Elena's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 26 May 2024 10:55:52 -0700 60 Elena's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla]]> 1728707 47 Nikola Tesla Elena 0 to-read 4.12 1935 The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla
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]]> Savages (Savages #2) 8008928
When they refuse to back down, the cartel escalates its threat, kidnapping Ophelia, the boys' playmate and confidante. O's abduction sets off a dizzying array of ingenious negotiations and gripping plot twists that will captivate readers eager to learn the costs of freedom and the price of one amazing high.]]> 302 Don Winslow 1439183368 Elena 0 to-read 3.84 2010 Savages (Savages #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously]]> 96999
The book begins with an in-depth exploration of the meaning of courage and how it is expressed in the everyday life of the individual. Unlike books that focus on heroic acts of courage in exceptional circumstances, the focus here is on developing the inner courage that enables us to lead authentic and fulfilling lives on a day-to-day basis. This is the courage to change when change is needed, the courage to stand up for our own truth, even against the opinions of others, and the courage to embrace the unknown in spite of our fears-in our relationships, in our careers, or in the ongoing journey of understanding who we are and why we are here.

Courage also features a number of meditation techniques specifically designed by Osho to help people deal with their fears.]]> 193 Osho 0312205171 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.16 1977 Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
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]]> <![CDATA[The Yoga-Sūtra of ʲٲñᲹ: A New Translation and Commentary]]> 361416 The Yoga-Sutra of ʲٲñᲹ is the landmark scripture on classical yoga. The translation and commentary provided here by Georg Feuerstein are outstanding for their accessibility and their insight into the essential meaning of this ancient and complex text.

A scholar of international renown who has studied and practiced yoga since the age of fourteen, Feuerstein also brings to The Yoga-Sutra of ʲٲñᲹ his experience as a professional indologist. His faithful and informed rendering of the aphorisms (sutras) is based on extensive personal research into the Sanskrit sources. Each word is explained so that the entire text becomes readily available to the western reader and student of yoga.]]> 196 ʲٲñᲹ 0892812621 Elena 0 to-read 4.06 400 The Yoga-Sūtra of ʲٲñᲹ: A New Translation and Commentary
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]]> <![CDATA[The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be]]> 2322 Tingrith(1) make you yelp? Do you bend sympathetically when you see someone Ahenny(2)? Can you deal with a Naugatuck(3) without causing a Toronto(4)? Will you suffer from Kettering(5) this summer?

Probably. You are almost certainly familiar with all these experiences but just didn’t know that there are words for them. Well, in fact, there aren’t—or rather there weren’t, until Douglas Adams and John Lloyd decided to plug these egregious linguistic lacunae(6). They quickly realized that just as there are an awful lot of experiences that no one has a name for, so there are an awful lot of names for places you will never need to go to. What a waste. As responsible citizens of a small and crowded world, we must all learn the virtues of recycling(7) and put old, worn-out but still serviceable names to exciting, vibrant, new uses. This is the book that does that for you: The Deeper Meaning of Liff—a whole new solution to the problem of Great Wakering(8)


1—The feeling of aluminum foil against your fillings.

2—The way people stand when examining other people’s bookshelves.

3—A plastic packet containing shampoo, mustard, etc., which is impossible to open except by biting off
the corners.

4—Generic term for anything that comes out in a gush, despite all your efforts to let it out carefully, e.g., flour into a white sauce, ketchup onto fish, a dog into the yard, and another naughty meaning that we can’t put on the cover.

5—The marks left on your bottom and thighs after you’ve been sitting sunbathing in a wicker chair.

6—God knows what this means

7—For instance, some of this book was first published in Britain twenty-six years ago.

8—Look it up yourself.]]> 192 Douglas Adams 0307236013 Elena 0 to-read 3.94 1990 The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be
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]]> The Velveteen Rabbit 144974
Like the Skin Horse, Margery Williams understood how toys—and people—become real through the wisdom and experience of love. This reissue of a favorite classic, with the original story and illustrations as they first appeared in 1922, will work its magic for all who read it.]]> 40 Margery Williams Bianco 0380002558 Elena 5 needstoreads2016 4.30 1922 The Velveteen Rabbit
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]]> Mindfulness i hverdagen 13451278
“Mindfulness i hverdagen� er en etterlengtet introduksjon til hvordan vi kan være mer tilstede og oppmerksomme i vårt eget liv for å øke livskvalitet og få det bedre med oss selv.

I boken forklarer forfatteren hva mindfulness er og hvorfor det kan være så sunt å bli mer ”våken� i hverdagen, og om hvordan vi kan fjerne stressfaktorer, forebygge depresjoner og også mestre angst. Å leve i en roligere og mer harmonisk hverdag.

Det handler om å møte utfordringer på en oppmerksom og god måte. Gjennom konkrete og praktiske øvelser gir boken deg de nødvendige verktøyene du trenger for å håndtere hverdagen, ta kloke valg og nyte livet som det er, her og nå!

