As an ongoing feature, staff members at the Des Moines Public Library will recommend a business-related book to add to your reading list. Find this and more books like it at any of the Des Moines Public Library’s six locations and online at dmpl.org. And find information on how to get a FREE library card and all its benefits at dmpl.org/get-carded.

Des Moines Public Library business book pick: “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out,” by Amanda Ripley

Why you should read it: New York Times best-selling author and journalist Amanda Ripley’s 2021 book investigates how good people can get captured and trapped by “high conflict” – when discord distills into a good-versus-evil, us-versus-them feud – and how they break free. This problem permeates all facets of modern society, including work and business, and the book is a mind-opening way to think about moving through the world.