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Mind Breaks - Quick Reads for Busy Times
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November 2009
Compiled by Georgine Olson
of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Libraries & Regional Center from contributions by the members of Fiction_L
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MIND BREAKS
Escape reading for busy times - easily digestible short novels and nonfiction plus some essay and short story collections.
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
This I Believe I: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
The Earlier Aunt Dimity Mysteries by Nancy Atherton
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
The Benchley Roundup, Chips Off the Old Benchley by Robert Benchley
A Place Where the Sea Remembers bySandra Benitez
The Clothes They Stood Up In, Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Durable Goods, Joy School, True to Form, The Year of Pleasures, by Elizabeth Berg
This Year It Will Be Different and Other Stories: A Christmas treasury, The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy
Torturers Apprentice by John Biguenet
You're an Animal, Viskovitz by Alessandro Boffa
Forever, Erma: Best-loved Writing from America's Favorite Humorist by Erma Bombeck
Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Many titles by Elizabeth Cadell
Breakfast at Tiffany's; A Short Novel and Three Stories, Music for Chameleons: new writing, The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
I, Pearl Hart by Jane Candia Coleman
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Diary of Mattie Spense, The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Fup by Jim Dodge
Hunts in Dreams by Tom Drury
Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn
Amazing Gracie: A Dog's Tale by Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
A Cup of Tea: A Novel of 1917, One Sunday Morning: a novel by Amy Ephron
The Christmas Box by Richard Evans
Fantasia Mathematica edited by Clifton Fadiman
The Mathematical Magpie; Being More Stories, Mainly Transcendental, Plus Subsets of Essays, Rhymes, Music, Anecdotes, Epigrams, and Other Prime Oddments and Diversions, Rational or Irrational, All Derived From the Infinite Domain of Mathematics edited by Clifton Fadiman
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller
Many titles by Paul Gallico
Ellen Foster, Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Fountain by Emily Grayson
The Train Now Departing: Two Novellas by Martha Grimes
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
The Reef by Romesh Guesekera
Almost Friends, A Change of Heart, Life Goes On by Philip Gulley
A Different Kind of Christmas by Alex Haley
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from The Story Corps Project edited by Dave Isay
Three Men in a Boat; To Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K. Jerome
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
The Computer Contradictionary (original title: The Devil's DP Dictionary) by Stan Kelly-Bootle
Gidget by Frederick Kohner
The Cave by Tim Krabbe
Wishin' and Hopin': a Christmas Story by Wally Lamb
Up the Amazon Without a Paddle by Doug Lansky
You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner
Evolution Man by Roy Lewis
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
The Pleasure of My Company, Shopgirl by Steve Martin
The Luneburg Variation by Paolo Maurensig
No One Noticed the Cat by Anne McCaffrey
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall-Smith
Collected Stories: including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Home from the Vinyl Cafe: a year of stories by Stuart McLean
Mr. Thundermug by Cornelius Medvei
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn
Vanishing Act by Fern Michaels
I Cover the Waterfront by Max Miller
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
The Christmas Present by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
The Hardscrabble Chronicles by Laurie Morrow
The Stranger Next Door by Amelie Nothomb
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
The Chisellers, The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll
The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
Good Morning, Miss Dove by Frances Patton
The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories by Rosamunde Pilcher
Don't Get Too Comfortable, Fraud: essays by David Rakoff
Many titles by Miss Read
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom, We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle by Celia Rivenbark
The SPQR Mysteries by John Maddox Roberts
Nice: a Novel by Jen Sacks
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
The Cry of the Sloth, Firmin by Sam Savage
The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
The Faithful Servants, The Innocents, Summer Visits by Margery Sharp
Dechronization of Sam Macgruder by George Gaylord Simpson
Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith
Aiding and Abetting, Abbess of Crewe, Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
Cannery Row, Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
Mr. Summers Story by Patrick Suskind
Night Gardening by E. L. Swann
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
Deciding the Next Decider, Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin
Sophie and the Rising Sun by Augusta Trobaugh
The Holy Man by Susan Trott
Borges and the Eternal Organgutans, The Club of Angels, by Luis Fernando Verissimo
The Story of My Disappearance by Paul Watkins
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
Mama Makes Up Her Mind, Quite a Year for Plums, Sleeping at the Starlight Motel by Bailey White
Nothing with Strings: NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories edited by Bailey White
Bellweather, Miracle, and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis
Blueback by Tim Winton
Many titles by P. G. Wodehouse
The Girls by Helen Yglesias
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