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Ann's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:05:02 -0700 60 Ann's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The Night Circus 9361589
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway��a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love��a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.]]> 506 Erin Morgenstern Ann 0 to-read 4.00 2011 The Night Circus

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]]> <![CDATA[The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia]]> 13651 387 Ursula K. Le Guin Ann 0 to-read 4.24 1974

author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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]]> The Westing Game 902 182 Ellen Raskin 014240120X Ann 0 to-read 4.00 1978

author: Ellen Raskin
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales]]> 63697 243 Oliver Sacks Ann 0 to-read 4.08 1985

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

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]]> <![CDATA[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)]]> 132080146 180 C.S. Lewis Ann 0 to-read 4.27 1950

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)

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]]> <![CDATA[A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)]]> 33574273 It was a dark and stormy night.

Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure��one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.]]> 218 Madeleine L'Engle 1250153271 Ann 0 to-read 3.91 1962 A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)

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]]> A Little Life 22822858
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride.?Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he��ll not only be unable to overcome��but that will define his life forever.]]> 720 Hanya Yanagihara 0385539258 Ann 0 to-read 4.28 2015 A Little Life

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]]> Fear and Trembling 24965
In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice. Abraham had a choice to complete the task or to forget it. He resigned himself to the loss of his son, acting according to his faith. In other words, one must be willing to give up all his or her earthly possessions in infinite resignation and must also be willing to give up whatever it is that he or she loves more than God. Abraham had passed the test -- his love for God proved greater than anything else in him. And because a good and just Creator would not want a father to kill his son, God intervened at the last moment to prevent the sacrifice.]]> 152 S?ren Kierkegaard 0143037579 Ann 0 to-read 4.02 1843 Fear and Trembling

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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life]]> 217245588 A guide to the art of journaling��and a meditation on the central questions of life��by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, George Saunders, and many more

��The Book of Alchemy proves on every page that a creative response can be found in every moment of life��regardless of what is happening in the world.��Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love

From the time she was young, Suleika Jaouad has kept a journal. She��s used it to mark life's biggest occasions and to weather its most ferocious storms. Journaling has buoyed her through illness, heartbreak, and the deepest uncertainty. And she is not alone: for so many people, keeping a journal is an essential tool for navigating both the personal peaks and valleys and the collective challenges of modern life. More than ever, we need a space for puzzling through.

In The Book of Alchemy, Suleika explores the art of journaling and shares everything she��s learned about how this life-altering practice can help us tap into that mystical trait that exists in every human: creativity. She has gathered wisdom from one hundred writers, artists, and thinkers in the form of essays and writing prompts. Their insights invite us to inhabit a more inspired life.

A companion through challenging times, The Book of Alchemy is broken into themes ranging from new beginnings to love, loss, and rebuilding. Whether you��re a lifelong journaler or new to the practice, this book gives you the tools, direction, and encouragement to engage with discomfort, ask questions, peel back the layers, dream daringly, uncover your truest self��and in doing so, to learn to hold the unbearably brutal and astonishingly beautiful facts of life in the same palm.

Also includes essays from: Martha Beck ? Nadia Bolz-Weber ? Alain de Botton ? Susan Cheever ? Lena Dunham ? Melissa Febos ? Liana Finck ? John Green ? Marie Howe ? Pico Iyer ? Oliver Jeffers ? Quintin Jones ? Michael Koryta ? Hanif Kureishi ? Kiese Laymon ? Cleyvis Natera ? Ann Patchett ? Esther Perel ? Adrienne Raphel ? Jenny Rosenstrach ? Sarah Ruhl ? Sharon Salzberg ? Dani Shapiro ? Mavis Staples ? Linda Sue Park ? Nafissa Thompson-Spires ? Jia Tolentino ? Lindy West ? Lidia Yuknavitch ? And many others]]> 336 Suleika Jaouad 0593734637 Ann 0 to-read, on-shelf 4.43 2025 The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

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]]> <![CDATA[Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted]]> 50743767
In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter "the real world". She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone.

It started with an itch - first on her feet, then up her legs, like 1,000 invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her 23rd birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times.

When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward - after three and a half years of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant - she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it��s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal - to survive. And now that she��d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live.

How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked - with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt - on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who��d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.]]> 352 Suleika Jaouad 0399588582 Ann 0 to-read, on-shelf 4.40 2021 Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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]]> <![CDATA[An Anthology of Intriguing Animals (DK Children's Anthologies)]]> 37975523 A book to treasure, filled with stunning photographs, beautiful illustrations, and fascinating information on all the animals that children love.

Discover the incredible stories and myths behind your favorite animals--whether it's how the koala got its name, or which animal the Ancient Egyptians thought rolled the sun across the sky. Children will pore over the spectacular photographs, including detailed close-ups, and learn fun facts at the same time.

Containing more than 100 species, this beautiful modern bestiary lets you find the animals that interest you, and possibly uncover a new favorite along the way. With easy-to-read text and large images, this compendium of creatures invites young readers to explore the animal kingdom and get to know each animal individually--from big to small, feathered to furred.

An Anthology of Intriguing Animals is an attractive gift for children who can't get enough of wildlife and nature, lavishly bound in a beautiful gold-foil and texture cover, finished with gold-foil-edged pages, and including a ribbon bookmark.]]> 224 Ben Hoare 1465477020 Ann 0 to-read 4.56 An Anthology of Intriguing Animals (DK Children's Anthologies)

An Anthology of Intriguing Animals (DK Children's Anthologies)

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]]> <![CDATA[Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World]]> 214268997
A transformative guide to rethinking our approach to goals, creativity, and life itself from a neuroscientist and entrepreneur, and the creator of the popular Ness Labs newsletter

Life isn��t linear, and yet we constantly try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. What if instead we approached life as a giant playground for experimentation? Based on ancestral philosophy and the latest scientific research, Tiny Experiments provides a desperately needed reframing: Uncertainty can be a state of expanded possibility and a space for metamorphosis.

Neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff reveals that all you need is an experimental mindset to turn challenges into self-discovery and doubt into opportunity. Readers will replace the old linear model of success with a circular model of growth in which goals are discovered, pursued, and adapted��not in a vacuum, but in conversation with the larger world.

Throughout the book, you will ask hard questions and design simple yet meaningful experiments to find the answers. You will learn how to break free from the invisible cognitive scripts that shape your life, how to harness the power of imperfection, and how to make smarter decisions when the path forward is unclear.

This is a guide to:
? Discover your true ambitions through conducting tiny personal experiments
? Dismantle harmful beliefs about success that have kept you stuck
? Dare to make decisions true to your own aspirations
? Stop trying to find your purpose and start living instead

Tiny Experiments offers not just practical tools to make sure our most vital work gets done, but a guide to reawakening our curiosity and drive in a noisy, busy, disaffected world, so that we can discover and pursue our most authentic ambitions while making a meaningful contribution.]]> 304 Anne-Laure Le Cunff 0593715136 Ann 0 to-read 4.24 Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

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]]> <![CDATA[Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings]]> 203805 720 Ingo F. Walther 3822812153 Ann 0 to-read 4.13 1988

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]]> No Matter the Wreckage: Poems 18288210 No Matter the Wreckage presents readers with new and beloved work that showcases Kay's knack for celebrating family, love, travel, history, and unlikely love affairs between inanimate objects ("Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire"), among other curious topics.

