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Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande. (Picador) 4. The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis. (Norton) 5. Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman.

(Farrar, Straus Giroux) 6. On Tyranny, by Timothy Snyder. (Tim Duggan) 7. Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow. (Penguin) 8.

The Lost City of the Moneky God, by Douglas Preston. (Grand Central) 9. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger. (Sentinel) 10. Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas L.

Friedman. (Picador) Trade fiction paperbacks 1. The Sun and Her Flowers, by Rupi Kaur. (Andrews McMeel) 2. Milk and Honey, by Rupi Kaur.

(Andrews McMeel) 3. It, by Stephen King. (Scribner) 4. Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline. (Broadway) 5.

All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. (Scribner) 6. Count to Ten, by James Patterson and Ashwin Sanghi. (Grand Central) 7. The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware.

(Scout) 8. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. (Anchor) 9. A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman. (Washington Square) 10.

The Black Book, by James Patterson and David Ellis. (Grand Central) Combined advice 1. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It! by Ree Drummond. (Morrow) 2. Tribe of Mentors, by Timothy Ferriss.

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You Are a Badass, by Jen Sincero. (Running Press) 6. The Wisdom of Sundays, by Oprah Winfrey. (Flatiron Books) 7. Principles, by Ray Dalio.

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This intersection of emotional wisdom and the duality of humanity and nature is at the core of "Salt Water," which was released Wednesday. The book is available online and at Realm and Reason, 213 W. King St. Wiest studied professional writing at Elizabethtown College and served as editor-in-chief of the school's student newspaper, earning her degree in 2013 after three years. The 25-year-old has amassed a following for her articles on the website Thought Catalog.

Her work often addresses mental health issues and emotional intelligence, the ability to identify and deal with one's feelings. She works as a writer and copy editor for Fine Living Lancaster, and is a regular contributor to various national publications, including The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue and Allure. She founded the website Soul Anatomy and has written sponsored content for products like Smartwater. No interest in poetry Her foray into poetry was more of an impulse than a planned career move. Ten years ago, she wouldn't have expected to ever write a poem for fun in her life.

She didn't connect with lessons in iambic pentameter in school, and she found the assigned poetry readings less than inspiring. That shifted once Wiest asked her fiance for a copy of poet Rupi Kaur's bestseller "Milk and Honey" as a Christmas gift last year. Wiest was taken by Kaur's ability to communicate a thought in sometimes just two to three lines. She found inspiration in other poets as well, from R.H. Sin to her friend Chrissy Stockton.

On a whim, she tried her hand at the free-form style while writing in Passenger Coffee one day. There, as she overlooked King THOUGHT Water." Brianna Wiest is the author of "Salt Street, Wiest wrote up to 50 poems in a day. "I usually find that when I start, I can't stop. It is much easier for me to pitch and write every day now than it was then," says Wiest, who lives in Lancaster. "It's not a well that runs dry.

It's like a muscle that strengthened. I feel the same way about this. I started a little bit, and then I could keep going." Self-help sentiments The format may have changed, but fans of Wiest's work will find a similar thread of self-help sentiments throughout "Salt Water." Some poems were messages from past articles she condensed and clarified to present as a poem. Others were born from fresh inspiration. One contemplates the notion that stars have "soul mates," a concept she read about in a book by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Wiest believes the poetry collection's overarching message is to recognize one's own potential. "The big theme of this book is internalizing your power," Wiest says. "It's not giving it away to other people. If you subscribe to society's ideas of beauty, you're externalizing your power. If you're waiting for someone to hand you the book deal of your life, you're externalizing your power.

If you're waiting for your soul mate to come so you can be happy, you're externalizing your power. "You have to tap into it on your own and go after it yourself," Wiest continues. "I believe in that very strongly." Wiest practices what she preaches. She's already in the early stages of writing two books: a long-form self-help book about subconscious self-sabotage, and an interactive journal with prompts. Neither project has a set release date.

Wiest isn't ruling out the possibility of writing another poetry collection in the future. In fact, she's not ruling out the possibility of anything. "I definitely learned the only limit to my potential is my mind," Wiest says. "Honestly. What changed between three years ago and now? The only thing that changed is what I thought was The only thing that shifts is what I think can happen.

If I think it's possible, I can do it." REVIEW New Caitlin Strong thriller features neo-Nazis, opiates Jon Land's Caitlin Strong thrillers usually have a "ripped from the headlines" feel, and the new one, "Strong to the Bone," features violent neoNazis, industrial robots, a lethal biological weapon, the international opiates trade and a creep who buys pharmaceutical companies to jack up the price of drugs. For the uninitiated, Strong is a trigger-happy, insubordinate, fifth-generation Texas Ranger whose exploits always have a direct link to one of her ancestors' investigations. In this one, the ninth book in the series, it's her grandfather Earl Strong's pursuit of a Nazi who escaped from a World War II prison camp in Texas in the 1940s. The series' other regulars, including Caitlin's long-suffering commander, D.W. Tepper; her ex-con lover, Cort Wesley Mas- DETAILS "Salt Water." By Brianna Wiest.

Thought Catalog Books. 169 pages THE BRUCE DESILVA ASSOCIATED PRESS ters; and Masters' sons Luke and Dylan, all return. The oldest boy, Luke, who becomes more like his father with every book, initiates the action when he faces off against neo-Nazis who harass his Mexican-American friends. The story also finds Caitlin coming face-to-face with the darkest moment in her past. Called to the scene of a nightclub brawl in Austin, she discovers that a young woman has been drugged and raped.

The circumstances are eerily similar to what happened to Caitlin when she was a college student an assault Land reveals here for the first time. Caitlin soon suspects that the girl's assailant and hers are one and the same. This makes Caitlin wonder if she's always been quick to pull the trigger because she harbors a deep-seated rage against male offenders. Eventually, the Masters' strug- JON LAND STRONG TO THE BONE DETAILS "Strong to the Bone." By Jon Land. Forge Books.

0 368 pages gle against neo-Nazis and Caitlin's pursuit of the rapist merge into a single, related criminal case. As always with this rollicking, entertaining series, the complex plot is resolved in a burst of righteous violence..