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Learning To Bow: Inside the Heart Of Japan by Bruce Feiler

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I've never been to Japan. I've always wanted to go, though. When I was little my best friend was Japanese. Her father was the president of a shipping company, and when we were ten she returned to the country she hadn't even visited much less lived in since age three. We kept in touch until we were about 25 years old, and our lives were somehow very different but at the same time very similar.

In Learning to Bow, Bruce Feiler writes about his year teaching junior high school in a small town in rural Japan in the late 1980s. The stories he tells reveal the profound differences between Japanese and American culture, without losing sight of the fact that we are all the same underneath.

Updated Sep 16, 2008

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My Stroke Of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor

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Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist. When she was in her thirties she suffered a stroke which rendered many of her left-brain functions disabled. She recounts her amazing journey to full recovery as well as her nirvana-like experiences living in her right brain.

Updated Sep 9, 2008

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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael P Macdonald

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Michael Patrick MacDonald's memoir about growing up in South Boston in the 1970s.

Updated May 22, 2008

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Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai

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A story about the ties that bind--and sometimes strangle--from India to the United States.

Updated Apr 15, 2008

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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

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This is one of my all-time favorite books. I love Toni Morrison's writing--not just the stories, which are incredible, but the prose itself. Song of Solomon is a complex novel. It's rich, with layers of metaphor--not an easy book, but a great read.

Updated Apr 6, 2008

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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen

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"Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalogue for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for building a better future lie all around us, Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference." (Publisher Comments)

Updated Mar 7, 2008

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She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

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A few friends of mine have jokingly suggested that maybe "She's Come Undone" was ghostwritten--after all, how could Wally Lamb, a man, understand so well the inner life of a woman. Much less a woman like Delores Price, his highly dysfunctional protagonist.

Maybe there's a little bit of Delores in *all of us* whether we want to admit it or not . Maybe that's what makes this book so compelling.

Updated Mar 1, 2008

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Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe

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I read this book when I was 17 and it changed my life. Not so much because of the nutritional information it contained, or the recipes (which weren't that good) but because it clarified for me the real impact of our meat-based diet on the environment, resource management, and consequently human rights. This book is possibly more relevant now than ever and the follow-up "Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet" is a must-read too.

Updated Feb 28, 2008

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