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Jim Leonard |
| Vivation - The Skill of Happiness |
| After a series of tragedie, a friend of mine gave me this book. It didn't take long to realize that what this book teaches is so fundamental to the human condition, that implementing the techniques will result in powerful change. After spending a few weeks practicing the basic skills I realized that it would be even more beneficial to learn the process in detail from a Vivation Professional. This turned out to be the best decision I ever made. I learned what my Vive Pro called the 7 basic lessons to Vivational Autonomy. Each lesson is about 2 hours long, 1 hour lecture and 1 hour Vivation Session. |
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Ellen Urbani Hiltebrand |
| When I Was Elena |
| A detailed and harrowing tale of encountering how the other 95% of the world lives. After spending 14 years growing up in Asia I developed genuine fear and worry about what would become of the pleasant but terribly naive peace corp. volunteers who showed up regularly in the strangest places. I must read for anyone hoping to experience the real world of abject poverty lived with joy and dignity. Rob Kendall |
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Alexandra Leclere, John Perkins |
| Seeing the Dead, Talking with Spirits : Shamanic Healing through Contact with the Spirit World |
| Alexandra Leclere's SEEING THE DEAD, TALKING WITH SPIRITS: SHAMANIC HEALING THROUGH CONTACT WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD tells of one woman's discovery of her ability to heal through spirit contact. Alexandra Leclere was a TV producer, not a psychic, when she discovered her talent after an alternative healing session. Her interest in and research on spiritual healing brought her into contact with shamans and healers and brought with it the discovery that she could see spirits. A fine first-person account of how these revelations changed her life. |
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Dara Horn |
| The World to Come |
| Recently divorced, former TV child quiz show star and child prodigy Ben Ziskind is convinced to attend a singles mixer at the Museum of Hebraic Art, where he spies a small picture on the wall that used to hang in his boyhood living room. As the singles leave the exhibit area to listen to dance music, Ben steals the drawing, a Marc Chagall sketch, and starts an amazing collection of interwoven plots in this wonderful story. The plot lines jump back and forth to a 1920's-era Jewish boys camp in Russia, to Ben and twin sister Sara's childhood in suburban New Jersey, to Ben and Sara's father's tour of duty in the Viet Nam war. |
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Mary Pope Osborne |
| Night of the New Magicians |
| My son loves this whole series. If you have not started your child on these for age 5 and up, do so! These are the most interesting books for young kids. And so far the series has seem to grow up with my son. This book lists the scientists such as Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and others. These books really start a child learning about history. My son is so much into this history of these, it has led him to research on his own through other books about the historical events! We have also read the accompanying research books. The only thing I wish for now, is some children travel guides from Mrs. Osborne (it would be a great add on to the research books!). Thanks so much for these! |
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Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell |
| Freeglader (Edge Chronicles) |
| I am a big fan of teh Edge Chronicles, twig being my favorite character. I never really liked Rook Barkwater until this book. Now I do. Freeglader is all about the journey that the Undertowners have to take after the Dark Maelstrom to get to the Freeglades and have peace. Banding together with the sky pirates from the Mire, the fleeing Undertowners must brave attacks from Muglumps, shrykes, goblins, and survive the treacherous Mire and Edgelands. |
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Larry Dossey, M.D. |
| The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things : Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness |
| arry Dossey, M.D.'s THE EXTRA-ORDINARY HEALING POWER OF ORDINARY THINGS: FOURTEEN NATURAL STEPS OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS comes from a physician long hailed as one of the discoverers of the idea of 'mind-body medicine'. Here Dr. Dossey discusses sources of natural healing and speedy recovery, exploring the medical research that acknowledges and supports natural remedies. From the return of leeches as useful medical tools to religion as a risk-reduction tool, THE EXTRA-ORDINARY HEALING POWERS OF ORDINARY THINGS surveys both physical and psychological rituals and healing methods. |
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Rick Spier |
| O'Sullivan's Odyssey |
| A novel of historical fiction, O'Sullivan's Odyssey examines the dynamics and consequences of family dysfunction against the backdrop of the Irish Potato Famine and the American Civil War. It tells the story of Donal O'Sullivan Beara, a young Irishman who seems to be marked for greatness but who cannot overcome his tragic flaw--depression and borderline personality disorder--to attain it. |
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Stephen McCauley |
| Alternatives to Sex : A Novel |
