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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor
Viking Adult, 2008
Survival at it's best!
This is a wonderful story of survival and positive attitude that initiated healing. It should be a must read for anyone who has had a traumatic set back or even someone who just needs to be encouraged that not even adversity should stop you from making lemonade out of ...
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Always By My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other
Jim Nantz
Gotham, 2008
Fathers Day gift
I enjoyed reading Jim's book and gave it to my two sons-in-law as a Fathers Day gift
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The Shack
William P. Young
Windblown Media, 2007
Awesome
I just finished this book and I am at a loss for words. This book was touching, loving, amazing, it brought tears, and laughter, and just really made you think about life. The book is amazing and I recommend that anyone who reads it will be greatly touched!
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Anchor, 2007
Provoking
This story shares a tale about life and death--real life and real death. Make no mistake, you know how this ends. But it's not the ending--it's the journey. It's about the people left behind, and the effect one soul can have when paths cross on the street called ...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Elizabeth Gilbert
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
A Must-Read for everyone!
I usually don't feel the need to write a review, but after reading all the horrible reviews it got, I felt I had to. This book is amazing and incredibly funny! About a woman going through a divorce and trying to find herself. She does have some issues, but who doesn't? ...
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Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness
Kathy Freston
Weinstein Books, 2008
A Good Read
The author has some very good points of view as to why one shouldln't eat meat and the importance of a plant based diet. The 21 day cleansing wasn't difficult to do and there are good references in the back of the book for other books, some of which I purchased and ...
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff
Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008
Preventing Drug Abuse
Beautiful Boy is an informative book about drug abuse. The author is a journalist so it is well written and well researched. Mostly it is the author's personal experience and the agony of having a child addicted to drugs. The author blames himself for his son's drug ...
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation
Sheila Weller
Atria, 2008
Filled with love, couldn't put down
This book is intelligent, cogent, and suffused with affection and empathy for these remarkable women and the era they lived through. Every page brought a new revelation. Sometimes you laughed, sometimes you wanted to cry. They lived grand lives to match their music, ...
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Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
MD, James S. Gordon
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
Modern Bible for Depression Recovery
*****
This book, written by a psychiatrist who himself has suffered from depression, will be controversial because it describes depression as "the beginning of an unfolding process of self-awareness, not the grim end of a disease process". The author challenges the ...
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
HarperCollins, 2006
"Everything in life is an omen.."
AMAZING book. Beautifully written and easy to read with so many inspirable quotes that makes you want to find your own "personal legend".
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Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips
National Geographic
National Geographic, 2007
Very decriptive, makes you want to get on a plane and go!
This book is very thorough. It introduces you to places in the world, and even in the United States, that you have never heard of or thought existed! Definitely a great coffee table book.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson
Vintage, 1998
War and Hate
This book shatters any illusion of what a hippie book should be. Not a drop of peace and love to be found here. Behind the partying and humor, this is a book of profound dissillusionment and cynicism. But Thompson does a good job at not turning it into a bitter rant: ...
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin
Pantheon, 2008
Fascinating and in-depth science, light-hearted writing
This author has been involved for many years in key research to discover the genes and processes that shape our bodies and how these have evolved through the history of living things. I was thrilled to see a book written by him, and hoped I would not be disappointed. ...
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Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Michael Newton
Llewellyn Publications, 2002
Loved It
This is sort of part one of 2 books. You don't have to believe everything you read for a book to offer you something of value. This book is very stimulating and can get you to think twice about many things you do in life and how you view what others do. Like what is ...
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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (Borzoi Books)
Misha Glenny
Knopf, 2008
Global Disorder
Glenny dutifully documents, in exquisite detail, the rise of transnational criminal organizations in every global region.
Simple formula: morally neutral global economic platform + economic/social distress = the rapid proliferation and unabated growth of ...
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