Here is a unique plot from John Grisham. Great read for anyone surviving the pressure of student loan debt or who has considered dropping out of graduate/law school.

Scott Jurek is an inspirational runner, but equally fascinating creative artist. This book illustrates the time, dedication, and coordination of all aspects of his daily schedule and eating regime ....all the strategy and smarts that goes into making his body be able to recover and hit the road again as a machine. His recipes truly sound like they would satisfy and it's nice to get some quality ones that are vegan, gluten-free, and eco-consious. Running these distances is incredibly humbling thing and while critics might say it takes a certain amount of 'self-hate' to force yourself to cover such distances, I believe that Scott's love of running comes from an inspired place and his upbringing. Eat & Run will prove to be a rewarding read and certainly a worthy way to procrastinate on your next run. Contains recipes!

This looks to be a great technical, philosophical, historical guide to the reasoning behind bibliographic models. Recommended reading for future librarians, coders, or aquisitions clerks.

The best part of this whole film is the detail that went into producing the intricate Aria scene at the end. While much of the raw footage of the whole dance that went with the Italian Aria was cut from the footage it survives intact on YouTube as well as with an interview of the model who wore the costume. If you are watching this for entertainment sake (as opposed to re-watching the end to stretch your vocal chords) Bruce Willis and cast do an amazing job. 

Recommended reading, the book is a great read for an Art history afficianado, anyone connected to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, or anyone interested in local historical Philadelphia locations of interest.

"A mesmerizing portrait of a young man and woman whose injured natures draw them together over the years and inevitably pull them apart. Mr. Giordano remarkably and movingly portrays the hesitant groping toward warmth that works beneath the pair's emotional disabilities. The author works with piercing subtlety. An exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level."
-Richard Eder for The New York Times

"The melancholy that hangs over The Solitude of Prime Numbers is seductive and unnerving. A-."
-Entertainment Weekly

"Giordano's passionate evocation of being young and in despair will resonate strongly with readers."
-USA Today

This book is a nugget of gold. In as detailed an account as possible, Mr. Ferriss will lead you through all the business aspects that stand in your way of success. Once you get out of your own way and allow yourself to thrive you will be able to work less, enjoy life more, and spend your time doing what actually matters to you. While it's unlikely every reader will be able to reap the same results as the author personally; this book will undoubtedly help readers and business professionals hack their own lives in a way that makes the read worth it.

Questlove talks about Jdilla alot in his latest book CreativeQuest.

Check out this Rap album with a nice compilation feel.

Randi Rhodes is a born and bred city girl who takes karate, idolizes the fictional detective in her dad's books, and solves petty crime in her Brooklyn neighborhood. I highly recommend it as summer reading!

Great Teen summer reading option at a unique behind the scenes look at the life and times of Vincent and Theodorus VanGogh, including the family life, the brotherly commraderie etc. Written in past perfect tense, this is a somewhat historical account, slight liberties were taken injecting sentimentality into the story. At more than 400 pages this is an academic book for a TEEN who is reading at grade level!

On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology, on the other, it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct.

This book covers the history of the Harvard Observatory which was originally independent from the University. This is a great read for Womens Studies or personal pleasure as it captures the life and times of illustrious women scientists, largely over-looked. I highly recommend this book! The original plates used to capture stars and phenomena are still in storage. The observatory is still in operation.

Interesting thoughts on meditation from a top news official without getting into a heady argument about religion or dogma. Highly enjoyable read and interesting glimpse into meditation as practiced in modern America. This book could help you plot your next retreat or stay-cation.

While you may set out to read this book thinking it will help doff subjectivism, dump all religious practices and live in an  objectivist world. This novel is an outgrowth of a series of blog posts on the subject. I think while at times funny, the author seems to have totally echewed the editing process, leaving us to scratch our chins at some of his arguments. It's quite possible that reading this might actually help cement why you love the religion that you love, identify what brings you comfort and acknowledge the mystery of being spiritual beings. I'm happy to accept that humans have humanized concepts throughout history and that we are the only species that feels the need to do that. But then we're also the only species that has a brain that operates off of fat absorption. In conclusion: if you are searching for the meaning of life this might not help you find it. Life is for living so get living; if you can be happy as an atheist power to you; if you can't; rest assured you are not alone.

This is the Acupuncturists' 'Bible', or to put it another way the Iching of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). This book is required reading for anyone in TCM as a field and also comprehensible for westerners enthousiastic about changing their mind/body concept or changing healthy eating/living patterns. Medical doctors can refer to it as well for additional healing in the hospital setting.

Essential reading for anyone who is interested in grassroots activism, social justice warriors, peacekeeping, or just general Good Karma of the planet. Ralph Nader has all the right ideas, no need to reinvent the wheel just read it and implement it on a local level as your capacity dictates. Great college-level reading.

This book is her best one and can be used as a workbook easily, just carry your own notebook with you. This book is one stop shopping for overhauling your life, career changes, thriving during divorce etc. Skip the AA meetings, just read this. It will change your life.

Quite possibly the best dancer auto-biography ever penned Twyla covers with adequate detail all the parameters of her childhood upbringing, her romances, and also her driven to succeed in showbiz nature.

She is at once an icon linking Balanchine, Barishnikov, Martha Grahme, and scads of other artists working together in the 1960s pushing the limits of Art. Highly recommended reading for the dance enthusiast or aficionado.

Twyla's verbosity and clarity regarding the psychological states that drove her production choices as well as her marital strife and personal decisions are all revealed in this beautiful anecdote to a cultured country gal. This is the epic narrative of the truest art as it was pursued during and after the 1960s. Wonderful pictures included.

This is a pocket edition covering much of the subject matter of types of objects in the Cosmos, including basic facts about the average temperature of space and more. If you didn't take Astronomy in college because the school you chose did not have a robust program in that area here is your chance to learn what some folks picked up in undergrad or earlier in life depending on their exposure to the sciences. The book doesn't come with a telescope but the short vignettes and superb editing will hook you on Neil DeGrasse Tyson as an author. For the people of faith with walls up that think they can't handle this information, I would state that the author is a professed Agnostic, and either way we are unlikely to ever know all the answers. We are here now. Let's learn about what we know that's out there and the equipment that we are using. This is arguably Neil De Grasse Tyson's best book.

This book is sure to go viral after it heals many broken relationships in the workplace. 

Cara Leyba's Girl Code is a 100% relevant must-have for any female worker in the post-millennial era. Social Media has totally corrupted our ability to remain professional in the workplace. Girl Code has encouragement for every variety of hurdle be it meanness, competitivity, glass ceiling problems, or lack of security/shyness while promoting yourself as a brand. If you're dying to be your own boss don't let anything deflect your flight, read this.