stories. I want to uphold my morals and not give into the propaganda that she's the "queen of smutty fantasy.")

Update!! (I hope everyone who commented and gave advice sees this. 😿) I have came to a point where I will just read the first book and go from there. If I didn't enjoy the first one, I'm giving all the books to a thift store, and if I enjoy it, I'll keep the series and hope it gets better from there. I appreciate everyone who took the time to reply, and I'm glad I got actual responses and not a whole bunch of SJM glazers 😭. Thank you everyone, happy reading!!

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