Both fresh and wise, Kay's poetry allows readers to join in on her journey of discovering herself and the world around her. It's an honest and powerful collection.]]> 143 Sophia Janowitz 1938912489 Ann 0 to-read 4.20 2014 No Matter the Wreckage: Poems

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]]> Mrs. Dalloway 14942 194 Virginia Woolf 0151009988 Ann 0 to-read 3.80 1925

author: Virginia Woolf
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]]> Wuthering Heights 32929156 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Emily Bront?'s only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.]]> 359 Emily Bront? 0141439556 Ann 0 to-read, on-shelf 4.04 1847 Wuthering Heights

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]]> <![CDATA[Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI]]> 204927599 From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI��a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?

Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.

Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.]]> 528 Yuval Noah Harari 059373422X Ann 0 to-read 4.14 2024 Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

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]]> <![CDATA[Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]]> 23692271 512 Yuval Noah Harari Ann 0 to-read 4.33 2011

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]]> <![CDATA[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)]]> 9460487 9781594744761

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.]]> 352 Ransom Riggs 1594744769 Ann 0 3.92 2011

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst]]> 31170723 Why do we do the things we do?

More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.

And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs��whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened.

Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person's adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual's group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old.

The result is one of the most dazzling tours d'horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do ... for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.]]> 790 Robert M. Sapolsky 1594205078 Ann 0 to-read 4.39 2017 Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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]]> <![CDATA[Shakespeare: The World as Stage]]> 135611
The author of 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' isn't, after all, a Shakespeare scholar, a playwright, or even a biographer.

Reading 'Shakespeare The World As Stage', however, one gets the sense that this eclectic Iowan is exactly the type of person the Bard himself would have selected for the task.

The man who gave us 'The Mother Tongue' and 'A Walk in the Woods' approaches Shakespeare with the same freedom of spirit and curiosity that made those books such reader favorites. A refreshing take on an elusive literary master.]]> 199 Bill Bryson 0060740221 Ann 0 to-read 3.80 2007 Shakespeare: The World as Stage

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]]> <![CDATA[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]> 21 544 Bill Bryson 076790818X Ann 0 to-read, on-shelf 4.21 2003

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]]> Autobiography of Red 61049 Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.

Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.

"A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender." -- The New York Times Book Review

"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday."??-- The Village Voice

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

National book Critics Circle Award Finalist]]> 160 Anne Carson 037570129X Ann 0 to-read 4.28 1998 Autobiography of Red

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]]> The Master and Margarita 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Ann 0 to-read, on-shelf 4.31 1967 The Master and Margarita

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]]> <![CDATA[Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints]]> 216052776 Room for Good Things to Run Wild is the antidote to widespread Christian malaise. If you feel like life is happening to you, that your faith has been reduced to trite platitudes, and that no matter how many new things you try, you still end up with a dissatisfying Christian life, this book offers relief from the mediocrity of Christian living through the sacred and satisfying journey of becoming an every day saint.

After spending too many days staring at the hamster cage of his uninspired life through the bottom of a glass of Scotch, Josh Nadeau knew there were only 2 ways left to further down or finally up. Disillusioned by his faith and disenchanted by the world around him, Josh chose up out of a desperation to discover the Jesus who had formed the saints of old.?

Steeped in literature and doctrine, art and raw daily life and accompanied by original illustrations and living liturgy this book will bring you on the journey back to an embodied theology that understands that we know, not just with our minds, but also with our bodies. From Canada, to England, to Ireland and Spain, Josh follows the Jesus Way, teaching you how to be just as honest about the pain of your life as the pleasure of your life.?

Rediscover the full and wild world that God has created for you in the way He has created you to experience it. Room for Good Things to Run Wild is a call into the Holy Ordinary; a new way to see that wakes the soul and satisfies the body.]]> 288 Josh Nadeau 1400341043 Ann 0 on-shelf, currently-reading 4.71

Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

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]]> James 173754979 A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn��both harrowing and satirical��told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.]]> 303 Percival Everett Ann 0 to-read, on-shelf 4.46 2024 James

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]]> The Little Liar 112975105 333 Mitch Albom 0062406655 Ann 0 to-read 4.54 2023

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]]> <![CDATA[Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf�� which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the caf��s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the caf��, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi��s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]> 213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 Ann 0 to-read 3.66 2015 Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

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]]> <![CDATA[Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization]]> 49625550 A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing your full potential and living your most creative, fulfilled, and connected life.

When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating these ideas with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well lived.

Kaufman's new hierarchy of needs provides a roadmap for finding purpose and fulfillment--not by striving for money, success, or happiness, but by becoming the best version of ourselves, or what Maslow called self-actualization. While self-actualization is often thought of as a purely individual pursuit, Maslow believed that the full realization of potential requires a merging between self and the world. We don't have to choose either self-development or self-sacrifice, but at the highest level of human potential we show a deep integration of both. Transcend reveals this level of human potential that connects us not only to our highest creative potential, but also to one another.

With never-before-published insights and new research findings, along with exercises and opportunities to gain insight into your own unique personality, this empowering book is a manual for self-analysis and nurturing a deeper connection not only with our highest potential but also with the rest of humanity.]]> 432 Scott Barry Kaufman 0143131206 Ann 0 to-read 4.12 2020 Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

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]]> Inquire Within 51942125 Inquire Within?shines a light on our lives and provides a wholly unique and dynamic lens through which to think about ourselves and our world. Rhythmic. Original. Authentic. Inspiring. A journey to the center of the soul,?Inquire Within?is a provocative and entertaining debut from an award-winning poet. You��ll never look at poetry the same way again.?]]> 224 In-Q 0062954709 Ann 0 to-read 4.48

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]]> <![CDATA[The Never Ending Now Poetry Journal - Emerald Green]]> 213072761
Dreams, Growth, Acceptance, Sadness, Fear, Happiness, Purpose, Life, Love, and Gratitude.

How This Journal Flows
- Experience
- Create
- Activate

Part 1: Poems and Prompts
- 10 original poems followed by prompts and personal stories
- Each of the 10 prompts contains several Rapid Fire Questions to help spark ideas for writing poetry
Part 2: Activation Exercises
- 9 performance practices
- 6 sharing suggestions
- Memorization, actualization, and visualization sections
- Includes 6 extra prompts
Part 3: Acknowledgements and About the Author
Insights and 39 dotted grid pages to write and journal

Details & Quality
- ISBN 979-8-218-34540-2
- GOLD Foil Deboss design
- Hardcover
- Small A5 Size
- Square Corners
- Reinforced Banded Enclosure (Emerald Green)
- One Ribbon, gold color
- Fabric Back Pocket (Emerald Green)
- Black background and beautiful abstract gold ink illustrations (IIllustration pages only)]]> 212 In-Q Ann 0 to-read 5.00 The Never Ending Now Poetry Journal - Emerald Green

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]]> <![CDATA[Ramen Forever: Recipes for Ramen Success]]> 85163789
In Ramen Forever , Tim Anderson shows you the way to enjoy delicious homemade ramen on a regular basis, and gives you the tools to build your own ramen, just the way you like it!

