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Just for You! -- Life Choices in Different Genres

The titles on this list feature characters getting empowered, living the consequences of their own or others' decisions, or looking back and reflecting on their life choices. Also on the list are a book and a TV show about what it might mean to live a good life.

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  • Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is ready to share the real story of her glamorous (and scandalous) life and rise to the top, but why has she chosen down-on-her-luck magazine reporter Monique Grant to write her biography?
    Book, 2018New York : Washington Square Press/Atria, [2018] — FICTION REID
  • Summers together in Barry's Bay made Percy and Sam inseparable, or so they thought. After a long absence Percy returns to Barry's Bay for a funeral, and she and Sam will have to confront their past and what happened the summer everything fell apart.
    Book, 2022New York : Jove, 2022. — FICTION FORTUNE
  • In a desperate moment a young woman strikes a terrible bargain; she will live forever, but will be forgotten by everyone she meets. After 300 years of learning the cost of her deal, Addie is shocked when a man in a bookstore remembers her.
    Book, 2020New York : Tor, [2020] — FICTION SCHWAB
  • January lives a stifling life as a ward to a man with a mansion full of strange treasures. She finds a mysterious book there that opens a door to secrets, adventures, and new worlds.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : Redhook Books/Orbit, 2019. — FICTION HARROW
  • How to Be Perfect

    the Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

    Schur, Michael, 1975-
    In a humorous and conversational way, Schur explores what it means to live a good life in our complicated contemporary world. This is the compilation of his findings from philosophy research he did while writing for the show The Good Place.
    Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 818.602 SCHUR
  • If you watch the entire show, what first appears to be a funny but shallow sitcom about a woman who died and ended up in the Good Place by mistake turns out to be a thoughtful and touching look at what it means to live a good life.
    DVD, 2017–Los Angeles, CA : Shout! Factory, [2017- — DVD TV GOOD