The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton “Stays Gold”

The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton was first published in 1967 and the author was only 15 when she began writing it. She published at 18 and the rest is history.

The Road Less Traveled Changes Lives

The Road Less Traveled is a book that can literally change your life. Published in 1978, this book was written by a psychiatrist M. Scott Peck who had finally come to recognize what people needed in order to be happy.

From Onions to Pearls, Satyam Nadeen

What do you get when you take a fully grown onion and begin peeling away the layers to the very core? First you get a whole lot of tears and then you find a beautiful pearl at the center. This is the pearl which emerged from a small, single-room penitentiary lockdown in Florida after nearly 7 ye

Midnight Express by Billy Hayes

Here's a book that doesn't look like much when you glance at the cover and read the summary. I was lucky enough to have a friend who insisted I read it because, he said, “You are going to feel great about your life when you are done.”

Jonathan Livingston Seagull Steals the Day

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a short fable that is presented in the form of a novella. Just the mere presentation of this book attracts the reader almost instantly and two hours can literally slip out of existence if you find a copy sitting on a coffee table and don’t

The Prince of Tides Novel Humiliates Barbara Streisand

It’s just too bad what Hollywood has done to true art. When Pat Conroy first penned this amazing feat, who knew it would be destroyed by the like of Barbara Streisand?! Sorry Barbara but your hands are no longer like ‘butter’ after that dastardly deed you pulled on this otherwise spectacul

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values is the Introductory course for all spiritually inclined individuals. Robert M. Pirsig's book explores the Metaphysics of ‘quality’ and leads the spiritually curious student down the Easy Rider’s path to Buddhist Nothingness.

It All Starts With The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

“It all starts with Ayn Rand.” - That is the famous saying about how young, innocent minds, basking in the openness of their future, find themselves tempted into the promise of intellectual thought.

Replay by Ken Grimwood

Replay is a novel by Ken Grimwood that won the 1988 World Fantasy Award and often gets misjudged by its cover.

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