It is broken into five sections��Broth, Seasoning, Aromatic Oils and Fats, Noodles, and Toppings��to enable you to mix and match to create your own ramen to suit your taste. Alternatively, you can choose to follow one of several complete ramen recipes provided.

Recipes include Double Garlic Tonkotsu Ramen, Tan Tan Men, and Tsukemen, as well as The Ramen Sandwich and Garlic Sesame Miso Ramen Salad.

With recipes for beginners and casual cooks as well as serious noodle nerds, you can enjoy this superlative Japanese comfort food at home, regardless of your skill level.]]> 224 Tim Anderson 1784886602 Ann 0 to-read 4.15 Ramen Forever: Recipes for Ramen Success

Ramen Forever: Recipes for Ramen Success

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]]> <![CDATA[Tokyo Stories: A Japanese Cookbook]]> 44422070 WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD 2019 at the Andr�� Simon Awards

Tokyo is rightfully known around the world as one of the most exciting places to eat on the planet. From subterranean department store food halls to luxurious top-floor hotel restaurants, and all the noodle shops, sushi bars, and yakitori shacks in between, there may be no other city so thoroughly saturated with delicious food.

Tokyo Stories is a journey through the boulevards and backstreets of Tokyo via recipes both iconic and unexpected. Chef Tim Anderson takes inspiration from the chefs, shopkeepers, and home cooks of Tokyo to showcase both traditional and cutting-edge takes on classic dishes like sushi, ramen, yakitori, and tempura.

Also included are?dishes that Tokyoites love to eat with origins from abroad, like Japanese interpretations of Korean barbecue, Italian pizza and pasta, American burgers and more. Tim tackles his food tour of Tokyo from the ground up, with chapters broken down LOWER GROUND Tokyo on the Go (Department Store Basements, Subway Stations, and Convenience Stores); FIRST Tokyo Local (food traditional to Tokyo); SECOND Tokyo National (food traditional to Japan); THIRD Tokyo Global (Japanese food with an international twist) FOURTH Tokyo at Home (Japanese home cooking); and, FIFTH Tokyo Modern (experimental Japanese food found in high-end hotel bars). With Tim��s easy-to-follow recipes, this is make-at-home Japanese food, authentic yet achievable for the home chef �C without cutting corners.

The real thrill of eating in Tokyo is in the sense of discovery �C of adventurous curiosity rewarded. And that may come in the form of an unexpectedly good convenience store sandwich, an ��oh my god�� sushi moment, or just the best damn bowl of ramen you��ve ever had. With Tokyo Stories you can explore Tokyo and discover its incredible food without leaving your home kitchen. Featuring over 90 recipes, all set to the backdrop of Tokyo location shots, this is essential for the Japanophile in your life.]]> 366 Tim Anderson 1784882178 Ann 0 to-read 4.17 Tokyo Stories: A Japanese Cookbook

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]]> When I Sing, Mountains Dance 57693608
When I Sing, Mountains Dance, winner of the European Union Prize, is a giddy paean to the land in all its interconnectedness, and in it Sola finds a distinct voice for each extraordinary consciousness: the lightning bolts, roe deer, mountains, the ghosts of the civil war, the widow Si�� and later her grown children, Hilari and Mia, as well as Mia��s lovers with their long-buried secrets and their hidden pain.

Irene Sol�� animates the polyphonic world around us, the fierce music of the seasons, as well as the stories we tell to comprehend loss and love on a personal, historical, and even geological scale. Lyrical, elemental, and mythic, hers is a fearlessly imaginative new voice that brilliantly renders both our tragedies and our triumphs.]]> 216 Irene Sol�� 1644450801 Ann 0 to-read 4.11 2019 When I Sing, Mountains Dance

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]]> <![CDATA[And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer]]> 31373633 A little book with a big heart!

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She��s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man��s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family��s efforts to care for him even as they must find a way to let go.

With all the same charm of his bestselling full-length novels, here Fredrik Backman once again reveals his unrivaled understanding of human nature and deep compassion for people in difficult circumstances. This is a tiny gem with a message you��ll treasure for a lifetime.]]> 97 Fredrik Backman 1501160575 Ann 5 on-shelf 4.34 2015 And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

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]]> My Friends 217163697 #1?New York Times?bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger��s life twenty-five years later.

Most people don��t even notice them��three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it��s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and telling stories out on a pier. There��s Joar, who never backs down from a fight; quiet and bookish Ted who is mourning his father; Ali, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for long; and finally, there��s the artist, a boy who hoards sleeping pills and shuns attention, but who possesses an extraordinary gift that might be his ticket to a better life. These four lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream.

Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be put into eighteen-year-old Louisa��s care. As she struggles to decide what to do with this bequest, she embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn the story of how the painting came to be. The closer she gets to the painting��s birthplace, the more she feels compelled to unleash her own artistic spirit, but happy endings don��t always take the form we expect in this fresh testament to the transformative power of friendship and art.]]> 448 Fredrik Backman 1982112824 Ann 0 to-read 4.58 2025 My Friends

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]]> Britt-Marie Was Here 27406704
When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and has to fend for herself in the miserable backwater town of Borg��of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it��she finds work as the caretaker of a soon-to-be demolished recreation center. The fastidious Britt-Marie soon finds herself being drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, layabouts. Most alarming of all, she��s given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children��s soccer team to victory. In this small town of misfits, can Britt-Marie find a place where she truly belongs?]]> 324 Fredrik Backman 1501142534 Ann 0 to-read 4.05 2014 Britt-Marie Was Here

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]]> <![CDATA[The Things We Leave Unfinished]]> 53137938
Noah is at the pinnacle of his career. With book and movie deals galore, there isn��t much the ��golden boy�� of modern fiction hasn��t accomplished. But he can��t walk away from what might be the best book of the century��the one his idol, Scarlett Stanton, left unfinished. Coming up with a fitting ending for the legendary author is one thing, but dealing with her beautiful, stubborn, cynical great-granddaughter, Georgia, is quite another.

But as they read Scarlett��s words in both the manuscript and her box of letters, they start to realize why Scarlett never finished the book��it��s based on her real-life romance with a World War II pilot, and the ending isn��t a happy one. Georgia knows all too well that love never works out, and while the chemistry and connection between her and Noah is undeniable, she��s as determined as ever to learn from her great-grandmother��s mistakes��even if it means destroying Noah��s career.]]> 400 Rebecca Yarros 1682815668 Ann 0 to-read 4.26 2021 The Things We Leave Unfinished

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]]> Great and Precious Things 44034494
Six years ago, when Camden Daniels came back from war without his younger brother, no one in the small town of Alba, Colorado, would forgive him��especially his father. He left, swearing never to return.

But a desperate message from his father brings it all back. The betrayal. The pain. And the need to go home again. But home is where the one person he still loves is waiting. Willow. The one woman he can never have. Because there are secrets buried in Alba that are best left in the dark.

