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Title: The Year of Magical Thinking

Title: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Summary "Life changes fast....You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a...

Title: Steve Jobs

Title: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson  Summary Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a...

Title: Light in August

Title: Light in August by William Faulkner Summary Light in August is an exploration of racial conflict in the society of the Southern United States. Originally Faulkner planned to call the novel Dark House, which also became the working title for Absalom,...

Title: Amazing Grace

Title: Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas Publisher's Summary Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles...
Title: Stiff

Title: Stiff

Title: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Summary: An oddly compelling, often hilarious...