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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Choose Power: Tools and Techniques for Home and Work
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Pammyla Brooks
monicawilson
, July 17, 2009
Five thumbs up for this book! This is a book you need to buy, read, reread, and then plan to reread once a year (at least), for the rest of your life. It’s on the short and small side, but it is literally packed with simple, painless “techniques” to radically reform your life. I’ve tried only a few of them, and have become so amazed at how powerful they’ve been in changing my life, that I’m just kind of wallowing in the beauty of it, going deeply into these three techniques, trying each out a few times a week. Right now these three are what I need, but I’ll go into the others as times goes by. In a nutshell, this book takes basic, sound principals of psychology that I learned as a grad student and clearly explains how to use them in everyday life to solve everyday specific problems. One of the statements the author makes early in the book, in a section about “the wisdom of the body,” really spurred me on to give this book a careful reading. It was this: She said that only 58% of the people who were booked to ride on the maiden voyage of the Titanic actually took that voyage. Several explained later (after the boat had sunk) that they’d canceled their reservations after dreaming that the ship was doomed (J.P. Morgan was one of these). The techniques in this book are easy, quick, and not in the least painful. And they work! In just a few short weeks they’ve helped me make plans to move to another state – a move I should have made long ago; begin to resolve a long-standing issue with my sister; and cheerfully resume my efforts at getting a costly problem with my house fixed (one I’d given up on months ago, just because it seemed insurmountable). I have to admit that I’ve really found very few books as helpful as this one in breaking through some of my tough personal issues. Wow.
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My Liberal Education: How I Survived the First Four Years of George W. Bush
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Elizabeth James
monicawilson
, July 08, 2009
monicawalker LIBERALS, GET READY FOR A TREAT! Reader Rating See Detailed Ratings Posted 7/8/2009: If you’re a liberal, progressive, independent or just plain middle-of-the-roader in the game of politics, you will adore this book. You really, really should NOT miss it. It will make you laugh and cry. It will inform you. It will entertain you with a face-paced love story about a romance between a young liberal and a young conservative. The author very realistically and unobtrusively peppers her book with a rainbow of all the different kinds of people sheltered under the big beautiful wing of the Liberal Way of looking at the world: black Americans, lesbians, the elderly, a biracial couple, a liberal activist who takes on Fixed Noise (aka Fox News), and a female university Classics professor and ardent supporter of the Democratic Party (mother of the main character, Pandora Duncan). The author also, however, manages to pull in – again, unobtrusively – a set of sterling representatives of the Other Side – the Neo Cons: a Christian fundamentalist; a hack for one of Dubya’s henchman; and a main character whose family is so close to the Bushes that George Herbert and Barbara attend his mother's (this character is Jerry, the physician turned soldier who is also Pandora’s fiancé). All this makes for a rollicking good read as well as a view straight from the American trenches – with lots of humor pitched in to soften the blows -- of the horrors of Dubya’s first four years as the pResident who managed to occupy our White House for a time. This book will walk you down memory lane, through that battleground that was America from 2000 to 2004, and will help you make sense of that indescribably horrific period in American history. And last but not least, this book will treat you to some darn good writing, writing that will knock your socks off in places with its fresh, new and exciting descriptions of people, places and things. Get your hands on a copy of this book; you won’t be sorry you did (unless of course you are a Neo-Con, or one of the remaining five people in the country who still think George Dubya smells like roses).
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