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John Freeman does a couple of things in the book. First he establishes the negative impact of email by using the example that by depriving ourselves of facial expressions when we communicate we are missing out on the human component. “Nothing, especially LOL can quite convey the sound of a friend’s laughter.” Then he’s quite practical about how to use email politely. This is a good resource for our tech times.


Roxanne

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Here is the author in her late 70's and she comes out with this incredible book. She's never awarded her heroines with happy endings and this is certainly the case in this collection of short stories. What is amazing is her ability to allow the reader to reside for a time inside her characters and their lives. Best short story writer ever.
- Rose from the Faith Middleton Show

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Andrew Sorkin is a business columnist for the New York Times, and a really smart journalist in the world of finance. Too Big to Fail really brings you inside these rooms as these huge decisions are being made. Sorkin presents a sophisticated understanding as to how these failures and follies took place, and shows people scrambling to make decisions in the face of catastrophe.

- Roxanne

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This book is the story of Hannah, a teen who sends a recording of her story to the thirteen peers who she feels are the cause of her suicide. This book is shocking, eye-opening, jarring, and it proves how easy it is to judge an action as non-impactful, when really, it’s a matter of life or death to someone else.

- Roxanne

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Zola wrote the first of what are considered novels exploring the psychology of its characters - this feels incredibly contemporary, addressing issues of marriage, disappointment and adultery - plenty to talk about!
- Roxanne

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Faith's pick on the Oct. 10, 2008 Faith Middleton Radio Show

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This is my idea of a perfect beach read. Gossipy and enthralling, Trollope shows us that greed on Wall Street is not a new phenomenon. One of my favorite writers.

- Roxanne

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This is not for the faint of heart, but it is one of the most beautifully written books about an astonishing and devastatingly sad tale of what it means to be in Afghanistan right this minute. This is a story of what its like to be boots on the ground—to know the lives that are lost, to see the bodies that are damaged, to meet the minds that are unraveled. You've read about the war, and you know about what happens, but you can't quite understand it until you pick up The Wasted Vigil.

-Roxanne