Cody's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:09:35 -0700 60 Cody's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia]]> 55627504 Acknowledgements
Intro-Consequences of Complicity
Heroin-History of a Miracle Drug
Logistics of Heroin
1/Sicily-Home of the Mafia
Addiction in America
Mafia in America
Mafia Restored-Fighters for Democracy
Luciano Organizes Postwar Heroin Trade
Marseille Connection
Mapa de la Conquista de Sicilia '43
2/Marseille-America's Heroin Lab
Genesis
From Underworld to Underground
Political Bedfellows-SP, Guerinis & CIA
Guerini-Francisci Vendetta
After the Fall
Decline of European Heroin Trade & Journey to the East
3/Colonial Legacy-Opium for the Natives
Royal Thai Opium Monopoly
Burma Sahibs in Shan states
Fr. Indochina-Friendly Neighborhood Opium Den
Opium Crisis of 1939-45
Meo of Laos-Politics of the Poppy
Opium in Tai Country-Denouement at Dien Bien Phu
Into the Postwar Era
4/Cold War Opium Boom
Fr. Indochina-Opium Espionage/OperationX
Binh Xuyen
Order & Opium in Saigon
Secret War in Burma-The KMT
Thailand's Opium-Fruits of Victory
Appendix/Is Communist China Center of Intern'l Narcotics Traffic? No
5/S.Vietnam-Narcotics in Nation's Service
Politics of Heroin in S.Vietnam
Tradition & Corruption in SE Asia
Diem's Dynasty & Nhu Bandits
New Opium Monopoly
Thieu-Ky Rivalry
GI Heroin Epidemic
S. Vietnam-Heroin Achieves Full Market Potential
Opium Airlift Command
Thieu Takes Command
Vietnamese Navy-Up the Creek
Vietnamese Army-Marketing Product
Lower House Heroin Junkets
Khiem Apparatus-All in the Family
Tempest in a Teapot-Thieu-Khiem Squabble
Mafia Comes to Asia
Consequences of Complicity-Generation of Junkies
6/Hong Kong-Heir to Heroin Traffic
7/Golden Triangle-Heroin is Our Most Important Product
Laos-Land of the Poppy
Corsican Aviation Pioneers Air Opium '55-65
Gen. Phoumi Nosavan-Feudalism Still w/US
Secret War Secret Strategy in Laos
Long Pot-Rendezvous w/Air America
Gen. Ouane Rattikone-Vientiane Connexion
CIA in NW Laos-Prelude to '67 Opium War
Gen. U Ba Thein-Reaping the Whirlwind
KMT in Thailand-Guardian at N. Gate
Battle at Ban Khwan-Challenge of Chan Shee-Fu
Survival of the Fittest
Shan Rebellion-Road to Chaos
Gen. Ouane Rattikone-Winner Takes Something
Conclusion
8/What Can Be Done?
Cure the Individual Addict
Destroy Narcotics Syndicates
Eliminate Illicit Opium Production
'72-Year of Decision
Appendix
China-Historical Setting of Asia's Profitable Plague
China Grows Her Own
Tarnished Crusades
Notes]]> 464 Alfred W. McCoy 0061319422 Cody 0 to-read 4.88 1972 The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
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]]> Poems and Insults 2209332
This disc features an hour-long reading from the City Lights Poets Theater, San Francisco in 1973. The audience is lively, but the old trouper gives as good as he gets as he bashes out old chestnuts like Death Of An Idiot, The Sex Fiends, etc. As a treat the cover charge also includes a chaser in the form of Bukowskis two tracks from the ultra-rare 1972 Cold Turkey Press sampler LP.]]> 0 Charles Bukowski 6309033751 Cody 5 3.93 1980 Poems and Insults
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]]> <![CDATA[Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine]]> 221820459
In How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Scott Horton explains how since the end of the last Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, successive U.S. administrations pressed their advantage against the new Russian Federation to the point that it finally blew up into a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine.

From NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, to “shock therapy� economic policy, the Balkan and Chechen wars, color-coded revolutions, new missile defense systems, assassinations, Russiagate and ultimately the brutal conflict in Ukraine, Provoked shows what really happened and why it did not have to be this way.]]> 2316 Scott Horton Cody 0 currently-reading 4.42 Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
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]]> <![CDATA[Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates]]> 8680
Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn’t merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters’s strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the “true� Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins—that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer—at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it’s a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.

Praise for Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

“Superb.� � New York Post

“Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. . . . Pour yourself a bowl of chips and dig in.� � Daily News , New York

“Robbins is a great writer . . . and definitely a provocative rascal.� � The Tennessean

“Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction never read a Tom Robbins novel. . . Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals.� � San Diego Union-Tribune]]> 445 Tom Robbins 055337933X Cody 0 currently-reading 4.04 2000 Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
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]]> <![CDATA[Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence]]> 1772667 Abused Men presents practical solutions for reducing domestic violence, whether its victims are male or female. Cook begins by examining the common misconceptions about this social issue and offers a wealth of what will be new information for most readers. While statistics show that 1.8 million American women are severely assaulted by their mates each year, few know that the same source indicates that 2 million men are also assaulted at home. After laying the groundwork for a serious reconsideration of how society views domestic violence, Cook allows a number of abused men to tell their stories. He then puts these experiences in the context of what therapists and others who have worked with such men know about domestic violence and how the male victim is similar to, yet different from, his female counterpart. After examining the reasons why so little is known about male abuse and the difficulties researchers encounter, Cook shows how the abused man, his friends and family, and the abusive or abused woman can come to grips with domestic violence. Drawing from a variety of sources, the final chapter brings these diverse elements together and proposes practical solutions for reducing domestic violence, whether its victims are male or female.]]> 170 Philip W. Cook 0275958620 Cody 0 currently-reading 3.82 1997 Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence
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]]> Burning Bright 287241 93 John Steinbeck 014303944X Cody 5 3.46 1950 Burning Bright
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]]> The Pearl 5308
A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man’s nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.]]> 96 John Steinbeck 0142000698 Cody 5 3.52 1947 The Pearl
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]]> <![CDATA[No Safe Harbor: United States Pirate Party]]> 54786252 247 United States Pirate Party Cody 5 5.00 No Safe Harbor: United States Pirate Party
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]]> <![CDATA[Married to Crazy: A Man's Story of Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Recovery]]> 18749271 165 Clarkson Graham 1771361557 Cody 0 to-read 3.80 2013 Married to Crazy: A Man's Story of Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Recovery
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]]> <![CDATA[When a Man You Love Was Abused: A Woman's Guide to Helping Him Overcome Childhood Sexual Molestation]]> 7710535 256 Cecil Murphey 0825433533 Cody 0 to-read 4.00 2010 When a Man You Love Was Abused: A Woman's Guide to Helping Him Overcome Childhood Sexual Molestation
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]]> <![CDATA[Abuse OF Men BY Women: It Happens, It Hurts, And It's Time to Get Real About It]]> 42262848
Counselor and relationship coach, Ann Silvers, M.A., questions the cultural trend to ignore, condone, laugh at, or even applaud women treating men in ways that would be rightfully condemned if the genders were reversed. Her unique perspective as a woman who herself was the target of partner abuse by a man, and who also recognizes the prevalence and pain of abuse when it is a woman who is being abusive and a man who is being targeted, along with her work helping female and male clients who are dealing with partner abuse, has resulted in a book that is a cultural game changer.

This book stands alone with its gripping personal stories and detailed yet concise explanations of every form of partner abuse of men by their female verbal, emotional, psychological, financial, spiritual, legal, physical, and sexual.

“It Happens, It Hurts� describes what abuse of men by women looks like, why women do it, how we are supporting and encouraging women to abuse men,how men get pulled into these dysfunctional relationships, why they stay, the impact on men, and what can be done about it.

Ann Silvers offers a myriad of possible reasons other than self-defense for a woman to act in ways that belong somewhere on the abuse continuum, 10 aspects for a man to consider so he can figure out the reality of his relationship and options for the future, and 5 steps for a woman to stop abusing. She describes the 7-stage sales job that abusive women use on men to lure them into relationships and keep them there, how Dating Girl traps a man before revealing her true personality, and how manipulative women play the Domestic Violence con game by falsely accusing men of partner abuse.

This book arms men with the information they need to avoid getting hooked into bad relationships. It provides refreshing recognition, understanding, and direction for men who are struggling to deal with, or recover from, difficult relationships with women. And it helps women examine how they treat their husbands and boyfriends.

“It Happens, It Hurts� is a roadmap for men and women looking to help their brothers, fathers, sons, and friends who are being abused by women or teach them how to avoid getting pulled in by them. It is a call to action for helping professionals (teachers, counselors, ministers, police officers . . .) and all people who are willing to see what is really going on.]]> 393 Ann Silvers 0983433887 Cody 0 to-read 4.40 2014 Abuse OF Men BY Women: It Happens, It Hurts, And It's Time to Get Real About It
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]]> <![CDATA[When Women Sexually Abuse Men: The Hidden Side of Rape, Stalking, Harassment, and Sexual Assault]]> 13701270
Crimes of a sexual nature perpetrated by adult females against males constitute a serious problem in our society. A woman can rape a man, and this crime occurs far more often than most imagine. This book addresses an entire range of crimes beyond rape, however; stalking, sexual harassment, and sexual assault are all covered in detail.

When Women Sexually Abuse The Hidden Side of Rape, Stalking, Harassment, and Sexual Assault illuminates the long-overlooked subject of adult female against adult male sex crimes. Combining personal accounts, information on criminal cases, relevant research on adult female against adult male sexual offenses, and statistical data from the FBI and other government sources, the authors comprehensively document how some women can be aggressive sexual predators, just like their male counterparts; highlight the changes in the criminal behavior of women; and provide fascinating stories of true crime as well as shocking revelations about human behavior.]]> 208 Philip W. Cook 0313397295 Cody 0 to-read 3.00 2013 When Women Sexually Abuse Men: The Hidden Side of Rape, Stalking, Harassment, and Sexual Assault
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]]> <![CDATA[Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence]]> 6783040
The first edition of Philip W. Cook's book, Abused The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence (Praeger, 1997), drew attention and praise nationwide from individuals and from media, ranging from CNN and Fox network's The O'Reilly Factor to scholarly publications such as The Journal of Marriage and Family . On the 10th anniversary of that groundbreaking book, Cook began revising and expanding his work. The result is this second edition―a disturbing look at a trend that continues to increase.

The new edition of Abused The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence offers up-to-date data on the prevalence of intimate partner violence against men, incorporating personal interviews and cases drawn from the media. It also includes updates on law, legislation, court activity, social responses, police activity, support groups, batterer programs, and crisis intervention programs. The final chapter contains a detailed and specific description of needed reforms in the current approach to intimate partner violence, whether the victims are male or female.]]> 232 Philip W. Cook 0313356718 Cody 0 to-read 4.14 1997 Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence
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]]> <![CDATA[A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character]]> 2857
* Fired for consistently showing up late for work, a former school district employee sues, claiming he is a victim of "chronic lateness syndrome."

* Videotaped puffing on a pipe filled with crack cocaine, Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry claims he is a victim of racism.