| McCauley's latest blunt and funny novel lays bare the inner life and obsessive-compulsive behavior of William Collins, a gay 40-something Boston realtor who struggles to give up trolling the Internet for impersonal sexual liaisons. Taking stock of the year following 9/11, William attributes his promiscuity to "posttraumatic self-indulgence" and unsuccessfully attempts to trade one addiction for another: cleaning house (not always his own). When affluent straight couple Charlotte O'Malley and Samuel Thompson arrive at his office, prowling for a new home, William hopes he can close the sale and wonders if he can look to their marriage as inspiration for a long-term relationship. |
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Elias Khoury |
| Gate of the Sun |
| First published in 1998 in Arabic by a Beirut publisher, and then translated into Hebrew and French, this book was Le Monde Diplomatique's Book of the Year in 2002; Khoury's ambitious, provocative, and insightful novel now arrives in the U.S. Well researched, deeply imagined, expressively written and overtly nostalgic, the book uses the lyrical flashback style of 1001 Arabian Nights to tell stories of Palestine. At a makeshift hospital in the Shatila refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut, Dr. Khalil sits by the bed of his gravely ill, unconscious friend and patient, Yunes, a Palestinian fighter, and reminisces about their lives in an attempt to bring him back to consciousness. |
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Javier Sierra |
| The Secret Supper : A Novel |
| Javier Sierra originally published this book in Spain in 2004 as 'La Cena Secreta' and it rapidly became a best seller in Europe. At last it is translated into English by Alberto Manguel as THE SECRET SUPPER and the book is bound to find its way onto the bestseller list rapidly! It is a tightly woven, suspense driven, elegant story of a secret that lay hidden in the Leonardo Da Vinci's painting 'The Last Supper', that secret threatening to undo to status of the Catholic Church in the 15th century. |
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Danny Dreyer, Katherine Dreyer |
| Chiwalking : The Five Mindful Steps for Lifelong Health and Energy |
| When my grandfather had open heart surgery at age 85 some 20 years ago, he was one of the oldest people in the United States ever to have done so. The reason the doctors were willing to perform the risky surgery at all was because he was in otherwise outstanding health, primarily due to his daily two mile walks. He not only had a full recovery, but continued his routine until shortly before his death at age 98. That says a lot about the power of walking for fitness, especially for those who are unwilling or unable to run. Having said that, however, I couldn't imagine that you'd need to know much more about walking than whatever is required to motivate you do to it in the first place. Apparently I was wrong.. |
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Trebbe Johnson |
| The World Is a Waiting Lover : Desire and the Quest for the Beloved |
| I loved this book so much I had to wait a couple of weeks before I could finish it because I didn't want it to be over. If you've ever wondered where a crush could take you in your life, this is the book to read. Initially, it is a bit slow and the style of writing is more descriptive than I like, but it soon turns into a real page turner. One thing is for sure, if you're wondering why you're still getting crushes on people while you're already in a committed and happy relationship, this book will clear any issues you might have with that right up! |
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Karen Armstrong |
| The Great Transformation : The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions |
| Karen Armstrong spent seven years as a nun, has written 16 previous books about religious matters, and is a prominent commentator on religious affairs in Britain. Her views have changed considerably since her earlier days in the convent, but she maintains tremendous respect for the world's great religions. She is a self-proclaimed "monotheist," but her writings seem to merely support and encourage a spiritual approach toward life - rather than a belief in any deity..."Human beings are spiritual animals...homo sapiens is also homo religiosus." |
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Barbara Stanny |
| Overcoming Underearning |
| Stanny let the men in her life-first, her father, Richard Block of H&R Block, and then her husband-manage her money, but a divorce and a financial crisis served as a wake-up call. Since then, the author of Secrets of Six-Figure Women and Prince Charming Isn't Coming has taken her message on the road to show underearners how to achieve a greener financial future, and here lays out her five-step plan for those with money worries who want to earn, as the subtitle suggests, what they deserve. Step one, Stanny says, is "You've got to be willing to be uncomfortable." She defines many of the barriers and negative mindsets that plague underearners and uses exercises throughout the book to help readers with their "Inner Work," or their attitudes about money and self worth. |
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Kris Radish |
| Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral |
| Radish's latest overwrought book (after Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn) tracks five strangers– turned–soul mates over the course of the titular funeral, posthumously organized by their friend Annie, who died from ovarian cancer at age 56. A package arrives at Katherine Givens's front door and in it are the ashes of her free-spirited, altruistic childhood friend, along with instructions for a procession that will take Annie's closest friends on a cross country trip from Sonoma, Calif., to Manhattan, sprinkling her remains as they go. |
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Jacqueline Kramer |
| Buddha Mom:The Journey Through Mindful Mothering (Hardcover) |
