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My Book Library

Books come to my life either in happenstance or at just the right moments. Very special books that I really enjoyed have been (and still remains) profoundly influential to me. It is as serendipitous as the special people who has come into my life.

Below are a sampling of my favorites.

 

Selected books completed:

Currently reading:

The Enchantress of Florence
by Salman Rushdi
Think BIG, Act Small
by Jason Jennings
Over the Edge of the World
by Lawrence Bergreen
This is the original cover sleeve, UK edition 1st release. The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdi
The Irresistible Offer
by Mark Joiner
cover How to know GOD
by Deepak Chopra
This was the original 1st release cover sleeve. The World is Flat
by Thomas L. Friedman

Other books in progress:

 

Principles of Economics
by Fred Gottheil
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz cover Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
cover Is Fanatic Islam A Global Threat?
by Victor Mordecai
cover Flow, The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
cover Beans: Four Principles for Running a Business in Good Times or Bad
by Leslie Yerkes & Charles Decker
The Daily Drucker
by Peter F. Drucker
cover Managing in the Next Society
by Peter F. Drucker
Fleeced
by Dick Morris
The 9/11 Commission Report
by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

it's not the BIG that eat the SMALL... it's the FAST that eat the SLOW
by Jason Jennings

cover

First you have to row a little boat
by Richard Bode

   

El Filibusterismo
by Dr. Jose Rizal (translated by Soledad Lacson-Locsin, c1996)

   

Noli Me Tangere
by Dr. Jose Rizal (translated by Soledad Lacson-Locsin, c1996)

   

cover

Care of the Soul
by Thomas Moore

 

 

cover

The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
by Thomas Moore

   

Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada
by Pablo Neruda
(in Spanish)

cover The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje

cover

Maybe (Maybe Not:  Second Thoughts from a Secret Life)
by Robert Fulghum

cover

The Carousel
by Richard Paul Evans
cover How to Practice The Way to a Meaningful Life
by the Dalai Lama (translated by Jeffrey Hopkins)
cover The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho (translated by Alan R. Clarke)
   

cover

The Illustrated Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho (translated by Alan R. Clarke)
cover The Far Side of the World
by Patrick O'Brian
   
 cover Master and Commander
by Patrick O'Brian
   

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