Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, she realizes there鈥檚 nothing to do but walk.
Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. She鈥檚 determined to change her life if she can just make it home.]]>
author: Emma Pattee
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.鈥�
Javier Zamora鈥檚 adventure is a 3,000-mile journey from his small town in
El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border.
He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a
mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling
alone amid a group of strangers and a 鈥渃oyote鈥� hired to lead them to safety,
Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.
At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents鈥� arms,
snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He
cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns,
arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two
weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants
who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.
A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and
intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey,
but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most
unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora鈥檚 story, but it鈥檚 also the story
of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.]]>
author: Javier Zamora
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/04/08
shelves: mexico, el-salvador, memoir, nonfiction, non
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Omm Sety 鈥� a brilliant, eccentric Englishwoman with uncanny knowledge of New Kingdom Egypt, its royal secrets and religious practices 鈥� worked under some of the 20th century鈥檚 greatest Egyptologists and lived a life of magic and memory. Omm Sety鈥檚 EGYPT contains never-before-seen episodes from her life, and important, previously unknown details of Egyptian history.
鈥淥mm Sety was a controversial character... an example of a soul so consumed with a purpose that it focused the arc of her life - not in one incarnation only, but in at least two. She knew things she could not have known without some extraordinary extension of consciousness."
鈥� Stephen A. Schwartz, Director of Research, Rhine Research Center, Durham, North Carolina and author of Opening to the Infinite
"With access to Omm Sety's secrets, diaries and riveting private conversations, the authors navigate this explosive material with elegance, sincerity, and sympathy. Readers may have trouble putting this book down once they start it."
鈥� John Anthony West, author of The Serpent in the Sky]]>
author: Hanny El Zeini
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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It was clear to nurse Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig, something associated with the presence of 鈥楲ovely Louise鈥�, the wife of the celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. But she couldn't pinpoint it.
In a few days鈥� time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. With Louise suffering terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late鈥]>
author: Agatha Christie
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1936
rating: 0
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Who is also on board? Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot is on holiday. He recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 鈥業鈥檇 like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.鈥� Despite the exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems鈥]>
author: Agatha Christie
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1937
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/30
shelves: africa, mystery, egypt, fiction
review:
Wonderful!
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The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons鈥搕he tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad鈥檚 rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz鈥檚 vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician.
Throughout the trilogy, the family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.]]>
author: Naguib Mahfouz
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1957
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/29
shelves: currently-reading
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Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, has a problem: his family fortune, the legendary Gresham Trust, has been depleted by decades of profligate spending. While magazine covers and Instagram stories display impeccably designed manors and shiny new yachts, the secret reality holds nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus鈥檚 scheming mother, is for Rufus to seduce a woman with money, thereby securing the family's precarious financial future.
Should he marry Sol猫ne de Courcy, a French hotel heiress with honey-blond tresses and a royal bloodline? Should he pursue Martha Dung, the tattooed venture capital genius who passes out billions like lollipops? Or should he follow his heart, betray his family, squander his legacy, and finally confess his love to the literal girl next door, the humble daughter of a doctor, Eden Tong?
When the Gresham family descends on the Big Island of Hawaii to host a veritable who's who of sultans, barons, and oligarchs for the wedding of the decade, Rufus must merely flex his famous abs to bewitch the heiress of his choice. But instead a hot mic exposes a secret tryst, a volcanic eruption burns through the nuptials, and the Gresham family's plans鈥攁nd their reputation鈥攇o up in flames.
Can the once-great earldom rise from the ashes? Or will a secret tragedy, hidden for two decades, reveal a shocking twist? Spanning the black sand beaches of Hawaii, the red city of Marrakech, the Los Angeles bachelor pad of a billionaire playboy, and the inner sanctum of England鈥檚 oldest family estate, Lies and Weddings reveals an enthralling family saga that is as scandalous and satirical as it is full of heart.]]>
author: Kevin Kwan
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at: 2025/03/29
date added: 2025/03/29
shelves: fiction, england, hawai, hawaii
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You've never met me, but I'm your niece Kate, and since it is my birthday tomorrow and you are super-rich could you please send me a present?
Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they don't have much to look forward to. Why can't Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her 11th birthday is shaping up to be mundane -- that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert, whom she's never even met before, surprises her with the most unexpected, exhilarating, inappropriate birthday present of all time: a colossal steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow.
Kate and Tom's parents want to send it right back where it came from. But Kate and Tom have other ideas -- and so does the Silver Arrow -- and soon they're off to distant lands along magical rail lines in the company of an assortment of exotic animals who, it turns out, can talk. With only curiosity, excitement, their own resourcefulness and the thrill of the unknown to guide them, Kate and Tom are on the adventure of a lifetime...and who knows? They just might end up saving the world after all.]]>
author: Lev Grossman
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/14
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Look for Under Pressure, the companion guide to coping with stress and anxiety among girls, available now.
In this sane, highly engaging, and informed guide for parents of daughters, Dr. Damour draws on decades of experience and the latest research to reveal the seven distinct鈥攁nd absolutely normal鈥攄evelopmental transitions that turn girls into grown-ups, including Parting with Childhood, Contending with Adult Authority, Entering the Romantic World, and Caring for Herself. Providing realistic scenarios and welcome advice on how to engage daughters in smart, constructive ways, Untangled gives parents a broad framework for understanding their daughters while addressing their most common questions, including
鈥� My thirteen-year-old rolls her eyes when I try to talk to her, and only does it more when I get angry with her about it. How should I respond?
鈥� Do I tell my teen daughter that I鈥檓 checking her phone?
鈥� My daughter suffers from test anxiety. What can I do to help her?
鈥� Where鈥檚 the line between healthy eating and having an eating disorder?
鈥� My teenage daughter wants to know why I鈥檓 against pot when it鈥檚 legal in some states. What should I say?
鈥� My daughter鈥檚 friend is cutting herself. Do I call the girl鈥檚 mother to let her know?
Perhaps most important, Untangled helps mothers and fathers understand, connect, and grow with their daughters. When parents know what makes their daughter tick, they can embrace and enjoy the challenge of raising a healthy, happy young woman.
BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD WINNER
鈥淔inally, there鈥檚 some good news for puzzled parents of adolescent girls, and psychologist Lisa Damour is the bearer of that happy news. [ Untangled ] is the most down-to-earth, readable parenting book I鈥檝e come across in a long time.鈥� 鈥� The Washington Post
鈥淎nna Freud wrote in 1958, 鈥楾here are few situations in life which are more difficult to cope with than an adolescent son or daughter during the attempt to liberate themselves.鈥� In the intervening decades, the transition doesn鈥檛 appear to have gotten any easier which makes Untangled such a welcome new resource.鈥� 鈥� The Boston Globe]]>
author: Lisa Damour
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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I didn't read this children's book until a couple of years ago, but it instantly became one of my favorites. Cassandra is a shy (second child) who lives with her bohemian family in a castle somewhere really damp in England. Basically it鈥檚 a story about a girl who is overshadowed by everyone else, especially her beautiful older sister. When two American boys move to town, the plot gets complicated. The father has also been in jail at one point for threatening his now-dead wife with a butter knife. Lots of funny scenes, including one with a supposed bear鈥� beside all the crazy situations 鈥淚 Capture the Castle鈥� is a bittersweet story about growing up. The movie is also pretty good.]]>
author: Dodie Smith
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1948
rating: 0
read at: 2025/03/10
date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: childrensbooks, classics, england
review:
3/9/2025 Such a delicious re-read. Really enjoying.
I didn't read this children's book until a couple of years ago, but it instantly became one of my favorites. Cassandra is a shy (second child) who lives with her bohemian family in a castle somewhere really damp in England. Basically it鈥檚 a story about a girl who is overshadowed by everyone else, especially her beautiful older sister. When two American boys move to town, the plot gets complicated. The father has also been in jail at one point for threatening his now-dead wife with a butter knife. Lots of funny scenes, including one with a supposed bear鈥� beside all the crazy situations 鈥淚 Capture the Castle鈥� is a bittersweet story about growing up. The movie is also pretty good.
