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The Beach House
Jane Green
Viking Adult, 2008
Great Summer Read
I really enjoyed this book. Alot of different characters (all great) to keep track of so it kept it interesting. Finished it in 2 days. It is a great book especially for the summer.
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The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Hyperion, 2008
Moving Description of Father's Tribute to his Children
Randy Pausch is an inspiration and a wonderful example of what people should be doing with their lives NOW. Randy takes the accounts and descriptions of his life and childhood dreams and weaves them into an assortment of life's lessons. The book is just as ...
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle
New World Library, 2004
A Masterpiece
Eckhart Tolle has certainly written a 'masterpiece' with this consciousness expanding book 'The Power of Now.'
Potent insights are plentiful along with thought provoking revelations on focused intent, inner peace, acceptance, & true joy, by means of moving beyond ...
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
David Wroblewski
Ecco, 2008
Why did it have to end?
AS you might have guessed, I am a big fan of dogs. This book not only spoke to me , it sang.
What a fantastical concept- a mute boy who is not deaf, dogs who can read sign, a father carrying on his father's ideal of the perfect dog.
The author brings you into a ...
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The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
Atria Books/Beyond Words, 2006
Magnificent!
"The Secret" is a book that I finished in two days. It held my interest and gave me a great outlook on how we should look upon our lives. With this type of positive motivation.. I believe you can conquer any obstable that might appear in your path. I pick up this ...
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)
Eckhart Tolle
Penguin, 2008
A Treasure
I love this book. Tolle describes ancient truths and applies them to life in the 21st century in a way that is inspiring and comforting. I took away from this book three simple, yet profound ideas. First and foremost, Tolle believes that we are all connected to each ...
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Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons
Tim Russert
Random House, 2006
Buffalo Wings
The coasts have had too much influence on America for the last 50 years, beginning with Rock & Roll, I suppose, and the cult of youth. There is much to be said for the heartland beginning with the unglamorous mid-west and the great rust-belt cities of Buffalo, ...
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, ...
Daniel G. Amen
Three Rivers Press, 1999
More Than Scans
Dr. Amen's book is more than a catalog of brain scans. Yes, it has brain scans and some pretty scary ones at that. But the scans are a way to show problems in brain functioning in concrete terms. We can then recognize how anxiety, depression, OCD and even anger can ...
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The Shack
William P. Young
Windblown Media, 2007
WOW! Loved this Book!
I came across this book by accident, and after reading it couldn't believe that I hadn't heard more people talking about it. It really makes you think and wonder what it would be like if you got the chance to talk to God. I've already passed it on to my sister, and ...
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Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life
Tim Russert
Miramax, 2005
A blueprint for fatherhood
This book should be required reading for all young men who eventually will become fathers. It's filled with wisdom and real-life examples of how to set the stage for success in raising a child.
It reads like a novel but in the end it's like an invauable user's ...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Riverhead, 2007
Beautiful
A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of the most beautiful stories I had ever read in my entire life. I believe women, especially, should pick this book up. It deffinetly opens your eyes and your hearts to the middle east and what that country's people have survived through.
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Water for Elephants: A Novel
Sara Gruen
Algonquin Books, 2007
Great book!
This was a very good book! I couldn't put it down. Highly recommended!
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The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
Cormac McCarthy
Vintage Books, 2007
THE ROAD: Style as Metaphor
In THE ROAD Cormac McCarthy creates a nightmarish apocalyptic vision of a country wrecked by some unnamed upheaval. McCarthy is not the first writer to portray a wasted landscape, but what marks this novel as special is his ability to keep the reader involved in a ...
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow
Pantheon, 2008
And You Thought Probability Theory Couldn't Blow Your MInd
I was waiting for someone to write an in-depth and fascinating book about the wild and wierd aspects of probability theory in our lives. It is broader and more informative than Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets ...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Riverhead Hardcover, 2007
A transcendent novel about the power of love.
In contrast with last year's Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" which is a novel of intense despair and lack of hope, Junot Díaz's "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", this year's Pulitzer winner, is brimming with life and hope. It is a ...
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