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Books to read

1. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (medical)

2. The Alchemist (life)

3. The big short by michael lewis (finance)

4.The emperor of all maladies (medical)

5. On death and dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (medical/life)

Book Club

1. I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir by Lac Su

- Heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting, this stirring memoir chronicles one Asian-American immigrant’s struggle to find himself—and to transcend the dangers of gang life in Los Angeles.

2. Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart

- A deliciously dark tale of America’s dysfunctional coming years - a combined load of foreign debt, plutocracy and delusions of personal exceptionalism.

3. Hunger Games Trilogy: A Novel by Suzanne Collins

- It introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where the countries of North Americaonce existed. The  Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, holds absolute power over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle in which only one person can survive.

4. Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English

- An entertaining review of the historical activities of the Mob in Cuba from the mid-1940s until the Castro revolution takeover in 1959. History has often avoided or ignored the Mafia’s involvement in Cuba, forgetting that many of the activities there superceded or coincided with the development of Las Vegas.

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