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		<title>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/29/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-by-smith/</link>
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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 narrator says “It grows in boarded up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=313&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Night Fall by Demille</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/29/night-fall-by-demille/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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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 on a few flights across the country to confront my flying fears. Turns out, however, my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=311&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East of Eden</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/29/east-of-eden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salinas]]></category>
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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 lately, with rising unemployment numbers and Southern droughts I’ve resisted his depression era novels. East of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=309&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/12/bound-for-glory-by-woody-guthrie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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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 a book? So affected by Guthrie’s book, Dylan famously went to visit the ailing activist and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=302&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Boy by David Scheff</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/12/beautiful-boy-by-david-scheff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Instruction/Inspiration/Recovery]]></category>
		<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 is a reward seldom experienced. David Scheff’s son Nic is lying, stealing, and living on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=304&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boat by Nam Le</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/12/the-boat-by-nam-le/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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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 to find short story collections that amount to more than uneven attempts but still more uncommon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=300&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Panzram&#8217;s Autobiography</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/12/carl-panzrams-autobiography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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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 committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=298&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mating</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/12/mating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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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 put forward by our narrator and main character, the unnamed anthropology student in Africa. Her time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=295&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Many a Summer Dies the Swan</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/12/after-many-a-summer-dies-the-swan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 16:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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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. In a sort of Socratic roundtable, the author, always a man of ideas is able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=292&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Your Brain</title>
		<link>http://yearofrecommendations.com/2009/05/11/welcome-to-your-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 03:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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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 of your brain along with many tips on the most difficult of life’s problems that begin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=yearofrecommendations.com&blog=5747642&post=288&subd=adamhopps&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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