| Jacqueline Kramer has been a practicing Buddhist for 20 years, but some of her best insights into Buddhism have come not from meditation but from mothering. I was led to believe that mothering was a side track on the path toward spiritual liberation, but that wasn't my experience, she explains. I have found mothering to be a direct path to spiritual insight. In this gentle book, she explores how she has become a better Buddhist through opening herself to motherhood. |
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PhD., Charlene M. Proctor |
| Let Your Goddess Grow!7 Spiritual Lessons on Female Power and Positive Thinking (Paperback) |
| Many people think they have little control over their circumstances. They believe their external environment determines their lives. But the truth is that humans have the ability to produce the effects they want in the world simply by observing themselves from another point of view. ~Charlene M. Proctor |
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Susannah Seton, Sondra Kornblatt |
| 365 Energy Boosters:Juice Up Your Life, Thump Your Thymus, Wiggle as Much as Possible, Rev Up with Red, Brush Your Body, Do a Spinal Rock, Pop a Pumpkin Seed (Paperback) |
| Are you S.A.D.? (Suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder.) Are you one of the listless denizens sleepwalking your way through the day? Are you tired of being tired? Life demands more energy every day as we heap enough tasks on our "to do" lists to fill every waking hour and put untold amounts of pressure on ourselves to perform, to keep a spotless home, and to have the perfect relationship, the most well-behaved kids, and the best job. The constant need to be productive is wearing us out, physically and emotionally. In 365 Energy Boosters, Susannah Seton and Sondra Kornblatt provide us with a daily guide for putting an end to the madness, embracing a new and improved life experience, and getting a big dose of energy to boot. You’ll find energizing one-minute exercises and foods for a quick pick-me-up and learn ways to track your natural energy cycles, get organized, sleep better, and wake yourself up whenever your energy takes a nosedive. |
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Brent Hartinger |
| Geography Club |
| Grade 10 Up-Russel Middlebrook is a sophomore at Goodkind High School. He has a secret crush on a baseball jock, Kevin Land, and soon discovers that Kevin is also gay. The boys become friendly outside of school and set up the "Geography Club" with three other gay students, one of whom is Russel's closest friend, Min. The club members relish the opportunity to discuss their lives and to relate to one another openly and honestly. Eventually, however, intense peer pressure and insecurity take their toll. Russel's relationship with Kevin ends, but the "Geography Club" becomes the "Goodkind High School Gay-Straight-Bisexual Alliance," and the protagonist gains new insight into himself and his place in the world. |
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Michael Donnelly |
| Awakening Curry Buckle |
| As presaged in a dream, Darwin Bownes arrives from off-island to help Curry solve the riddle of a Tibetan amulet, and decipher a Sanskrit inscription on a drum... a drum that seemingly wants to be played by no one but Darwin.
Darwin goads Curry into exploring his emerging powers, and they set up a swami booth at a school bazaar to help raise money to save Kluge Island's beloved Camp Bluetoad. But their good intentions attract the wrong people seeking the wrong kind of help. Curry and Darwin become enmeshed in deep intrigue involving a madman’s treasure and a murder investigation.
Curry and Darwin must each undergo a harrowing test to prove themselves worthy of bearing the torch of ancient wisdom. |
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Arjuna Ardagh, Ken Wilber |
| The Translucent Revolution:How People Just Like You are Waking Up and Changing the World (Paperback) |
| At a time when the fate of the world seems increasingly uncertain, The Translucent Revolution provides a compelling and convincing argument that radical positive change is taking place throughout our global society, resulting in increasing numbers of people from diverse and divergent backgrounds who are awakening to a state Ardagh defines as "translucent." In the process, they are becoming part of a potentially critical mass of people capable of triggering a worldaround awakening of deeper purpose, joy, compassion, self-fulfillment, and service to others. |
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Margaret Doyle |
| The Fisherman's Quilt |
| I was blown away by the honesty and reality of this book. It tells the story of a young fisherman's wife who follows her husband to Alaska, and is left alone with her baby daughter to find her way in the wild town of Kodiak. Her husband is obsessively ambitious and jealous to boot, so she's by herself in dealing with her loneliness, her insecurity about being a good wife and mother, and the craziness of the town. Eventually she forms a quilting group, but this novel isn't about quilting, it's about community and finding yourself and believing in yourself. It's about how Nora Hunter gave her power away to her husband, and got it back for herself and her family. Rough language and true-to-the-times parenting may bother some readers. |
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Jacqueline Kramer |
| Ten Spiritual Practices for Busy Parents |