Ikke lev i fortiden eller i fremtiden. Ikke tenk på hva som har skjedd eller skal skje; lev livet nå!]]> 221 Rebekka Th. Egeland 8279004467 Elena 3 3.45 2010 Mindfulness i hverdagen
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]]> <![CDATA[The Metamorphosis (Graphic Novel Adaptation)]]> 7718
“A brilliant illustrated adaptation of Franz Kafka’s famous story. It’s a real pleasure to read and one in which everyone will recognize the existential drama and uncanny wit of the original text."—Susan Bernstein, associate professor of comparative literature and German studies, Brown University]]> 80 Peter Kuper 1400052998 Elena 3 3.79 2004 The Metamorphosis (Graphic Novel Adaptation)
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]]> Bright Young Things 15910611 342 Scarlett Thomas 0857863800 Elena 0 3.35 2001 Bright Young Things
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]]> Just Kids 341879 Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.]]> 304 Patti Smith Elena 0 currently-reading 4.19 2010 Just Kids
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]]> #Girlboss 18667945 In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called "Lean In for misfits," Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world.

Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school�
a job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay.

Flash forward ten years to today, and she’s the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal, a $250-million-plus fashion retailer with more than four hundred employees. Sophia was never a typical CEO, or a typical anything, and she’s written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success, even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers.

#GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college
or how popular you were in high school. It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.' to 'In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called "Lean In for misfits," Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school—a job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Flash forward ten years to today, and she’s the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal, a $250-million-plus fashion retailer with more than four hundred employees. Sophia was never a typical CEO, or a typical anything, and she’s written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success, even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers. #GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.']]> 256 Sophia Amoruso 039916927X Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.63 2014 #Girlboss
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits]]> 19288260
In short, frisky sections, these Parisian women give you their very original views on style, beauty, culture, attitude and men. The authors--Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas--unmarried but attached, with children--have been friends for years. Talented bohemian iconoclasts with careers in the worlds of music, film, fashion and publishing, they are untypically frank and outspoken as they debunk the myths about what it means to be a French woman today. Letting you in on their secrets and flaws, they also make fun of their complicated, often contradictory feelings and behavior. They admit to being snobs, a bit self-centered, unpredictable but not unreliable. Bossy and opinionated, they are also tender and romantic.

You will be taken on a first date, to a party, to some favorite haunts in Paris, to the countryside, and to one of their dinners at home with recipes even you could do -- but to be out with them is to be in for some mischief and surprises. They will tell you how to be mysterious and sensual, look natural, make your boyfriend jealous, and how they feel about children, weddings and going to the gym. And they will share their address book in Paris for where to go: At the End of the Night, for A Birthday, for a Smart Date, for a A Hangover, for Vintage Finds and much more.

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are will make you laugh as you slip into their shoes to become bold and free and tap into your inner cool.]]> 253 Anne Berest 0385538650 Elena 4 3.63 2014 How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits
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]]> <![CDATA[Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future]]> 25541028 392 Ashlee Vance 0062301233 Elena 0 to-read 4.12 2015 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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]]> Norwegian Wood 818108 Alternate cover edition here.

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.]]> 389 Haruki Murakami 0099448823 Elena 5 favorites 3.99 1987 Norwegian Wood
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]]> Milk and honey 23513349 Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.

It is split into four chapters, with each chapter dealing with a different pain. Healing a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them -- because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.]]> 204 Rupi Kaur 1502784270 Elena 0 to-read 3.96 2014 Milk and honey
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]]> Edie: Girl on Fire 14605 Ciao! Manhattan. After uncovering lost footage, he was inspired to create Edie: Girl on Fire, a book and a documentary film that explore Edie's true story, in the process unearthing hundreds of unpublished photos and interviewing many of Edie's surviving intimates. A rebuttal to Hollywood's highly fictionalized Factory Girl, this is an insightful and startling portrait of a woman that nobody quite knew.]]> 192 Melissa Painter 0811855260 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.23 2006 Edie: Girl on Fire
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]]> <![CDATA[Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)]]> 22896 Alternate cover for ISBN 9780425190371 (currently here).

The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape.

One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...
]]> 286 Alice Hoffman Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.70 1995 Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The 80/10/10 Diet: Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life, One Luscious Bite at a Time]]> 765983 374 Douglas N. Graham 1893831248 Elena 0 to-read 3.92 2006 The 80/10/10 Diet: Balancing Your Health, Your Weight, and Your Life, One Luscious Bite at a Time
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]]> Elliott Erwitt Paris 9292945 176 Elliott Erwitt 383279414X Elena 0 to-read 4.66 2010 Elliott Erwitt Paris
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]]> Edie: American Girl 14606 Revised, with a new cover

When Edie was first published, it quickly became an international best-seller and then took its place among the classic books about the 1960s. Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. She seemed to have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious and young, Andy Warhol’s superstar. But within a few years she flared out as quickly as she had appeared, and before she turned twenty-nine she was dead from a drug overdose.

