Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid: Stories

Author	Oliver Sacks
ISBN	0385352565

From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.

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Author	Yumi Unita
ISBN	0316210331

Ten years have flown by since that fateful day when Daikichi first met Rin at his grandfather's funeral. While Daikichi may be still much the same -- though perhaps a bit balder and a few pounds heavier -- the wise-beyond-her-years Rin has blossomed into a smart, capable, and well-adjusted teenager....

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Yumi Unita

As an impromptu dad to Rin, his late grandfather's illegitimate child, Daikichi Kawachi has experienced his share of firsts while caring for his little aunt (?). Now it's Daikichi's turn to battle the initial wave of separation anxiety as Rin leaves the nest... for her first day of elementary school!...

Author	Hideo Azuma
ISBN	8496427420

"This manga has a positive outlook on life, and so it has been made with as much realism removed as possible."

I enjoy biographies of down and outs. From George Orwell to Charles Bukowski, literary essays on the day to day routine of the homeless have always interested me. For starters, it's good...

Author	John Connolly
ISBN	0743298934

"But that is the nature of revenge. It escalates. It cannot be controlled. One hurt invites another, on and on until the original injury is all but forgotten in the chaos of what follows."John Connolly's originality and talent for storytelling have quickly made him one of today's preeminent thriller...