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Una ins贸lita novela en la que el autor de Los detectives salvajes, premiado con el R贸mulo Gallegos, exhibe su no menos ins贸lita altura literaria.]]>
author: Roberto Bola帽o
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.35
book published: 1999
rating: 0
read at: 2025/03/06
date added: 2025/03/06
shelves: france, europe, fiction
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This special tenth-anniversary deluxe edition of a modern classic includes a foreword by the author, discussion questions for book clubs, and an exclusive short story featuring the slow horses.
London, England: Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what鈥檚 left of their failed careers. The 鈥渟low horses,鈥� as they鈥檙e called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated there. Maybe they botched an Op so badly they can鈥檛 be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle鈥攏ot unusual in this line of work. One thing they have in common, though, is they want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there鈹€even if it means having to collaborate with one another.
When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, the slow horses see an opportunity to redeem themselves. But is the victim really who he appears to be?]]>
author: Mick Herron
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/04
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*Includes 500 new markets for 2007
*Provides 100% updated material
Continuing the tradition of providing writers with the information they need to get published, the 2007 Writer's Market is the go-to guide for anyone who wants to be published. Featuring new and exclusive interviews with Alice Kaplan, Augusten Burroughs, and Jennifer Weiner, the latest edition also includes articles covering the basics of book proposals, how to get freelance writing gigs, the keys to successful query letters, the six rules critical to publishing success, and more.
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author: Robert Lee Brewer
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.12
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/28
shelves: reference
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author: Lonely Planet
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/26
shelves: to-read, travel, africa
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Most people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. As with every art, love demands practice and concentration, as well as genuine insight and understanding.
In his classic work, The Art of Loving, renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm explores love in all its aspects鈥攏ot only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, the love of God, and the love of parents for their children.]]>
author: Erich Fromm
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1956
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/25
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Daniel Shaw illustrates the workings of this relational system of subjugation in a variety of contexts: theorizing traumatic narcissism as an intergenerationally transmitted relational/developmental trauma; and exploring the clinician's experience working with the adult children of traumatizing narcissists. He explores the relationship of cult leaders and their followers, and examines how traumatic narcissism has lingered vestigially in some aspects of the psychoanalytic profession.
Bringing together theories of trauma and attachment, intersubjectivity and complementarity, and the rich clinical sensibility of the Relational Psychoanalysis tradition, Shaw demonstrates how narcissism can best be understood not merely as character, but as the result of the specific trauma of subjugation, in which one person is required to become the object for a significant other who demands hegemonic subjectivity. Traumatic Narcissism presents therapeutic clinical opportunities not only for psychoanalysts of different schools, but for all mental health professionals working with a wide variety of modalities. Although primarily intended for the professional psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, this is also a book that therapy patients and lay readers will find highly readable and illuminating.]]>
author: Daniel Shaw
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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author: Jean Rhys
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1930
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/18
shelves: to-read
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Melissa Clark has been reaching millions of readers through her New York Times column "A Good Appetite" since 2007. She is also the face of the Times cooking videos, which are filmed in her now iconic Brooklyn-based home kitchen. Her delicious, seasonal recipes are simple to make and satisfying for the whole family. They are always executed with a touch of elegance and flair.
Favorite Recipes from Melissa Clark's Kitchen curates more than 100 dishes, hand-selected by Clark herself, from her two previously published books, In the Kitchen With A Good Appetite and Cook This Now . The book is organized by meal including Breakfast/Brunch, Lunch, Dinner Mains, Dinner Sides, Desserts, Cocktails and Snacks. In addition, it features an "Occasion Chart" that cross-references recipes into situational categories including weekday staples, perfect for 2, family meals, and company's coming, making it easy for the reader to select the perfect recipe for any occasion.]]>
author: Melissa Clark
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/15
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Just as Julia Child brought French cooking to twentieth-century America, so now Melissa Clark brings French cooking into the twenty-first century. She first fell in love with France and French food as a child; her parents spent their August vacations traversing the country in search of the best meals with Melissa and her sister in tow. Near to her heart, France is where Melissa's family learned to cook and eat. And as her own culinary identity blossomed, so too did her understanding of why French food is beloved by Americans.
Now, as one of the nation's favorite cookbook authors and food writers, Melissa updates classic French techniques and dishes to reflect how we cook, shop, and eat today. With recipes such as Salade Nicoise with Haricot Vert, Cornmeal and Harissa Souffl茅, Scalloped Potato Gratin, Lamb Shank Cassoulet, Ratatouille Sheet-Pan Chicken, Campari Olive Oil Cake, and Apricot Tarte Tatin (to name a few), Dinner in French will quickly become a go-to resource and endure as an indispensable classic.]]>
author: Melissa Clark
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/15
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A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech鈥攁nd a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
鈥淲ith tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.鈥� 鈥擲hannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the 鈥減lay-based childhood鈥� began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the 鈥減hone-based childhood鈥� in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this 鈥済reat rewiring of childhood鈥� has interfered with children鈥檚 social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the 鈥渃ollective action problems鈥� that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes鈥攃ommunities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children鈥攁nd ourselves鈥攆rom the psychological damage of a phone-based life.]]>
author: Jonathan Haidt
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at: 2025/01/14
date added: 2025/02/14
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But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment he, his mother, and sister fled Iran in the middle of the night, stretching all the way back to family tales set in the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan, the palaces of semi-ancient kings, and even the land of stories.
We bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs, to the heroines and heroes of Kosrou's family's past, who ate pastries that made them weep, and touched carpets woven with precious gems.
Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, author Daniel Nayeri weaves a tale of Khosrou trying to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story).
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author: Daniel Nayeri
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2025/02/13
date added: 2025/02/14
shelves: iran, mena, memoir, nonfiction
review:
I really enjoyed this memoir. It was painful and funny and also profound. Thumbs up.
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If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words鈥�Let Them鈥攚ill set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you. The Let Them Theory puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands鈥攁nd this book will show you exactly how to do it.
In her latest groundbreaking book, The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins鈥�New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's most respected experts on motivation, confidence, and mindset鈥攖eaches you how to stop wasting energy on what you can't control and start focusing on what truly YOU. Your happiness. Your goals. Your life.
Using the same no-nonsense, science-backed approach that's made The Mel Robbins Podcast a global sensation, Robbins explains why The Let Them Theory is already loved by millions and how you can apply it in eight key areas of your life to make the biggest impact. Within a few pages, you'll realize how much energy and time you've been wasting trying to control the wrong things鈥攁t work, in relationships, and in pursuing your goals鈥攁nd how this is keeping you from the happiness and success you deserve.
Written as an easy-to-understand guide, Robbins shares relatable stories from her own life, highlights key takeaways, relevant research and introduces you to world-renowned experts in psychology, neuroscience, relationships, happiness, and ancient wisdom who champion The Let Them Theory every step of the way.
Learn how
Stop wasting energy on things you can't control Stop comparing yourself to other peopleBreak free from fear and self-doubtRelease the grip of people's expectationsBuild the best friendships of your lifeCreate the love you deservePursue what truly matters to you with confidenceBuild resilience against everyday stressors and distractionsDefine your own path to success, joy, and fulfillment. . . and so much more.
The Let Them Theory will forever change the way you think about relationships, control, and personal power. Whether you want to advance your career, motivate others to change, take creative risks, find deeper connections, build better habits, start a new chapter, or simply create more happiness in your life and relationships, this book gives you the mindset and tools to unlock your full potential.
Order your copy of The Let Them Theory now and discover how much power you truly have. It all begins with two simple words.]]>
author: Mel Robbins
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/13
shelves: to-read
review:
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For decades, politicians, policymakers, and investors have debated these questions, but the Big Debt Cycle that helps answer them is not talked about or well understood. With the US debt issue coming to a head, Dalio鈥檚 How Countries Go Broke provides the first-ever detailed analysis of the Big Debt Cycle, explaining its implications and offering a surprisingly straightforward solution to getting debt problems like the ones the US faces under control.