| Parents today are often overwhelmed by demands at work and home. Many regret that they no longer have time for their spiritual practice, while others wish to bring more spirituality into their lives now that they have children to raise. Drawing from her own daily practices and classic techniques from Eastern and Western religions, author Jacqueline Kramer offers simple practices to improve your quality of life. 10 Spiritual Practices for Busy Parents gently guides you through a series of daily opportunities to practice mindfulness, gratitude, love, generosity, and other spiritual qualities. Each is presented as an opportunity rather than another item for a to-do list. These time-tested tools have been shown to build happy lives, regardless of your religion. |
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Graham Salisbury |
| Eyes of the Emperor |
| Grade 8 Up–Salisbury continues to make his mark by bringing alive the time in Hawaii when the U.S. entered World War II. Eddy, a 16-year-old Japanese American, tells how he and his buddies, Chik and Cobra, become part of Company B of the 100th Infantry Battalion following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Without discounting the community's old loyalties to Japan, the story makes clear the transition caused by the declaration of war, and by the desire to be part of the great fight to protect America. These young men are patriotic, but the powers that be have a hard time trusting their dedication. |
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Barbara Wilder |
| Embracing Your Power Woman:Coming of Age in the Second Half of Life |
| I was prepared to resist this book as "been there, done that," but I was soon drawn in by the creative way Wilder not only charts an emotional and psychological map of coming into one's own as a Power Woman, but illuminates where we are on the spectrum, both personally and in a mythic and social context. I found it validating to see what had gone right as well as awry in my own evolution as a woman in our culture. The deeper I got into the book, the more avidly I took notes, particularly in regard to Wilder's new paradigms of authentic leadership and profound definition of success. I found this book heartening and revitalizing. |
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Merlene Miller, David, Ph.D. Miller |
| Staying Clean & Sober:and Natural Strategies for Healing the Addicted Brain |
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Graeme Gibson |
| The Bedside Book of Birds :An Avian Miscellany |
| In this intriguing, beautifully illustrated volume, Canadian writer and birder Gibson (Five Legs) employs poems, folk tales, parables, legends, and extracts from the works of naturalists and others to explore humans' relationship with birds through the centuries. Some of the material—Peter Matthiessen's tribute to shorebirds, Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem about wild swans, Thomas Hardy's ode to a darkling thrush—reflect the joy many people feel on seeing or hearing a bird. But a number of the pieces, such as Robinson Jeffers's wrenching poem about a hurt hawk, Gabriel García Márquez's story involving sinister curlews and Kafka's threatening fantasy about a vulture, do not make the best bedtime reading. |
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William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente, Jack Forem |
| What the Bleep Do We Know!?:Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality. |
| Hundreds of years ago, science and religion split apart; they became antagonists in the great game of explanation and discovery. But science and religion are two sides of the same coin. They both help explain the universe, our place in the great plan and the meaning of our lives. In fact, they can only begin to do that adequately when they work together.
What the Bleep Do We Know?!TM is a book of amazing science. With the help of more than a dozen research and theoretical scientists, it takes you through the looking glass of quantum physics into a universe that is more bizarre and alive than ever imagined. |
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Gabrielle Alizay |
| Feng Shui for the Rest of Us:What You Can Do Right Now to Change Your Life |
| The title of this book, Fung Shui for the Rest of Us, without a doubt includes ME! All other Fung Shui books I've paged through have barely been applicable for me, for one reason or another. From the first pages of this fun, creative, and well written book, I began, without resistance, the practical applications of this life altering tool of Fung Shui. My home is my sanctuary and I welcome Gabrielle Alizay into my home, bringing a world of new understanding and gentle change that encourages all areas of my life to evolve. |
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Eliot Weinberger |
| What Happened Here:Bush Chronicles (Paperback) |
| American readers admire Weinberger (Words on Paper; Karmic Traces) as a literary essayist and for his indefatigable, influential translations from Spanish and Chinese. Many Europeans and Mexicans know him as a political writer, explaining U.S. events from a clear (and clearly appalled) left-wing perspective. Inspiring in its integrity, but grim in some of its conclusions, this brief volume collects 12 essays, a speech and an interview offered to overseas audiences between December 2000 and January 2005. |
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Joe Conason, Al Franken (Foreword), James Roosevelt (Preface) |
| Raw DealHow the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal. |