* In 1960, fewer than 100,000 lawsuits were filed in federal courts; in 1990, more than 250,000 were filed.

In this incisive, pugnacious, frequently hilarious book, Charles Sykes examines the erosion of our society and offers hope in the prospect of a culture of renewed character.]]> 289 Charles J. Sykes 0312098820 Cody 0 to-read 3.53 1992 A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character
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]]> <![CDATA[Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest]]> 886770 348 David R. Blumenthal 0664254640 Cody 0 to-read 4.10 1993 Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest
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]]> <![CDATA[The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star]]> 1883838 413 Nikki Sixx 1847371663 Cody 4 4.12 2007 The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
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]]> <![CDATA[A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy]]> 39719468 A Lie Too Big to Fail asserts the idea that a government can never investigate itself in a crime of this magnitude. Was the convicted Sirhan Sirhan a willing participant? Or was he a mind-controlled assassin? It has fallen to independent researchers like Pease to lay out the evidence in a clear and concise manner, allowing readers to form their theories about this event. Pease places the history of this event in the context of the era and provides shocking overlaps between other high-profile murders and attempted murders of the time. Lisa Pease goes further than anyone else in proving who likely planned the assassination, who the assassination team members were, and why Kennedy was deemed such a threat that he had to be taken out before he became President of the United States.]]> 512 Lisa Pease 1627310703 Cody 5 4.22 2018 A Lie Too Big to Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
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This book should exonerate Sirhan. Absolutely compelling. I wish my grandmother were alive to read this, she studied the RFK and JFK assassination at length.
]]> Les Misérables 24280 1463 Victor Hugo 0451525264 Cody 0 to-read 4.19 1862 Les Misérables
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]]> James and the Giant Peach 6689 176 Roald Dahl 0375814248 Cody 5 4.04 1961 James and the Giant Peach
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]]> <![CDATA[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)]]> 6310 (back cover)]]> 176 Roald Dahl 0142403881 Cody 5 4.16 1964 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)]]> 236093 Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.

Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home. With her companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy experiences an adventure full of friendship, magic and danger. A much-loved children's classic, The Wizard of Oz continues to delight readers young and old with its enchanting tale of witches, flying monkeys and silver shoes.

]]> 154 L. Frank Baum 0140621679 Cody 0 to-read 4.00 1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hobbit, or There and Back Again]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien Cody 4 4.29 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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]]> The Scarlet Letter 12296 279 Nathaniel Hawthorne 0142437263 Cody 3 3.43 1850 The Scarlet Letter
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]]> <![CDATA[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]> 60671823 Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed edition. A perfect gift for families, children and all fans of this much-loved favourite classic.

First published by Macmillan more than 150 years ago, Lewis Carroll’s iconic story has been loved and enjoyed by generations of children.

This edition presents Lewis Carroll's complete text, with new illustrations from Costa Award- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Chris Riddell. Published 200 years after the birth of Alice’s first illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, also the political cartoonist of his time, Chris Riddell's illustrations set a new bar in terms of excellence with his unique, rich and evocative interpretation of Carroll's world.

With the curious, quick-witted Alice at its heart, readers will not only rediscover characters such as the charming White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the grinning Cheshire Cat but will find fresh and wonderful creations of these characters by a true master of his art,; images that will live in our hearts and minds for generations to come.]]> 320 Lewis Carroll 152900246X Cody 4 4.08 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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]]> The Phantom of the Opera 480204 The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.

Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows.]]> 360 Gaston Leroux 0060809248 Cody 0 to-read 3.98 1910 The Phantom of the Opera
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Cody 0 to-read 3.81 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
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]]> The Most Dangerous Game 157076 The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.]]> 48 Richard Connell 1599869691 Cody 4 3.93 1924 The Most Dangerous Game
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]]> <![CDATA[I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream]]> 415459 I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.

Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won't call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original.

CONTENTS
"I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream"
"Big Sam Was My Friend"
"Eyes of Dust"
"World of the Myth"
"Lonelyache"
"Delusion for Dragonslayer"
"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes"]]> 134 Harlan Ellison 0441363954 Cody 2 3.93 1967 I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
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]]> Moby-Dick or, The Whale 153747 "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.]]> 720 Herman Melville 0142437247 Cody 3 3.53 1851 Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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]]> The Tell-Tale Heart 899492 A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man.

In this classic psychological thriller, the reader will find many more questions than answers. Even though this is one of Poe's shortest stories, nevertheless it has become one of his most highest regarded works. It is a profound and, at times, ambiguous investigation of the paranoia that may lie within the depths of one man's mind...]]> 31 Edgar Allan Poe 0871917726 Cody 4 4.27 1843 The Tell-Tale Heart
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]]> Faust, First Part 14706
This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salm’s wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe’s words.]]> 327 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0553213482 Cody 0 to-read 3.87 1808 Faust, First Part
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]]> The Metamorphosis 485894 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."

With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."]]> 201 Franz Kafka 0553213695 Cody 5 3.90 1915 The Metamorphosis
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]]> Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 51496 139 Robert Louis Stevenson 0451528956 Cody 5 3.84 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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]]> <![CDATA[Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)]]> 43763
Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.

Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.
source: annerice.com]]> 346 Anne Rice 0345476875 Cody 0 to-read 4.04 1976 Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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]]> Dracula 17245 You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.]]> 488 Bram Stoker 0393970124 Cody 4 4.02 1897 Dracula
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]]> <![CDATA[World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War]]> 8908
Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.

Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, "By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?"

Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.]]> 342 Max Brooks 0307346609 Cody 0 to-read 4.02 2006 World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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]]> <![CDATA[Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In]]> 30841110 450 Bernie Sanders 1250132924 Cody 1 4.23 2016 Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
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]]> Yes Please 20910157 Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by.]]> 329 Amy Poehler 0062268341 Cody 0 to-read 3.85 2014 Yes Please
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]]> Bossypants 9418327
She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.]]> 283 Tina Fey Cody 0 to-read 3.97 2011 Bossypants
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]]> In a Sunburned Country 24
Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extroverted, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn't get much better than this...]]> 335 Bill Bryson 0767903862 Cody 0 to-read 4.06 2000 In a Sunburned Country
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE November 23: We Have Blood On Our Hands]]> 202449389 101 Caitlin Johnstone 0645022187 Cody 5 5.00 JOHNSTONE November 23: We Have Blood On Our Hands
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE December 24: Who Is The Real Criminal?]]> 224386166 52 Caitlin Johnstone 1923372025 Cody 5 5.00 JOHNSTONE December 24: Who Is The Real Criminal?
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE January 25: When Journalists Are Your Enemy Truth Is Not Your Friend]]> 224127848 64 Caitlin Johnstone 1923372033 Cody 5 5.00 JOHNSTONE January 25: When Journalists Are Your Enemy Truth Is Not Your Friend
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE November 24: Trump Puts An Ugly Face On An Ugly Empire]]> 221996280 64 Caitlin Johnstone 1923372017 Cody 5 5.00 JOHNSTONE November 24: Trump Puts An Ugly Face On An Ugly Empire
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE June 24: The Emperor Has No Brain]]> 215697365 70 Caitlin Johnstone 0648234568 Cody 5 5.00 JOHNSTONE June 24: The Emperor Has No Brain
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE January 24: The Empire's War On Journalism]]> 206195060 90 Caitlin Johnstone 0648234509 Cody 5 5.00 JOHNSTONE January 24: The Empire's War On Journalism
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE February 25: We Are Ruled By Sociopaths Because Capitalism Elevates The Worst Among Us]]> 228592961 67 Caitlin Johnstone 1923372041 Cody 5 5.00 JOHNSTONE February 25: We Are Ruled By Sociopaths Because Capitalism Elevates The Worst Among Us
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE September 24: A Year Of Genocide]]> 219806524 95 Caitlin Johnstone 0648234592 Cody 5 4.50 JOHNSTONE September 24: A Year Of Genocide
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE August 24: I’m Speaking]]> 218134452 82 Caitlin Johnstone 0648234584 Cody 5 4.50 JOHNSTONE August 24: I’m Speaking
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE October 24: We’re The Terrorists]]> 220944088 80 Caitlin Johnstone 1923372009 Cody 5 5.00 JOHNSTONE October 24: We’re The Terrorists
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]]> <![CDATA[JOHNSTONE July 24: This Obvious Genocide Is Not What It Looks Like]]> 216823816 52 Caitlin Johnstone 0648234576 Cody 5 5.00 JOHNSTONE July 24: This Obvious Genocide Is Not What It Looks Like
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]]> On Cats 24606050 A raw and tenderly funny look at the human-cat relationship, from one of our most treasured and transgressive writers.

“The cat is the beautiful devil.�

Felines touched a vulnerable spot in Charles Bukowski’s crusty soul. For the writer, there was something majestic and elemental about these inscrutable creatures he admired, sentient beings whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our being. Bukowski considered cats to be unique forces of nature, elusive emissaries of beauty and love.

On Cats offers Bukowski’s musings on these beloved animals and their toughness and resiliency. He honors them as fighters, hunters, survivors who command awe and respect as they grip tightly onto the world around “A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.�

Funny, moving, tough, and caring, On Cats brings together the acclaimed writer’s reflections on these animals he so admired. Bukowski’s cats are fierce and demanding—he captures them stalking their prey; crawling across his typewritten pages; waking him up with claws across the face. But they are also affectionate and giving, sources of inspiration and gentle, insistent care.

Poignant yet free of treacle, On Cats is an illuminating portrait of this one-of-a-kind artist and his unique view of the world, witnessed through his relationship with the animals he considered his most profound teachers.

]]> 129 Charles Bukowski 0062396013 Cody 5 3.76 On Cats
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Night of the Earth Poems]]> 70884 The Last Night of the Earth Poems explores writing, death, immortality, city life, war, and the past.]]> 408 Charles Bukowski Cody 0 to-read 4.30 1992 The Last Night of the Earth Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame]]> 50466 Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. In this selection of poems written between 1955 and 1973, Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.]]> 232 Charles Bukowski 087685191X Cody 0 to-read 4.12 1974 Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
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]]> South of No North 220680 South of No North contains some of Bukowski's best work. Among the short stories collected in the book are Love for $17.50, about a man named Robert whose infatuation with a mannequin in a junk shop leads him first to buy it, then make love to it, and then eventually fall in love with "her," much to the consternation of his real-life girlfriend; Maja Thurup, about a South American tribesman with an enormous penis who is brought to Los Angeles by the woman anthropologist who has "discovered" him and become his lover; and The Devil is Hot, about an encounter with Old Nick at an amusement pier in Santa Monica, where Scratch himself is caged and on display, fed only peanut butter and dogfood, exploited by a cynical carnie.

The collection also features two of Bukowski's finest and most famous short stories: All the Assholes in the World Plus Mine, an autobiographical rumination on the treatment of his hemorrhoids, and Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live With Beasts. (The latter story originally was published as a chapbook of 500 copies by Bensenville Mimeo Press in 1965.)