Dalio has built his career as a leading global macro investor by studying the patterns of history to develop unconventional perspectives on what鈥檚 happening in markets and economies today. It was this approach that led him, in the years leading up to the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, to study the Great Depression and other past big debt crises and use what he learned to navigate the turbulent markets successfully. By looking closely at thirty-five cases over the past 100 years when governments have gone broke and studying the mechanics behind them, Dalio has developed a first-of-its-kind template for what to watch for and what to do when the threat is significant as his measures show that it now is. He has discussed this template with treasury secretaries and central bankers from around the world and is now sharing it with the public to help bring urgent attention to the big risks the US and a number of other countries face鈥攁nd to explain how to avoid the worst-case scenario.]]>
author: Ray Dalio
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 5.00
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/08
shelves: to-read
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Who can resist the allure of ancient Egypt -- and the thrill of uncovering mysteries that have lain hidden for thousands of years? Not the feisty Miss Emily Sands, who in 1926, four years after the discovery of King Tut's tomb, led an expedition up the Nile in search of the tomb of the god Osiris. Alas, Miss Sands and crew soon vanished into the desert, never to be seen again. But luckily, her keen observations live on in the form of a lovingly kept journal, full of drawings, photographs, booklets, foldout maps, postcards, and many other intriguing samples. Here are just a few of EGYPTOLOGY's special features:
-- an extravagantly gilded cover, featuring a raised Horus hawk pendant with three encrusted gems
-- a playable game of Senet -- ancient Egyptian checkers -- including board, pieces, original-style dice, and rules
-- a souvenir booklet showing how to read simple hieroglyphs
-- a scrap of textured "mummy cloth"
-- a facsimile of the gilded mummy mask of King Tut
-- a gilded eye-of-Horus amulet with a "jewel" at the end
Rich with information about life in ancient Egypt and peppered with Miss Sands's lively narration, EGYPTOLOGY concludes with a letter from the former Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, explaining which parts of this unique tale may be accepted as fact, which are guided by legend, and which reflect the author's delightful sense of fancy.]]>
author: Emily Sands
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2004
rating: 0
read at: 2025/02/07
date added: 2025/02/07
shelves: egypt, mena, nonfiction
review:
Very striking cover. The font size and choices seemed small for a children's book.
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In A Child's Introduction to Egyptology, kids will travel back in time and discover one of history's most fascinating civilizations: Ancient Egypt. Author Heather Alexander leads young readers from the very beginning of the kingdom 4,500 years ago through the reign of Cleopatra in 31 BC. Included throughout are beautifully illustrated profiles of gods and goddesses like Ra, the god of the sun, and Isis, the goddesses of magic, as well as information about scribes, priests, and other notable Egyptians. Kids will learn about the great pharaohs like Ramses II and Nefertiti, how the magnificent Great Pyramid in Giza was built, an in-depth explanation of how Tutankhamun's tomb was found, and even how mummies were made.
This fact-filled book with original illustrations, a removable hieroglyphics poster, and activities like How to Mummify an Apple and Create Your Own Papyrus is perfect for every young, budding Egyptologist.]]>
author: Heather Alexander
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.53
book published:
rating: 0
read at: 2025/02/04
date added: 2025/02/07
shelves: egypt, mena, nonfiction
review:
Not just for children. It's a nice overview of ancient Egypt. The craft options also seem pretty cute.
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Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley, whose products are changing how we do everything from driving around to eating food. It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system.听
In PALO ALTO, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing the ideologies, technologies, and policies that have been engineered there over the course of 150 years of Anglo settler colonialism, from IQ tests to the "tragedy of the commons," racial genetics, and "broken windows" theory. The Internet and computers, too. It's a story about how a small American suburb became a powerful engine for economic growth and war, and how it came to lead the world into a surprisingly disastrous 21st century. PALO ALTO is an urgent and visionary history of the way we live now, one that ends with a clear-eyed, radical proposition for how we might begin to change course.]]>
author: Malcolm Harris
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/03
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Arrogant. Charismatic. Narcissistic If you were to name traits that define strong leaders, these are some of the words that likely spring to mind. Conventional thinking would have us believe that it鈥檚 those filled with hubris and free of self-doubt that make the best leaders. The evidence, however, tells quite a different story.
In Humbitious , professional speaker, executive coach and distinguished Trinity University professor Amer Kaissi shatters the common myths about leadership being an ego-driven game. Drawing on extensive research, personal stories, and fascinating historical examples of leadership done right (and wrong), Kaissi reveals why the most effective, high-performing leaders aren鈥檛 those with the biggest egos, but who possess humility, coupled with ambition and drive.
Tracing triumphs (and missteps) of leaders from Napoleon Bonaparte to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, soccer star Alex Morgan to Costco CEO Jim Sinegal, and others, Kaissi illuminates what true humility is鈥攁nd what it isn鈥檛鈥攁nd how to cultivate it within yourself and with others. As you gain insight into this critical leadership trait, you鈥檒l come to understand that humility requires ambition, courage, and fierce determination. Humility, you鈥檒l learn, isn鈥檛 about false modesty; it鈥檚 about being honest with yourself, and others, about your abilities and potential, so you can make a realistic plan for improvement.
The unequivocal truth is that the successful narcissists that you either know or are working for right now are the exception to the rule. The highest performers are those who adopt and integrate humility into their relationships with others, with their organizations, and with themselves. Because fortune favors not simply the bold鈥攂ut the humbitious .]]>
author: Amer Kaissi
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/01
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With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra鈥檚 long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world鈥檚 amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag.
Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth鈥檚 mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.]]>
author: Victoria Finlay
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/29
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Barbarian Days is William Finnegan鈥檚 memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses鈥攐ff the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships annealed in challenging waves.
Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu even while his closest friend was a Hawaiian surfer. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly鈥攈e drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui鈥攊s served up with rueful humor. He and a buddy, their knapsacks crammed with reef charts, bushwhack through Polynesia. They discover, while camping on an uninhabited island in Fiji, one of the world鈥檚 greatest waves. As Finnegan鈥檚 travels take him ever farther afield, he becomes an improbable anthropologist: unpicking the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissecting the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, navigating the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity.
Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little understood art. Today, Finnegan鈥檚 surfing life is undiminished. Frantically juggling work and family, he chases his enchantment through Long Island ice storms and obscure corners of Madagascar.]]>
But overall, my impression is that like most of us, Finnegan is seeking transcendence. And he catches rare glimpses of that when he rides waves.
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author: William Finnegan
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/26
shelves: nonfiction, california, hawaii, memoir
review:
Finnegan is an excellent writer, making the mundane powerful. I'm not a surfer and some of his rides sound like hell: all the pounding, thrashing, whitewater, rip currents and walls of water, sinister and foreboding. No thank you!
But overall, my impression is that like most of us, Finnegan is seeking transcendence. And he catches rare glimpses of that when he rides waves.
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In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions--even abandoning his phone for three months--but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention--and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers' productivity.
Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus--as individuals, and as a society--if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.]]>
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She explained to me that if you have spent long enough being interrupted in your daily life, you will start to interrupt yourself even when you are set free from all these external interruptions.
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author: Johann Hari
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/16
date added: 2025/01/16
shelves: nonfic, nonfiction
review:
Haven't finished it yet, but the chapter on email is blowing my mind. I'm well versed in the phone issues, particularly with social media in the vein of Snapchat, FB, etc. But I had not revisited the ideas behind that product!
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She explained to me that if you have spent long enough being interrupted in your daily life, you will start to interrupt yourself even when you are set free from all these external interruptions.
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It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who's been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.
Jonathan Franzen's novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.