| Social Security is facing the most serious, well-financed, and determined threat to its existence since its inception in 1935. For Americans to make sense of the barrage of conflicting messages on the subject, it’s necessary to understand who is behind the campaign to "reform" Social Security, what the campaign aims to achieve, and how it misrepresents its goals. Best-selling author Joe Conason exposes why and how this is happening. The Raw Deal explores the Right’s privatization goals, Bush’s hard-fought privatization campaign (built on a stacked "study"), the corporate interests behind the plan, the media campaign to undermine confidence in Social Security, and how the swindle can be stopped. Conason’s no-apologies, no-nonsense approach clears up the myriad misperceptions surrounding this important, confusing issue and gets to the truth about the big Social Security bluff. |
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Eliot Weinberger |
| The Impossible Will Take a Little While:A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear |
| In this uneven collection, Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time, gathers together over sixty poems, memoirs and essays tailored to buck up the spirits of a left-liberal audience depressed by the sorry state of the world. Although generally in favor of justice and democracy and against the "runaway global market," the selection of writers includes a wide range of environmentalists, civil rights crusaders, anti-poverty activists and dissidents against both fascism and communism. From these eclectic offerings some hopeful, albeit familiar themes assert themselves: ordinary people can make a difference, every little bit counts, in solidarity there is strength, a positive attitude is half the battle, the powers that be are unexpectedly vulnerable, and history is full of surprising victories of the weak over the strong. |
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Judith Md Orloff |
| Positive Energy:10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love |
| Orloff, a psychiatrist who has appeared frequently on television and written an eponymous Guide to Intuitive Healing, here provides 10 detailed prescriptions for harnessing one's "positive energy" to replace fatigue with physical and emotional vigor. Her commonsense program includes pursuing an individual spiritual path, developing "true-to-self eroticism," designing an energy-building diet and exercise plan, learning to celebrate laughter and protecting oneself from "energy vampires." Along with practice exercises for following these prescriptions, each section ends with a public figure describing the ways that he or she uses Orloff's methods. |
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Jacqueline Winspear |
| Pardonable Lies:A Maisie Dobbs Novel |
| Starred Review. Agatha-winner Winspear's engrossing third Maisie Dobbs novel maintains the high quality of its predecessors, Maisie Dobbs (2003) and Birds of a Feather (2004). In late 1930, the London "psychologist and investigator" gets involved in three cases: proving the innocence of a 13-year-old farm girl, Avril Jarvis, accused of murder; undertaking a search for Sir Cecil Lawton's only son, a pilot shot down behind enemy lines in WWI, whose body was never recovered; and looking into the circumstances of the death of her university friend Priscilla Evernden Partridge's brother in France during the war. Maisie must go back to the region where, 13 years earlier, she served as a nurse, and confront her memories of mud, blood and loss. |
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Nina Marie Martinez |
| Caramba!:A Tale Told in Turns of the Card |
| Lava Landing, Calif., home of a dormant volcano and the annual Miss Magma beauty pageant, is the setting for this effervescent, luminous debut. Although the novel has a slew of protagonists, readers first meet Natalie and Consuelo (Nat and Sway), two firecrackers with an "ever growing fascination with the wideness of the world." Sway's father is recently deceased and stuck in purgatory ("The Perg"); the only way to get him out is to go to his hometown in Mexico, gather the townspeople, visit the railroad tracks where he was killed and pray for him. |
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Diane Kinman |
| Franca's Story:Survival In World War II Italy |
| "This true story of wartime Italy will touch the very deepest part of your heart. Franca is only fourteen when World War II begins, but she is brave in ways that most people can only imagine. Whether she is rescuing a downed British pilot, personally visiting the Pope's quarters, or risking her life to bring food to her starving family, Franca's courage rings through this entire book. Her memories will become yours, enriching and uplifting your life." — Peggy King Anderson, author of THE FALL OF THE RED STAR |
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Byron Katie |
| I need your love. Is that true? How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead. |
| Katie reintroduces the form of self-questioning called "The Work" that she originally presented in Loving What Is, but here she tackles relationships—and what spoils them. According to Katie (writing with the help of Katz, who is also her agent), rather than seeking love and approval from others, you need to find them in yourself. What often blocks that love is one's perception of reality: "If you believe your stressful thoughts, your life is filled with stress. But if you question your thoughts, you come to love your life and everyone in it."
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William A. Meader |
| Shine Forth: The Soul's Magical Destiny |
| Shine Forth, the Soul’s Magical Destiny explores the means by which the soul seeks to creatively (magically) express itself in the outer world. It emphasizes the idea that the soul communicates with the human personality through the intuition. Much importance is placed on how to correctly register these intuitions within the mind. The book affirms the importance of supporting humanity’s upliftment, and provides the ancient principles that make soulful service truly possible.