The short stories collected in the volume are evocative of Bukowski at his best, when he was one of the premier short story writers still at the top of his talent.
- Wikipedia]]> 192 Charles Bukowski 0876851898 Cody 0 to-read 3.99 1973 South of No North
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]]> <![CDATA[The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories]]> 50451
Bukowski's writings have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France, where he is published by the great publishing houses), Bukowski is critically recognized as one of America's greatest realist writers.]]> 240 Charles Bukowski 0872861562 Cody 0 to-read 3.99 1983 The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
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]]> Hot Water Music 50453 With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite-sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.

The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town -- a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton -- and depict the darkest parts of human existence. Bukowski talks simply and profoundly about the underbelly of the working class without raising judgement.

In the way he writes about sex, relationships, writing, and inebriation, Bukowski sets the bar for irreverent art -- his work inhabits the basest part of the mind and the most extreme absurdity of the everyday.]]> 221 Charles Bukowski 0876855966 Cody 0 to-read 3.95 1983 Hot Water Music
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]]> Notes of a Dirty Old Man 38502 Notes of a Dirty Old Man is a collection of articles written by Charles Bukowski for the underground, L.A.-based newspaper Open City, which operated from 1967 to 1969. Bukowski uses his own life as the basis for his series of articles, and characteristically leaves nothing out.]]> 204 Charles Bukowski Cody 0 to-read 3.97 1969 Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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]]> Ubik 22590
Esta mordaz comedia metafísica de muerte y salvación (que podrá llevar un cómodo envase) es un tour de force de amenaza paranoica y comedia absurda, en la cual los muertos ofrecen consejos comerciales, compran su siguiente reencarnación y corren el riesgo continuo de volver a morir.]]> 288 Philip K. Dick 8498000831 Cody 5 4.11 1969 Ubik
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]]> <![CDATA[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #1)]]> 6545414
[Philip K. Dick’s award-winning Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? served as the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER. BOOM! Studios presents the complete novel transplanted into the comic book medium, mixing all-new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking 24-issue maxi-series.]
]]> 144 Philip K. Dick 1608865002 Cody 0 to-read 4.04 2011 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick]]> 14184 A collection of largely unpublished or out-of-print essays, journals, speeches, and interviews on issues from the merging of physics and metaphysics to the potential influences and consequences of virtual reality by the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. Non-fiction.]]> 384 Philip K. Dick 0679747877 Cody 0 to-read 4.09 1995 The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
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]]> Humpty Dumpty in Oakland 902971 Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a tragicomedy of misunderstandings among used car dealers and real-estate salesmen: the small-time, struggling individuals for whom Philip K. Dick always reserved his greatest sympathy.

Jim Fergesson is an elderly garage owner with a heart condition, whois about toretire; Al Miller is a somewhat feckless mechanic who sublets part of Jim's lot and finds his livelihood threatened by the decision to sell; Chris Harman is a record-company owner who for years has relied on Fergesson to maintain his cars. When Harman hears of Fergesson's impending retirement he tips him off to what he says is a cast-iron business proposition: a development in nearby Marin County with an opening for a garage. Al Miller is convinced that Harman is a crook, out to fleece Fergesson of his life's savings. As much as he resents Fergesson he can't bear to see it happen and--denying to himself all the time what he is doing--he sets out to thwart Harman.]]> 252 Philip K. Dick 0765316900 Cody 0 to-read 3.33 1986 Humpty Dumpty in Oakland
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]]> The Unteleported Man 226469 202 Philip K. Dick 042506252X Cody 0 to-read 3.57 1964 The Unteleported Man
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]]> The Hanging Stranger 6515096 17 Philip K. Dick 1435509943 Cody 0 to-read 3.88 1953 The Hanging Stranger
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]]> Second Variety 11062705 In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war between the United Nations and the Soviet Union, sophisticated robots—nicknamed “claws”—are created to destroy what remains of human life. Left to their own devices, however, the claws develop robots of their own. II-V, the second variety, remains unknown to the few humans left on Earth. Or does it?


Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer and essayist. His first short story, “Beyond Lies the Wub,� was published shortly after his high school graduation. Some of his most famous short stories were adapted for film, including “The Minority Report,� “Paycheck,� “Second Variety� (adapted into the film Screamers) and “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale� (adapted into the film Total Recall).

]]> 69 Philip K. Dick Cody 0 to-read 4.10 1953 Second Variety
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]]> Lies, Inc. 22582 The Unteleported Man, which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In Lies, Inc., fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognize his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring of reality and illusion. This publication marks its first complete appearance in the United States.

In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into cramed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never comeback. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a scapeship on the eighteen-year journey there to see if anyone wants to return.]]> 202 Philip K. Dick 1400030080 Cody 0 to-read 3.24 1983 Lies, Inc.
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]]> Solar Lottery 92504
But with the power came the game � the assassination game � which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to evade his chosen killer? Which made for fascinating and exciting viewing, compelling enough to distract the public’s attention while the Big Five industrial complexes ran the world. Then, in 2203, with the choice of a member of a maverick cult as Quizmaster, the system developed a little hitch�

Solar Lottery was Philip K. Dick’s first published novel, brilliant and idiosyncratic, powerful and affecting.]]> 188 Philip K. Dick 0575074558 Cody 0 to-read 3.50 1955 Solar Lottery
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]]> Dr. Futurity 216384 Dr. Futurity is not only a thrilling rendition of a terrifying future but it is also a fantastic examination of the paradoxes of time-travel that could only have come from the mind of Philip K. Dick.

