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Reading Ideas

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If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home   –   Author Lucy Worsley

Yosemite Epics: Tales of Adventure from America’s Greatest Playground   -  Authors Matt Johanson and Christopher Hampson

Shards: A Novel    –    Author Ismet Prcic

Restaurant Man  –  Author Joseph Bastianich

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Books for you to Read

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A Natural Woman: A Memoir  -  Author Carole King

Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News  – Author Dan Rather

Smart Marathon Training: Run Your Best Without Running Yourself Ragged  -  Author Jeffrey Horowitz

The Song of Achilles: A Novel  –  Author Madeline Miller

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Reading Recommendations

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Audubon’s Birds Of America (Tiny Folio) – Author Roger Tory Peterson

The Fallback Plan – Author Leigh Stein

A Girl and Her Pig: Recipes and Stories – Author April Bloomfield

The Man Who Planted Trees – Author Jean & Aline Giono and Harry Brockway

 

 

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Books for you to Read

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Arcadia  -  Author Lauren Groff

Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories – Author Megan Mayhew

A Good American  – Author Alex George

Radically Simple: Recipes – Author Rozanne Gold

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Reads

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The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone’s Business  –  Authors Dennis Littky and Samantha Grabelle

Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection -  Author A.J Jacobs

 Iron War: Dave Scott, Mark Allen, & the Greatest Race Ever Run -  Author Matt Fitzgerald

 One With Others  –  Author C.D Wright

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Reading Selections for You

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Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (Urban and Industrial Environments)  Author  Catherine Tumber

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity     Author    Katherine Boo

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business    Author  Charles Duhigg

 Gods Without Men     Author Hari Kunzru

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Books

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Freein’ Pancho       Author  Lloyd R. Prentice

The Darlings        Author  Cristina Alger

No One is Here Except All of Us       Author   Ramona Ausubel

Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel       Author   Pam Houston

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Books for you to Read

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Heft: A Novel      Author Liz Moore

Paris versus New York: A Tally of Two Cities      Author Vahram Muratyan

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity      Author Katherine Boo

Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (Urban and Industrial Environments)      Author Catherine Tumber

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Insightful Books to Read

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Books for you to Read

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Self Portraits:  Man Ray

The Worlds of Hunt Slonem:  Dominique Nahas

 The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc:  Kimberly Cutter

 Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman: Yvon Chouinard

 

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Engaging Books to Read

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen:                      Christopher McDougall

Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock: David Margolick

The Little Bride:  Anna Solomon

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Book Gift Ideas

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Thinking Fast and Slow:   Author Daniel Kahneman

 The Orchard: A Memoir:  Author Theresa Weir

 Hungry Girl Supermarket Survival: Aisle by Aisle:  Author Lisa Lillien

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Reads – Travel, Journeys & Creative Ventures

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The Eye Has to Travel: Author Lisa Immordino and Diana Vreeland

Searching for Beauty: The Life of Millicent Rogers: Author Cherie Burns

By the Way . . . A Guide to New Mexico’s 25 Scenic Byways: Author Laurie Evans, Lesley S King, and               Marti Niman

Sojourns of the Soul: One Woman’s Journey Around the World and into Her Truth: Dana Micucci

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A Few Books for you to Read

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101 Tips for Women Travelers:  Author Harriet Lewis

My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir:  Author Meir Shalev,                       Evan Fallenberg

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength:  Author Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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Reading Suggestions

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Grand Pursuit-The Story of Economic  Genius:  Author Sylvia Nasar

The Cat’s Table :  Author Michael Ondaatje

Worms Eat My Garbage :  How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Author Mary Appelhof & Mary F. Fenton

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Reading Choices

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The Girls’ Life: Guide to Growing Up: Author Karen Bokram

Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction : Author Elissa Schappell

How to Build a Fire: And Other Handy Things Your Grandfather Knew: Author Erin Bried

The Dovekeepers: A Novel: Author Alice Hoffman

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Great Reviews from the picky Girls Communities

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Excellent Read and/or Movie

Book Author’s Website:  http://www.kathrynstockett.com/    

Movie:  http://thehelpmovie.com/us/     or   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454029/

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A Few Book Recommendations

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Sarah’s Key : Author Tatiana de Rosnay

The Woman in White : Author Wilkie Collins

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West: Author Dorothy Wickenden

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Reads – Nature & Outdoors

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail: Author, Bill Bryson

Fifty Places to Hike Before You Die: Outdoor Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations

Authors Chris Santella and Bob Peixotto

Unlikely Friendships: Author, Jennifer S. Holland

Lives of the Trees: Author, Diana Wells

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Unique Reads

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Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life: Author Graydon Carter, Risko

The Lazy Intellectual: Ebook Author Richard J. Wallace

Your Pinkie Is More Powerful Than Your Thumb: Author Mark Di Vincenzo

106 Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Brain Boosting Techniques to Help You Achieve the Unachievable: Authors Robert Quine and John Nolan

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