How well do you really know your neighbors? With its sprawling yards and excellent schools, Cottonwood Estates is the perfect place to raise children. The Cottonwood Book Club serves as the subdivision's eyes and ears, meeting once a month for discussion, gossip, and cocktails. If their selections trend toward twisty thrillers and salacious murder mysteries, it's only because the members feel secure that such evil has no place in their own cul-de-sacs. Or does it? What happened to Lena's family fifteen years ago was a tragic accident, and she will never admit otherwise. Read more about The Neighbor's Secret

From the New York Times-bestselling author and host of NPR's Hidden Brain comes a counter- intuitive, thought-provoking exploration of deception's role in human success. Everyone agrees that lies and self-deception can do terrible harm to our lives, to our communities, and to the planet. But in Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam argues that, paradoxically, deceiving ourselves and others can also play a vital role in human success and well-being Read more about Useful Delusions: The Power and Pardox of the Self-Deceiving Brain

Your next career change could be with friends. Using the true story of the lifeboats that survived after the sinking of the Titanic, the author poses a series of questions to help you determine if you are ready for a career pivot. Doing this workout may help you determine to stick with the industry you came from, although disturbed from the fall, or try something completely new but reminded you that you don't - and shouldn't - go it alone.  Read more about Lifeboat: Navigating Unexpected Career Change and Disruption

Your next job could be better. Career upsets are more common than people think. This writer says experience in an industry or trade just doesn't drive success like it used to. If 47% if today's jobs will be gone due to automation or artificial intelligence, then worker's background has a half-life anyway. The author directs readers to be curious, bold, and up-skill and learn something new and then do that again, diversifying your resume to make career changes smooth because, odds are, you will do it again. That strategic pivoting might just be the thing that might get you hired. Read more about Coming Back: How to Win the Job You Want When You've Lost the Job You Need

In your next career you could leave the rat race. Read how a self-made businessman with little college education who developed a Fortune 500 company and jet-set across the globe only to one day quit the fast-paced life. He become a farmer, having no experience and jumping in just because the land was calling. Read more about The Accidental Farmers: Urban Couple, A Rural Calling, and a Dream of Farming in Harmony with Nature