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Pablo Neruda
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Sacred Economics

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Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity

Simon Mainwaring
We First: How Brands & Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World

Sharon Begley
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

Jill Bolte Taylor
Stroke of Insight

Temple Grandin
Thinking in Pictures

Joyce Catlett & Robert Firestone
Fear of Intimacy

Stephen Nachmanovitch
Free Play

Michael Pollan
Omnivore's Dilemma

Fareed Zakaria
Post-Amercan World
The Future of Freedom

Brian Wansink
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

Hal Edward Runkel
Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool

Chip and Dan Heath
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 

Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Greg Mortenson
Three cups of Tea

Richard P. Feynman
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman
Six Easy Pieces
Six Not So Easy Pieces

Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis

Gary Provost
Make Your Words Work

Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth

Natalie Goldberg
Writing Down the Bones

Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird






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The Hungry Sea Monster

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Not a Box

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Little One

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Mom & Dad Are Palindromes

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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

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The Incredible Book-Eating Boy

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The Night the Scary Beasties Popped Out of My Head 

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Lies and Other Tall Tales

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Life Doesn't Frighten Me

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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
- John Lennon
  Musician

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
  Nobel laureate

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us.
- Franz Kafka
  Writer

Muddy waters
Let stand
Becomes clear.
- Lao Tzu
  Philosopher

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
  30th US President

Things happen. You have to be courageous and that's all there is to it.
- Erin Hasley
  Friend