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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Naoki Higashida
TRI
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt
FAR
The Tender Bar
J.R. Moehringer
TTB
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Michel Onfray
AMT
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
TWI
A Briefer History of Time
Stephen W. Hawking
ABH
Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
Suze Orman
W&M
Compendium : Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catholic Church
C:C
A Short History of Myth
Karen Armstrong
ASH
Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
Donald Miller
TPD
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Mary Roach
SST
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Noam Chomsky
IAC
Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success
John C. Maxwell
TM1
Light on Life
B.K.S. Iyengar
LOL
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
David Rakoff
DGT
Women Who Read Are Dangerous
Stefan Bollmann
WWR
The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
John C. Maxwell
T3D
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Guy Deutscher
TUO
If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths
Sheri Dew
ILW
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Maureen Corrigan
LMA
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Ruth Reichl
GAS
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Paul Stamets
MRH
Piece by Piece
Tori Amos
PBP
Chomsky On Anarchism
Noam Chomsky
COA
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
EOA
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim
BOS
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
Somaly Mam
TRO
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
Milan Kundera
TCA
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Ariel Levy
FCP
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
Andrew Smith
MIS
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are
Danny Gregory
TCL
Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
Lynne Truss
TTT
The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor
Amy Hollingsworth
TSF
Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Patricia Ryan Madson
IWD
Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
N.T. Wright
SAT
Be a People Person
John C. Maxwell
BAP
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Nick Lane
PSS
PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
Frank Warren
PEC
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
James Hollis
FMI
Time for God
Jacques Philippe
TFG
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
Sean B. Carroll
EFM
For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
Patricia B. McConnell
FTL
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
Alan Alda
NHY
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Leonard Sax
BAT
Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
Ellen Notbohm
TTE
Humility: True Greatness
C.J. Mahaney
HTG
Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
Mark Rippetoe
SSB
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
Anthony Bourdain
TNB
The Shame of the Nation
Jonathan Kozol
TSO
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Wayne Coffey
TBO
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Gary Taubes
GCB
Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
Pope Benedict XVI
JON
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
Kenneth Cain
ES(
The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Deepak Chopra
TBO
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott
PBF
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Karen Armstrong
TSS
No Plot? No Problem!
Chris Baty
NPN
The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self
Harriet Lerner
TDO
A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
Marlena de Blasi
ATD
A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life : Welcoming the soul and weaving community in a wounded world
Parker J. Palmer
AHW
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
Ursula K. Le Guin
TWI
Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise
Wil Wheaton
JAG
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
Dean King
SOT
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
Amy Stewart
TEM
Appetites: Why Women Want
Caroline Knapp
AWW
The Know-It-All
A.J. Jacobs
TK
Chicken with Plums
Marjane Satrapi
CWP
When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy
John Piper
WID
A Generous Orthodoxy
Brian D. McLaren
AGO
Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart
Hamza Yusuf
POT
White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son
Tim Wise
WLM
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Steve Almond
CAJ
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Roger Penrose
TRT
The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life
Virginia Woolf
TLS
Undoing Gender
Judith Butler
UG
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Thich Nhat Hanh
TLA
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Guy Kawasaki
TAO
Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
Alice Steinbach
EAA
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Helen Fisher
WWL
How Soccer Explains the World
Franklin Foer
HSE
Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success: Building Blocks for a Better Life
John Wooden
CWP
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
Bill Hicks
LAT
The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature
Starhawk
TEP
Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
Edward M. Hallowell
DFD
The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth
Gerald G. May
TDN
The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
Lee Strobel
TCF
Meditation
Osho
M
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Lauren Slater
OSB
Epic: The Story God Is Telling And The Role That Is Yours To Play
John Eldredge
ETS
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Daniel H. Pink
AWN
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
Kate Fox
WTE
Moneyball
Michael Lewis
M
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Personal Workbook
Stephen R. Covey
T7H
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
Julie Gregory
STM
Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
Sarah Turnbull
AFL
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Roméo Dallaire
SHW
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Anthony Swofford
J:A
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson
TDI
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Thomas C. Foster
HTR
Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
Anneli Rufus
POO
The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
Fred Rogers
TWA
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Isabel Allende
MIC
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
Twyla Tharp
TCH
Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
Louis Zamperini
DAM
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Richard Dawkins
ADC
Moneyball
Michael Lewis
M
Letters to a Young Therapist
Mary Pipher
LTA
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean
TSG
