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Added on 01/08/08

Welcome to BookCrossing, where 626,553 people in over 130 countries come to share their passion for books with the world. How? It's easy. Simply click on the link below and sign up for free in less than 1 minute-- that's it! At BookCrossing, you can... See more

Welcome to BookCrossing, where 626,553 people in over 130 countries come to share their passion for books with the world. How? It's easy. Simply click on the link below and sign up for free in less than 1 minute-- that's it! At BookCrossing, you can register any book you have on the site, and then set the book free to travel the world and find new readers. Leave it on a park bench, at a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym -- anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel next. Track the book's journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person. Join hundreds of thousands of active BookCrossers daily in our many forums to discuss your favorite authors, characters and books in every genre throughout history right up through current releases. Help make the whole world a library and share the joy of literacy. Reading becomes an adventure when... See less

Added on 08/29/07

Online Book Rental Library. Stop buying books when you can borrow new releases and classics with free shipping! Netflix has popularized online DVD Rental. We`re doing it for books! BookSwim is the first online BOOK RENTAL LIBRARY CLUB lending you... See more

Online Book Rental Library. Stop buying books when you can borrow new releases and classics with free shipping! Netflix has popularized online DVD Rental. We`re doing it for books! BookSwim is the first online BOOK RENTAL LIBRARY CLUB lending you paperbacks and hardcovers directly to your house WITHOUT THE NEED TO PURCHASE! Whether it's New Releases, Bestsellers, or Classics, we've got 150,000 titles to choose from, with FREE SHIPPING BOTH WAYS! Read your books as long as you want. -- no late fees! Even choose to purchase and keep the titles you love! See less

Added on 01/06/09

Our book club picks from 2006 on...

Our book club picks from 2006 on... See less

Added on 01/06/09

The San Diego Women's book club is designed for women in San Diego to be able to get together once a month to discuss good books. The goal of the book club is to have FUN, expand our horizons, and exchange ideas with other interesting women! It is so... See more

The San Diego Women's book club is designed for women in San Diego to be able to get together once a month to discuss good books. The goal of the book club is to have FUN, expand our horizons, and exchange ideas with other interesting women! It is so EASY to get busy with our careers and our families, that reading for pleasure takes a back seat. With the San Diego Women's Book Club, you can treat yourself and make sure that you are reading at least 1 good book a month. The best part....? You can then share ideas with other interesting & FUN women in the group. The books will be a combination of biographies, nonfiction and/or good fiction paperbacks. All books will be chosen to help us learn more about other cultures around the world, through entertaining books. Come to laugh! Come to learn! Come to discuss! Come to share! Come to have FUN! Come to make sure you are reading good books! See less

Added on 01/06/09

This listing is for book clubs at San Diego Public Library locations. Please contact the library directly for more information about book clubs and meetings. You may also find book club meetings and events listed in the Library's Calendar of Events.... See more

This listing is for book clubs at San Diego Public Library locations. Please contact the library directly for more information about book clubs and meetings. You may also find book club meetings and events listed in the Library's Calendar of Events. For a map based tool to find book clubs try MapMuse Book Clubs. Want to start your own book club? You have many options to help you get started. You may wish to speak with the Branch Manager at your local branch library or one of the section librarians at the Central Library. For some online information about starting a book club, try LitLovers, or How to Host a Book Club on the One Book, One San Diego page. See less

Added on 01/18/08

Meredith L. Young-Sowers has created a book for women that puts a woman's connection to spirit at the very center. This book will help you learn to nourish yourself on all levels, emotional, intellectual, social, physical and spiritual. Understand... See more

Meredith L. Young-Sowers has created a book for women that puts a woman's connection to spirit at the very center. This book will help you learn to nourish yourself on all levels, emotional, intellectual, social, physical and spiritual. Understand why mind-body imbalances can sometimes manifest as disease. Learn to claim strength and renewal at each stage of your journey and respond effectively to stress in a way that heals your heart. This lovely book includes a mix of attitude shifts or affirmations at the end of each chapter, exercises and simple meditations to help us harness the power of spirit. Excerpt: Love and the ability to feed and nourish what we love are the essential components for a healthy life. When loss, acute or chronic, curtails our ability to nourish what we love, we inadvertently erode our passion and the dreams they generate. Losing what we love can push us further and further out of balance, which leads eventually to disruptions that can show up as various kinds... See less

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Added on 01/18/08

This book contains what Byron Katie refers to as "The Work." The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, will enable you to see the problem in an entirely different light and allow the problem to let you go. We all... See more

This book contains what Byron Katie refers to as "The Work." The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, will enable you to see the problem in an entirely different light and allow the problem to let you go. We all have our stories, or patterns, and the exercises in this book will help you recognize your story. It will show you step by step how to use this process on yourself and also includes examples of other people doing The Work to help you understand how the process unfolds. The Work is excellent for money and work problems, relationship issues and clarifying our underlying beliefs. The Work allows you to go inside and find your own happiness, no teacher necessary as you are the teacher you have been waiting for. Excerpt: The first time I watched The Work, I realized that I was witnessing something truly remarkable. What I saw was a succession of people, young and old, educated and uneducated, who were learning to question their own thoughts, the... See less

Added on 03/31/08

Product Description "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.... See more

Product Description "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring"... See less

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Added on 01/09/08

* Paperback: 292 pages * Publisher: Cormorant Books (March 26, 2003) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 1896951295 * ISBN-13: 978-1896951294 * Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches * Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) *... See more

* Paperback: 292 pages * Publisher: Cormorant Books (March 26, 2003) * Language: English * ISBN-10: 1896951295 * ISBN-13: 978-1896951294 * Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches * Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) * Average Customer Review: No customer reviews yet. Be the first. * Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,077,343 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) See less

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Added on 01/06/08

From Publishers Weekly The mysterious death of their shepherd has sent a flock of sheep into a frenzy trying to piece together whodunit. Overcoming their sheepish ways, the members of the flock realize that they may be the only ones who can solve it.... See more

From Publishers Weekly The mysterious death of their shepherd has sent a flock of sheep into a frenzy trying to piece together whodunit. Overcoming their sheepish ways, the members of the flock realize that they may be the only ones who can solve it. The more intelligent sheep, who have better retention or the intuition to ask the right questions, develop a list of potential suspects. As the investigation continues, the sheep quickly find the conspiracy is quite large, including a significant number of residents of Glennkill, Scotland. The delightful story is chock-full of metaphors and analogies about human behavior, interaction and memory that provide provocative insight. Bailey keeps an excellent pace and tone throughout in a light—almost benevolent—tone that keenly projects the slightly naïve perspective of the sheep. She makes indisputably clear voices for all her characters, including male voices that most would be hard-pressed to discern as coming from a woman. Tantor Media... See less

Added on 01/06/08

Book Description Grappling with her lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or remotely claiming to provide self-empowerment, Beth Lisick wakes up on New Year's Day 2006 with an unprecedented feeling. She is finally able to admit to herself that... See more

Book Description Grappling with her lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or remotely claiming to provide self-empowerment, Beth Lisick wakes up on New Year's Day 2006 with an unprecedented feeling. She is finally able to admit to herself that she's grown tired of embracing the same old set of nagging problems year after year. She has no savings account. Her house feels unorganized and chaotic. She and her husband never hang out together. The last time she exercised regularly was as a member of her high school track team almost twenty years ago. Instead of turning to advice from the abundant pool of local life coaches, therapists, and healers readily available on her home turf of northern California, Beth confronts her fears head-on. She consults the multimillion-dollar-earning pros and national experts, not only reading their bestselling books but also attending their seminars and classes. In Chicago, she gets proactive with The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. In... See less

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Amazon.com Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn't always like this, however, because... See more

Amazon.com Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every second of it. His life wasn't always like this, however, because Jacob ran away and joined the circus when he was twenty-one. It wasn't a romantic, carefree decision, to be sure. His parents were killed in an auto accident one week before he was to sit for his veterinary medicine exams at Cornell. He buried his parents, learned that they left him nothing because they had mortgaged everything to pay his tuition, returned to school, went to the exams, and didn't write a single word. He walked out without completing the test and wound up on a circus train. The circus he joins, in Depression-era America, is second-rate at best. With Ringling Brothers as the standard, Benzini Brothers is far down the scale and pale by comparison. Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob's life with this circus. Sara Gruen... See less

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Added on 06/21/07

Amazon.com Something is amiss in a small college town in Middle America. Something subliminal, something omnipresent, something hard to put your finger on. For example, teachers and students at the grade school are falling mysteriously ill:... See more

Amazon.com Something is amiss in a small college town in Middle America. Something subliminal, something omnipresent, something hard to put your finger on. For example, teachers and students at the grade school are falling mysteriously ill: Investigators said it could be the ventilating system, the paint or varnish, the foam insulation, the electrical insulation, the cafeteria food, the rays emitted by microcomputers, the asbestos fireproofing, the adhesive on shipping containers, the fumes from the chlorinated pool, or perhaps something deeper, finer-grained, more closely woven into the fabric of things. J.A.K. Gladney, world-renowned as the living center, the absolute font, of Hitler Studies in North America in the mid-1980s, describes the malaise affecting his town in a superbly ironic and detached manner. But even he fails to mask his disquiet. There is menace in the air, and ultimately it is made manifest: a poisonous cloud--an "airborne toxic event"--unleashed by an industrial... See less

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