A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.]]>
author: Jonathan Franzen
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/06
shelves: to-read
review:
Recommended by Erica
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author: Chris Naunton
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.95
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: africa, childrensbooks, egypt, nonfiction
review:
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author: Arlene Moscovitch
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1999
rating: 0
read at: 2025/01/05
date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: africa, egypt, nonfiction
review:
Always easier to start with children鈥檚 books when you want to learn some basics about a place!
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For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bola帽o's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bola帽o's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.")
Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in the The New York Times: "None has done it in such a dark and glittering fashion as Roberto Bola帽o."]]>
author: Roberto Bola帽o
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/12/18
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author: Julia Decugis
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 5.00
book published:
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/12/11
shelves: nonfiction
review:
Julia est un petit g茅nie des enfants et de leurs 茅motions!
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Spirituality is meant to bring about harmony and peace. But the diversity of our philosophies, beliefs, concepts, and views about the soul often leads to confusion. To reconcile the noise that clouds spirituality, Michael Singer combines accounts of his own life journey to enlightenment鈥攆rom his years as a hippie-loner to his success as a computer program engineer to his work in spiritual and humanitarian efforts鈥攚ith lessons on how to put aside conflicting beliefs, let go of worries, and transform misdirected desires. Singer provides a road map to a new way of living not in the moment, but to exist in a state of perpetual happiness.]]>
author: Michael A. Singer
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/12/05
shelves: nonfiction, to-read
review:
Recommended by Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.
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In revealing how Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities into a political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of government, one that could bring to their knees Governors and Mayors (from La Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks, contractors, labor unions, insurance firms, even the press and the Church, into an irresistible economic force--Robert Caro reveals how power works in all the cities of the United States. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He personally conceived and completed public works costing 27 billion dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever having been elected to office, he dominated the men who were--even his most bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, could not control him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller, the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it) equalled his own.]]>
author: Robert A. Caro
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.51
book published: 1974
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/12/04
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Recommended to me by David Solomon, the CEO of Goldman Sachs.
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When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States鈥� total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. Studying these institutions over time, Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the myth that black communities could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. Instead, housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created an inescapable, but hard to detect, economic trap for black communities and their banks.
The catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. Not only could black banks not 鈥渃ontrol the black dollar鈥� due to the dynamics of bank depositing and lending but they drained black capital into white banks, leaving the black economy with the scraps.
Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap. These initiatives have functioned as a potent political decoy to avoid more fundamental reforms and racial redress. Examining the fruits of past policies and the operation of banking in a segregated economy, she makes clear that only bolder, more realistic views of banking鈥檚 relation to black communities will end the cycle of poverty and promote black wealth.]]>
author: Mehrsa Baradaran
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/12/04
shelves: nonfiction, to-read
review:
Recommended to me by the CEO of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon.
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Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties鈥攕uccessful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father鈥檚 death, he鈥檚 medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women鈥攈is enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude鈥攁 period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]>
author: Sally Rooney
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at: 2024/12/02
date added: 2024/12/02
shelves: to-read
review:
Sally Rooney is the queen of dysfunctional relationships. She has an uncanny ability to drill down, line by line, into a romantic encounter while showing connection and dissociation at the same time. I really enjoy her work.
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From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics鈥� Circle Award鈥攁nd one of the most original thinkers of our time鈥攁 riveting collection of essays about places in dramatic transition.
Far and Away collects Andrew Solomon鈥檚 writings about places undergoing seismic shifts鈥攑olitical, cultural, and spiritual. Chronicling his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter.
A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of these cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, Far and Away takes a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences, yet Solomon finds a common humanity wherever he travels. Illuminating the development of his own genius, his stories are always intimate and often both funny and deeply moving.]]>
author: Andrew Solomon
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/29
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All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent should parents accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves. Drawing on ten years of research and interviews with more than three hundred families, Solomon mines the eloquence of ordinary people facing extreme challenges.
Elegantly reported by a spectacularly original and compassionate thinker, Far from the Tree explores how people who love each other must struggle to accept each other鈥攁 theme in every family鈥檚 life.]]>
author: Andrew Solomon
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/29
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In this important book, 53 distinguished men & women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors & victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China & Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.听Often surprising, always thought provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion & responsibility.]]>
author: Simon Wiesenthal
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1969
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/11/13
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author: Fran莽oise Sagan
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1955
rating: 0
read at: 2024/11/10
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: fiction, france, europe, 1950s
review:
Published in 1956. Another sharp, cynical read. Pity it's out of print in English. Excellent.
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Lucy Albright is far from her Long Island upbringing when she arrives on the campus of her small California college, and happy to be hundreds of miles from her mother, whom she鈥檚 never forgiven for an act of betrayal in her early teen years. Quickly grasping at her fresh start, Lucy embraces college life and all it has to offer鈥攏ew friends, wild parties, stimulating classes. And then she meets Stephen DeMarco. Charming. Attractive. Complicated. Devastating.
Confident and cocksure, Stephen sees something in Lucy that no one else has, and she鈥檚 quickly seduced by this vision of herself, and the sense of possibility that his attention brings her. Meanwhile, Stephen is determined to forget an incident buried in his past that, if exposed, could ruin him, and his single-minded drive for success extends to winning, and keeping, Lucy鈥檚 heart.
Alternating between Lucy鈥檚 and Stephen鈥檚 voices, Tell Me Lies follows their connection through college and post-college life in New York City. Deep down, Lucy knows she has to acknowledge the truth about Stephen. But before she can free herself from this addicting entanglement, she must confront and heal her relationship with her mother鈥攐r risk losing herself in a delusion about what it truly means to love.
With the psychological insight and biting wit of Luckiest Girl Alive, and the yearning ambitions and desires of Sweetbitter, this keenly intelligent and staggeringly resonant novel chronicles the exhilaration and dilemmas of young adulthood, and the difficulty of letting go, even when you know you should.]]>
author: Carola Lovering
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/04
shelves: to-read
review:
Recommended by Jen D.
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In A Certain Smile Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways. These two acerbically witty and delightfully amoral tales about the nature of love are shimmering masterpieces of cool-headed, brilliant observation.]]>
author: Fran莽oise Sagan
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1956
rating: 0
read at: 2024/11/03
date added: 2024/11/04
shelves: france, fiction, 1950s, europe
review:
A savage little novel. Renders you breathless.
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From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she's the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she's not very smart. If you've ever felt like no one was listening to you, then you know how hard that can be.
When she learns about Blue 55, a real whale who is unable to speak to other whales, Iris understands how he must feel. Then she has an idea: she should invent a way to "sing" to him! But he's three thousand miles away. How will she play her song for him?]]>
author: Lynne Kelly
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/30
shelves: to-read
review:
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme nous raconte l'histoire comique d'un riche bourgeois qui essaye d'imiter la fa莽on de vivre et le comportement des nobles.]]>
author: 惭辞濒颈猫谤别
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1670
rating: 4
read at: 1995/01/01
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves: fiction, france
review:
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author: A.A. Milne
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1928
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves: childrensbooks, fiction
review:
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In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother鈥檚 endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation.
Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa鈥檚 warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming 鈥渓ion women.鈥�
But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls鈥� high school in Iran, Ellie鈥檚 memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie鈥檚 privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.
Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.]]>
author: Marjan Kamali
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/10/09
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review:
Recommended by Sonia
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author: Annie Ernaux
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/09
shelves: france, memoir, autobiographical
review:
So deeply moving. I highly recommend this author.
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When orphans Sorrel, Mark, and Holly are sent to live with their grandmother, a famous English actress, she enrolls them in the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training, the same Academy that made the orphans from Ballet Shoes famous so long ago. It's the chance of a lifetime, but the Academy won't give the children the "proper" education their parents would have wanted. However, the children learn to love the Academy when they find out that Sorrel has dramatic flair, Mark can sing, and Holly charms everyone with her adorable impish ways. Maybe talent does run in the family.
This classic children's book is perfect for kids who dream of being on stage--dancing, singing, or acting. Don't miss the other classic Noel Streatfeild books, Ballet Shoes, Skating Shoes, and Dancing Shoes!]]>
author: Noel Streatfeild
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1944
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/01
date added: 2024/10/08
shelves: childrensbooks, england, fiction, dance, europe, engl
review:
Reread this with my daughter. That Marc character is really captivating.