Every Second Counts
Lance Armstrong
ESC
Small and Simple Things
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
SAS
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
Sara Nelson
SMB
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
Lester Bangs
MLB
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
Jerome Groopman
TAO
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
Matthieu Ricard
HAG
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin Wall Kimmerer
GMA
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
Michael D. Watkins
TF9
The Colossus of New York
Colson Whitehead
TCO
Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation
Surya Das
LGO
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
Thomas King
TTA
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Paul Arden
INH
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
APO
Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
David Allen
RFA
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
EDW
The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence
Deepak Chopra
TSF
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Paul Farmer
POP
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
Ina May Gaskin
IMG
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
William M. Bass
DAI
Where I Was From
Joan Didion
WIW
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
J. Maarten Troost
TSL
Herzog on Herzog
Paul Cronin
HOH
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
Liao Yiwu
TCW
Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Richard Rohr
EBT
Enslaved by Ducks
Bob Tarte
EBD
Authentic Beauty: The Shaping of a Set-Apart Young Woman
Leslie Ludy
ABT
The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart for Eternity
Sally Clarkson
TMO
Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
Paula Polk Lillard
MFT
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Gabor Maté
WTB
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
John Ortberg
ENT
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Guy Delisle
PAJ
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
TWO
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
TAW
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Wendell Berry
TAO
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
David Richo
HTB
Communion: The Female Search for Love
bell hooks
CTF
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
Lewis Buzbee
TYB
Rediscover Catholicism
Matthew Kelly
RC
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Maya Angelou
ASF
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
TFD
The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
Patricia B. McConnell
TOE
How to Be Alone
Jonathan Franzen
HTB
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Lundy Bancroft
WDH
Songbook
Nick Hornby
S
On Literature
Umberto Eco
OL
Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
C.J. Mahaney
LTC
The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton
TAO
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
Paul David Tripp
IIT
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Pema Chödrön
TPT
No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life
Thich Nhat Hanh
NDN
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Kerry Patterson
CCT
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Jim DeFede
TDT
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Tender Bar
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
A Briefer History of Time
Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
Compendium : Catechism of the Catholic Church
A Short History of Myth
Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success
Light on Life
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Women Who Read Are Dangerous
The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
If Life Were Easy, It Wouldn't Be Hard: And Other Reassuring Truths
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Piece by Piece
Chomsky On Anarchism
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are
Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor
Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up
Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
Be a People Person
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
Time for God
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
Humility: True Greatness
Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
The Shame of the Nation
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
Good Calories, Bad Calories
Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives
Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
No Plot? No Problem!
The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear, and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self
A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life : Welcoming the soul and weaving community in a wounded world
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
Appetites: Why Women Want
The Know-It-All
Chicken with Plums
When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight For Joy
A Generous Orthodoxy
Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart
White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son
Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life
Undoing Gender
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
How Soccer Explains the World
Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success: Building Blocks for a Better Life
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature
Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth
The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
Meditation
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Epic: The Story God Is Telling And The Role That Is Yours To Play
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
Moneyball
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Personal Workbook
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Moneyball
Letters to a Young Therapist
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Every Second Counts
Small and Simple Things
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
The Colossus of New York
Letting Go of the Person You Used to Be: Lessons on Change, Loss, and Spiritual Transformation
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Where I Was From
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
Herzog on Herzog
The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Enslaved by Ducks
Authentic Beauty: The Shaping of a Set-Apart Young Woman
The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child's Heart for Eternity
Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
The War of Art
The Artist's Way
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
Communion: The Female Search for Love
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
Rediscover Catholicism
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
How to Be Alone
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Songbook
On Literature
Living the Cross Centered Life: Keeping the Gospel the Main Thing
The Art of Travel
Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland