About Me

Jung Chang: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
As one reviewer says " Of all the personal histories to have emerged out of China's twentieth-century nightmare, Wild Swans is the most deeply thoughtful... Takes the lives of three women, beginning with her grandmother who was a concubine, and her mother who grew up during Mao's cultural revolution to her life with a foot in China and a foot in the US. (****)

Lisa See: Shanghai Girls: A Novel
For a person who has been researching chinese history in Globe, this book offers such a human insight into what it was really like to grow up Chinese - first in Shanghai before it was overrun by the Japanese - and then in LA Chinatown. I loved the book. It is a good read. And educational - if you into that. (****)

Sara Davidson: Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?
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Michael J. Varhola: Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures: Great Lakes: Legends and Lore, Pirates and More!
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Jeannette Ferrary: Good Day for Soup: Over 200 Recipes for Any Occasion
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Pauline W. Chen: Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
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Al Ries: Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends on It (Collins Business Essentials)
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Winifred Gallagher: House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live
Living well in our homes is a matter of thinking more about how we like to live...what makes us happy - than about how it LOOKS. This leads to all sorts of paradigm shifts when designing a living space... (***)

Susan M. Love: Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book:4th Edition 2005
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