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Stanley H. Block, M.D. |
| Come to Your Senses: Demystifying the Mind Body Connection |
| There is such a thing as a quick fix, says former Beverly Hills psychoanalyst Stanley Block. In Come to Your Senses, he explains the (I-System) Identity System, a pioneering way of breaking through limitations and allowing the natural self to thrive. How does it work? By simply "coming to their senses" (taste, smell, touch, sight, and sound), readers recognize — and overcome — that constant mental tug-of-war that promotes defeat and depression. |
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Tony Jeary |
| Life Is a Series of Presentations : 8 Ways to Punch Up Your People Skills at Work, at Home, Anytime, Anywhere |
| Communication coach Tony Jeary estimates that we make one hundred presentations every day. He tells readers, "Whether you are talking to a soccer coach or potential client, the way you present your thoughts and ideas to people have a profound effect on the shape of your life." Jeary paves the road to friendly persuasion with theory and practice in Life is a Series of Presentations. |
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Richard J Spady and Richard S. Kirby |
| The leadership of civilization building |
| Given the collapse of "Christendom" and the "decline of the West" in the 20th century, religion has largely focused on "evangelization" rather than "civilization" as the goal of history or God's kingdom. Nevertheless there is a hunger within every human heart for home, the safe harbor of civilization, a habitation built by Divine-human partnership. Against this backdrop, a world class theologian and social scientist have teamed up to take a fresh look at "civilization theory" as related to the mission of the church and society. Spady and Kirby's theme is that a better civilization is not only desirable, but also attainable. |
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William and Emma Moore |
| The Heart Chasers: A Tale Of Twin Flames |
| Stephen Simon, Producer of What Dreams May Come and Somewhere in Time
"A passionate tale of soul longing. This is storytelling at its best!"
Lynn V. Andrews, N.Y. Times best-selling author of Jaguar Woman and Medicine Woman
"Creative, insightful and fascinating, a very useful journey on anyone's process toward higher awareness." |
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Mary Doria Russell |
| A Thread of Grace : A Novel |
| Mary Doria Russell's extraordinary and complex historical novel, A Thread of Grace, is the kind of book that you will find yourself haunted by long after finishing the last page. It opens with a group of Jewish refugees being escorted to safe-keeping by Italian soldiers. After making the arduous journey over a steep mountain pass, they are welcomed into a small village with warm food and clean beds. They have barely laid their heads to rest when news is received that Mussolini has just surrendered Italy to Hitler, putting them in danger yet again. This opening sequence is a grim foreshadowing of the heart-breaking journey these characters will experience in their struggle for survival. |
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Barbara Ray Gilles
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| Nurturing Civilization Builders: Birthing The Best Schools In The World |
| Barbara Gilles is an exceptional model for educational excellence and potentials. Against this background, her inspiring book, Nurturing Civilization Builders, clarifies the need for educators to prepare students for a lifetime of personal growth and cooperative responsibility. She emphasizes the value of contribution, as not only personally gratifying, but imperative for community character building. A must-read for anyone working with children - no matter the age. The future depends upon |
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Peter D. Kramer |
| Against Depression |
| Written as an answer to the question, "What if van Gogh had been on anti-depressants," Against Depression manages to be more of an exploration than a polemic, regardless of its title. While author Peter Kramer (Listening to Prozac) expresses a definite opinion--that disease of any sort should be treated as effectively as possible--he manages to express sympathy along with frustration about the recurring idea that soulful creativity often goes hand-in-hand with depression. Without ever being dismissive or particularly angry, his writing makes his point abundantly clear after the first chapter: The pervasive idea of depression serving a creative purpose is preposterous, as well as highly damaging. |
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Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
| What We Ache For : Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul |
| "I am drawn to write not because I think the creative process will bring me happiness, but because when I write I am happy." So admits Oriah Mountain Dreamer, writer, artist, workshop and retreat leader. Sharing more than a handful of deeply personal experiences, she demonstrates the intrinsic connection between creativity, spirituality and sexuality, which she defines as "an awareness of and appreciation for our physical life and a material reality alive with sensual detail." While most of her examples discuss the process of writing, she carefully includes all forms of creativity—from dance to music to physical art. A ready-made audience familiar with her bestselling titles (The Invitation, The Dance and The Call) will welcome her latest offering. New readers, artists or not, will find a variety of treasures within this volume: the suggested contemplations, warm-up or writing exercises or even just her personal struggles as a creator. Many may breathe a sigh of relief when given permission to end a thought mid-sentence if it's going nowhere; may not realize that they're stifling creativity if they're trying to create in the same place they pay their bills; may not admit that creative people must cultivate "necessary silence." Those looking to refresh their spirit, revive their creativity or merely get to know themselves better should spend some time with this book. (May) |
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Dora Levy Mossanen |
| Courtesan: A Novel |
| A sweeping romance with intrigues in both fin de siècle Paris and repressive Persia, Mossanen's engrossing second novel (after Harem) follows the sentimental education of a young seductress. Though Simone knows from a young age that she's too romantic to follow her courtesan mother, Françoise, into the family business, her grandmother, famed Parisian madam Gabrielle (née Ester Abramowicz), isn't so convinced. A really handsome man, she figures, can seduce Simone, and thus initiate her into the habits of wealthy courtesans. Gabrielle sets upon Cyrus, a handsome Persian jeweler, and Simone is intrigued by the man who supplies only the rarest diamonds to the shah's court ("Was the origin of red diamonds the blood of mistreated diggers, the blazing eyes of dragons guarding illicit mines, or the tears of children forced into hard labor?" she wonders). |
