Say You're One Of Them

 By: ryan    9:45 AM  Fiction - Uwem Akpan   No comments

Author : Uwem Akpan Title : Say You're One Of Them ISBN: 9780316086370 Publisher: Back Bay Books Contents..An Ex-Mas Feast ..Fattening For Gabon ..What Language Is That? ..Luxurious Hearses ..My Parents' Bedroom ..Afterword ..Acknowledgments ..Reading Group Guide Back Cover Text Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pay tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing...

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The Time Traveler's Wife

 By: ryan    4:42 PM  Fiction - Audrey Niffenegger   No comments

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife Author: Audrey Niffenegger Publisher: Vintage Books ISBN: 9780099546184 Back Cover text This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled...

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Velvet & Cinder Blocks

 By: ryan    9:33 PM  Short Stories   No comments

Title: Velvet & Cinder Blocks Author: Ioannis GatsiounisPublisher: ZI Publications ISBN: 9789675266041 Back Cover textIoannis Gatsiounis's debut collection of short stories brilliantly captures the spirit of the individual who struggles to define himself in a world where the idea of identity is both concrete and perpetually fleeting, a world where loyalties, frienships and family ties can alter in an instant. A young painter...

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The Last Song

 By: ryan    7:25 PM  Fiction - Nicholas Sparks   No comments

Title: The Last Song Author: Nicholas Sparks Publisher: Hachette Book Group ISBN: 9780446555647 Back Cover text In the tradition of his beloved novel A Walk to Remember, Nicholas Sparks brings us a deeply moving story of a young girl's first encounter with heartbreak and love. Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside down when her parents divorced and her father moved to Wrightsville Beach, North...

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The White Tiger

 By: ryan    11:41 AM  Fiction - Aravind Adiga   No comments

Title: The White Tiger Author: Aravind Adiga Publisher: Free Press ISBN: 9781439137697 Back Cover text Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life, having nothing but his own wits to help him along. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram...

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What I Bought Today

 By: ryan    4:58 PM  Half-Broke   No comments

1. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga 2. Ripples, Shih-Li Kow 3. Eight Jewels of The Phoenix, Tutu Dutta-Yean 4. Eight Fortunes of The Qilin, Tutu Dutta-Ye...

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What Buddhists Believe

 By: ryan    11:50 PM  Religion - Buddhism   No comments

Title : What Buddhists Believe Author : Dr K Sri Dhammananda's Back Cover textWhat Buddhists Believe answers many questions which are asked about Buddhism by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. there are so many misconceptions regarding superstitious and misinterpretations which are associated with this noble religion that it has become imperative to explain the Teachings in a manner which has contemporary relevance.Venerable...

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Nothing Changes Everything Changes

 By: ryan    11:35 PM  Religion - Buddhism   No comments

Title : Nothing Changes Everything Changes Author: Tsem Tulku Rinpoche Publisher: Kechara PublicationsBack Cover textIt is a simple truth by just changing our perspective about things and people around us, nothing changes and yet, everything in our world changes.In this collection of animated, lively teachings, Tsem Tulku Rinpoche shows us how the simple transformation of our perspectives can shed entirely new light on what...

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You've Got To Read This Book!

 By: ryan    11:36 PM  Non-Fiction   No comments

Title: You've Got To Read This Book! Author: Jack Canfield and Gay Hendricks Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 9780060891695 Back Cover textQ: Can a book really change your life?A: Absolutely!In You've Got To Read This Book!, 55 people from all walks of life share their stories of the life-changing power of books: Dave Berry relates his story of the book that, at the tender age of ten, set him on the path to becoming one of America's...

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The Power Of Now

 By: ryan    2:13 PM  Body and Spirit, Mind   No comments

Title: The Power of Now Author: Eckhart Tolle Publisher: Adam Publication ISBN: 9781444700848 Back Cover text Hugely Successful author Eckhart Tolle guides us through a challenging but extraordinary rewarding journey to find The Power of Now. We learn that we can find our way out of psychological pain; authentic human power is found by surrendering to the Now; the silence and space all around us is one of the keys to entering...

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