If only he could tell his heart to stay locked away when she whispers she��s always loved him, and always will��

Great and Precious Things is a heart-wrenching story about family, betrayal, and ultimately how far we're willing to go on behalf of those who need us most.]]> 384 Rebecca Yarros 1640638164 Ann 0 to-read 3.99 2020

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]]> The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman 170821 204 Andrzej Szczypiorski 0802135021 Ann 0 to-read 3.88 1986

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]]> Others Were Emeralds 65646965 This debut adult novel combines her poetical lyricism and emotional acumen to create an enthralling coming of age narrative set against the backdrop of anti-Asian sentiment sweeping Australia in the late 90��s. A stirring portrayal of guilt, loss, and memory, Others Were Emeralds explores the inherent danger of allowing our misconceptions to shape our reality.

What comes first, the photograph or the memory?

The daughter of Cambodian refugees, Ai grew up in the small Australian town of Whitlam populated by Asian immigrants who once fled war-torn countries to rebuild their shattered lives. It is now the late 90��s and despite their parent��s harrowing past, Ai and her tightknit group of school charismatic Brigitte, sweet, endearing Bowie, shy, inscrutable Tin, and politically minded Sying, lead seemingly ordinary lives, far removed from the unimaginable horrors suffered by their parents.

But that carefree innocence is shattered in their last year of school when Ai and her friends encounter a pair of racist men whose cruel acts of intimidation spiral into senseless violence. Grappling with the magnitude of her grief at such a young age, Ai leaves Whitlam for college before her trauma has a chance to fully resolve.? In her second year of college Ai suffers a mental health crisis, driving her back home to Whitlam, a place she swore never to return. There, she reconnects with those she left behind and together they are compelled to look back on the tragedy that shaped their adolescence and examine the role they may have unwittingly played.]]> 288 Lang Leav 0063304023 Ann 0 to-read 3.82 2023 Others Were Emeralds

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]]> The Signature of All Things 17465453 A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker��a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction �� into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist �� but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.

Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe��from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who �� born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution �� bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.]]> 512 Elizabeth Gilbert 0670024856 Ann 0 to-read 3.84 2013 The Signature of All Things

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]]> Fractured Soul 60147176 Awarded the Prix des libraires by France��s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one��s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss.

Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice. Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by military police. In the ensuing skirmish, Yu��s violin is smashed while his son, Rei, witnesses his father��s arrest. He will never see him again. Salvaging his father��s instrument, Rei escapes thanks to a mysterious lieutenant.

Paris, 2003. Raised in France, Rei�Cnow Jacques�Chas dedicated his life to the broken violin��s repair: studying music, becoming an apprentice, and, eventually, a luthier. However, despite his effort to rehabilitate the damage of years ago, he struggles to reconcile his past with the present.

Yet, when a world-class violinist, connected to the lieutenant that helped him as a boy, appears, Jacques�� past is rekindled and he perseveres in a final bid to heal. Fractured Soul is a parable of what once was lost and what there stands to be gained�Ca story of immense beauty and ferocious courage.]]> 224 Akira Mizubayashi 0063093669 Ann 0 to-read 3.96 2019

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]]> Interpreter of Maladies 5439 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant.]]> 198 Jhumpa Lahiri 0618101365 Ann 0 to-read 4.18 1999 Interpreter of Maladies

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]]> <![CDATA[The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World]]> 30780006
��Wise advice on how to reflect and slow down.�� Elle

Is it the world that��s busy, or is it my mind?

The world moves fast, but that doesn��t mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means ��spontaneous wisdom��), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life.

By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas��including relationships, love, and spirituality��Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.]]> 288 Haemin Sunim 0143130773 Ann 0 to-read 4.06 2012 The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World

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]]> The Girl and the Ghost 48716975 I am a dark spirit, the ghost announced grandly. I am your inheritance, your grandmother��s legacy. I am yours to command.

Suraya is delighted when her witch grandmother gifts her a pelesit. She names her ghostly companion Pink, and the two quickly become inseparable.

But Suraya doesn��t know that pelesits have a dark side��and when Pink��s shadows threaten to consume them both, they must find enough light to survive . . . before they are both lost to the darkness.]]> 280 Hanna Alkaf 0062940953 Ann 0 to-read 4.10 2020 The Girl and the Ghost

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]]> Americanah 15796700 477 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ann 0 to-read 4.32 2013

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]]> The Stationery Shop of Tehran 51036155
Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri��s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink.

Then Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer��handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi��s poetry��and she loses her heart at once. Their romance blossoms, and the little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran.

A few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square when violence erupts��a result of the coup d��etat that forever changes their country��s future. In the chaos, Bahman never shows. For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. With a sorrowful heart, she moves on��to college in California, to another man, to a life in New England��until, more than sixty years later, an accident of fate leads her back to Bahman and offers her a chance to ask him the questions that have haunted her for more than half a century: Why did you leave? Where did you go? How is it that you were able to forget me?]]> 308 Marjan Kamali 147118918X Ann 0 to-read 4.19 2019 The Stationery Shop of Tehran

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]]> Boy Swallows Universe 37558445
Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crime for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer.

But if Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum.

A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year.]]> 474 Trent Dalton 1460753895 Ann 0 to-read 4.31 2018

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]]> <![CDATA[Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life]]> 39692401
'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, Feast

A whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom.

Wabi sabi ( "wah-bi sah-bi" ) is a captivating concept from Japanese aesthetics, which helps us to see beauty in imperfection, appreciate simplicity and accept the transient nature of all things. With roots in zen and the way of tea, the timeless wisdom of wabi sabi is more relevant than ever for modern life, as we search for new ways to approach life's challenges and seek meaning beyond materialism.

Wabi sabi is a refreshing antidote to our fast-paced, consumption-driven world, which will encourage you to slow down, reconnect with nature, and be gentler on yourself. It will help you simplify everything, and concentrate on what really matters.

From honouring the rhythm of the seasons to creating a welcoming home, from reframing failure to ageing with grace, wabi sabi will teach you to find more joy and inspiration throughout your perfectly imperfect life.

This book is the definitive guide to applying the principles of wabi sabi to transform every area of your life, and finding happiness right where you are.]]> 266 Beth Kempton Ann 0 to-read 3.90 2018 Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

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]]> Jules Verne Collected Novels 2248544 Clipper of the clouds.
Journey to the centre of the earth.
From the earth to the moon.
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea.]]> 837 Jules Verne 0890097992 Ann 0 to-read, on-shelf 4.28 1929 Jules Verne Collected Novels

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]]> Complete Tales and Poems 262478 1027 Edgar Allan Poe 0394716787 Ann 0 to-read 4.38 1849

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]]> <![CDATA[To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings]]> 1211497 ?
��John O��Donohue is a man of the soul.�� Times? (London)
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To Bless the Space Between Us ?is a compelling blend of elegant, poetic language and spiritual insight to offer readers comfort and encouragement on their journeys through life. John O��Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, looks at life��s thresholds��getting married, having children, starting a new job��and offers invaluable guidelines for making the transition from a known, familiar world into a new, unmapped territory.
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Most profoundly, however, O��Donohue explains ��blessings�� as a way of life, a lens through which the whole world is transformed. He awakens readers to timeless truths and shows the power they have to answer contemporary dilemmas and ease us through periods of change.]]> 240 John O'Donohue 0385522274 Ann 0 to-read, on-shelf 4.40 2008 To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

