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items The book reads like an adventure novel: twisting and turning, flashing back to Corrie's childhood love interest and family matters growing up. Emphasizes need for Christ in ones life.
great and inspiring book
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
I think this book does a fantastic job of melding traditional YA themes with complex dystopian concepts. The read really made me appreciate the depth that the book offers, and I came away feeling like the book absolutely deserved to have the apprecia...
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Trilogy)
Great book if you like historical fiction. Also, great movie!
The Book Thief
Educated is a beautifully written, moving memoir that should be on everyone's to-read list. It is a story of resiliency, courage, and hope. Can't recommend enough.
Educated: A Memoir
it’s a tragic story of the human spirit trying and often failing to survive in a system designed to break it. Great read!
1984: Definitive Dystopian Classic (Orwell)
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. I was required to read it in high school, but have ...
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial)
The story is told through three perspectives, primarily Rachel Watson, an alcoholic struggling with a broken marriage. Her blackouts and blurred memories make her a compelling yet untrustworthy guide to the mystery. Very intreaging and perfect read.
The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are m...
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman
Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mo...
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Love reading memoirs? This book is for you. See description below: In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolu...
Shoe Dog: Memoir by Nike Creator Phil Knight
I'm a history nerd. This was the perfect read for anyone else who has the same passion for history and some insight into a different world. See description: A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanist...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
You won't be able to put down if you need a good read. See description: In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successf...
Outliers
You wont regret reading this book. See description: A tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the author the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
For anyone looking for financial security. READ! See description: This hardcover edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. 12 point Garamond, 1.25 spacing. The Richest Man in Babylon is a timeless classic, revealing the secrets to making money a...
The Richest Man in Babylon
Exceptional book. Worth the read if you like twists and turns. See description: For readers of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes one of the decade's most anticipated debuts, to be published in thirty-five languages around the world and already in d...
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
Interesting book. Very worthwhile read: Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call...
A Man Called Ove: A Novel: 9781476738024 - Books
Great read, especially for introverts like me. Very insightful and worthy of reading.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain
Read all of them. My teenager loves them and I also enjoyed reading. Description: The first book in the Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight f...
Cinder - Marissa Meyer: Books
Very thoughtful and interesting perspective from the narrative of someone who is living without much of a future ahead of them. Worth the read. Description: At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neuros...
When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist
This book has everything! Read until you can't stop…description: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is...
The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy
This book has keep me reading, It is such a good YA series and me and my daughter loved it so much. My daughter almost took it to her friend's sleepover because she could not PUT IT DOWN!
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Series Boxed Set