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'I am a red balloon,' reflects Esperanza Cordero, 'a balloon tied to an anchor.' The House on Mango Street is the coming-of-age story of Esperanza, a teenage Puerto Rican girl with a big family and huge dreams about escaping her cramped house and impoverished neighbourhood.
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 Set in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and in contemporary Los Angeles, Orhan's Inheritance tells the story of one man coming to terms with his family's and his nation's past.

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Marian Keyes's tenth glorious doorstop of a novel focuses on the inner lives of the inhabitants of 66 Star Street, a Dublin townhouse with a blue door and a banana-shaped knocker; a gift from a previous tenant, a metalworker with a sense of humour (who everyone hated).
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When I first read the synopsis online, used to promote this book I felt awash with joy and even relief -  I wasn't the only one who felt my life was like this!

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The novel is set in German Occupied Paris in 1942. The central character is Lucien Bernard,a talented young architect, who is enlisted by a rich Frenchman to build an ammunitions factory for the Nazis.

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Professor Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon has managed to describe in his own words, with the help of Jeffrey Zaslow; what true empathy, compassion, kindness and gratefulness mean in times of immense adversity.

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The Empathy Factor provides great insight into relationships in business and organizational settings. Marie Miyashiro shows how today's managers can build organisations, collectives, groups using emapthy as the core driver of their success.

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Why do children stop asking questions? This was one of the questions that innovation expert Warren Berger set out to answer, along with why certain new, flexible start- up businesses were doing better than established companies staffed with MBA graduates.

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This is an amazing book written from the perspective of two highly functioning people with different forms of autism.  Dr. Temple Grandin is a visual thinker while her co-author, Sean Barron is an emotive thinker.

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This is a great read, and I highly recommend it if you're currently exploring empathy in an organizational context.

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