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Brenda Peterson
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| Duck and Cover: A Novel |
| Meet the MacKenzies: Dad, a dedicated career diplomat; Mom, a Bible-thumping CIA operative; son Davy, a gung-ho fighter pilot nicknamed Rocket Man; and daughters Tia, a trauma nurse married to a survivalist/heart surgeon, and Sydney, a psychologist given on-the-job training by her own off-center family. Narrated in the perfectly cadenced voices of nine different members of the clan (including kid's-eye views of two grandchildren), Peterson's bittersweert and utterly beguiling novel looks back at the MacKenzies during the fallout-sheltered, duck-and-cover air-raid days of the Cold War '50s. She follows them through Dad's embassy postings in various Latin American hot spots and into the present era of detente, although adulthood for the three siblings does not, alas, lead to disarmament. |
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Mary Matsuda Gruenewald |
| Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps |
| In 1941, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was a teenage girl who, like other Americans, reacted with horror to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Yet soon she and her family were among 110,000 innocent people imprisoned by the U.S. government because of their Japanese ancestry. In this eloquent memoir, she describes both the day-to-day and the dramatic turning points of this profound injustice: what is was like to face an indefinite sentence in crowded, primitive camps; the struggle for survival and dignity; and the strength gained from learning what she was capable of and could do to sustain her family. |
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DavidPaul and Candace Doyle |
| The Journey That Never Was: a guide to hearing God's Voice regardless of one's faith, religion, or personal beliefs.
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| DavidPaul and Candace Doyle bring humanity an unprecedented enlightening spiritual book, with the message of "hearing God's voice" at all times. There is one quote from this book that I would like to share with you.
"Hearing God's voice is your most natural ability and it serves you unconditionally. God's voice has one purpose and that is to restore you to the truth of who you are, and it will do that in whatever ways you seek." |
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John Vaillant |
| The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed |
| The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. First-time author Vaillant, who originally wrote about the death of the spruce for the New Yorker, profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic environmentalist who toppled the famous tree—the only one of its kind—to protest the destruction of British Columbia's old-growth forest, then soon vanished mysteriously. Vaillant also explores the culture and history of the Haida Indians who revered the tree, and of the logging industry that often expresses an elegiac awe for the ancient trees it is busily clear-cutting. |
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Michele Hoskins, Jean A. Williams |
| Sweet Expectations: Michele Hoskins' Recipe for Success |
| She did it her way and today she has a thriving business built on a tenacious belief in saying no to defeats along the journey. Hoskins created Michele Foods, Inc., when she was a newly divorced mother of three daughters, dreaming a seemingly impossible dream. Taking her great-great-grandmother’s closely guarded family recipe for a delicious honey crème syrup and combining it with sheer determination, Hoskins overcame not only racial barriers (she’s African-American) but also a complete absence of knowledge about the food industry that she planned to infiltrate and master. Hoskins recalls the modest beginnings of her multimillion-dollar business. She and her children worked to devise home-grown marketing methods, distributing product to mom-and-pop shops, later knocking on the doors of major local grocery chains in Chicago and eventually moving into restaurants like Denny’s and national outlets like Wal-Mart. |
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Guy Finley |
| Let Go and Live in the Now: Awaken the Peace, Power, and Happiness in Your Heart |
| Fans of Guy Finley know he's a repository of "great wisdom" from philosophers, poets, and religious figures from throughout history. He thinks thinkers as diverse as Rumi, Emerson, Thoreau, Saint Augustine, and Krishnamurti all have ideas worth considering as one meanders along the path to happiness. Finley says that contentment comes when one learns how to "bridge the distance between who we are at present and what we may become." While this is certainly material he's covered in his many other titles, here he focuses on the importance of living in "the Now" (which he deems worthy of constant capitalization). |
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Michael Wayne
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| Quantum-Integral Medicine: Towards a New Science of Healing and Human Potential |
| This is the book I've been waiting for - a brilliant synthesis of science, medicine and healing, philosophy, and spiritual thought. The author does a great job of weaving together what previously were thought to be disparate and unrelated topics, and fully explains the shortcomings of our modern scientific approach and how we can easily overcome it. This is a book that is on the cutting edge of understanding and explaining how we can use more of our human potential, and it should be read by every adult in this country. |
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Judy Ford |
| Single: The Art of Being Satisfied, Fullfilled and Independent. |
| "Being single is not a condition to be cured"-especially when the remedy possibly means riding a marry-and-divorce roller-coaster just to avoid loneliness-says author and psychotherapist Ford (Wonderful Ways series; Between Mother and Daughter, Getting over Getting Mad). Instead, singles (this book is ostensibly written for all, but may resonate more with women) should reject the lonely and pathetic stereotypes this status usually carries and embrace life's most lasting relationship-the one with themselves.
