Emily Barbera

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Emily Barbera

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Emily’s favorite books

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom

Be Here Now by Ram Dass

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Freud and Beyond by Stephen A. Mitchell

On Writing by Stephen King

The Places That Scare You by Pema Chödrön

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Being Mortal: Med...

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

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Water for Elephants

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Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen (Goodreads Author)

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Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science Series)

by Diana Diamond

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Emily Barbera has read 13 of 60 books.

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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Classics, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics, and Spirituality

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