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The I Ching

James Legge

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The I Ching , also known as Classic of Changes or Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination...

Women in Love

D.H. Lawrence

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan. Lawrence's finest, most...

The Joyous Cosmology

Allan Watts

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In describing the effects of mescaline, Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception opened a...

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

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First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of...

Einstein in the Attic

Dana Dargos and Said Al Bizri

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A search for truth by those that transcend time. Set against the backdrop of the war between...

Science Fiction

Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction

Allen C. Guelzo

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Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private...

Alison Pink (7 KP) rated Hope: A Tragedy in Books

Jan 15, 2018

This book tells the story of a couple who buys an old farmhouse in upstate New York to esacape the craziness of life in NYC. The husband has major issues...the basis of which begin with his father leaving & the fact that his mother is a Jew who was born & raised in America. Yet she still manages to convince herself that she suffered through concentration camps in Nzi occupied Germany. The story gets interesting when Sol discovers an old, stooped over woman living in their attic. Big deal? Well, yeah. She claims to be Anne Frank.
Sounds like a great idea for a story, but to me it fell flat. At times I was interested & couldn't wait to see what would happen. Then it would just sort of ramble on for page upon page of nothing really happening. To me, the author was working way too hard at an attempt to be deep & philosophical. That ruined the promise of an intriguing plot line. It was okay, but I wouldn't read it again.