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I highly recommend Malcom X by Manning Marable.  It's the book Marable worked on for the last 10 years of his life.  It was worth the effort.  The is the most  well researched, comprehensive look into the life of Malcom X and the...

Suck it Up- The story of the first vampire to come out of the casket (not like coming out of the closet)
A bright red scream
Maniac Magee
Star girl
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I have a lot more but i can't think of them right now

"Sharp 9th" is my first novel. It was just reviewed by Rick Friedman who runs the largest on-line mystery site/club in the country. A good review from really means something. So, I'm pretty excited, want to share with you.
06/03 Rick...

Unwind by Neal Shusterman is a book in the not too far future where the government has solved the problem of organ shortage by "Unwinding" troubled teens.  Unwinding is the process of taking a teen apart piece by piece...

I'm reading a really good bio on Gandhi entitled: Gandhi. The true man behind modern India by Jad Adams.  It relatively short but pretty comprehensive.  Ypou really get to see what a complex person he was.  He was a man devoted to...

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon is beautifully depicted from the protagonist's narration, a kid with asperger's syndrome. It's a work of art!
 

from the Dave Robicheaux books by author James Lee Burke. Robicheaux is a Louisiana detective -- aging, grizzled and showing it -- who takes on rich folks, the entrenched mafia, local bad boys and murderers who confidently live above...

This is a pretty light weight enjoyable read.  Written in first person but has 3 main characters, all women, whose lives intertwine to some degree.  It's funny and upbeat and sad.  I couldn't put it down until I'd...

The various flavours of coffee, is a story so rich, it just draws you into the pages. I would NEVER lend this book to anyone.I brought it like how I chose alot of my books, just felt right in my hand.The hands were right again. Read it...

I just finished Stieg Larsson's Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, I did see the movie first.  It's a wonderful novel that stands on it own from the movie.  The story's a lot more fleshed out in the book.  There are some important details...

The Lovely Bones-
Beautiful story about a girl would watches over her loved ones in heaven and her father who never gives up trying to find her killer even when the odds are against him.
13 Reasons Why- Jay Asher
A powerful book...

A simply amazing book...a odd one...and triggered for a younger crowd but its a great one for in my opinion any age...

The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater is a fabulous book.
It is about being yourself and living the life of your choice ..

i am ozzy it wasn't a hard read but parts of it made me laugh and cry

heres a couple that i really liked
 
recent read was "Troublesome Young Men" by Lynne Olson, its the story of the politics behind Churchills rise to power during the second world war, not so much about churchill...

Just finished reading Invisible Driving by Alistair McHarg. 
Excellent read!  The author takes you into the dark depths and deep crevasses of mental illness, while sharing their experience of what it is really like. ...

"the girl who played go" by Shan Sa. It is written in an amazingly poetic language and the ending is so intense, so... different. It speaks of another culture so well and it is also informative on a number of topics such as...

Keith Richards auto biography: Life. A really good and easy read with lots of good stories about the Stones and music.

We all know Alice Walker for her novels. But Ms. Walker is a great poet as well. I was just reading her 2003 book of poems, A Poem Traveled Down My Arm. The book is short, an easy read.  It's full of beautiful short poems that can be...