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]]> <![CDATA[The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook]]> 37630 prepare a recipe. We planned this cookbook so that even a
beginning cook could successfully use our recipes simply by
.t-ollowing the diagrams of the steps along with the recipe itself. In
this collection of recipes, we demonstrate all the fundamental
cooking techniques, from folding in egg whites, to kneading bread,
rolling piecrusts, decorating cakes and cookies, even boning certain
cuts of meat and poultry. We've included recipes that are often
considered difficult as well as everyday ones.
Since recipe selection and meal planning are easier when a picture
shows exactly how the food will look, all of our recipes are shown
in the large color picture index at the beginning of the book. You
can browse through these pages and select the recipe best suited for
your specific occasion. The color pictures also suggest how to
garnish and serve the dish. Captions to the pictures provide
information on the recipe seasonings, cooking methods used, time
needed to prepare the food, number of servings and so on.
For the first time in a cookbook, menu planning is made easier as
the pictures are arranged according to the course of the meal,
starting with all the appetizers and going through to main
dishes, salads, breads and desserts.
Many of these recipes are classics, direct from the pages of Good
Housekeeping Magazine. Others are newly developed for this book.
All have had the careful scrutiny of Mildred Ying, Good
Housekeeping's food editor. She and her staff checked and
rechecked these recipes, trying several brands of ingredients,
eliminating extra steps, using fewer utensils, confirming the cooking
times, making sure they are nutritionally sound and, most
importantly, that they tasted as good as they looked.
Besides Mildred, Ellen Connelly of the food staff helped especially
with the planning of the chapters; Lucy Wing helped with checking
our how-to drawings and with many hours of proof-reading.]]> 512 Good Housekeeping 0878510370 Ann 0 to-read 4.38 1973 The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook

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]]> <![CDATA[Mastering the Art of French Cooking]]> 129650 New York Times bestseller Mastering the Art of French Cooking has been the definitive book on the subject for American readers. Featuring 524 delicious recipes, in its pages home cooks will find something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights of French cuisine, from historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. Here Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle break down the classic foods of France into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of dishes. Throughout, the focus is on key recipes that form the backbone of French cookery and lend themselves to an infinite number of elaborations--bound to increase anyone's culinary repertoire. With over 100 instructive illustrations to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French Cooking deserves a place of honor in every kitchen in America.]]> 684 Julia Child 0375413405 Ann 0 to-read 4.25 1961

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]]> <![CDATA[Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It]]> 123857637 A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating �C effective in any situation.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders, and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most �C when people��s lives were at stake.

Rooted in the real-life experiences of an intelligence professional at the top of his game, Never Split the Difference will give you the competitive edge in any discussion.]]> 288 Chris Voss 1847941494 Ann 0 to-read 4.33 2016 Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

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]]> <![CDATA[Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals]]> 26535513 Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how
Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data �� Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it.]]> 288 Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic 1119002257 Ann 0 to-read 4.39 2015 Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

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]]> <![CDATA[The Bible from 30,000 Feet: Soaring Through the Scriptures in One Year from Genesis to Revelation]]> 33414169 �� David Jeremiah , Pastor and bestselling author
An Eye-Opening and Engaging Guide to the Bible Enjoy the magnificent panorama of Scripture like never before! Pastor Skip Heitzig shares a FLIGHT plan for all 66 books of the Bible to help you better understand the context and significance of each. In this one-year overview, you'll discover... If you have ever found yourself getting lost and wandering from verse to verse in Scripture, put yourself firmly on track with the clear aerial view offered in The Bible from 30,000 Feet .]]> 640 Skip Heitzig 0736970290 Ann 0 to-read 4.65 The Bible from 30,000 Feet: Soaring Through the Scriptures in One Year from Genesis to Revelation

The Bible from 30,000 Feet: Soaring Through the Scriptures in One Year from Genesis to Revelation

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]]> <![CDATA[How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading]]> 567610 How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated.

You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them �C from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science.

Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed.

This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780671212094

]]> 442 Mortimer J. Adler Ann 0 to-read 3.97 1940 How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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]]> <![CDATA[Biggest Economies in Asia: Little Explorers' Guide to Asia's Leading Industries and the Stories Behind Their Rise!]]> 199056975 Explore the Powerhouse Economies of Asia!Welcome aboard "Biggest Economies in Asia"! This isn't just a boring educational book; it's your golden ticket to an exciting adventure across Asia's dynamic economies. From bustling streets to sparkling skyscrapers, and innovative technology hubs to humming car factories��there's a world of discovery waiting for you!

Why should you pack your bags for this adventure?

Enticing Tales and Legends: Dive into the gigantic manufacturing mazes of China, unload secrets at Singapore's busiest port, code your way through India's digital playground, and delve into the construction marvels of the UAE, and so much more!Playful Learning: Learn about the diverse industries of Asian countries in a super cool and simple way. Forget dull textbooks; this is a funfair of knowledge!Vibrant Illustrations: Feast your eyes on beautiful, exciting pictures that bring these thriving economies to life.Inspiring Lessons: Discover the value of hard work, thoughtful planning, and teamwork through real-world success stories from these mighty economies.By the end of this captivating journey, you'll see how these countries add their own sparkle to our world. The toy in your room, the car on your street, or the tallest building you've ever seen, traces of Asia's vibrant economies are everywhere around us!

So, are you ready to set sail? Your exciting voyage through Asia's economic wonders is about to begin. Climb aboard, fasten your seatbelt, and let's traverse this fascinating continent together!]]> 0 Yeonsil Yoo 1738068234 Ann 0 to-read 5.00 Biggest Economies in Asia: Little Explorers' Guide to Asia's Leading Industries and the Stories Behind Their Rise!

Biggest Economies in Asia: Little Explorers' Guide to Asia's Leading Industries and the Stories Behind Their Rise!

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]]> I Heard the Owl Call My Name 106931
Here amid the grandeur of British Columbia stands the village of Kingcome, a place of salmon runs and ancient totems - a village so steeped in time that, according to Kwakiutl legend, it was founded by two brothers left on earth after the great flood. Yet in this Eden of such natural beauty and richness, the old culture of totems and potlaches is under attack - slowly being replaced by a new culture of prefab houses and alcoholism. Into this world, where an entire generation of young people has become disenchanted and alienated from their heritage, Craven introduces Mark Brian, a young vicar sent to the small isolated parish by his church.

This is Mark's journey of discovery - a journey that will teach him about life, death, and the transforming power of love. It is a journey that will resonate in the mind of readers long after the book is done.
]]> 145 Margaret Craven 1550413392 Ann 0 to-read 4.03 1967 I Heard the Owl Call My Name

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]]> �� 9266103 224 Giddens Ko 9866899969 Ann 0 3.66 2002

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]]> <![CDATA[Short Stories in Japanese: New Penguin Parallel Text]]> 9985112 Announcing the first expansion in more than 40 years of the venerable New Penguin Parallel Text series.

Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary Japanese fiction. Featuring many stories appearing in English for the first time, this collection, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having to constantly consult a dictionary. Richly diverse in themes and styles, the stories are by well-known writers-like Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto-as well as by emerging voices. Complete with notes, these selections make excellent reading in either language.]]> 250 Michael Emmerich 0143118331 Ann 0 to-read 3.73 2011 Short Stories in Japanese: New Penguin Parallel Text

Short Stories in Japanese: New Penguin Parallel Text

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]]> <![CDATA[Indonesian Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Stories in Indonesian and English (Online Audio Included)]]> 56638890
Although written in the Indonesian national language, the stories hail from many different ethnic cultures and include a number of female characters who reveal the challenges faced by women in Indonesian society. In adopting this approach, the authors make the stories relevant and engaging for students, as well as provide fascinating windows onto the regional cultures found among these islands.

The stories in this volume
Authors Katherine Davidsen and Yusep Cuandani are experienced language teachers who use these texts in their high school classes at international schools in Jakarta to fulfill the requirements for International Baccalaureate and Cambridge IGCSE curriculum courses in Indonesian language and culture.

The stories are graded in terms of difficulty. Each one is accompanied by a set of discussion questions, a detailed vocabulary list, cultural notes keyed to the text and online native-speaker audio recordings. An extensive Indonesian-English glossary is provided at the back of the book.]]> 192 Katherine Davidsen 0804853096 Ann 0 to-read 4.14 Indonesian Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Stories in Indonesian and English (Online Audio Included)

Indonesian Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Stories in Indonesian and English (Online Audio Included)

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]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free online Audio Recording) (Stories for Language Learners)]]> 59896372 Learn about Japanese culture while improving your language skills!

Japanese Folktales for Language Learners presents 22 traditional stories in parallel Japanese and English versions on facing pages, with detailed notes and exercises aimed at beginning to intermediate learners. This book can be used as a language reader and will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more about Japanese culture and folklore.

The stories in this collection gradually increase in length and complexity as the book progresses. They include:

? The Candy-Buying Ghost - A female ghost mysteriously buys candy every night from a small village shop, until one night she reveals her true identity and her tragic story.
? The Old Man Who Made Trees Blossom - Regarded as one of the five greatest Japanese folktales, this touching story tells of a kind old man who uses his magical powers for good.
? The Abandoned Mother - An elderly woman is abandoned at the top of a mountain by her own son, a reference to the old practice of senicide in Japan.

Vocabulary lists, cultural notes, exercises and discussion questions help to reinforce an understanding of the stories and bolster language skills. Free online recordings of all the stories are provided.]]> 320 Eriko Sato 4805316624 Ann 0 to-read 4.21 Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free online Audio Recording) (Stories for Language Learners)

Japanese Folktales for Language Learners: Bilingual Legends and Fables in Japanese and English (Free online Audio Recording) (Stories for Language Learners)

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]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Stories for Language Learners: Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English (Online Audio Included)]]> 36966304 Japanese Stories for Language Learners offers five compelling stories with Japanese and English language versions appearing on facing pages. Taking learners on an exciting cultural and linguistic journey, each story is followed by detailed translator's notes, vocabulary lists, and grammar points along with a set of discussion questions and exercises. The first two are very famous traditional folktales: Urashima Taro (Tale of a Fisherman) and Yuki Onna (The Snow Woman). These are followed by three short stories by notable 20th century authors: Kumo no Ito (The Spider's Thread) by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892u1927), Oborekaketa Kyodai (The Siblings Who Almost Drowned) by Arishima Takeo (1878u1923), and Serohiki no Goshu (Gauche the Cellist) by Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933). The latter stories are unabridged and unedited except for the addition of furigana pronunciations above the kanji characters.

Reading these stories in the original Japanese--and hearing native-speakers read them aloud in the accompanying free audio recording--helps students at every level deepen their comprehension of the beauty and subtlety of the Japanese language.]]> 192 Anne McNulty 4805314680 Ann 0 to-read 3.97 Japanese Stories for Language Learners: Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English (Online Audio Included)

Japanese Stories for Language Learners: Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English (Online Audio Included)

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]]> <![CDATA[Chinese Stories for Language Learners: A Treasury of Proverbs and Folktales in Bilingual Chinese and English (Online Audio Recordings Included)]]> 54217672
This book presents 22 classic Chinese proverbs and the traditional tales behind them. The stories are bilingual, with the Chinese and English versions presented on facing pages. Each includes an explanation of how the proverb is used today, cultural notes, vocabulary and discussion questions. Audio recordings of the tales read by native speakers are included--giving students a chance to improve their pronunciation and comprehension.

Some of the proverbs featured in this collection

Whether being used in a classroom or for self-study, Chinese Stories for Language Learners provides an educational and entertaining way for intermediate Mandarin learners to expand their vocabulary and understanding of the language.]]> 256 Vivian Ling 0804852782 Ann 0 to-read 4.40 Chinese Stories for Language Learners: A Treasury of Proverbs and Folktales in Bilingual Chinese and English (Online Audio Recordings Included)

Chinese Stories for Language Learners: A Treasury of Proverbs and Folktales in Bilingual Chinese and English (Online Audio Recordings Included)

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]]> <![CDATA[In the Field Between Us: Poems]]> 52704945 In the Field Between Us?is a friendship in poems, an epistolary project by Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison that ponders disability and the possibility of belonging in the aftermath of lifelong medical intervention. In the beginning, the poem-letters express, in gorgeous harmony, the psychic and physiological complexities of surviving remedy. As the book unfolds, the writers encounter a natural world around them that?increasingly?seems to mirror the traumas they have endured. Out of its tracing of innumerable scars, this book emits a perseverance, a spirit of communion, and a hopeful resolve that rises out of the poets�� attention to detail and their profound connection to one another.]]> 60 Molly McCully Brown 0892555149 Ann 0 to-read 4.34 2020 In the Field Between Us: Poems

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]]> <![CDATA[Home: poems to heal your heartbreak]]> 123283121
"the bees aren't going to go away
but they are going to change with you
sometimes they will be chaotic
sometimes they will rest
sometimes they will give you sweet honey
and sometimes they will remind you
of how much love can sting
but if you can find a home within yourself
and make peace with your bees
you will be alright"
--from Home

Resonant, raw, and vibrant, Home is a lyrical map to navigating heartbreak. Tracing the stages of healing - from the despair that comes with the end of a relationship to the eventual light and liberation that comes with time - the poems in Home provide comfort and solace, while revitalizing your soul - and helping you make peace with your bees.

