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Re: Five People You Meet In Heaven

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I 100% agree!! It was this book that introduced me to Mitch Albom! I live everything he has written. He is awesome!!
nycsunshine wrote:A good friend of mine loved Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom, so I decided to read it the other day and I fell in love as well. This book is about a man named Eddie who dies and encounters five people he knew in his lifetime before he is sent off to heaven. He learns things about these people, people who he thought were insignificant to him, but turned out to have a greater impact on his life than he could ever imagine. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to read a short, quick read, that's sentimental and inspirational.

Other Mitch Albom books I would recommend are: For One More Day, and Tuesdays With Morrie. He also has a new book coming out in some time September this year, Have A Little Faith, about a rabbi and pastor and their devotion to their faith. He gives a preview of this book in this YouTube video I came across the other day, which truly moved me, and I hope you will be able to enjoy it as well. You can find it on Mitch Albom's official YouTube page.

Another book I would recommend if you enjoy Mitch Albom, would be Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth. I hope this review helped!
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I recommend Boys in Trees by Carly Simon. I love non fiction and this one was a great one. Carly Simon takes you personally through the ups and downs of her life through childhood and adulthood. Truly a great book.
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If you are interested in learning more about United States History, I recommend Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis. It is not an easy read; it can be rather dry at times, and it's intellectually challenging. However, the history that he provides is quite valuable. He focuses on the characters of the founders, their ideologies, and the way those elements interacted during and after the revolution. Additionally, his chapter on the founders and slavery is very worth the read. It's a nuanced analysis of the attitude towards slavery at the time, and the decision not to abolish slavery at the time.
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I recommend the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. She also wrote Seabiscuit. I like war stories and had that book read in no time.
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As an aspiring writer, but first and foremost, lifetime avid reader, I like to know what has worked, or hasn't for other writers! I found Nora Ephron's biography by her long-time friend,very interesting! :techie-studyingbrown:
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I recommend The Secret Garden Dawn to Dusk in the Astonishing Hidden World of the Garden, by David Bodanis. If you are a gardener, or just someone who enjoys the natural world around you, this book is a gem!
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The Art Stealers by Milton Esterow is a great book for any non-fiction reader. This book is a collection of stories from famous and some very notable art thefts. This book not only informed me of past art thefts but also art thefts that are still open, such as the art thefts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where a team stole over $500 million worth in art pieces. There was an article about this theft in the news just this past week about a possible lead and the only reason I already knew about this was because of Esterow's book.
Great and informative read!
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Something sci-fi and artsy?
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Trump, the Art of Deal Making.
His autobiography.
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I recommend "Resilience", by Andrew Zolli, Ann M. Healy.
For many of us it represents just a fascinating word but it is now a matter of general interest in several life spheres as ecology, political science, psychology, and it is the ability to withstand impact. At a time of economic crisis and market uncertainty the world of business is looking at it with growing interest.
Whatever you think, the question certainly implies more than a reflection and a lot of questions. Why does a person or a system react to shocks better than others? According to the authors, it depends from what has been '' resilient ''. Many of the examples discussed in the book explain what the negative or positive result depends from adopting or not this strategy: the US banks crisis of 2008, 4636 Mission born to respond to the humanitarian emergency in Haiti in 2010, are just an example of what authors quote.
The book does not give a recipe to become more resilient but it tries to explain which are the factors at the base of this capacity on more levels.
I think reflections it pushare really have a present value.
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I highly recommend The Sympathizer. It is a great book and an interesting perspective. It is fiction but the idea of it very non-fiction like.
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Scott, I have successfully downloaded the book followed my Star,and want to review this book instead of any other book.
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I highly recommend "Make Peace With Your Harshest Critic - You! How to Break the Habit of Destructive Self-Talk" by Grahame Cossum. I think the title is fairly self-explanatory. It is full of so many simple but EFFECTIVE tips.

I don't recommend "The Secret" or anything about the so-called Law of Attraction. Yes, vision and focus can play a role in helping you to get what you want, but you have to work for it - visualizing won't work on its own. Set goals and work towards them - that's it. Save your money and your time for better things than books like that.
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Followed my star by annahita is an average book. It starts with catchy ideas but as you move on incoherent ideas grip you.The Book touches many issues social, political, economic in light mood .But author's ambiguous thoughts and repetition of ideas makes one get bores. it's good for light mood people and renders bad image on thought provoking people.
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It's a long time since I read it but it still sticks in my mind as one of the best travel writing books I've ever read: "An Unexpected Light" by Jason Eliot, about his travels through Afghanistan in the 90s.
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