Books Read in 2015
List created by Diane R. (salliebear) -, on Jan 5, 2015
List Votes: 1 Books: 30 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
List created by Diane R. (salliebear) -
List Votes: 1 Books: 30 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor
This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. The author presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year, a dramatic spurt that has hit everybody:... more
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Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta's thirty-ish parents of young children are a varied and surprising bunch. There's Todd, the handsome stay-at-home dad dubbed "The Prom King" by the moms of the playground; Sarah, a lapsed feminist with a bisexual past, who seems to have stumbled into a traditional... more
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant.
"Those old cows knew... more
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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. The author spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous... more
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Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
A small group of apocalypse survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new human race.
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The Leftovers (TV tie-in edition) by Tom Perrotta
A New Original Series from HBO A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011A USA Today 10 Books We Loved Reading in 2011 TitleOne of NPR?s 10 Best Novels of 2011 What if?whoosh, right now, with no explanation?a number of us simply vanished? Would some... more
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of... more
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Revised Editi...
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year... more
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Hope's Boy: A Memoir by Andrew Bridge
From the moment he was born, Andrew Bridge and his mother Hope shared a love so deep that it felt like nothing else mattered. Trapped in desperate poverty and confronted with unthinkable tragedies, all Andrew ever wanted was to be with his mom. But as her mental health steadily declined, and... more
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Ever Is A Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past by W. Ralph Eubanks
In June of 1957, Governor James Coleman stepped before the cameras t the Press" and was asked whether the public schools would ever be integrated. "Well, ever is a long time," he replied,"[but] I would say that a baby born in Mississippi today will never live long enough to see an integrated... more
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Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy by Thomas Beatie
Thomas Beatie electrified the world in April 2008 with his announcement that he was seven months pregnant and due to give birth in July. The news made headlines across the globe, but it's only one chapter in a fascinating saga.
Labor of Love reveals Beatie's unique life... more
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey
"There’s no news like hearing irrefutable proof that you’re not the sole cause of your parents'’ woes, your father's drinking, your unshakable feeling that you’re not put together quite right and finding out the problem all along was your father's unrequited yearning for... more
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Philomena: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search (Movie Tie-in) by Martin Sixsmi...
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years
When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.? Then the nuns took... more
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Never Let Me Go (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from... more
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
An award-winning memoir and instant 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... more
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A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
Recrimination and regret underlie an emotional reunion of seven former classmates from the Kidd Academy, an elite prep school, who gather at an inn in the Berkshire Mountains for a wedding. Nora, the widow of an abusive, renowned poet and the owner of the inn, has agreed to host the wedding of... more
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Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King.
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the... more
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If I Stay (If I Stay, Bk 1) by Gayle Forman
In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...
A sophisticated, layered,... more
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As Nature Made Him : The Boy Who Was Raised as A Girl by John Colapinto
In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment. On the advice of a renowned expert in gender identity and sexual reassignment at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the boy was surgically altered to live as a girl. This landmark case, initially reported... more
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Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Orphan Train is a gripping story of friendship and second chances from Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be.
Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to “aging out” out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman... more
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human historyThroughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history,... more
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Ghost Girl by Torey Hayden
Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried, or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her own troubled world -- until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have prepared... more
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Revenge of the Paste Eaters : Memoirs of a Misfit by Cheryl Peck
DESCRIPTION: A collection of stories for anyone who shuddered at the idea of senior prom, REVENGE OF THE PASTE EATERS is about the way the experiences of childhood stay with us and shape us into adults. Cheryl Peck applies her signature wit to more personal stories and reflections--about hurting... more
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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (P.S.) by Neil White
Daddy is going to camp. That's what I told my children. A child psychologist suggested it. Words like prison and jail conjure up dangerous images for children, she explained. But it wasn't camp . . . Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he... more
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Sou...
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history -- and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic... more
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.) by Stev...
Economist Steven Levitt is a popularizer in the best sense of that term, and his reality-based view of economics encompasses both how it touches our daily lives (though we may not always see it) and how it can help bring clarity to that messy world we live in. In FREAKONOMICS, written with... more
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Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club, a secret society obsessed with notorious... more
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The Poor Among Us: A History of Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City by R...
Conditions that perpetuate homelessness and poverty today have deep roots in America's past. In The Poor Among Us, Ralph da Costa Nunez and Ethan G. Sribnick explore the world of New York's poor children and families, from the era of European settlements to the present day: their... more
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Ruth's Journey: The Story of Mammy from Gone with the Wind by Donald McCaig
Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, here is the first-ever prequel to one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of all time, Gone with the Wind. The critically acclaimed author of Rhett Butler's People magnificently recounts the life of Mammy, one of literature's greatest... more
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