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Michael Gates Gill
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About this author
Hearing of the death of the writer Robert Parker I was so grateful that he had lived. His short, witty and enjoyable mysteries have been a yearly delight. His character is a private eye from Boston who manages to avenge wrongs without taking himself too seriously. The food in the stories is always excellent, and the dialogue is full of canny truths.
I also was reminded by the death of J.D. Salin... read more »
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How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
   3.29 avg rating — 3,895 ratings
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2007
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How to Save Your Own Life: 15 Lessons on Finding Hope in Unexpected Places
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2009
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Fired Up!: The Proven Principles of Successful Entrepreneurs
by Michael Gates Gill (Goodreads Author), Sheila Paterson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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1996
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In search of Drinkers and Writers in Ireland (Biographies & Memoirs)
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A story of my "early retirement" after Yale and going to Ireland in search of a drunken hero of a book I had read and other literary boozers.
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The best book yet on diet. The author says all advice can be summed up in 7 words: "Eat food. From Plants. Not too much." |
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A suprisingly profound tale of a group of "modern" folk who find an ancient monastary in which the monks have discovered the secret to eternal life: little food, little talk, sensitiivity to every moment. |
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A wonderfully disciplined story about the powerful passions running so strongly beneath the polite surface of parish life in England. |
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Churcill's memoir about his early life and his finding his major loves--books and battles--in his twenties read by me in my twenties. Churchill was a good writer show showed that words properly used could change the world. |
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When I was young it was a strongly held belief that all great writers were drunks. I had been raised" …more |
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“Isn't it amazing in life how one minute you are devastated by some news, but then, a few seconds later, your desperate need to survive at any price kicks in and you can find some way to turn it around in your head?”
― Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
― Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
“I think it's true that the older you get, the more you cry”
― Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
― Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
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