"Telex from Cuba" authored by Rachel Kushner is one of those books that mixes historical facts with an interesting fictional narrative–a book you simply cannot put down once you start reading it. It is a story about the employees of the United Fruit Company in Cuba and the 330,000 acres of land that it controlled [...]

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The Whore’s Child and Other Stories
$12.95 (USD)
Richard Russo
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“The Whore’s Child” is an unbelievably touching collection of short stories that showcase Richard Russo’s ability to portray various characters as vulnerable, human and sympathetic. The title story is about an elderly nun that enters a creative writing class and proceeds to give [...]

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Terrorist
John Updike
$24.95 (USD)
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Terrorist is a fictional work of art. It introduces us to a world of despair where the main character, Ahmad, is a teenage boy in search of an identity. He is manipulated by others into the dark world of Islamic terrorism and is part of [...]

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The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
T.R. Reid
$25.95 (USD)
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This is an amazing book that dispels the notion that the United States is the only superpower left on the planet. It should be mandatory reading for the every elected official [...]

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On The Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
Brian Bagnall
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On The Edge is a well written and entertaining history of the early personal computer years as told by the engineers that created it. The book presents what is arguably an accurate view of the [...]

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The Google Story
David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
$26 (USD) Buy it for less at Amazon.com
This book is an easy-to-read look at the search giant. It gives you a time line view beginning with the founding of the company through its phenomenal growth and current ubiquity. The book discusses the “Google economy” and [...]

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The Source of Success
Peter Georgescu with David Dorsey $27.95
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This is a superb and inspirational book on the qualities that are required in today’s business environment to succeed. Mr. Georgescu writes the book in sections that correspond to his ideas. The first of these is that the world has changed [...]

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