Sarah A. Downey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
Gregg Olsen
The latest news on this says that Shelly Knotek (the murderer and subject of the haunting true crime book If You Tell) is up for parole in June 2022. Well, as of today it's June 2022. Anyone have an update? @Gregg_Olsen https://t.co/csIs650trK
Paperback, 2019
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Water Knife
Paolo Bacigalupi
“There’s a theory that if we don’t have the right words in our vocabularies, we can’t even see the things that are right in front of our faces. If we can’t describe our reality accurately, we can’t see it.” - Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife
Paperback, 2016
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
“She hated the water then, inspired by the worm's fear. Water, once the spirit-soul of Arrakis, had become a poison. Water brought pestilence. Only the desert was clean.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah https://t.co/8QVEZp3TcK
Paperback, Mass Market, 2019
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
@wil_da_beast630 Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: https://t.co/7BCCWaR9MW
Paperback, 2006
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City of Thieves
David Benioff
Just finished the book City of Thieves by David Benioff and it was incredible. 10/10. Realized the author sounded familiar and googled him. He's half of the team that wrote the Game of Thrones show. WHAT. How could someone write both a book this good AND season 8 of GoT 🤯
Paperback, 2009
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Orwell: Essays: Introduction by John Carey
George Orwell
“Politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.” - George Orwell, A Collection of Essays
Hardcover, 2002
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
“The second-hander acts, but the source of his actions is scattered in every other living person. It's everywhere and nowhere and you can't reason with him. He's not open to reason. You can't speak to him--he can't hear.” - Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Paperback, Mass Market, 1996
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
“The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors.” - Isaac Asimov, “Foundation”
Paperback, Mass Market, 1991
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
China re-released Fight Club so that it has an ending where the authorities win. Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club, is not pleased 🙃 https://t.co/1OtDNoWPAL
Paperback, 2018
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be yourself and say what you really think. “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Paperback, 2015
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