'I would buy it again!' 5* reader review

'This book is everything I needed and more' 5* reader review

'Best poet out there' 5* reader review

'This book did wonders for my mental health and heartbreak' 5* reader review

'Can't wait for what Whitney writes next' 5* reader review]]> 336 Whitney Hanson 1529432626 Ann 0 to-read 4.17 Home: poems to heal your heartbreak

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]]> <![CDATA[He Is There and He Is Not Silent]]> 80119
From the intriguing, late-night discussions at L��Abri came a series of compelling books from Francis Schaeffer�D The God Who Is There, Escape from Reason, True Spirituality , and this classic book every Christian should own, He Is There and He Is Not Silent .]]> 88 Francis A. Schaeffer 084231413X Ann 0 to-read 4.23 1972

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]]> The Problem of Pain 13650513
The greatest Christian thinker of our time sets out to disentangle this knotty issue. With his signature wealth of compassion and insight, C. S. Lewis offers answers to these crucial questions and shares his hope and wisdom to help heal a world hungry for a true understanding of human nature.]]> 162 C.S. Lewis 0007461267 Ann 0 to-read 4.24 1940 The Problem of Pain

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]]> <![CDATA[Every Moment Holy Volume II: Death, Grief, and Hope]]> 57311791

-over 100 liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving

-beautiful leather-bound hardcover

-over 20 illustrations by Ned Bustard

-silk bookmark

-gilded edges]]> 384 Douglas Kaine McKelvey 1951872053 Ann 0 to-read 4.83 2021 Every Moment Holy Volume II: Death, Grief, and Hope

Every Moment Holy Volume II: Death, Grief, and Hope

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]]> Every Moment Holy 36460478 277 Douglas Kaine McKelvey 0998311235 Ann 0 to-read 4.83 2017

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]]> Poverty, by America 61358638 Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?

In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.

Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.]]> 304 Matthew Desmond 0593239911 Ann 0 to-read 4.27 2023 Poverty, by America

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]]> Tom Lake 63241104 In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America��s finest writers.

In the spring of 2020, Lara��s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.]]> 309 Ann Patchett 006332752X Ann 0 to-read 3.92 2023 Tom Lake

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]]> <![CDATA[Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?]]> 61796683 REESE'S BOOK CLUB MAY 2023 PICK

BOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 2023 PICK

A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz

When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions.

A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty��s affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty��s journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could��and between a cheating fianc�� and the fallout from a controversial social media post, there are plenty.

The truth behind Kitty's ascent to stardom from her beginnings in the segregated South threatens to expose a web of unexpected family ties, debts owed, and debatable crimes that could, with one pull, unravel the all-American fabric of the St. John sisters and those closest to them.

As Elise digs deeper into Kitty's past, she must also turn the lens upon herself, confronting the gifts and burdens of her own choices and the power that the secrets of the dead hold over the living. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? is a sprawling page-turner set against the backdrop of the Hollywood machine, an insightful and nuanced look at the inheritances of family, race, and gender��and the choices some women make to break free of them.]]> 416 Crystal Smith Paul 1250815304 Ann 0 to-read 3.70 2023 Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

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]]> The House of Eve 61273858 From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal.

1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.

Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC��s elite wealthy Black families, and his par?ents don��t let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William��s family and grant her the life she��s been searching for. But having a baby��and fitting in��is easier said than done.

With their stories colliding in the most unexpected of ways, Ruby and Eleanor will both make decisions that shape the trajectory of their lives.]]> 384 Sadeqa Johnson 1982197366 Ann 0 to-read 4.23 2023 The House of Eve

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]]> Yellowface 62047984
So what if June edits Athena��s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song��complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena��s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.]]> 319 R.F. Kuang 000853277X Ann 0 to-read 3.69 2023 Yellowface

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]]> A Gentleman in Moscow 34066798 The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers��Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel��s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count��s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.]]> 462 Amor Towles Ann 0 to-read 4.28 2016 A Gentleman in Moscow

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]]> <![CDATA[The Book That No One Wanted to Read]]> 61851518 From actor-author-broadcaster-comedian-filmmaker Richard Ayoade comes a book narrated by . . . a book. Quirky, smart, and genre-busting, this is the saga of a book that nobody wants to read��until the day it meets YOU.

The life of a book isn��t easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know��it��s the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with a cover the boring color of a school lunch table and pages so dry they give bookworms indigestion. But what happens when this book meets you, a curious reader? Multitalented author Richard Ayoade and award-winning illustrator Tor Freeman bring to life a hilariously subversive take on the nature of books and reading, with a heartening theme of finding the courage to tell our own stories. Readers of all ages will be delighted by the myriad bookish references and laughs on every page.]]> 128 Richard Ayoade 153622216X Ann 0 to-read 3.71 2022 The Book That No One Wanted to Read

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]]> The Wishing Game 62926992
Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it��s like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher��s aide, she is able to share her love of reading with bright, young students, especially seven-year-old Christopher Lamb, who was left orphaned after the tragic death of his parents. Lucy would give anything to adopt Christopher, but even the idea of becoming a family seems like an impossible dream without proper funds and stability.

But be careful what you wish for. . . .

Just when Lucy is about to give up, Jack Masterson announces he��s finally written a new book. Even better, he��s holding a contest at his home on the real Clock Island, and Lucy is one of the four lucky contestants chosen to compete to win the one and only copy.

For Lucy, the chance of winning the most sought-after book in the world means everything to her and Christopher. But first she must contend with ruthless book collectors, wily opponents, and the distractingly handsome (and grumpy) Hugo Reese, the illustrator of the Clock Island books. Meanwhile, Jack ��the Mastermind�� Masterson is plotting the ultimate twist ending that could change all their lives forever.

. . . You might just get it.]]> 304 Meg Shaffer 0593598830 Ann 0 to-read 4.02 2023 The Wishing Game

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]]> Hello Beautiful 61771675
But then darkness from William��s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia��s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters�� unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?]]> 416 Ann Napolitano Ann 0 to-read 4.14 2023 Hello Beautiful

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]]> Go as a River 63922274 A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century Colorado

On a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way. How she chooses to answer will unknowingly alter the course of both their young lives.

So begins the mesmerizing story of split-second choices and courageous acts that propel Victoria away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope and her own untapped strength.

Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life forever.

Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettable characters and a breathtaking natural setting, it is a sweeping story of survival and becoming, of the deepest mysteries of love, truth and fate.]]> 320 Shelley Read 1954118236 Ann 0 to-read 4.20 2023 Go as a River

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]]> Looking for Jane 61273371
1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for ��fallen�� women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption��a trauma she has never recovered from. Despite the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had.

1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates ��Jane�� and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the network��s ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her.]]> 400 Heather Marshall 1668013681 Ann 0 to-read 4.34 2022 Looking for Jane

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]]> The Wind Knows My Name 62583516 This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht��the night their family lost everything. Samuel��s mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to the United Kingdom, which he boarded alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.

Arizona, 2019. Eight decades later, Anita Diaz, a blind seven-year-old girl, and her mother board another train, fleeing looming danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the United States. However, their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales. She escapes through her trips to Azabahar, a magical world of the imagination she created with her sister back home.

Anita��s case is assigned to Selena Duran, a young social worker who enlists the help of a promising lawyer from one of San Francisco��s top law firms. Together they discover that Anita has another family member in the United States: Leticia Cordero, who is employed at the home of now eighty-six-year-old Samuel Adler, linking these two lives.

Spanning time and place, The Wind Knows My Name is both a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers��and never stop dreaming.]]> 260 Isabel Allende 0593598105 Ann 0 to-read 3.93 2023 The Wind Knows My Name

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]]> The Echo of Old Books 62060274
With no trace of how these mysterious books came into the world, Ashlyn is caught up in a decades-old literary mystery, beckoned by two hearts in ruins, whoever they were, wherever they are. Determined to learn the truth behind the doomed lovers�� tale, she reads on, following a trail of broken promises and seemingly unforgivable betrayals. The more Ashlyn learns about Hemi and Belle, the nearer she comes to bringing closure to their love story��and to the unfinished chapters of her own life.]]> 431 Barbara Davis 1542038154 Ann 0 to-read 4.27 2023 The Echo of Old Books

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]]> The Keeper of Hidden Books 62054146 A heartwarming story about the power of books to bring us together, inspired by the true story of the underground library in WWII Warsaw, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London.

All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things during times of hardship: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler��s forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving.

With the death count rising and persecution intensifying, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away, and even starting a clandestine book club. She and her dearest friend never surrender their love of reading, even when Janina is forced into the newly formed ghetto.

But the closer Warsaw creeps toward liberation, the more dangerous life becomes for the women and their families��and escape may not be possible for everyone. As the destruction rages around them, Zofia must fight to save her friend and preserve her culture and community using the only weapon they have left��literature.]]> 416 Madeline Martin 1335455027 Ann 0 to-read 4.07 2023 The Keeper of Hidden Books

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]]> <![CDATA[The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]]> 65678550
Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which served the neighborhood's quirky collection of blacks and European immigrants, helped by her husband, Moshe, a Romanian-born theater owner who integrated the town's first dance hall. When the state came looking for a deaf black child, claiming that the boy needed to be institutionalized, Chicken Hill's residents��roused by Chona's kindess and the courage of a local black worker named Nate Timblin��banded together to keep the boy safe.

As the novel unfolds, it becomes clear how much the people of Chicken Hill have to struggle to survive at the margins of white Christian America and how damaging bigotry, hypocrisy, and deceit can be to a community. When the truth is revealed about the skeleton, the boy, and the part the town��s establishment played in both, McBride shows that it is love and community��heaven and earth��that ultimately sustain us.]]> 385 James McBride 0593422945 Ann 0 to-read 3.83 2023 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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]]> Lady Tan��s Circle of Women 62919732
According to Confucius, ��an educated woman is a worthless woman,�� but Tan Yunxian��born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness��is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations��looking, listening, touching, and asking��something a man can never do with a female patient.

From a young age, Yunxian learns about women��s illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose��despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it��and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other��s joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus , they tell from adversity beauty can bloom.

But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife��embroider bound-foot slippers, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights.

How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts? A captivating story of women helping each other, Lady Tan��s Circle of Women is a triumphant reimagining of the life of one person who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today.]]> 352 Lisa See 1982117087 Ann 0 to-read 4.31 2023

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]]> The Covenant of Water 180357146 From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India��s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning��and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl��and future matriarch, Big Ammachi��will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.

A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.]]> 715 Abraham Verghese 0802162177 Ann 0 to-read 4.34 2023 The Covenant of Water

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]]> Weyward 60654349 I am a Weyward, and wild inside.

2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.

1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. As a girl, Altha��s mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence for witchcraft is set out against Altha, she knows it will take all of her powers to maintain her freedom.

1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives�C�Cand for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.

Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.]]> 329 Emilia Hart 125028080X Ann 0 to-read 4.03 2023 Weyward

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]]> Lonely Castle in the Mirror 54633167
Delving into their emotional lives with sympathy and a generous warmth, Lonely Castle in the Mirror shows the unexpected rewards of reaching out to others. Exploring vivid human stories with a twisty and puzzle-like plot, this heart-warming novel is full of joy and hope for anyone touched by sadness and vulnerability.]]> 355 Mizuki Tsujimura 0857527274 Ann 0 to-read 4.25 2017 Lonely Castle in the Mirror

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]]> How Do You Live? 54110592 Anime master Hayao Miyazaki��s favorite childhood book, in English for the first time.

First published in 1937, Genzabur�� Yoshino��s How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a crossover classic for young readers. Academy Award�Cwinning animator Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl��s Moving Castle) has called it his favorite childhood book and announced plans to emerge from retirement to make it the basis of a final film.

How Do You Live? is narrated in two voices. The first belongs to Copper, fifteen, who after the death of his father must confront inevitable and enormous change, including his own betrayal of his best friend. In between episodes of Copper��s emerging story, his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and offering advice on life��s big questions as Copper begins to encounter them. Over the course of the story, Copper, like his namesake Copernicus, looks to the stars, and uses his discoveries about the heavens, earth, and human nature to answer the question of how he will live.

This first-ever English-language translation of a Japanese classic about finding one��s place in a world both infinitely large and unimaginably small is perfect for readers of philosophical fiction like The Alchemist and The Little Prince, as well as Miyazaki fans eager to understand one of his most important influences.]]> 288 Genzaburo Yoshino 1616209771 Ann 0 to-read 4.00 1937 How Do You Live?

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]]> Small Things Like These 58662236
Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.]]> 128 Claire Keegan 0802158749 Ann 0 to-read 4.13 2021

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]]> The King's Chinese 49630675
- Geoff Wade
Historian, author and translator

"The King's Chinese is an important book that fills in much of the tapestry and colour of early history of family and business in Penang, Malaya and Indonesia. Daryl Yeap writes with a keen eye for detail to weave the rise of a penniless immigrant barber who rose through sheer wits and ability to become one of the most successful tycoons in Asia. The stories of the tumultuous age of boom, bust, war and independence are brought alive through the intertwined careers of Yeap Chor Ee and his Javanese business partner and in-law Oei Tiong Ham. A great contribution to Malaysiana and Penang history."

- Tan Sri Andrew Sheng
Distinguished Fellow, Asia Global Institute, The University of Hong Kong]]> Daryl Yeap Ann 0 to-read 4.17 The King's Chinese

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]]> <![CDATA[Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones]]> 40121378 Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving��every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:
-?Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);
-?Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;
- Design your environment to make success easier;
- Get back on track when you fall off course;
...and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.]]> 319 James Clear Ann 0 to-read 4.34 2018 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

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]]> <![CDATA[Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners]]> 22514127
In "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python," you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand no prior programming experience required. Once you've mastered the basics of programming, you'll create Python programs that effortlessly perform useful and impressive feats of automation to: Search for text in a file or across multiple filesCreate, update, move, and rename files and foldersSearch the Web and download online contentUpdate and format data in Excel spreadsheets of any sizeSplit, merge, watermark, and encrypt PDFsSend reminder emails and text notificationsFill out online forms

Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks.

Don't spend your time doing work a well-trained monkey could do. Even if you've never written a line of code, you can make your computer do the grunt work. Learn how in "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python.""]]> 479 Al Sweigart 1593275994 Ann 0 to-read 4.29 2014

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

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]]> <![CDATA[The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)]]> 26030734
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is��but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.

As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home��until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.

From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.]]> 282 Peter Brown 0316381993 Ann 0 to-read 4.19 2016 The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)

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]]> Fish in a Tree 22402972
Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions.?She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of. As her confidence grows, Ally feels free to be herself and the world starts opening up with possibilities. She discovers that there��s a lot more to her��and to everyone��than a label, and that great minds don��t always think alike.]]> 288 Lynda Mullaly Hunt 0399162593 Ann 0 to-read 4.24 2015 Fish in a Tree

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