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David Domke |
| God Willing:Political Fundamentalism in the White House, the 'War on Terror' and the Echoing Press |
| Over my lifetime, I have come to have a healthy respect for the American free press. Recently, however, I have found myself questioning what I read in the papers and hear coming from other media. Thanks to David Domke and this book, I now understand that my increasing concerns about the American media were well founded. Domke presents clear evidence that George Bush and his staff developed a calculated policy designed to stop all opposition to a Bush/Republican plan dealing with a post 9/11 world and to shut down any healthy exchange of diverse ideas. More.. |
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Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson |
| Face to Face:Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening |
| From Judith Roche's poem about angels to Mohja Kahf's reflections on growing up Muslim in Indiana and New Jersey, this collection on feminine spirituality is eloquent, elegant and satisfyingly multicultural. Established literary luminaries, like Mary Gordon, are found alongside more obscure but equally skilled writers like Suzanne Edison. As in the editors' previous anthology, The Sweet Breathing of Plants, many of the pieces gathered here connect the natural and spiritual worlds. More.. |
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Brenda Peterson |
| Nature and Other Mothers: |
| "Nature was my first mother--the fragrant, old forests of the Sierra Nevada mountains near the California-Oregon border, where my father worked on the Plumas National Forest. Living in a rough-hewn Forest Service cabin on vast acres of fir, mysterious blue spruce, and ponderosa pine, I memorized the forest floor as I would my mother's body," Brenda Peterson writes in the introduction to Nature and Other Mothers: Personal Stories of Women and the Body of Earth. |
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Brenda Peterson |
| Intimate Nature:The Bond Between Women and Animals |
| Though women have long felt kinship with animals, in the past, they seldom participated in the study of them. Now, as more women make animals the subject of their investigations, significant new ideas are emerging--based on the premise that animals are honored co-sharers of the earth. This unprecedented anthology features original stories, essays, meditations, and poems by a vast array of women nature writers and field scientists. |
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Marian York |
| The Loving Dictionary:1,001 Words of Appreciation to Energize, Enrich and Empower All of Your Relationships. |
| THE LOVING DICTIONARY is "the" resource for over 1,000 human strengths and virtues. A timeless reference for parents, teachers and managers, it shows people how to focus on what's right about themselves and others and how to nurture human resourcefulness in meaningful, fun and creative ways. It satisfies a core need every human being has...to be seen and heard. |
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Marianne Williamson |
| The Gift of Change:Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life. |
| "The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one's influence wide is to learn to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it." --from the Introduction |
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Charlotte Kasl |
| If Buddha Got Stuck:A Handbook for Change on a Spiritual Path. |
| Perennial favorites, Charlotte Kasl’s If the Buddha Dated and If the Buddha Married have inspired readers with their empowering blend of spiritual and psychological insights. Her latest, If the Buddha Got Stuck, is a wise yet lighthearted book that will speak to anyone who's ever experienced being stuck in life and wanted to break free. With her signature clarity, wisdom, and warm heart, Kasl presents readers with seven steps that tap into life’s bigger picture: Notice Where You’re Stuck; Show Up; Pay Attention; Live in Reality; Connect with Others; Move From Thought to Action; and Let Go. Full of insight from Buddhist and other teachings that emphasize the joy that comes with letting go of attachments to events and things, If the Buddha Got Stuck is an inspirational and practical roadmap to a more joyful, peaceful, and fulfilling life. |
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Kerry Patterson |
| Crucial Conversations:Tools for Talking When Stakes are High. |
| "Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history."--Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. |
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