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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
"From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz, the beloved subject of the classic, multimillion-copy number one bestseller Tuesdays with...
4) The prophet
Author
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1923.
Language
English
Description
Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he climbed the hill without the city walls and looked seaward, and he beheld his ship coming with the mist.
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over...
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Language
English
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Description
In this timely, provocative, and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible searches for the man at the heart of the world's three monotheistic religions -- and today's deadliest conflicts. At a moment when the world is asking, "Can the religions get along?" one figure stands out as the shared ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. One man holds the key to our deepest fears -- and our possible reconciliation. Abraham. Bruce...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
As a Man Thinketh is James Allen's third book, first published in 1903. In it, he details how man is the creator and shaper of his destiny by the thoughts which he thinks. He rises and falls in exact accordance with the character of the thoughts which he entertains. His environment is the result of what he has thought and done in the past, and his circumstances in the future are being shaped and built by his present desires, aspirations, thoughts...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
TELEVISION'S MEDIUM TELLS HER STORY IN HER OWN WORDS Her visions have helped solve crimes; her instincts have helped find missing people; she can predict future events and sense your thoughts. These are some of the extraordinary gifts that define the remarkable Allison DuBois, the real-life medium, wife, and mother whose life is the inspiration for the hit NBC television series Medium. When she was six years old, Allison's deceased great-grandfather...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Joan Anderson gives women practical advice and inspiration for building creative, independent, and fulfilling lives through discovering who they truly are and who they can be.Joan Anderson's bestselling A Year by the Sea revealed a far larger than expected constituency, in the form of thousands of women struggling to realize their full potential. After years of focusing on the needs of others as a wife and mother,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Don't Kiss Them Good-bye . . . inspiring true tales of hope and renewal The inspiration for the hit television series Medium, Allison DuBois now brings listeners into her psychic experiences in We Are Their Heaven. Recalling her communication with spirits who have touched her over the years, she reveals that the dead are trying to reach their loved ones all the time -- not because they're bound to us, but because we...
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Language
English
Description
"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy...
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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Language
English
Description
"When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
After their dog, Gonker, disappeared along the Appalachian Trail, the Marshall family began a frantic search spurred on by the fact that Gonker would die from Addison's disease if he was not found within 23 days. When the local paper in Waynesboro, Virginia wrote a small story about the family's search, the story hit the AP newswire and tips poured in from across the country. The Marshalls came to realize they may not survive losing Gonker, even as...
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Feeling crappy? Wanna be happier? Wanna up your game?
Happy AF is your comprehensive roadmap for happiness. Drawing heavily from neuroscience, positive psychology, and behavioral science, the straightforward strategies and exercises in this how-to guide will teach you how to strengthen your happiness muscle and live up to your greatest potential. Happiness junky Beth Romero serves up a life-affirming parable laced with...
Happy AF is your comprehensive roadmap for happiness. Drawing heavily from neuroscience, positive psychology, and behavioral science, the straightforward strategies and exercises in this how-to guide will teach you how to strengthen your happiness muscle and live up to your greatest potential. Happiness junky Beth Romero serves up a life-affirming parable laced with...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
What stories could possibly make cancer worth it? Stories that represent a miracle-a lifetime of miracles. Stories that changed the writer as she wrote them and stories that will touch the heart of the reader, one by one by one. Stories that are not just stories. They started out as words of encouragement to a dying woman. They turned into a collection of sparkling and intimate moments, pulled from the past to finally be understood and shared with...
17) I guess I haven't learned that yet: discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working
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Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist writes about unexpected loss, change, faith, midlife, and a move to New York City with her signature depth and vulnerability. In this book, she invites us to practice curiosity and self-compassion, to become beginners again, and to rediscover resilience and courage in our own seasons of change"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Of all the gifts that Jesus left us, his peace is most elusive. We long for it in our homes, in our relationships, in our life situations. One place we can look and see "living peace" is in the lives of the Amish. But you don't have to become Amish to bring these simple, practical ways of living into your own life--and make personal peace a reality. Organized around five central themes in Amish life, each section will include real-life stories, callouts...
Author
Publisher
VSP Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Mattie J. T. Stepanek takes us on a Journey Through Heartsongs with more of his moving poems. These poems share the rare wisdom that Mattie has acquired through his struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and the death of his three siblings from the same disease. His life view was one of love and generosity and as a poet and a peacemaker, his desire was to bring his message of peace to as many people as possible.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Napoleon Hill's Original Best Selling Motivational Classic, AND MUCH MORE!
Napoleon Hill's all-time classic of successful living is a must-read-and lifetime companion-for anyone who wants to break away from depleting fears, limiting patterns, and unfinished plans to step into a life of dynamism, achievement, and true prosperity.
BUNDLE INCLUDES BONUS OF 3 ABRIDGED NAPOLEON HILL CLASSICS:
Think Your Way to Wealth: Hill's success program for prosperity...
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