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As Water, Given Sugar, Sweetens
Given Salt, Grows Salty
We Become Our Choices.
- Jane Hirshfield
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On My Bedside Table...
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Iconoclast Books - Rare, used, and out-of-print books
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A Few Other Selections of Substance...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Franklin and Winston
John Meacham
A fascinating perspective on the personal relationship between two of the titans of the 20th century, and the shift in the balance of power during the WWII era. |
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King of California
Mark Arax & Rick Wartzman
At once a history of the cotton industry, water rights in California, the migrant worker movement and the industrialization of agriculture, focusing on the most influential company dynasty in the world that seems to control it all. Right in our own backyard. |
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Beyond the 100th Meridian
Wallace Stegner
An account of J.W. Powell, the exploration of the Colorado Plateau and the early mapping of the West, by one of the West's greatest. |
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The Autobiography of
Michel de Montaigne
Marvin Lowenthal
A chronological copy and paste using translations of original Montaigne sources. Very interesting as background on the essays, and a beautifully done edition by the Godine Press. |
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Some of My Top Picks...
Of All Time
The Brothers K
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David James Duncan
Animal Farm
by
George Orwell
A River Runs Through It
by
Norman Maclean
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
The best novel I've read in a decade
Really
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Let's get back to our roots
Vermeer in Bosnia
by Lawrence Weschler
Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
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