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Work Song
Ivan Doig
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
Good as always
As can always be expected from Doig, a nice little book. If you already know his work, you won't be disappointed but if you are new to him, its a good intro and may encourage you to go deeper into his work.
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Girl in Translation
Jean Kwok
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
Don't miss this one!
This is a wonderful and engaging story. I gained perspective and insight while engrossed in this novel about an immigrant family. I especially appreciated the fact that the story line was not predictable. It was difficult to put this one down.
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My Name Is Memory
Ann Brashares
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
Better be a sequel!!!!
How anyone gave this story less than 5 stars is beyond me. I loved it. A man retains all his memorys from past lives and seeks the woman he has loved all of these lives. I was left wanting more of this story. The writing is great and the dialoge is natural. The ...
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Steven Johnson
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
A staggering insight into cultivating creativity
In my years as a Wall Street strategy advisor and as a life-long student of that which propels us towards our greatest potential, I am fascinated by an interesting structural tension when it comes to personal and professional excellence.
We have at our finger tips, ...
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink
Riverhead Hardcover, 2009
An outstanding book
Challenge your notions around command and control style of leadership, carrot and stick approach to rewards and the supra rational approach to management in this interesting account of what really drives us.
While the concepts are somewhat familiar, my conviction ...
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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, 3rd Edition
Patricia T. O'Conner
Riverhead Hardcover, 2009
It's been called "possibly the most popular book on grammar ever published." Now the witty bestseller that took the nation by storm is back in a revised, expanded edition with new dos and don'ts from top to bottom. In this new Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner displays the same fresh, irreverent humor that has charmed hundreds of thousands of ...
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Salvation City
Sigrid Nunez
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
Simple and simply stunning
I read "Salvation City" in a single afternoon. I was thoroughly engrossed in the story,, the characters, the ides and the author's beautifully direct prose. I have read a number of "post-apocalyptic" novels lately and "Salvation City" up there with the best of them ...
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The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
Dalai Lama
Riverhead Hardcover, 2009
A surprisingly practical seeming guidebook.
I had no notions of what Buddhism was like before reading this book, believing it to mostly be a requirement for ritualistic chanting. This book was a surprising eye opener, not only providing me a glimpse into the true nature of Buddhism, but also providing a number ...
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How Did You Get This Number
Sloane Crosley
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
Witty 'Musings"
Sloane Crosley is a gifted essayist. I am not sure that I love this genre but I have to admit that she is darn funny. She is not really talking about more than the mundane peculiarities of everyday life at her age but she has a great knack for getting it all down on ...
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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Danielle Evans
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
Good Collection of Stories for Young Women
Ms. Evans does a great job in this mosaic collection of stories for young women. I really enjoyed "Virgins" and "Snake" there were really two stories that could have been replaced - but all in all I really did enjoy this book and I do strongly recommend it for young ...
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Known to Evil (A Leonid McGill Mystery)
Walter Mosley
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
One Of the Best of the Year
Walter Mosley made the difficult decision a few years back to stop writing about the literary creation that made him famous: Easy Rawlins, the unconventional black private eye from Los Angeles. He instead introduced a new detective series set in contemporary New York ...
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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
David Owen
Riverhead Hardcover, 2009
Another great book by David
Not a doomed and gloom we're all going to die soon if we don't change book.
I'm a contractor who has read all Davids previous books and love the topics and really like his style of writing.
I learned a lot from this book and it completely changed my view on things. ...
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You Lost Me There
Rosecrans Baldwin
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
What happens when your memories can't be trusted?
I found this story, about an Alzheimer's researcher and the wife he lost in a car accident, not only interesting but touching. It is not a happy story nor, for me, was it a weepy one. At it's core, it was the story of a man who knows all about the brain but little ...
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The Surrendered
Chang-rae Lee
Riverhead Hardcover, 2010
The Surrendered
I just finished reading `The Surrendered' by Chang-rae Lee. This is a very powerful narrative about the effect the horrors of war on the intersecting lives of three vividly drawn characters. The story is told from varying points of view and careens around in time and ...
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The Tao of Wu
The RZA
Riverhead Hardcover, 2009
Excellent book on Philosophy, Religion and the Wu
This is an excellent book for any fans of Taoism or the Wu-Tang Clan. It provides an extra special treat for fans of both, like myself :).
The RZA does an amazing job of breaking down Taoism, as well as some Confucianism, Nation of Gods and Earths, Christian, ...
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