In a dazzling tapestry of voices—family, friends, lovers, rivals—the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwick’s life is brilliantly captured. And so is the Pop Art world of the �60s: the sex, drugs, fashion, music—the mad rush for pleasure and fame. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate within—like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol. Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and horrifying, this book shattered many myths about the �60s experience in America.
]]> 564 Jean Stein 0802134106 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.08 1982 Edie: American Girl
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]]> Trainspotting 23955 Trainspotting a été porté à l'écran par Dany Boyle.]]> 344 Irvine Welsh 2020336464 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.03 1993 Trainspotting
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]]> Purpose for the Pain 5288813 397 Renee Yohe 0615223184 Elena 0 to-read 4.24 2008 Purpose for the Pain
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]]> <![CDATA[Imperfect Spirituality: Extraordinary Enlightenment for Ordinary People]]> 13584715
Imperfect Spirituality is filled with practical tips and dozens of examples like these, as well as anecdotes from real people who are striving to grow both spiritually and personally. Each chapter features fascinating research about how the mind body spirit connection really works as well as illuminating quotes, and informative, easy-to-do takeaways from leading-edge academic and spiritual experts who both study and practice the techniques explored in the book.]]> 282 Polly Campbell 1936740184 Elena 0 to-read 3.80 2012 Imperfect Spirituality: Extraordinary Enlightenment for Ordinary People
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]]> <![CDATA[The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise]]> 402259
R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality.Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, The Politics of Experience is a classic of genuine importance that will "excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected." (Rollo May, Saturday Review )]]> 192 R.D. Laing 039471475X Elena 0 to-read 4.15 1967 The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
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]]> <![CDATA[Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics]]> 746803 Sanity, Madness & The Family, which John Bowlby described as the most important book about families in the 20th century.]]> 288 R.D. Laing 0140134662 Elena 0 to-read 4.16 1964 Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics
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]]> The Awakening of Intelligence 74456 544 J. Krishnamurti 0060648341 Elena 0 to-read 4.40 1973 The Awakening of Intelligence
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]]> <![CDATA[The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness]]> 496585 The Divided Self is a unique study of the human situation.

Dr. Laing's first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vision of sanity and madness as 'degrees of conjunction and disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent' he offers a rich existential analysis of personal alienation.

The outsider, estranged from himself and society, cannot experience either himself or others as 'real.' He invents a false self and with it he confronts both the outside world and his own despair. The disintegration of his real self keeps pace with the growing unreality of his false self until, in the extremes of his schizophrenic breakdown, the whole personality disintegrates.]]> 218 R.D. Laing 0140135375 Elena 0 to-read 4.10 1960 The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
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]]> æ 23397240
Med infam humor og sårt alvor beskriver Linnéa Myhre et ungt liv, anno 2014, i blikkenes tid, hvor det er viktigere å bli sett enn å bli hørt. I et tjuetalls brev, henvendt til venner og familie, redaktører og bedrifter, setter hun ord på opplevelsen av kontinuerlig å bli påminnet om å spise riktig, holde seg slank, trene, være sunn. «Jeg gruer meg til å få barn», skriver hun.

Men gjennom brevene oppstår også en annen fortelling. For Linnéa har levd med spiseforstyrrelser siden hun var femten, og i 2012 var kroppen hennes nær kollaps. Det har gått to år. Hvordan plukker man opp livet sitt igjen etter å ha vært nær ved å miste alt?

æ er en roman om kontroll og tapet av det, det er en roman om å spise på restaurant, om å skrive sitt eget selvmordsbrev, om å tilberede taco, om å få seg kjæreste, om å slippe inn og slippe til, og, til slutt, om å kunne betrakte seg selv med sitt eget blikk.]]> 154 Linnéa Myhre 8210054112 Elena 3 3.73 2014 æ
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]]> The Essential Rumi 976565 414 Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi 0062509586 Elena 4 4.45 1273 The Essential Rumi
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]]> The Trial 17690 The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.]]> 255 Franz Kafka Elena 0 to-read 4.00 1925 The Trial
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]]> Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 51496 139 Robert Louis Stevenson 0451528956 Elena 0 to-read 3.84 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way Brilliant Souls Cry: a novel]]> 13735812 50 Colin Zwiebel 0595382886 Elena 0 to-read 4.67 2006 The Way Brilliant Souls Cry: a novel
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]]> Stairs to the Roof 705129 Stairs to the Roof is a rare and different Williams' work: a love story, a comedy, an experiment in meta-theater, with a touch of early science fiction. Tennessee Williams called Stairs to the Roof "a prayer for the wild of heart who are kept in cages" and dedicated it to "all the little wage earners of the world." It reflects the would-be poet's "season in hell" during the Depression when he had to quit college to type orders eight hours a day at the International Shoe Factory in St. Louis.

Stairs is Williams' revenge, expressed through his alter ego, Benjamin Murphy, the clerk who stages a one-man rebellion against the clock, the monotony of his eight-to-five job, and all the dehumanizing forces of an increasingly mechanized and commercial society. Ben's swift-moving series of fantastic adventures culminate in an escape from the ordinary that is an endorsement of the American dream. In 1941 with the world at war and civilization in danger of collapse, Williams dared to imagine a utopian future as Ben leads us up his stairs towards the Millennium.

Stairs to the Roof was produced only twice, once at the Playbox in Pasadena, California, in 1945, and subsequently at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1947. Now, in an edition meticulously prepared by noted Williams scholar Allean Hale, Williams fans can share this play of youthful optimism.]]> 160 Tennessee Williams 0811214354 Elena 0 to-read 3.97 2000 Stairs to the Roof
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]]> Our Men Do Not Belong To Us 28367423 Our Men Do Not Belong to Us is the opening noise of a poet who has already gained a significant amount of praise for her poetry. Warsan Shire’s poems are direct, but they are works of such delicate construction and layered insight that one quickly realizes what seems “direct� is necessarily wholly indirect, questioning, uncertain, and vulnerable. Her poems are about how women deal with the violence of all kinds of exploitation, but they are never didactic or simplistic. Shire fills her poems with the effects of her complex sense of identity in transcultural Africa.

—Kwame Dawes
]]> 28 Warsan Shire 1940646561 Elena 5 4.23 2014 Our Men Do Not Belong To Us
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]]> Her Blue Body 27134570 33 Warsan Shire 1905233485 Elena 5 4.62 2015 Her Blue Body
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]]> <![CDATA[You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense]]> 38504 Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. The iconic tortured artist/everyman delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.� —Joyce Carol Oates

“[Bukowski] brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.� —Leonard Cohen, songwriter]]> 320 Charles Bukowski 0876856830 Elena 0 to-read 4.19 1986 You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath]]> 11623
A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, published in their entirety for the first time.

Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons. The complete Journals of Sylvia Plath is essential reading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work.]]> 732 Sylvia Plath 0385720254 Elena 0 to-read 4.27 2000 The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919�2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Elena 1 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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name: Elena
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]]> My Inventions 493 My Inventions is a firsthand account not only of the art and science behind the conception, execution, and reception of Tesla's most famous inventions but of his early life and first creative efforts as well.]]> 88 Nikola Tesla 1599869942 Elena 0 to-read 3.87 1935 My Inventions
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name: Elena
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]]> Drawing Blood 25045467
In language that is fresh, visceral, and deeply moving—and illustrations that are irreverent and gorgeous—here is a memoir that will change the way you think about art, sex, politics, and survival in our times.

From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye of an artist and the spirit of a radical. After a restless childhood on New York's Long Island, she left America to see Europe and the Near East, a young artist plunging into unfamiliar cultures, notebook always in hand, drawing what she observed.

Returning to New York City after 9/11 to study art, she posed nude for sketch artists and sketchy photographers, danced burlesque, and modeled for the world famous Suicide Girls. Frustrated with the academy and the conventional art world, she eventually landed a post as house artist at Simon Hammerstein's legendary nightclub The Box, the epicenter of decadent Manhattan nightlife before the financial crisis of 2008. There she had a ringside seat for the pitched battle between the bankers of Wall Street and the entertainers who walked among them—a scandalous, drug-fueled circus of mutual exploitation that she captured in her tart and knowing illustrations. Then, after the crash, a wave of protest movements—from student demonstrations in London to Occupy Wall Street in her own backyard—led Molly to turn her talents to a new form of witness journalism, reporting from places such as Guantanamo, Syria, Rikers Island, and the labor camps of Abu Dhabi. Using both words and artwork to shed light on the darker corners of American empire, she has swiftly become one of the most original and galvanizing voices on the cultural stage.

Now, with the same blend of honesty, fierce insight, and indelible imagery that is her signature, Molly offers her own an unforgettable memoir of artistic exploration, political awakening, and personal transformation.]]> 352 Molly Crabapple 0062323644 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.95 2015 Drawing Blood
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]]> Dog Dogs 953217 512 Elliott Erwitt 0714838055 Elena 5 4.47 1998 Dog Dogs
author: Elliott Erwitt
name: Elena
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]]> <![CDATA[Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians]]> 110997 Bringers of the Dawn imparts to us the wisdom of the Pleiadians, a group of enlightened beings who have come to Earth to help us discover how to reach a new stage of evolution.

Master storytellers and humorists, they advise us to become media free, to work in teams, and to eliminate the words "should" and "try" from our vocabularies. We learn how to go beyond fear, how the original human was a magnificent being with twelve strands of DNA and twelve chakra centers, and who our "gods" are.

Startling, intense, intelligent, and controversial, these teachings offer essential reading for anyone questioning their existence on this planet and the direction of our collective conscious--and unconscious.

By remembering that we are Family of Light, that we share an ancient ancestry with the universe around us, we become "bringers of the dawn," consciously creating a new reality, a new Earth.]]> 246 Barbara Marciniak 093968098X Elena 0 to-read 4.26 1992 Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians
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name: Elena
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]]> <![CDATA[A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose]]> 76334 With his bestselling spiritual guide "The Power of Now," Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived ?in the now.? In "A New Earth," Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence. "The Power of Now" was a question-and-answer handbook. "A New Earth" has been written as a traditional narrative, offering anecdotes and philosophies in a way that is accessible to all. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, "A New Earth" is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life?and for building a better world.]]> 316 Eckhart Tolle 0452287588 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.15 2005 A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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]]> <![CDATA[The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine]]> 277303 251 David Frawley 0941524248 Elena 0 to-read 4.40 1984 The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine
author: David Frawley
name: Elena
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1984
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]]> Jonathan Livingston Seagull 71728
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. He believes it is every gull's right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery, finding his greatest reward in teaching younger gulls the joy of flight and the power of dreams. The special 20th anniversary release of this spiritual classic!]]> 112 Richard Bach 0743278909 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.87 1970 Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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name: Elena
average rating: 3.87
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]]> A Street Cat Named Bob 12394068 279 James Bowen 1444737090 Elena 4 3.94 2012 A Street Cat Named Bob
author: James Bowen
name: Elena
average rating: 3.94
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rating: 4
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]]> The Secret Life of Plants 6054496 352 Peter Tompkins 0140039309 Elena 0 to-read 3.84 1973 The Secret Life of Plants
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average rating: 3.84
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]]> <![CDATA[The Prophecies of Nostradamus: Man Who Saw Tomorrow]]> 663844 439 pp. 438 Nostradamus 0425087573 Elena 0 3.23 1555 The Prophecies of Nostradamus: Man Who Saw Tomorrow
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]]> <![CDATA[Følelser og fornuft (tankefeltteknikker i praksis)]]> 29090344 223 Mats Uldal 8202315603 Elena 5 4.17 Følelser og fornuft (tankefeltteknikker i praksis)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rosenrot: roten til økt utholdenhet]]> 29090314 Rolv Hjelmstad 8279790373 Elena 5 3.33 Rosenrot: roten til økt utholdenhet
author: Rolv Hjelmstad
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]]> <![CDATA[The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom]]> 6596 The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The Four Agreements are: Be Impeccable With Your Word, Don't Take Anything Personally, Don't Make Assumptions, Always Do Your Best.]]> 152 Miguel Ruiz 1878424505 Elena 0 to-read 4.20 1997 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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]]> <![CDATA[Aloe vera: naturens skattkammer]]> 17788645 166 Audun Myskja 8279790640 Elena 4 4.00 2001 Aloe vera: naturens skattkammer
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name: Elena
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]]> <![CDATA[This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.]]> 13167087
This is How.]]> 230 Augusten Burroughs 0312563558 Elena 0 to-read 3.66 2012 This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
author: Augusten Burroughs
name: Elena
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]]> Choke 29059 Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times.

Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved� by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him.

When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park.

His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, renowned author of classics like Fight Club, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.]]> 293 Chuck Palahniuk 0385720920 Elena 0 to-read 3.71 2001 Choke
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]]> <![CDATA[The Portable Jung (Portable Library)]]> 67885 oeuvre within the context of his life and times.]]> 659 C.G. Jung 0140150706 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.26 1971 The Portable Jung (Portable Library)
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]]> The Portable Nietzsche 80447
"In this volume, one may very conveniently have a rich review of one of the most sensitive, passionate, and misunderstood writers in Western, or any, literature." -Newsweek]]> 692 Friedrich Nietzsche 0140150625 Elena 0 to-read 4.21 1954 The Portable Nietzsche
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name: Elena
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]]> Art Psalms 5115435 204 Alex Grey 1556437560 Elena 0 4.48 2008 Art Psalms
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]]> <![CDATA[I morgen var jeg alltid en løve]]> 6626516 199 Arnhild Lauveng 8202264642 Elena 0 to-read 4.32 2005 I morgen var jeg alltid en løve
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]]> <![CDATA[My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind]]> 17737025 The New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015.

As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive yet too often misunderstood.

Drawing on his own long-standing battle with anxiety, Stossel presents an astonishing history, at once intimate and authoritative, of the efforts to understand the condition from medical, cultural, philosophical and experiential perspectives. He ranges from the earliest medical reports of Galen and Hippocrates, through later observations by Robert Burton and Søren Kierkegaard, to the investigations by great nineteenth-century scientists, such as Charles Darwin, William James and Sigmund Freud, as they began to explore its sources and causes, to the latest research by neuroscientists and geneticists. Stossel reports on famous individuals who struggled with anxiety, as well as the afflicted generations of his own family. His portrait of anxiety reveals not only the emotion's myriad manifestations and the anguish it produces, but also the countless psychotherapies, medications and other (often outlandish) treatments that have been developed to counteract it. Stossel vividly depicts anxiety's human toll—its crippling impact, its devastating power to paralyse—while at the same time exploring how those who suffer from it find ways to manage and control it.

My Age of Anxiety is learned and empathetic, humorous and inspirational, offering the reader great insight into the biological, cultural and environmental factors that contribute to the affliction.]]> 416 Scott Stossel 0307269876 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.83 My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
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]]> Jesus elsker ikke griser 25433911 182 Tor Åge Bringsværd 8280710795 Elena 0 3.56 2004 Jesus elsker ikke griser
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]]> All the Light We Cannot See 18143977
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here]]> 544 Anthony Doerr 1476746583 Elena 0 to-read 4.31 2014 All the Light We Cannot See
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]]> Born Under a Lucky Moon 9816431 432 Dana Precious 0061876879 Elena 0 to-read 3.59 2011 Born Under a Lucky Moon
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]]> <![CDATA[Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness]]> 13547180 New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.

When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen.]]> 250 Susannah Cahalan 145162137X Elena 0 to-read 4.06 2012 Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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]]> <![CDATA[All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness]]> 24694108 291 Sheila Hamilton 1580055842 Elena 0 to-read 4.05 2015 All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness
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]]> Willful Creatures 46205 The New York Times Book Review
Aimee Bender s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman's children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.]]> 224 Aimee Bender 0385720971 Elena 0 to-read 4.02 2005 Willful Creatures
author: Aimee Bender
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]]> <![CDATA[My Brilliant Friend (My Brilliant Friend, #1)]]> 13586707 331 Elena Ferrante Elena 0 to-read 3.91 2011 My Brilliant Friend (My Brilliant Friend, #1)
author: Elena Ferrante
name: Elena
average rating: 3.91
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]]> <![CDATA[On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy]]> 174879 420 Carl R. Rogers 039575531X Elena 0 to-read 4.16 1961 On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
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name: Elena
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1961
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]]> Min kamp 1 (Min kamp, #1) 7147831
I en borende prosa som oppsøker det sårbare, det pinlige og det eksistensielt betydningsbærende, blir dette en dypt personlig roman, selvutprøvende og kontroversiell. Et eksistensielt omdreiningspunkt er farens død, et annet er kanskje hovedpersonens debut som forfatter.]]> 435 Karl Ove Knausgård 8252574580 Elena 0 to-read 4.15 2009 Min kamp 1 (Min kamp, #1)
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name: Elena
average rating: 4.15
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]]> Black Butterfly 25384844
This book is everything� this book is for all who are breathing and for all who are no longer here.

This book is for you.]]> 272 Robert M. Drake 0986262749 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.05 2015 Black Butterfly
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]]> Made You Up 17661416
Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8-Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She’s pretty optimistic about her chances until classes begin, and she runs into Miles. Didn't she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She’s not prepared for normal.]]> 428 Francesca Zappia 006229010X Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.03 2015 Made You Up
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name: Elena
average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[Joan Didion Crosses the Street]]> 21335596 88 Sarah Hepola Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.41 2012 Joan Didion Crosses the Street
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name: Elena
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]]> Drinking: A Love Story 73965
Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anorexia and alcoholism. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: she found inspiration in Pete Hamill's 'A Drinking Life' and sobered up. Her tale is spiced up with the characters she has known along the way.

A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape personal relationships and the realities of life until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem.]]> 286 Caroline Knapp 0385315546 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.08 1996 Drinking: A Love Story
author: Caroline Knapp
name: Elena
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1996
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]]> <![CDATA[Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl]]> 8662826 "An utterly unique journey down some of the mind's more mysterious byways . . . ranges from the shocking to the simply lovely." —Marya Hornbacher

Stacy Pershall grew up depressed and too smart for her own good, a deeply strange girl in Prairie Grove, Arkansas (population 1,000), where the prevailing wisdom was that Jesus healed all. From her days as a thirteen-year-old Jesus freak, through a battle with anorexia and bulimia, her first manic episode at eighteen, and the eventual diagnosis of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, this spirited and at times mordantly funny memoir chronicles Pershall's journey through hell-several breakdowns and suicide attempts—and her struggle with the mental health care system.

After her 2001 suicide attempt, broadcast live on a Webcam, Pershall realized the need to heal her mind and body. She found a revolutionary cure (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) and a new mood-stabilizing medication. She also met a tattoo artist and discovered the healing power of body modification. By giving over her skin and enduring the physical pain, she learned about the true nature of trust.]]> 240 Stacy Pershall 0393066924 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.89 2010 Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
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name: Elena
average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream]]> 7745 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.]]> 204 Hunter S. Thompson 0679785892 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.08 1971 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> American Psycho 28676 American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront.]]> 399 Bret Easton Ellis 0679735771 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.82 1991 American Psycho
author: Bret Easton Ellis
name: Elena
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse]]> 203306 256 James Hillman 0062506617 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.01 1992 We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy & the World's Getting Worse
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name: Elena
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1992
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]]> Invisible Monsters 411321 An Alternative Cover Edition of this book can be found here

She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge that she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better. And that salvation hides in the last places you'll ever want to look.

In this hilarious and daringly unpredictable novel, the narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present, and future. Changing names and stories in every city, they catapult toward a final confrontation with a rifle-toting Evie-by which time the narrator will have learned that loving and being loved are not mutually exclusive, and that nothing, on the surface, is ever quite what it seems.

]]> 297 Chuck Palahniuk 0393319296 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.92 1999 Invisible Monsters
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name: Elena
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1999
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]]> No One Here Gets Out Alive 691520 384 Jerry Hopkins 0446697338 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.94 1980 No One Here Gets Out Alive
author: Jerry Hopkins
name: Elena
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1980
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]]> The Rules of Attraction 9912 From the bestselling author of American Psycho comes this satirical black comedy about the death of romance.

Set at an affluent liberal arts college during the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction follows a handful of rowdy, spoiled, sexually promiscuous students with no plans for the future—or even the present. Three of them—Sean, Paul, and Lauren—become involved in a love triangle of sorts within a sequence of drug runs, "Dressed to Get Screwed" parties, and "End of the World" parties.

As Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at the self-consciously bohemian Camden College, treating their sexual posturing and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion, he exposes the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.]]> 283 Bret Easton Ellis 067978148X Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.74 1987 The Rules of Attraction
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]]> <![CDATA[Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth]]> 13376363 37 Warsan Shire 1905233299 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.23 2011 Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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]]> <![CDATA[Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness]]> 1695781
� Explores the scientific basis underlying the practices of indigenous healers and shamans

� Illuminates the matrix where plant intelligence and human intelligence join

� Reveals that partnering with plants is an evolutionary imperative

Indigenous healers and shamans have known since antiquity that plants possess a spirit essence that can communicate through light, sound, and vibration. Now scientific studies are verifying this understanding. Plant Spirit Healing reveals the power of plant spirits to join with human intelligence to bring about profound healing. These spirits take us beyond mere symptomatic treatment to aligning us with the vast web of nature. Plants are more than their chemical constituents. They are intelligent beings that have the capacity to raise consciousness to a level where true healing can take place.

In this book, herbalist Pam Montgomery offers an understanding of the origins of disease and the therapeutic use of plant spirits to bring balance and healing. She offers a process engaging heart, soul, and spirit that she calls the triple spiral path. In our modern existence, we are increasingly challenged with broken hearts, souls in exile, and malnourished spirits. By working through the heart, we connect with the soul and gain access to spirit. She explains that the evolution of plants has always preceded their animal counterparts and that plant spirits offer a guide to our spiritual evolution--a stage of growth imperative not only for the healing of humans but also the healing of the earth.]]> 222 Pam Montgomery 1591430771 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.18 2008 Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness
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]]> Madness: A Bipolar Life 2177563
When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disorder.

In Madness, in her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. Through scenes of astonishing visceral and emotional power, she takes us inside her own desperate attempts to counteract violently careening mood swings by self-starvation, substance abuse, numbing sex, and self-mutilation. How Hornbacher fights her way up from a madness that all but destroys her, and what it is like to live in a difficult and sometimes beautiful life and marriage -- where bipolar always beckons -- is at the center of this brave and heart-stopping memoir.

Madness delivers the revelation that Hornbacher is not alone: millions of people in America today are struggling with a variety of disorders that may disguise their bipolar disease. And Hornbacher's fiercely self-aware portrait of her own bipolar as early as age four will powerfully change, too, the current debate on whether bipolar in children actually exists.

Ten years after Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, this storm of a memoir will revolutionize our understanding of bipolar disorder.]]> 299 Marya Hornbacher 0618754458 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.02 2008 Madness: A Bipolar Life
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]]> The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali 56305 263 Satchidananda 0932040381 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.37 400 The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali
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]]> Lolita 7604 Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.]]> 368 Vladimir Nabokov 0679723161 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.87 1955 Lolita
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]]> <![CDATA[If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For]]> 23846010
In 2006 Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story called “To Write Love on Her Arms,� about helping a friend through her struggle with drug addiction, depression, and self-injury. The piece was so hauntingly beautiful that it quickly went viral, giving birth to a non-profit organization of the same name. Now, To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) is an internationally recognized leader in suicide prevention anda source of hope, encouragement, and support for people worldwide.

If You Feel Too Much is a celebration of hope, wonder, and what it means to be human. From personal stories of struggling on days most people celebrate to words of strength and encouragement in moments of loss, the essays in this book invite readers to believe that it’s okay to admit to pain and okay to ask for help. If You Feel Too Much is an important book from one of this generation’s most important voices.]]> 208 Jamie Tworkowski 0399176497 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.14 2015 If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
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]]> Dry 32370 293 Augusten Burroughs 0312423799 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.02 2003 Dry
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]]> <![CDATA[Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story]]> 22537675
"I had nightmares, flashbacks. I dissociated... Changes in self-perception and hallucinations-those are some of my other symptoms. You are poison , I chanted silently to myself. And your poison is contagious ."
So begins Mac McClelland's powerful, unforgettable memoir, Irritable Hearts . When thirty-year-old, award-winning human rights journalist Mac McClelland left Haiti after reporting on the devastating earthquake of 2010, she never imagined how the assignment would irrevocably affect her own life. Back home in California, McClelland cannot stop reliving vivid scenes of violence. She is plagued by waking terrors, violent fantasies, and crippling emotional breakdowns. She can't sleep or stop crying. Her life in shambles, it becomes clear that she is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Her bewilderment about this sudden loss of control is magnified by the intensity of her feelings for Nico, a French soldier she met in Port-au-Prince and with whom she connected instantly and deeply. With inspiring fearlessness, McClelland tackles perhaps her most harrowing assignment to investigating the damage in her own mind and repairing her broken psyche. She begins to probe the depths of her illness, exploring our culture's history with PTSD, delving into the latest research by the country's top scientists and therapists, and spending time with veterans and their families. McClelland discovers she is far from while we frequently associate PTSD with wartime combat, it is more often caused by other manner of trauma and can even be contagious-close proximity to those afflicted can trigger its symptoms. As she confronts the realities of her diagnosis, she opens up to the love that seems to have found her at an inopportune moment. Irritable Hearts is a searing, personal medical mystery that unfolds at a breakneck pace. But it is also a romance. McClelland fights desperately to repair her heart so that she can give it to the kind, patient, and compassionate man with whom she wants to share a life. Vivid, suspenseful, tender, and intimate, Irritable Hearts is a remarkable exploration of vulnerability and resilience, control and acceptance. It is a riveting and hopeful story of survival, strength, and love.]]> 320 Mac McClelland 1250052890 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.78 2015 Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story
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]]> 10% Happier 18505796
Eventually Harris stumbled upon an effective way to rein in that voice, something he always assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation, a tool that research suggests can do everything from lower your blood pressure to essentially rewire your brain. "10% Happier" takes readers on a ride from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news to the bizarre fringes of America's spiritual scene, and leaves them with a takeaway that could actually change their lives.]]> 256 Dan Harris 0062265423 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.87 2014 10% Happier
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]]> <![CDATA[Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness]]> 249042
"Compelling ... Harrowing ... a vivid portrait of a debilitating disorder ... It offers the solace of a shared experience."� The New York Times