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I'm very interested in concept of resolving generational trauma and finding tools that allow people to move forward and create value in the world now. Alexandra Asseily's book, Becoming a Good Ancestor, is a jewel-like, wise, little book that educates without lectures and provides some concrete techniques and ideas to ponder. She broaches love in all its forms, healing the wounds of history and of course, the power of forgiveness.
She says"Our freedom comes when we realize that, in order to thrive, survive and break out of our prisons of resentments and hate, we have no other choice but to forgive and live our true purpose--fully alive and unshackled by trauma and resentment."
"Forgiveness is a conscious act."
Peace everybody.]]>
author: Alexandra Asseily
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 5.00
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2024/07/01
date added: 2024/10/08
shelves:
review:
I read this book this summer.
I'm very interested in concept of resolving generational trauma and finding tools that allow people to move forward and create value in the world now. Alexandra Asseily's book, Becoming a Good Ancestor, is a jewel-like, wise, little book that educates without lectures and provides some concrete techniques and ideas to ponder. She broaches love in all its forms, healing the wounds of history and of course, the power of forgiveness.
She says"Our freedom comes when we realize that, in order to thrive, survive and break out of our prisons of resentments and hate, we have no other choice but to forgive and live our true purpose--fully alive and unshackled by trauma and resentment."
"Forgiveness is a conscious act."
Peace everybody.
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author: Kermit Lynch
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1988
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/10/08
shelves: put-aside-for-now, to-read
review:
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The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present鈥攅ven projections into the future鈥攑hotos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6 decades of diaries.
Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author鈥檚 continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective.
On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir 鈥渨ritten鈥� by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the 鈥淚鈥� for the 鈥渨e鈥� (or 鈥渢hey鈥�, or 鈥渙ne鈥�) as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents鈥� generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents鈥� generation (and could be writing of her own book): 鈥淔rom a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the 鈥渨e鈥� and impersonal pronouns.鈥漖]>
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at: 2024/10/08
date added: 2024/10/08
shelves: france, memoir, autobiographical
review:
Wow. It's as if I've lived thousands of French lifetimes through this book. I thought it was quite something. Very special. Thanks Claire for bringing her to my attention. I'm the better for it.
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Can you spot the difference?
Emma Caan is a fake.
She鈥檚 a forger, an artist who specializes in nineteenth-century paintings. But she isn鈥檛 a criminal; her copies are commissioned by museums and ultra-wealthy collectors protecting their investments. Emma鈥檚 more than mastered a Gauguin brushstroke and a van Gogh wheat field, but her work is sometimes a painful reminder of the artistic dreams she once chased for herself, when she was younger and before her family and her world fell apart.
When oligarch art collector Leonard Sobetsky unexpectedly appears with an invitation, Emma sees a way out鈥攁 new job, a new path for herself, and access to the kind of money she needs to support her unstable and recently widowed mother.
But every invitation incurs an obligation . . . and Emma isn鈥檛 prepared for what鈥檚 to come. As she鈥檚 pulled further into Leonard鈥檚 opulent scene, she will discover what鈥檚 lurking beneath the glitz and glamour. When she does, the past she鈥檚 worked hard to overcome will collide with the present, making her wonder how much of her carefully curated life is just as fake as her forgeries . . .]]>
author: Erica Katz
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/26
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Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize鈥搒hortlisted author of The Years.
In A Girl鈥檚 Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another鈥檚 will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man鈥檚, and then he moves on, leaving her without a 鈥渕aster,鈥� bereft. Now, fifty years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman that she wanted to forget completely. And to discover that here, submerged in shame, humiliation, and betrayal, but also in self-discovery and self-reliance, lies the origin of her writing life.]]>
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at: 2024/09/21
date added: 2024/09/22
shelves: france, nobel-prize, europe, fiction
review:
My first experience with Annie Ernaux. I thought it was a very powerful book. An interesting interplay between memory, nostalgia, and position of women in 1958 France. Curious to see what people think has and has not changed.
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D茅couvre aussi dans la m锚me collection : Des chatons si mignons , Le plus tendre des liens , Les Barbapapa des cavernes , Une histoire de partage , L'Anniversaire des Barbab茅b茅s et Quand je serai grand .]]>
author: Annette Tison
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.00
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rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/14
shelves: daphne-22-23
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When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.
The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.
Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?]]>
author: Matt Haig
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2024/09/12
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: fiction, england, antartica, brazil, europe
review:
So glad I finally got to read Matt Haig's work! I really enjoyed this book.
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author: Truman Capote
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1958
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/08/25
shelves: classics, fiction
review:
I enjoy Truman Capote's writing. This book is a bit surprising because its far more edgy than the movie, which is very 鈥渢winkly鈥� with Mancini's music and upbeat dialogue. In fact, the whole sexual aspect (she's a call girl) in the movie is scrubbed out. You forget that Golightly and Varjack (sp?) are paid escorts. Apparently Capote hated the choice of Hepburn for the movie; he had his heart set on Marilyn Monroe for the role.
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author: Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.44
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: to-read, wishlist
review:
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In this young readers edition of the instant New York Times bestseller Grit , MacArthur Genius Award鈥搘inning professor Angela Duckworth offers insights into who succeeds in life and why the secret to achievement a special blend of passion and persistence she calls 鈥済rit.鈥�
The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of 鈥済enius,鈥� Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance.
In Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success Duckworth shows young people how they can achieve remarkable things not just by relying on natural talent but by practicing a unique form of focused persistence. She also teaches them how to be better at pursuing the small goals that will bring joy into their everyday life.
Drawing on her powerful personal story, Duckworth describes how a youth spent smashing through every academic barrier resulted in the hypothesis that the real predictor of success may not be inborn 鈥渢alent鈥� but a special blend of resilience and single-mindedness.
Through her descriptions of field research at venues as various as the National Spelling Bee (where students who score highest on the 鈥淕rit Scale鈥� land in the final rounds) to work with Pete Carroll coach of the Seattle Seahawks, who was building the grittiest culture in the NFL, Duckworth shows how 鈥済rit鈥� works in the real world. She also passes along insights gleaned from interviews with dozens of high achievers including the New York Times Crossword Editor, the Dean of Admissions at Harvard, and more.]]>
author: Angela Duckworth
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.71
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/08/07
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Recommended by my daughter's elementary school.
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Incidentally, I used to love the submarine ride (RIP) at Disneyland. ]]>
author: Jules Verne
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1869
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/08/04
shelves: currently-reading
review:
Since taking a few scuba diving lessons, I've been really inspired to read this book!
Incidentally, I used to love the submarine ride (RIP) at Disneyland.
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author: Evelyn Waugh
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1934
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/07/21
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Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri鈥檚 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鈥攈andsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi鈥檚 poetry鈥攁nd 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鈥攁 result of the coup d鈥檈tat that forever changes their country鈥檚 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鈥攖o college in California, to another man, to a life in New England鈥攗ntil, 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?]]>
author: Marjan Kamali
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2022/04/10
date added: 2024/05/21
shelves: iran, mena, fiction
review:
Enjoyable.
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What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth? Your sanity?
In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising new position at the fast-growing Amazon, but she never expected the soul-crushing pressure that came with it.
In no time she finds the challenge and excitement she'd been craving鈥昦long with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear. But the chase, the visibility, and, let's face it, the stock options, proved intoxicating, and so, for twelve years, she stayed鈥晆ntil she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she'd signed up for.
Unsparing, absurd, and wickedly funny, Exit Interview is a rare journey inside the crucible that is Amazon. An intimate, surprisingly relatable look at the work life of a driven woman in a world that loves the idea of female ambition but balks at the reality.]]>
author: Kristi Coulter
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.14
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/01
shelves: to-read
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Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town鈥檚 most respected gentlemen鈥攐ne of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.
Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.
Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon鈥檚 newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard. The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day.]]>
author: Ariel Lawhon
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/01
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Ugo, Manu, and Fabio grew up together on the mean streets of Marseilles where friendship means everything. They promised to stay true to one another and swore that nothing would break their bond. But people and circumstances change.
Ugo and Manu have been drawn into the criminal underworld of Europe's toughest, most violent and vibrant city. When Manu is murdered and Ugo returns from abroad to avenge his friend's death, only to be killed himself, it is left to the third in this trio, Detective Fabio Montale, to ensure justice is done. Despite warnings from both his colleagues in law enforcement and his acquaintances in the underworld, Montale cannot forget the promise he once made Manu and Ugo. He's going to find their killer no matter the consequences.
Fabio Montale is the perfect protagonist in for a fabled city of melancholy beauty.]]>
author: Jean-Claude Izzo
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/01
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Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls鈥攗ntil the young new coach arrives.
Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl"鈥攂oth with the team and with Addy herself.
Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death鈥攁nd learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain.
The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Writing with "total authority and an almost desperate intensity" (Tom Perrotta), award-winning novelist Megan Abbott delivers a story as unnerving and thrilling as adolescence itself.
"Spectacular . . . It's Heathers meets Fight Club good."
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author: Megan Abbott
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.22
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/05/01
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If one basic principle has served as the bedrock of bestselling author Rutger Bregman's thinking, it is that every progressive idea -- whether it was the abolition of slavery, the advent of democracy, women's suffrage, or the ratification of marriage equality -- was once considered radical and dangerous by the mainstream opinion of its time. With Humankind, he brings that mentality to bear against one of our most entrenched ideas: namely, that human beings are by nature selfish and self-interested.
By providing a new historical perspective of the last 200,000 years of human history, Bregman sets out to prove that we are in fact evolutionarily wired for cooperation rather than competition, and that our instinct to trust each other has a firm evolutionary basis going back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. Bregman systematically debunks our understanding of the Milgram electrical-shock experiment, the Zimbardo prison experiment, and the Kitty Genovese "bystander effect."
In place of these, he offers little-known true stories: the tale of twin brothers on opposing sides of apartheid in South Africa who came together with Nelson Mandela to create peace; a group of six shipwrecked children who survived for a year and a half on a deserted island by working together; a study done after World War II that found that as few as 15% of American soldiers were actually capable of firing at the enemy.
The ultimate goal of Humankind is to demonstrate that while neither capitalism nor communism has on its own been proven to be a workable social system, there is a third option: giving "citizens and professionals the means (left) to make their own choices (right)." Reorienting our thinking toward positive and high expectations of our fellow man, Bregman argues, will reap lasting success. Bregman presents this idea with his signature wit and frankness, once again making history, social science and economic theory accessible and enjoyable for lay readers.]]>
author: Rutger Bregman
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/04/30
shelves: to-read
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On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can鈥檛 stand him. She can鈥檛 stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have the view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can鈥檛 stand that he knows more about Curzio Malaparte than she does, and she really can鈥檛 stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish, disapproving cousin, Charlotte. 鈥淵our mother is Chinese so it鈥檚 no surprise you鈥檇 be attracted to someone like him,鈥� Charlotte teases.
Daughter of an American-born-Chinese mother and blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself in favor of the white side, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton where Lucie is weekending with her new fianc茅, Lucie finds herself drawn to George again. Soon, Lucy is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fianc茅, the co-op board of her Fifth Avenue apartment, and ultimately herself as she tries mightily to deny George entry into her world鈥揳nd her heart.
Moving between summer playgrounds of privilege, peppered with decadent food and extravagant fashion, Sex and Vanity is a truly modern love story, a daring homage to A Room with a View, and a brilliantly funny comedy of manners set between two cultures.]]>
author: Kevin Kwan
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.26
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/04/25
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First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury
This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]>
author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/03/15
shelves: to-read
review:
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author: Sally Rooney
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2024/03/05
date added: 2024/03/06
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I loved the book. Rooney鈥檚 sharp intellect and the carnage that ensues from her expression as a writer; as well as the mirroring fallout for the hyper-intelligent female characters in the novel is super interesting. I also enjoyed reading her thoughts about superiority, fame, Christianity, and of course, her character鈥檚 patented, oddly-repressed, intimacy issues. They always add a great deal of dramatic tension.
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This is a first-hand account of the human cost of the criminal justice system, and a guide to how we got into this mess, The Secret Barrister shows you what it鈥檚 really like and why it really matters.]]>
author: The Secret Barrister
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/03/04
shelves: to-read
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When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants . An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine, only to succumb to envy and desire.听A crime reporter unearths a mass grave, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a conman, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle; as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods, they come to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.
Traversing cycles of history, nature, and even literature, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we鈥檙e connected to our environment and to one another, across time, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless how do we live on, even after we鈥檙e gone?]]>
author: Daniel Mason
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/02/26
shelves: to-read
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In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett鈥檚 death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.
Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor鈥檚 true history, and fulfill her final request to 鈥渟hare the black cake when the time is right鈥�? Will their mother鈥檚 revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?
Charmaine Wilkerson鈥檚 debut novel is a story of how the inheritance of betrayals, secrets, memories, and even names can shape relationships and history. Deeply evocative and beautifully written, Black Cake is an extraordinary journey through the life of a family changed forever by the choices of its matriarch.]]>
author: Charmaine Wilkerson
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/02/26
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Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name.
He knows he's Chase. But who is Chase? When he gets back to school, he sees that different kids have very different reactions to his return.
Some kids treat him like a hero. Some kids are clearly afraid of him.
One girl in particular is so angry with him that she pours her frozen yogurt on his head the first chance she gets.
Pretty soon, it's not only a question of who Chase is鈥攊t's a question of who he was . . . and who he's going to be.
From the #1 bestselling author of Swindle and Slacker, Restart is the spectacular story of a kid with a messy past who has to figure out what it means to get a clean start.]]>
author: Gordon Korman
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2024/02/25
date added: 2024/02/25
shelves: fiction, childrensbooks
review:
I read and loved This Can't Be Happening at McDonald Hall when I was a kid. It felt like coming full circle to read this book--recommended to me by my own child. He's always had "it" in my opinion. Such a fun experience to revisit that voice and also see where he has taken his talents. I thought it was quite moving.
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As fifteen-year-old Janie Johnson stares at the milk carton, she feels overcome with shock. She knows that little girl is she. But how could it be true?
Janie can't believe that her loving parents kidnapped her, until she begins to piece together clues that don't make sense. Why are there no pictures of Janie before she was four? Her parents have always said they didn't have a camera. Now that explanation sounds feeble. Something is terribly wrong, and Janie is afraid to find out what happened more than twelve years ago.
In this gripping page-turner, the reader will unravel鈥攁s Janie does鈥攖he twisted events that changed the lives of two families forever.]]>
author: Caroline B. Cooney
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1990
rating: 0
read at: 2024/02/25
date added: 2024/02/25
shelves: fiction, young-adult
review:
I was raiding my child's book box and the concept intrigued me. It moves quickly and fits squarely in the genre "Young Adult." When I realized I would have to read another book to get to the reconciliation scene with the biological parents I was quite annoyed. One wikipedia page later...satisfied now.
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"This book blew my mind!"--Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit
Many of us think of the arts as entertainment--a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more are essential to our lives.
We're on the verge of a cultural shift in which the arts can deliver potent, accessible, and proven solutions for the well-being of everyone. Magsamen and Ross offer compelling research that shows how engaging in an art project for as little as forty-five minutes reduces the stress hormone cortisol, no matter your skill level, and just one art experience per month can extend your life by ten years. They expand our understanding of how playing music builds cognitive skills and enhances learning; the vibrations of a tuning fork create sound waves to counteract stress; virtual reality can provide cutting-edge therapeutic benefit; and interactive exhibits dissolve the boundaries between art and viewers, engaging all of our senses and strengthening memory. Doctors have even been prescribing museum visits to address loneliness, dementia, and many other physical and mental health concerns.
Your Brain on Art is a portal into this new understanding about how the arts and aesthetics can help us transform traditional medicine, build healthier communities, and mend an aching planet.
Featuring conversations with artists such as David Byrne, Ren锟絜 Fleming, and evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson, Your Brain On Art is an authoritative guide neuroaesthetics. The book weaves a tapestry of breakthrough research, insights from multidisciplinary pioneers, and compelling stories from people who are using the arts to enhance their lives.]]>
author: Susan Magsamen
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/27
shelves: to-read
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There鈥檚 never been a book about food like Let鈥檚 Eat France! A book that feels literally larger than life, it is a feast for food lovers and Francophiles, combining the completist virtues of an encyclopedia and the obsessive visual pleasures of infographics with an enthusiast鈥檚 unbridled joy.
Here are classic recipes, including how to make a pot-au-feu, eight essential composed salads, p芒t茅 en cro没te , blanquette de veau , choucroute, and the best ratatouille. Profiles of French food icons like Colette and Curnonsky, Brillat-Savarin and Bocuse, the Troigros dynasty and Victor Hugo. A region-by-region index of each area鈥檚 famed cheeses, charcuterie, and recipes. Poster-size guides to the breads of France, the wines of France, the oysters of France鈥攅ven the frites of France. You鈥檒l meet endive, the belle of the north; discover the croissant timeline; understand the art of tartare; find a chart of wine bottle sizes, from the tiny split to the Nebuchadnezzar (the equivalent of 20 standard bottles); and follow the family tree of French sauces.
Adding to the overall delight of the book is the random arrangement of its content (a tutorial on mayonnaise is next to a list of places where Balzac ate), making each page a found treasure. It鈥檚 a book you鈥檒l open anywhere鈥攁nd never want to close.]]>
author: Fran莽ois-R茅gis Gaudry
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.51
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/22
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author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1820
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/22
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author: Elliot Ackerman
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/22
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Britain, early tenth century a time of change. There are new raids by the Vikings from Ireland and turmoil among the Saxons over the leadership of Mercia. A younger generation is taking over.
脝thelred, the ruler of Mercia, is dying, leaving no legitimate heir. The West Saxons want their king, but Uhtred has long supported 脝thelflaed, sister to King Edward of Wessex and widow of 脝thelred. Widely loved and respected, 脝thelflaed has all the makings of a leader鈥攂ut could Saxon warriors ever accept a woman as their ruler? The stage is set for rivals to fight for the empty throne.]]>
author: Bernard Cornwell
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/22
shelves: to-read
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Headed by the brilliant, enigmatic, and widely feared Sir Francis Walsingham, the Elizabethan state deployed every dark art: spies, double agents, cryptography, and torture. Delving deeply into sixteenth-century archives, Stephen Alford offers a groundbreaking, chillingly vivid depiction of Elizabethan espionage, literally recovering it from the shadows. In his company we follow Her Majesty鈥檚 agents through the streets of London and Rome, and into the dank cells of the Tower. We see the world as they saw it-ever unsure who could be trusted or when the fatal knock on their own door might come. The Watchers is a riveting exploration of loyalty, faith, betrayal, and deception with the highest possible stakes, in a world poised between the Middle Ages and modernity.]]>
author: Stephen Alford
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/22
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Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume:
The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim.
Ursula K. Le Guin said, "Magic stuff . . . a masterpiece . . . the best science fiction I've read in years!"
The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny.
"One of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century." -- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
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author: Gene Wolfe
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1994
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author: Gustave Flaubert
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1921
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In Illusions, the unforgettable follow-up to his phenomenal bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places--like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.]]>
author: Richard Bach
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1977
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That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to flee with her family the political upheaval of her country in the late 1970s. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. She would go on to become a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, and a life she had once assumed would be impossible. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began.
The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity and guidance through the experience and, finding none, began to write her way through it--a chronicle that grew beyond her imagining. Motherhood, marriage, the immigrant experience, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, fortune-tellers, grief, reincarnation, jealousy, comfort, pain, the marvel of the body in full rebellion--this book is as sprawling and majestic as the life it records. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep--an incomparable guide to living vividly by facing hard truths consciously.
With humor, bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life.]]>
author: Julie Yip-Williams
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2019
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You can decide to be happy. For years, James Baraz鈥檚 online Awakening Joy course has offered participants from around the world the benefits of this simple but profoundly radical proposition. Grounded in simple Buddhist principles but accessible to people of all faiths鈥搊r no faith at all鈥搕his concept provides the jumping-off point for a transformational journey toward a richer, more meaningful, more positive outlook on life. Now readers everywhere can follow the same ten steps Baraz teaches to his program participants. In this practical down-to-earth guide, you will learn how to
鈥� make happiness a habit by inclining your mind toward states that lead to well-being
鈥� find joy even during difficult times and avoid the pitfalls that prevent you from achieving the contentment you seek
鈥� cultivate effective practices for sustaining joyfulness, such as reclaiming your natural sense of wonder and finding joy in the midst of everyday experiences
Each chapter of Awakening Joy consists of one step in Baraz鈥檚 ten-step program and includes engaging exercises and practical advice to make happiness your natural default setting. For everyone from the cynic despondent over life鈥檚 many sorrows to the harried commuter raging at freeway traffic, this book offers up a simple yet powerful message of hope grounded in the realization that joy already exists inside every one of us. Like a precious child, it only needs to be recognized, embraced, and nurtured in order to grow to its full potential.
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"I've personally taken the Awakening Joy program and can say this It's fabulous and it works!听 This book, filled with moving stories and rich teachings, will give you wonderful tools to experience true happiness and well-being.听 It's a gem!"鈥斕齅arci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason
"Opening to joy takes courage and intention. This book will inspire you to discover genuine happiness, and show you how. Drawing on perennial wisdom and accessible meditative practices, James and Shoshana offer teachings that can awaken your love of life."鈥斕齌ara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance
" Awakening Joy is an important guide to transforming our everyday experience into genuine happiness.听 James and Shoshana's insight, kindness, and clear and practical language make this a direct, pragmatic and valuable manual for a better life."鈥擲haron Salzberg, author of The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
"In this听beautiful and heartwarming book, James Baraz听and Shoshana Alexander take us on a journey that truly awakens joy. There are stories that bring tears to our eyes and practices that transform our lives.听 听 This 听 is a loving, wise, and compassionate testament to what is possible for each one of听us.听 Highly recommended."鈥擩oseph Goldstein, author of A Heart Full of Peace 听
"I'm so happy that James Baraz's Awakening Joy class is now available in book form.听 His class has been helpful to thousands of people.听 I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness.听 Joyfulness is our birthright.听 This book shows you how to reclaim it."鈥擬.J. Ryan, author of听 AdaptAbility
"This is a life-changing book听that not only听teaches practical,听useful strategies for increasing your awareness,听but also illuminates choices about how you can lead your emotional life."听鈥擯aul Ekman, Ph.D.,听Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco,听co-author of Emotional Awareness 听and听author of听 Emotions Revealed
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"To awaken joy in oneself and others is one of life's great skills, a skill taught by sages across the centuries, and now distilled in this book."鈥擱oger Walsh M.D., Ph.D., University of California Medical School, author of Essential The Seven Central Practices
"This book is an inspiring gift that will open your heart to the presence of love and joy in everyday life."鈥擣rances Vaughan, Ph.D., psychologist, author of Shadows of the Sacred 听
"Every page of this wonderful book has something that inspires faith or a new story, a memorable quote, an exercise that听invites participation....From beginning to end, it is a joy to read."鈥擲ylvia Boorstein, author of Happiness Is An Inside Practicing for a Joyful Life 听
"This book should be read by every person who cares about making this a better world. It can enhance the joys of working to develop a wiser and more compassionate society, and help make us both happier and more effective in challenging times."鈥擠aniel Ellsberg, author of A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
听听 "This is an important book鈥攁nd a great read! With its unique mix of story, philosophy, and practice we can explore our needs, free ourselves from the bonds of suffering, and innovate new ways of being that will last our lifetimes. 听And, because James has woven himself and his characteristic smile throughout the book, we can have a lot of fun in the process."鈥擱ick Foster, co-author听of 听How We Choose to Be Happy 听
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"Faith, hope, and love have long been considered the essential virtues of the religious life. James Baraz has done us all a great service by elevating joy to its rightful place alongside the trinity of sacred emotions. What a gift is it, to be surprised by joy, and to awaken, in the midst of a difficult world, the impulse to rejoice."鈥擯atricia E. de Jong, Senior Minister, First Congregational Church of Berkeley
" Awakening Joy is an inspirational and practical resource which helps us identify where we are or are not experiencing joy in our lives. This original book addresses the primary obstacles or beliefs that hinder our access to joy, and includes timeless practices and ways in which we can expand, cultivate, express, and experience more joy in our lives and within our own nature. Well-written, informative, and a significant contribution to everyone's well-being."鈥擜ngeles Arrien, Ph.D., cultural anthropologist, and author of award-winning Second Half of Opening to the Eight Gates of Wisdom
"In our pursuit of happiness, this moving book should be a dog eared, worn out companion....As you work through this elegant material, you will find yourself laughing a little longer, dancing a little more, and awakening to the beauty of what lies inside you and in those nearby."鈥擠acher Keltner,听Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley, and author, Born To Be The Science of a Meaningful Life
"I have been deeply touched and inspired by James Baraz's accessible, practical wisdom.听 His genuine caring for people and enthusiasm for life generously pour forth and permeate everything that he teaches--now in the pages of this book."鈥擱abbi Margie Jacobs, Institute for Jewish Spirituality听
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" Awakening Joy is a wise treasure house听of valuable information, anecdotes, potent quotes, and creative suggestions to step into one's power and live life to the max. This book is a rich, inspiring resource I'm excited to share with my yoga students."鈥擥abriel Halpern, founder and听director of the听Yoga Circle听[Chicago]]]>
author: James Baraz
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2009
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鈥淚t is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.鈥� 鈥擳heodore Roosevelt
Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable, or to dare greatly. Whether the arena is a new relationship, an important meeting, our creative process, or a difficult family conversation, we must find the courage to walk into vulnerability and engage with our whole hearts.
In Daring Greatly, Dr. Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability. Based on twelve years of research, she argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagement, and meaningful connection. The book that Dr. Brown鈥檚 many fans have been waiting for, Daring Greatly will spark a new spirit of truth鈥攁nd trust鈥攊n our organizations, families, schools, and communities.]]>
author: Bren茅 Brown
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2012
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鈥淥ne of the most significant projects embarked upon by any intellectual of our generation鈥� (Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times), Guns, Germs, and Steel presents a groundbreaking, unified narrative of human history.
Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this 鈥渁rtful, informative, and delightful鈥� (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for its broadest patterns.
The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the developmental paths of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start at a new way of life. But the localized origins of farming and herding proved to be only part of the explanation for their differing fates. The unequal rates at which food production spread from those initial centers were influenced by other features of climate and geography, including the disparate sizes, locations, and even shapes of the continents. Only societies that moved away from the hunter-gatherer stage went on to develop writing, technology, government, and organized religions as well as deadly germs and potent weapons of war. It was those societies, adventuring on sea and land, that invaded others, decimating native inhabitants through slaughter and the spread of disease.
A major landmark in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be.]]>
author: Jared Diamond
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1997
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author: Dave Eggers
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2015
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author: Salman Rushdie
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1983
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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.
LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.]]>
author: Nelson Mandela
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.56
book published: 1994
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author: Maxwell King
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2018
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Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as the source of female empowerment. And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages. But how dangerous is pink and pretty, anyway? Being a princess is just make-believe; eventually they grow out of it听.听.听. or do they?
In search of answers, Peggy Orenstein visited Disneyland, trolled American Girl Place, and met parents of beauty-pageant preschoolers tricked out like Vegas showgirls. The stakes turn out to be higher than she ever imagined. From premature sexualization to the risk of depression to rising rates of narcissism, the potential negative impact of this new girlie-girl culture is undeniable鈥攜et armed with awareness and recognition, parents can effectively counterbalance its influence in their daughters' lives.]]>
author: Peggy Orenstein
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2011
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Then in 1968, Carlos Castaneda returned to Mexico, to don Juan and his hallucinogenic drugs, and to a world of experience no man from our Western civilization had ever entered before.]]>
author: Carlos Castaneda
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1971
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Now, with a new Introduction by the author, written especially for this twenty-fifth anniversary deluxe trade paperback edition of the all-time national bestseller in its field, M. Scott Peck explains the ideas that shaped this book and that continue to influence an ever-growing audience of readers.
Written in a voice that is timeless in its message of understanding, The Road Less Traveled continues to help us explore the very nature of loving relationships and leads us toward a new serenity and fullness of life. It helps us learn how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become a more sensitive parent; and ultimately how to become one's own true self.
Recognizing that, as in the famous opening line of his book, "Life is difficult" and that the journey to spiritual growth is a long one, Dr. Peck never bullies his readers, but rather guides them gently through the hard and often painful process of change toward a higher level of self-understanding.]]>
author: M. Scott Peck
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.34
book published: 1978
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As the pages unfold, immerse yourself in Yogananda's narrative. His autobiography not only chronicles his personal journey but also serves as a guide to understanding the deeper dimensions of spirituality, meditation, and the quest for enlightenment.鈥淎utobiography of a Yogi鈥� stands as a testament to Paramahansa Yogananda's ability to convey complex spiritual concepts with clarity and warmth. The book has inspired countless individuals on their own spiritual journeys, transcending cultural and religious boundaries.
Now, as you delve into this spiritual masterpiece, isn't just an autobiography; it's a spiritual odyssey that invites readers to explore the realms of consciousness and the limitless potential of the human spirit. Yogananda's words resonate with timeless wisdom, offering insights that continue to transform lives.
Open the pages, and let 鈥淎utobiography of a Yogi鈥� be your guide on the path to self-discovery and spiritual awakening.Whether you are a seeker on the spiritual path, a curious reader exploring different philosophies, or someone looking for profound insights into the nature of existence, Yogananda's autobiography provides a transformative and enlightening reading experience.
Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West. The book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He then travels across America lecturing and establishing his teachings in Los Angeles, California. In 1935 he returns to India for a yearlong visit. When he returns to America, he continues to establish his teachings, including writing this book. The book is an introduction to the methods of attaining God-realization and to the spiritual thought of the East, which had only been available to a few in 1946. The author claims that the writing of the book was prophesied long ago by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya. Autobiography of a Embark on an extraordinary spiritual journey through the Autobiography of a Yogi. This spiritual memoir takes you on a transformative exploration of yogic practices, Eastern philosophy, and the path to self-realization. Follow the captivating narrative as you encounter yogic masters, witness divine experiences, and delve into the depths of meditation techniques. Gain profound insights into the power of spiritual awakening and the transcendental nature of existence. With its timeless wisdom and inspiring anecdotes, this book serves as a beacon of light for those seeking spiritual enlightenment and a deeper connection with the divine.]]>
author: Paramahansa Yogananda
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1946
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In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine鈥檚 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater鈥檚 exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as 鈥渁n idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency.鈥� It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio鈥攚ho grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood鈥攖hat he believes are the reason behind his success.
In Principles, Dalio shares what he鈥檚 learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book鈥檚 hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of 鈥渞adical truth鈥� and 鈥渞adical transparency,鈥� include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating 鈥渂aseball cards鈥� for all employees that distill their strengths and weaknesses, and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they鈥檙e seeking to achieve.
Here is a rare opportunity to gain proven advice unlike anything you鈥檒l find in the conventional business press.]]>
author: Ray Dalio
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2017
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author: Peter V. Jones
name: Elizabeth
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2016
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