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When You Are Engulfed In Flames
"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in ...
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Pros: A light, entertaining read. The chapter about Sedaris's neighbor Helen is especially funny/poignant. Cons: Not as laugh-out-loud funny as some of Sedaris's previous books. -
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Her Fearful Symmetry
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2009: Following her breakout bestseller, The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger returns with Her Fearful Symmetry, a haunting tale about the complications of ...
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Freakonomics
Presenting economics as the underlying connection between seemingly unrelated events or phenomena, this international bestseller establishes a new way of looking at the world. The authors explain the hidden side ...
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Cons: While the ideas were interesting, this really should have been a few articles (they were), not an entire book. Felt quite "lite". -
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Outliers
Amazon Best of the Month, November 2008: Now that he's gotten us talking about the viral life of ideas and the power of gut reactions, Malcolm Gladwell poses a ...
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Pros: I have heard about this book and it sounds like an interesting topic; a great gift for a graduate student! -
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The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both ...
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Pros: The most amazing story... beating generational poverty. -
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The Lovely Bones
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and ...
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Pros: A beautiful book, it really is emotional but not overbearingly so. It is an egaging plot ... Cons: I have read it so many times it is falling ... -
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by New York writer Jonathan Safran Foer. It was one of the first novels to deal with the terrorist attacks of ...
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Pros: Perfect choice! This is my absolute all-time favorite book. I tell people this book when asked ... Cons: I've already read it.. -
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Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt's haunting memoir takes on new life when the author reads from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Recounting scenes from his childhood in New York City and Limerick, Ireland ...
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Pros: Frank McCourt's account of his difficult childhood is incredible. He writes from the point of view of himself as a child which makes for an entertaining, moving story. -
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The Bourne Deception
After Bourne is ambushed and nearly killed while in Indonesia, he fakes his death to take on a new identity and mission to find out who is trying to assassinate ...
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