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his experience of crippling depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery.]]> 84 William Styron 0679736395 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.01 1990 Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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]]> <![CDATA[Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety]]> 10516883 In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety—America’s most common psychological complaint.

Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels through anxiety’s demonic layers, Smith defangs the disorder with great humor and evocatively expresses its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence. Aaron Beck, the most influential doctor in modern psychotherapy, says that �Monkey Mind does for anxiety what William Styron’s Darkness Visible did for depression.� Neurologist and bestselling writer Oliver Sacks says, “I read Monkey Mind with admiration for its bravery and clarity�.I broke out into explosive laughter again and again.� Here, finally, comes relief and recognition to all those who want someone to put what they feel, or what their loved ones feel, into words.]]> 212 Daniel B. Smith 1439177309 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.23 2012 Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
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]]> Illuminations 565149 182 Arthur Rimbaud 0811201848 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 4.37 1875 Illuminations
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]]> Veronika Decides to Die 1431 The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.

Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.

The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.

In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.

]]> 285 Paulo Coelho Elena 0 to-read 3.75 1998 Veronika Decides to Die
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]]> The Bhagavad Gita 99944 Mahabharata incorporates Bhagavad-Gita, a sacred Hindu text that takes the form of a philosophical dialogue in which Krishna instructs Arjuna, the prince, in ethical matters and the nature of God.

Krishna expounds the nature and the way that humans can come to know God to Arjuna, the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita.

Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic, contains the text of the Bhagavad-Gita.

This early epic poem recounts the conversation between the warrior and his charioteer, the divine manifestation. It sets out the important lessons to learn to change the outcome of the war in the moments before a great battle that the warrior fights, and culminates in revealing the true cosmic warrior and counselling him to search for the universal perfection of life. This most important work ranges from yoga postures to dense moral discussion and serves as a practical guide to living well.]]> 160 Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa 0140449183 Elena 0 to-read 4.13 -400 The Bhagavad Gita
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]]> <![CDATA[Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget]]> 23341862
But there was a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should have been. Mornings became detective work on her own life. What did I say last night? How did I meet that guy? She apologized for things she couldn't remember doing, as though she were cleaning up after an evil twin. Publicly, she covered her shame with self-deprecating jokes, and her career flourished, but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no longer avoid a sinking truth. The fuel she thought she needed was draining her spirit instead.

A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, Blackout is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure—the sober life she never wanted. Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle. Her tale will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent or struggled in the face of necessary change. It's about giving up the thing you cherish most—but getting yourself back in return.]]> 230 Sarah Hepola 1455554596 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.99 2015 Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
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]]> My Booky Wook 2063563 339 Russell Brand 0340936150 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.44 2007 My Booky Wook
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]]> Possible Side Effects 61115 National Bestseller

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection of true stories yet. From nicotine gum addiction to lesbian personal ads to incontinent dogs, Possible Side Effects mines Burroughs's life in a series of uproariously funny essays. These are stories that are uniquely Augusten, with all the over-the-top hilarity of Running with Scissors, the erudition of Dry, and the breadth of Magical Thinking. A collection that is universal in its appeal and unabashedly intimate, Possible Side Effects continues to explore that which is most personal, mirthful, disturbing, and cherished, with unmatched audacity. A cautionary tale in essay form. Be forewarned--hilarious, troubling, and shocking results might occur.]]> 291 Augusten Burroughs 031242681X Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.99 2006 Possible Side Effects
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]]> The Virgin Suicides 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 Elena 0 to-read, needstoreads2016 3.81 1993 The Virgin Suicides
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]]> <![CDATA[You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am]]> 276692 You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am has the energy and oddness of a thing that is rising very fast that is not supposed to be rising, or that is supposed to be rising but for a moment you forget that, and for a moment this ordinary thing looks very strange and exciting]]> 72 Tao Lin 097656923X Elena 0 to-read 3.90 2006 You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am
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]]> The Collected Stories 3446138 Self-Help, her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave. Gathered here for the first time in a beautiful hardback edition is the complete stories along with three new and previously unpublished in book form: "Paper Losses", "The Juniper Tree", and "Debarking".]]> 656 Lorrie Moore 057123934X Elena 0 to-read 4.45 2008 The Collected Stories
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]]> Lust & Wonder 25663652 Running with Scissors. Then came Dry. Now, there's Lust & Wonder.

In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it all out. With Augusten's unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous, Lust and Wonder is an intimate and honest memoir that his legions of fans have been waiting for.]]> 304 Augusten Burroughs 0312342039 Elena 0 to-read 3.80 2016 Lust & Wonder
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