Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

By
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
2005 • 226 pages

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144 books

Mood Boosting Books

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Deb Nance
Birds, beasts and relatives
The Flatshare
The Colour of Magic
The case of the one-eyed killer stud horse
The Phantom Tollbooth
Travels with My Aunt
Life According to Lubka

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271 books

Memoir

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Deb Nance
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
The Egg and I
Squatters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

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92 books

Concept Book

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Bathwater's hot
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
The Lover's Dictionary
Crossing State Lines: An American Renga
Trial by Journal
Little Acorn Grows Up
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

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273 books

Inspiration

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The World According To Mister Rogers
Dios Hara Algo Grande: God Is Up to Something Great
Too Busy To Count The Years
The Art of Noticing
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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190 books

Favorites

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A Wrinkle in Time
The Hobbit
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lonesome Dove
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
The Grapes of Wrath
Because of Winn-Dixie

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82 books

Imagination

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Deb Nance
Off to See the Sea
Shy Willow
This Is Still Not a Book
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Tree in Me
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

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1,214 books

I Don T Own

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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Black Tongue
The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems
Brother
Lullaby
Saga, Vol. 2

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535 books

Nonfiction

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The Sassy BookwormSupporter
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
Palladian Days: Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House
First come love, then comes malaria
The Jesus family tomb
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: The Emperor Who Brought It Down, The Barbarians Who Could Have Saved It
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

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11 books

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Lisa Francine
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Illegal: A Graphic Novel
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
Far from the Tree
Overground Railroad
Refugee
The Power

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10 books

Staff Picks

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Lisa Francine
Salt to the Sea
Illegal: A Graphic Novel
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Far from the Tree
Overground Railroad
Refugee

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36 books

Nonfiction

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Mossad
Lessons From Lucy
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

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21 books

Favorite Books

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A Little Life
Between the World and Me
The Rules Do Not Apply
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Just Mercy
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago

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1,341 books

Fiction

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Phyllis
Persuasion
Night Shift
Bruno, Chief of Police
The Hobbit
Demelza
Three Men in a Boat
The Man in the High Castle

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253 books

Book Club

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Phyllis
The Odyssey
Persuasion
Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A Question of Upbringing
Fences
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

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13 books

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Cell
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Dragonfly
Tailchaser's Song
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Mockingbird

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97 books

2008 Reads

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Bobbi
A light in the window
Jacob Have I Loved
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
Every Secret Thing
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker