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Title |
Author |
Comments |
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29 Gifts - How a Month of Giving
Can Change Your Life |
Walker, Cami |
p. xxv. If you spend all of your time and energy
focusing on your pain, you're feeding the disease |
** |
A Bittersweet Season |
Gross, Jane |
Caring for our aging parents and
ourselves |
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A Cup of Friendship |
Rodriquez, Deborah |
An American runs a coffee shop
in Kabul |
* |
A Lady's Life in the Rocky
Mountains |
Bird, Isabella |
letters of a woman's 3 months in Colorado in 1800's |
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A Single Man |
Isherwood, Christopher |
a widowed gay man's last 24
hours |
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A Train to Potenka |
Ramsdell, Mike |
A Mormon in military
intelligence snafu at the end of Communism in Russia |
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America One Step at a Time |
Roger, Daniel |
a man's walk across the U.S. |
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An Atlas of Impossible Longing |
Roy, Ameradha |
a motherless girl and an
orphan's lives intertwine |
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An Object of Beauty |
Martin, Steve |
art seller in NY provides
history of 21st century art |
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe |
Firlik, Katrina |
A young woman neurologist's
memoir |
* |
Art of Racing in the Rain, The |
Stein, Garth |
A family in crisis from their
dog's POV |
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Back When We Were Grown Ups |
Tyler, Anne |
A widow with 3 step children and
one of her own reflects on life and dabbles in going back to where her life
diverged |
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Bearing an Hourglass (Time) 2 |
Anthony, Piers |
Time (Chronos) and time travel |
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Being a Green Mother (Nature) 5 |
Anthony, Piers |
original conclusion to
Incarnations of Immortality series |
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Book Lust |
Pearl, Nancy |
lots of great recommendations |
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Burnt Mountain |
Siddons, Anne Rivers |
A southern tomboy loses at love
and marries weird Celtic professor |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose
to fail or succeed |
Diamond, Jared |
comparative analysis of why
societies fail |
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Crashing Through |
Kurson, Robert |
Mike May, blinded at birth gets
his site back at 40 |
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Cutting for Stone |
Verghese, Abraham |
Twins orphaned at birth in
Ethiopia |
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Dancing Years, The |
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia |
1919-1923 and aftermath of WWI |
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Dark Side of Innocence, The |
Cherry, Terri |
Personal account of bi-polar in
youth |
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Delaney Sisters' Book of
Everyday Wisdom |
Hearth, Amy |
Sage advice from centenarians |
* |
Dry River |
Lamberton, Ken |
Stories of life, death and
redemption in the Santa Cruz |
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Exile, The |
Gabaldon, Diane |
Images not consistent and over
blown. |
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Fallen Kings, The |
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia |
1917 WWI, great history lesson |
* |
Foreign Field, The |
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia |
1915-1917 WWI before America
joins war |
* |
God of the Rodeo |
Bergner, David |
Moving story of lifers in
Louisiana prison |
* |
Hotel du Lac |
Brookner, Anita |
A woman at midlife contemplates
her future |
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I'd Know You Anywhere |
Lippman, Laura |
A woman kidnapped at 15 is
contacted by her kidnapper from death row |
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Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks |
Skloot, Rebecca |
A 30ish black mother of 4 dying
of cervical cancer has her cells taken for research that become
"HeLa" the first "immortal" human cells |
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Imperfectionists, The |
Rackmon, Tom |
A portrait of characters at a
failing newspaper |
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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts |
White, Neil |
A white collar criminal finds
redemption in Carlisle, LA leper sanatorium |
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Infinite Plan, The |
Allende, Isabel |
Gregory, son of an itinerant
preacher grow up in the barrio and moves on to riches bridging the gap of two
worlds |
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Invention of Curried Sausage,
The |
Timm, Uwe |
A man goes back to Hamburg to
get story of an old woman who had a curried sausage stand after WWII in
Germany |
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It Looked Different on the Model |
Notaro, Laurie |
another group of stories on life
with a twist |
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Lake of Dreams, The |
Edwards, Kim |