]]> 169 Philip K. Dick 1400030099 Cody 0 to-read 3.49 1960 Dr. Futurity
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]]> Deus Irae 22594 192 Philip K. Dick 1400030072 Cody 0 to-read 3.46 1976 Deus Irae
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]]> The Man who Japed 12208046 192 Philip K. Dick 0547572530 Cody 0 to-read 3.58 1956 The Man who Japed
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]]> The Zap Gun 12856915
With its combination of romance, espionage, and alien invasion, The Zap Gun skewers the military-industrial complex in a way that’s as relevant today as it was at the height of the Cold War.]]> 240 Philip K. Dick 0547572719 Cody 0 to-read 3.42 1965 The Zap Gun
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]]> The Crack in Space 22586 The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black president of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress on the planet; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes.

Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.]]> 188 Philip K. Dick 1400030064 Cody 0 to-read 3.48 1966 The Crack in Space
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]]> Our Friends From Frolix 8 756108 Our Friends From Frolix 8, Philip K Dick clashes private dreams against public battles in a fast-paced and provocative tale.

Nick Appleton is a menial laborer whose life is a series of endless frustrations. Willis Gram is the despotic oligarch of a planet ruled by big-brained elites. When they both fall in love with Charlotte Boyer, a feisty black marketer of revolutionary propaganda, Nick seems destined for doom. But everything takes a decidedly unpredictable turn when the revolution’s leader, Thors Provoni, returns from ten years of intergalactic hiding with a ninety-ton protoplasmic slime that is bent on creating a new world order.

Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.]]> 221 Philip K. Dick 0375719342 Cody 0 to-read 3.60 1970 Our Friends From Frolix 8
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]]> The Cosmic Puppets 14187
Winner of both the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards for best novel, widely regarded as the premiere science fiction writer of his day, and the object of cult-like adoration from his legions of fans, Philip K. Dick has come to be seen in a literary light that defies classification in much the same way as Borges and Calvino. With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves.]]> 150 Philip K. Dick 1400030056 Cody 0 to-read 3.47 1957 The Cosmic Puppets
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]]> Vulcan's Hammer 22595
]]> 165 Philip K. Dick 1400030129 Cody 0 to-read 3.53 1960 Vulcan's Hammer
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]]> The World Jones Made 216361
In Philip K. Dick's unsettling chronicle of the rise and fall of a postnuclear messiah, readers will find a novel that is as minutely realistic as it is prophetic. For along with its engineered mutants, hermaphroditic sex performers, and protoplasmic drifters from the stars, The World Jones Made gives us nothing less than a deadly accurate reading of our own hunger for belief.

]]> 199 Philip K. Dick 0679742190 Cody 0 to-read 3.65 1956 The World Jones Made
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]]> <![CDATA[We Can Remember It for You Wholesale]]> 6561374
Novellete-length, this story is the inspiration behind the popular Total Recall movies from 1990 and 2012.]]> 29 Philip K. Dick 1435510143 Cody 0 to-read 3.96 1966 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
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]]> Radio Free Albemuth 226475
In this, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest prankster-prophet.

]]> 214 Philip K. Dick 0679781374 Cody 0 to-read 3.81 1985 Radio Free Albemuth
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]]> <![CDATA[The Transmigration of Timothy Archer]]> 106585 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress - and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ.

]]> 255 Philip K. Dick 0679734449 Cody 5 3.90 1982 The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
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]]> Hollywood 38505 320 Charles Bukowski 843391426X Cody 0 to-read 3.82 1989 Hollywood
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]]> Tales of Ordinary Madness 38503 Exceptional stories that came pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground—people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time: a madman, a recluse, a lover; tender, vicious; never the same.

From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in his "tales of ordinary madness." These stories are humorous and haunting, angry yet tender portrayals of life in the underbelly of Los Angeles.]]> 238 Charles Bukowski 0872861554 Cody 0 to-read 4.01 1983 Tales of Ordinary Madness
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]]> Love Is a Dog from Hell 23534 A classic in the Bukowski poetry canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.� Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.]]> 312 Charles Bukowski 0876853629 Cody 0 to-read 4.01 1977 Love Is a Dog from Hell
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]]> Pulp 141526 208 Charles Bukowski 0876859260 Cody 0 to-read 3.71 1994 Pulp
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]]> Factotum 497199
Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.]]> 205 Charles Bukowski 0876852630 Cody 0 to-read 3.95 1975 Factotum
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]]> Women 38500 291 Charles Bukowski 0061177598 Cody 0 to-read 3.85 1978 Women
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]]> Ham on Rye 38501 288 Charles Bukowski 006117758X Cody 0 to-read 4.17 1982 Ham on Rye
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]]> <![CDATA[Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism]]> 55338982
What makes “cults� so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re looking for a satisfying explanation for what causes people to join—and more importantly, stay in—extreme groups. We secretly want to know: could it happen to me? Amanda Montell’s argument is that, on some level, it already has . . .

Our culture tends to provide pretty flimsy answers to questions of cult influence, mostly having to do with vague talk of “brainwashing.� But the true answer has nothing to do with freaky mind-control wizardry or Kool-Aid. In Cultish, Montell argues that the key to manufacturing intense ideology, community, and us/them attitudes all comes down to language. In both positive ways and shadowy ones, cultish language is something we hear—and are influenced by—every single day.

Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,� revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds. Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish� everywhere.]]> 309 Amanda Montell 0062993151 Cody 0 to-read 3.82 2021 Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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]]> I'm Glad My Mom Died 59364173
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,� eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?� She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.

In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly , she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!�), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.

Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.]]> 320 Jennette McCurdy Cody 0 to-read 4.45 2022 I'm Glad My Mom Died
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]]> Dune (Dune, #1) 44767458
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.]]> 658 Frank Herbert 059309932X Cody 0 to-read 4.33 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War]]> 199798270
A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal.

Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation. Unit X was specifically built to build a bridge to Valley technologists and accelerate bringing state of the art software and hardware to the battle space. Given authority to cut through red tape and function almost as a venture capital firm, Shah, Kirchhoff, and others in the Unit who came after were tasked particularly with meeting immediate military needs with technology from Valley startups rather than from so-called “primes”—behemoth companies like Lockheed, Raytheon, and Boeing.

Taking us inside AI labs, drone workshops, and battle command centers—and, also, overseas to Ukraine’s frontlines—Shah and Kirchhoff paint a fascinating picture of what it takes to stay dominant in a fast-changing and often precarious geopolitical landscape.

In an era when America’s chief rival, China, has ordered that all commercial firms within its borders make their research and technology available for military exploitation, strengthening the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley was always advisable. Today, it is an urgent necessity.]]> 336 Raj M. Shah 1668031388 Cody 0 to-read 3.84 2024 Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
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]]> The Divine Invasion 216398 The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick asks: What if God � or a being called Yah � were alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed against the high technology and finely tuned rationalized evil of the modern police state?

The Divine Invasion "blends Judaism, Kabalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into a fascinating fable of human existence"
--West Coast Review of Books

]]> 238 Philip K. Dick 0679734457 Cody 5 3.83 1981 The Divine Invasion
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]]> <![CDATA[The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves]]> 59847936
Additional essays address living in haunted houses, the necessity of failure, and the gift and limits of therapy.

Most of all, Hollis addresses the resources we all have within, or can obtain for ourselves, to lead a more abundant life and to step into larger possibilities for our unfolding journeys.]]> 218 James Hollis 1685030106 Cody 0 to-read 4.42 2022 The Broken Mirror: Refracted Visions of Ourselves
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]]> <![CDATA[The Archetypal Imagination (Volume 8) (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)]]> 1199746

�What we wish to know, and most desire, remains unknowable and lies beyond our grasp.� With these words, James Hollis leads readers to consider the nature of our human need for meaning in life and for connection to a world less limiting than our own.

In The Archetypal Imagination, Hollis offers a lyrical Jungian appreciation of the archetypal imagination. He argues that without the human mind’s ability to form energy-filled images that link us to worlds beyond our rational and emotional capacities, we would have neither culture nor spirituality. Drawing upon the work of poets and philosophers, Hollis shows the importance of depth experience, meaning, and connection to an “other� world. Just as humans have instincts for biological survival and social interaction, we have instincts for spiritual connection as well. Just as our physical and social needs seek satisfaction, so the spiritual instincts of the human animal are expressed in images we form to evoke an emotional or spiritual response, as in our dreams, myths, and religious traditions.

The author draws upon the work of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies to elucidate the archetypal imagination in literary forms. To underscore the importance of incarnating depth experience, he also examines a series of paintings by Nancy Witt.

With the power of the archetypal imagination available to all of us, we are invited to summon courage to take on the world anew, to relinquish outmoded identities and defenses, and to risk a radical re-imagining of the larger possibilities of the world and of the self.

]]> 160 James Hollis 1585442682 Cody 0 to-read 4.27 2000 The Archetypal Imagination (Volume 8) (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)
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]]> <![CDATA[On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 103)]]> 573814 160 James Hollis 1894574044 Cody 0 to-read 4.54 2003 On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 103)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 68)]]> 573815 160 James Hollis 0919123694 Cody 0 to-read 4.55 1995 Tracking the Gods: The Place of Myth in Modern Life (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 68)
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]]> <![CDATA[Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times]]> 52079343 What guides us when our world is changing? Discover the path to deeper meaning and purpose through depth psychology and classical thought.

How did we get to this crossroads in history? And will we make it through—individually and as a species? “We all assumed that learning, rationality, and good intentions would prove enough to bring us to the promised land,� says James Hollis. “But they haven’t and won’t. Yet what we also do not recognize sufficiently is that this human animal is equipped for survival. In time, as we have seen of life’s other insolubles, we grow large enough to contain what threatened to destroy us.�

Dr. Hollis’s readers know him as a penetrating thinker who brings profound insight and sophistication to the inner journey. In Living Between Worlds, he broadens his lens to encompass the relationship between our inner struggles and the rapidly shifting realities of modern human existence. You will learn to invoke the tools of depth psychology, classical literature, philosophy, dream work, and myth, to gain access to the resources that supported our ancestors through their darkest hours. Through these paths of inner exploration, you will access your “locus of knowing”—an inner wellspring of deep resilience beyond the ego, always available to guide you back to the imperatives of your soul.

Though many of the challenges of our times are unique, the path through for us personally and collectively will always rely on our measureless capacity for creativity, wisdom, and connection to a reality larger than ourselves. Here you will find no easy answers or pat reassurances. Yet within the pages of Living Between Worlds, you will encounter causes for hope. “We can find what supports us when nothing supports us,� Hollis teaches. “By bearing the unbearable, we go through the desert to arrive at a nurturing oasis we did not know was there.”]]> 184 James Hollis 1683645618 Cody 0 to-read 4.30 2020 Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times
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]]> <![CDATA[A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity]]> 74886356 A Masterful Author and Jungian Analyst Examines the Qualities That Bring Meaning to Our Human Journey.

