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		<title>How Starbucks Saved My Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill This one is a bit of a feelgood tale, the story of a high-flying advertising executive born into the Manhattan upper class who is laid off at the peak of his career.  After attempting to run his own advertising consulting business, and not having much luck, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Escape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Escape, Carolyn Jessop I read Jon Krakauer&#8217;s Under the Banner of Heaven a few years ago and was absolutely dumbstruck by the existence and far-reaching control of a cult like the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) inside the United States borders.  Krakauer&#8217;s book was a great read; but Krakauer&#8217;s an outsider, Escape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sick, Jonathan Cohn I was browsing around The Book Passage in Corte Madera with a Christmas gift voucher from my mum when I saw this book and grabbed it.  I read it on our recent trip to Banff and Lake Louise.  I&#8217;ve had a gnawing interest in the inefficiencies and shortfalls of America&#8217;s health care system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gang Leader For A Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst studying for his PhD. in sociology at the University of Chicago, Sudhir Venkateshchose to take a slightly different route to studying poverty in large American cities.  Instead of burying himself in books and census reports, Venkatesh ventured into the projects surrounding the university campus and befriended one of the leaders of the Black Kings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Cups Of Tea</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding himself stranded and close to death after an attempted summit of K2 in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas, Greg Mortensen is nursed back to health by local Pakistani villagers who live at elevations where I think I&#8217;d probably find it hard to breathe, let alone reside.  As he leaves for his home in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1001 Nights In Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1001 Nights In Iraq, Shant Kenderian A gift from my mother-in-law for my birthday, 1001 Nights In Iraq is quite a harrowing story of an Iraq-born Armenian American caught in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War and Desert Storm, forced by Saddam to fight in the Iraqi army against his wishes.&#160; A matter-of-fact account of Shant&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sperm Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sperm Wars, Robin Baker TB left this book at our house last year, thought we might find it an interesting read.  Each chapter begins with a fictional scene, some of which continue throughout different chapters of the book as multi-chapter stories.  Each scene is followed by a science-centric explanation of the human sexual behavior presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infidel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Mum gave me this book a while back and I read it earlier this year, just forgot to put it on The Lemon&#8230;&#160; I&#8217;d read about Ali once or twice in the media during her times as a politician in Holland, so I was aware before I started reading of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shantaram</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts Jacqui Steele put me onto this book a while ago after I mentioned to her that Marching Powder is one of my favorite books of all time.&#160; It sat on my nightstand for a while because the thing is so damn thick (almost 1000 pages), but once I started I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing My Virginity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Losing My Virginity, Sir Richard Branson Another parting gift from TB when he left us last Christmas, thanks for a good read Big Fella.  This guy sure has lived the life, he really has done it all.  What comes across a number of times in the book, and Branno is the first to admit it, [...]]]></description>
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