Wonderful story of family
relationships |
** |
Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, The |
Mosley, Walter |
A 91 year old man accomplishes
the purpose of his life |
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Lazy B |
O'Connor, Sandra Day |
Future Supreme Court Justice
tells of growing up in AZ on a cattle ranch near Duncan |
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Liar's Poker |
Lewis, Michael |
Fascinating story of 80's and
early 90's young investment banker creating the frenzy in CDO's and obscene
money |
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Locked in Time |
Duncan, Lois |
A 17 year old with a very grown
up voice discovers her stepmother's secret |
* |
Lost and Found |
Roth, Geneen |
author loses all her money in
Madoff investment |
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Love Shrinks |
Wolf, Sharp |
A dysfunctional therapist puts
off divorce for 15 years |
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Lucky |
Sebold, Alice |
True story of her rape and its
aftermath. |
* |
Lucy |
Feldman, Ellen |
A fictionalized account of the
affair of FDR and Lucy Mercer Rutherford, Eleanor's secretary |
* |
Mind's Eye, The |
Sacks, Oliver |
Overview of the mind and how it
works with sight |
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Naked Sun, The |
Asimov, Isaac |
great classic, re-read for book
group |
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Nemesis |
Roth, Philip |
A young man's sense of
responsibility leads him to blame himself for a polio epidemic |
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,
The |
Smith, Alexander McCall |
woman in Africa starts detective
agency |
* |
On a Pale Horse (Death) 1 |
Anthony, Piers |
1st book of 7 in Incarnations of
Immortality |
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Open Mind, The |
Oppenheimer, J Robert |
lectures given between 1946 and
1954 |
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Opposite of Fate, The |
Tan, Amy |
Stories of writing and her life |
** |
Room |
Donoghue, Emma |
A 5 year old boy's story in his
own words of living in a single room with his Ma |
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Roy Bean's Gold |
Garwood, W.R. |
Silly fictionalized story of
Judge Roy Bean's early life. Authentic
portrayal of 1800's California |
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Saving Faith |
Balducci, David |
Good spy story, nice plot
twists, summer read |
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Schrodinger's Ball |
Felber, Adam |
A strange wild story
illustrating quantum physics, the uncertainty principle, string theory in a
comic fantasy of 4 teens in Harvard |
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Sins of Brother Curtis, The |
Davis, Lisa |
Story of betrayal, conviction
and the Mormon church |
* |
Smart Swarm, The |
Miller, Peter |
Theory and science of
self-organization of societies |
* |
Solar |
McEwan, Ian |
An early success wanders thru a
meaningless life; great vocabulary, nihilistic quirky read |
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Source of All Things, The |
Ross, Tracy |
Young woman's story of being
sexually abused by her father as a child and her journey to healing. |
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Spellbound in Darkness - A
history of the Silent Film |
Pratt, Gregory |
Fascinating history told through
articles, reviews, news of the time covering the silent film era from 1838
thru 1930's |
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk |
Sedares, David |
Little stories like Aesop Fables
using animals to tell parables. |
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State of Wonder |
Patchett, Ann |
Air head pharmacologist goes to
Amazon to find her colleague |
** |
Still Alice |
Genova, Lisa |
A 60 year old Harvard professor
is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease and tells of her
progression over 2 years |
** |
Turn of Mind |
LaPlante, Alice |
A 60ish surgeon descend into
Alzheimer's while those around her try to determine if she killed her best
friend |
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Voltaire's Calligrapher |
deSantis, Pablo |
I don't think I got this but it
was a diversion |
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When Food is Love |
Roth, Geneen |
good advice on emotional eating |
* |
While Mortals Sleep |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
Collection of mousetrap short
stories published posthumously |
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Wielding a Red Sword (War) 4 |
Anthony, Piers |
War and the 4 Horseman defeat
Satan; I like the author's notes on his writing almost more than the story |
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Wild Swans |
Chang, Jung |
Three generations of Chinese
family's women from early 1900's and Chiang Kai-Shek thru death of Mao in
1976 |
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With a Tangled Skein (Fate) 3 |
Anthony, Piers |
Fate as Clothos, Lachesis,
Atrapos works to defeat Satan |
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Worst Hard Time, The |
Egan, Timothy |
story of dust bowl survivors |
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Plague of Doves, the |
Erdrich, Louise |
too many characters to keep
track of |