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The crucial and truly pivotal events which mark our way are the fruits of Silence and of Solitude.

- Henry Miller

On My Bedside Table...

A Few Other Selections of Substance...

Three Cups of Tea

Greg Mortenson

Greg Mortenson went from climbing mountains to moving mountains all towards the end of building schools for the children of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion

What if you lost your husband of 40+ years and almost lost your daughter inside the same month? Didion provides a critical insight into the way she coped with exactly that with amazing detail that evokes emotion without being a soap opera.

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

This amazing first novel by Hosseini helps the reader to understand the culture of Afghanistan before the soviet invasion and shows how a young man finds redemption.

1776

by David McCullough

American historian McCullogh has captured the tenuous state the American colonies existed in during the first year of declaring independance from the english crown.

1421

by Gavin Menzies

This riveting true story of ancient china and the discovery of the new world traces the voyage of a fleet of chinese navigators who documented the unknown reaches of the world, and why the west knows almost nothing about it.

The Price of Loyalty

by Ron Suskind

Lifelong republican and ex-Alcoa CEO Paul F. O'Niell recounts his unvarnished observations of the George W. Bush Whitehouse from his position as the Secretary of the Treasurey. It will make you wonder how this president was re-elected.