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How much do YOU save?
[/vc_column_text][us_btn label=”Calculator” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffoundation.cmlibrary.org%2Flibrary-calculator%2F|title:What%20Do%20You%20Save%20When%20You%20Use%20Your%20Library%3F||” style=”4″ align=”center”][us_separator size=”small”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][us_sharing providers=”email,facebook,twitter,linkedin,pinterest”][vc_column_text]Charles Thomas is a Library trustee and lifelong Library user. He’s the Charlotte Program Director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and a tireless advocate for the city he’s loved his whole life. We asked Charles to share his reading list:
My favorite books of all time about life’s journey, discovering one’s purpose or magic and connecting to happiness:
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- A Spell for Chameleon (and the Xanth series) by Piers Anthony
Current books I recommend to advance racial equity in Charlotte and to build a more beautiful world:
- How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- Sorting Out the New South City by Tom Hanchett
- Color and Character by Pam Grundy
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein
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