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Book: The Sun Also Rises / Ernest Hemingway
Most of the story of how we deal with our scars is left unwritten.
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Book: On the Road / Jack Kerouac
Get the bug to cross the country, marvel at life’s dynamic characters, party, and wonder how to possibly express it all.
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Book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Ken Kesey
A classic struggle for control over the way the inhabitants of a mental ward perceive reality.
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Book: Winding Trails / Amy Greaves-Sudermann-Enss
The autobiography of my great grandmother. Covers her two marriages in Russia and escape from Germany to America in 1911 with seven children. Unpublished.
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Book: The Jungle / Upton Sinclair
Sinclair’s portrayal of Capitalism is quite similar to Rand’s portrayal of Socialism. The two books together say a lot about rhetorical fiction.
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Book: The Prince / Niccolo Macciavelli
A great peek into the political map of the early 16th century, and a practical guide to conquering and reigning over your own principality.
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Book: Why People Believe Weird Things / Michael Shermer
How do you face this odd world if you want to live by reason? Here is one skeptic’s entertaining attempt.
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Book: Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand
A vision of industrialist gods and socialist monsters.
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Book: Lost in Place / Mark Salzman
An autobiography of teenage years lived in throes of both passionate discipline and innocent impressionability.
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Book: The Life and Times of King Henry VIII / Robert Lacey
Monarchs are like a box of chocolates… and this one takes the cake. Keep in mind that all this really happened. Amazon inventory