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		<title>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Bettie Smith Recommended by Rory Dowd The tree is an ailanthus, a variety that is found all over Brooklyn, and is known for its resiliency. The &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-by-smith/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=313&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Night Fall by Demille</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NightFall by DeMille Recommended by: Don Marsh All I knew about Night Fall going in was that it’s about the TWA plane crash of 1996 that was determined to be a mechanical malfunction so I decided to read the book &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/night-fall-by-demille/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=311&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East of Eden</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[East of Eden by John Steinbeck Recommended by Ben Bartlett I am ashamed to say that East of Eden is my first Steinbeck novel. My young and ignorant failed attempt at Of Mice and Men soured me for years, and &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/east-of-eden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=309&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie Recommended by Jay Mollica Bob Dylan said that Bound For Glory had a similar but much stronger effect on him than Kerouac’s On the Road. Can anything more complimentary have ever been said about &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/bound-for-glory-by-woody-guthrie/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=302&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Boy by David Scheff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beautiful Boy: A Father&#8217;s Journey Through His Son&#8217;s Meth Addiction by David Sheff Recommended by: Brenda Coseo Reading about addiction is a difficult to thing to endure, but like addiction itself, making your way through a book like Beautiful Boy &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/beautiful-boy-by-david-scheff/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=304&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boat by Nam Le</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boat by Nam Le Recommended by Mike Valente The Boat, a book of short stories published in 2008, is a participant in perhaps the greatest year of short story collections we have seen in a century. It is rare &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/the-boat-by-nam-le/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=300&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Panzram&#8217;s Autobiography</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panzram A Journal of Murder by Harold Schechter Recommended by Jake Chevedden Carl Panzram writes; “&#8221;In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/carl-panzrams-autobiography/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=298&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mating</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mating: A Novel by Norman Rush Recommended by: Gunjan Koul This novel, steeped in the tradition of a comedy of manners, seems easily comparable to a Jane Austen work. What it embodies, however, is the theme of exoticism that is &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/mating/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=295&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Many a Summer Dies the Swan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley Recommended by: Matt Lefebvre Like Demons by Dostoevsky or Magic Mountain by Mann, Huxley’s characters in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan personify different philosophies or outlooks on life. &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/after-many-a-summer-dies-the-swan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=292&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Your Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 03:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Behavior by Sandra Aamodt Recommended by: Mike Valente Welcome to Your Brain is a wonderful overview of the workings &#8230; <a href="http://adamhopps.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/welcome-to-your-brain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adamhopps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5747642&amp;post=288&amp;subd=adamhopps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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