What is it that brings meaning to your life? Our culture tells us to seek wealth, power, prestige, or even enrollment in someone else’s idea of a worthy cause—yet where do we turn when these paths fail to fulfill our need for purpose? “When the old stories and beliefs that once defined us have played out and grown exhausted,� teaches Dr. James Hollis, “our task is to access our inner compass, the promptings of the psyche that help us find our way through the complex thickets of choice.�

A Life of Meaning is Hollis’s profound exploration of the nature of meaning and how we can orient toward it or away from it with the choices we make. Hollis offers an examination of myth, literature, historical figures, and the wisdom of depth psychology that provides penetrating insight into the search for purpose. Join him to

� How even cherished narratives splinter and lose potency over time
� Why dreams are windows into your internalized patterns and base assumptions
� How to excavate and understand your earliest, most foundational beliefs
� The power of fear and how it shapes unconscious reactions
� Recognizing and rising to the occasion of a “summons of the soul�
� How to anchor yourself during times of uncertainty and change
� Why it’s important to be aware of and closely examine your shadow
� How to reckon with old feelings of shame, betrayal, resentment, and regret

We all have to discover our own sense of meaning. No one else can do it for us. In A Life of Meaning, Hollis offers no easy answers or feel-good certainties—instead, he shares his most valuable questions and reflections to help you find the courage, persistence, and inspiration to navigate your own odyssey. “It’s humbling work, this process of getting our lives back,� he teaches. “Yet I submit to you that’s worth the price of the ticket, for in the journey our lives become ever more luminous.”]]> 173 James Hollis 1649630735 Cody 0 to-read 4.62 2023 A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity
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]]> <![CDATA[Through the Dark Wood: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life]]> 4799843
“When the illusions of our youth begin to crumble,� explains James Hollis, “we reach a turning point that the poet Dante called the ‘dark wood.’� With Through the Dark Wood , this author and Jungian analyst reveals the steps we all must take on our road to true maturity, meaning, and fulfillment.

When the Second Half of Life Begins

How do you know when you’ve reached the “second half ”of life? According to Hollis, the first sign comes when you feel dissatisfied by where you are today―and hear a call from within to live a more purposeful life. This marks the collision between your “False Self,� created from the expectations of others, and your instinctive “True Self.�

Drawing upon his experiences with hundreds of clients, Hollis provides an essential map for traversing the universal challenges of midlife, such as building genuine relationships, cultivating a mature spirituality, and letting go of old beliefs that no longer serve you.

An Invaluable Guide through the Challenges of Midlife

“The second half of life isn’t about looking for easy answers,� James Hollis says. “It’s about honestly exploring the questions that bring richness and value to your life.� With Through the Dark Wood , this penetrating thinker shares a lifetime of insights about how to navigate your life’s most turbulent passages―and emerge from the darkness wiser, stronger, and in greater harmony with your soul’s purpose.]]> 0 James Hollis 1591796792 Cody 0 to-read 4.53 2009 Through the Dark Wood: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives]]> 18136765 Are we here just to propagate the species anew?
Do any of us really believe that we are here to make money and then die?
Does life matter, in the end, and if so, how, and in what fashion?
What guiding intelligence weaves the threads of our individual biographies?
What hauntings of the invisible world invigorate, animate, and direct the multiple narratives of daily life?

In Hauntings, James Hollis considers how we are all governed by the presence of invisible forms spirits, ghosts, ancestral and parental influences, inner voices, dreams, impulses, untold stories, complexes, synchronicities, and mysteries which move through us, and through history. He offers a way to understand them psychologically, examining the persistence of the past in influencing our present, conscious lives and noting that engagement with mystery is what life asks of each of us. From such engagements, a deeper, more thoughtful, more considered life may come.]]> 154 James Hollis 1888602627 Cody 0 to-read 4.38 2013 Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives
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]]> <![CDATA[A Life of Meaning: Exploring Our Deepest Questions and Motivations]]> 50403429 A Masterful Author and Jungian Analyst Examines the Qualities that Bring Meaning to Our Human Journey

What is it that brings meaning to your life? Our culture tells us to seek wealth, power, prestige, or even enrollment in someone else’s idea of a worthy cause—yet where do we turn when these myths fail to fulfill our need for purpose? “When the old stories and beliefs that once defined us have played out and grown exhausted,� teaches Dr. James Hollis, “our task is to access our inner compass, the promptings of the psyche that help us find our way through the complex thickets of choice.�

Investigate the Mystery of Your Existence Through the Portal of Depth Psychology

A Life of Meaning is a profound audio exploration of the nature of meaning and how we can orient toward it or away from it with the choices we make. Through examination of myth, literature, historical figures, and the wisdom of depth psychology, Hollis provides penetrating insight into the search for purpose. Here you’ll explore:

� How our story-seeking mind forms our sense of meaning from early experience
� Why these early stories inevitably fail as we are called to our own path
� Skillfully accessing the inner oracle of your dreams
� Shadow work—where we fear to tread, yet where our greatest treasures may be found
� Missing the mark—examining the archetype of the Seven Deadly Sins through a psychological lens
� Dispelling the “ghosts� that haunt our memories and possess our psyche
� Finding personal resilience in times of internal and external change
� Living more fully in the presence of our mortality
� Guidance for coming into alignment with your soul’s abiding quest for meaning at any stage of your life

Nobody else can provide you with a sense of meaning. Anyone who tries is attempting to enroll you in their own version. In A Life of Meaning, James Hollis offers no easy answers or feel-good certainties—instead, he shares his most valuable questions and reflections to help you find the courage, persistence, and inspiration to navigate your own odyssey. “It’s humbling work, this process of getting our lives back,� he teaches. “Yet I submit to you that's worth the price of the ticket, for in the journey our lives become ever more luminous.”]]> 0 James Hollis 1683646169 Cody 5 4.38 2020 A Life of Meaning: Exploring Our Deepest Questions and Motivations
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A wonderful book introduced to me by the most wonderful person I've ever met.
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