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  One Thousand Gifts

  A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

  by Ann Voskamp

  Drawing heartbreaking beauty out of the simplest of details, Ann Voskamp invites you into her grace-bathed life of farming, parenting, and writing---and deeper still into your own life. Here you will discover a way of seeing that opens your eyes to thanksgiving, a way of living so you are not afraid to die, and a way of becoming present to God that brings you deep and lasting joy.
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  When I Don't Desire God

  How to Fight for Joy

  by John Piper

  For over twenty-five years John Piper has trumpeted the truth that "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him." He calls it Christian Hedonism. The problem is that many people, after being persuaded, find that this truth is both liberating and devastating. It's liberating because it endorses our inborn desire for joy. And it's devastating because it reveals that we don't desire God the... (more)
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  Desiring God

  Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

  by John Piper

  Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering classic, newly revised and expanded, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist: Delight is our duty. Readers will embark on a dramatically different and joyful experience of their faith
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  Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  by The Lockman Foundation

  God is the way! fav book of all time!
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  The Secret: Book 2

  The Secret: The Power

  by Rhonda Byrne

  The Secret revealed the law of attraction. Now Rhonda Byrne reveals the greatest power in the universe -- The Power to have anything you want. In this book you will come to understand that all it takes is just one thing to change your relationships, money, health, happiness, career, and your entire life. Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible... (more)
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  The Gifts of Imperfection

  Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

  by C. Brené Brown

  Each day we face a barrage of images and ideas—from society and the media—telling us who we should be. We are led to believe that if we look perfect, live perfect, and do everything perfectly , we'd no longer struggle with feelings of inadequacy. Ironically, it's the pursuit of perfection that fuels the message "never good enough." In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W., the leading... (more)
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  Destined to Reign

  The Secret to Effortless Success, Wholeness and Victorious Living

  by Joseph Prince

  Discover the secret of reigning over every adversity, lack and destructive habit that is limiting you from experiencing the success, wholeness and victory that you were destined to enjoy. Find out how it is not about what you have to do, but what has already been done. It is not about what you must accomplish, but what has already been accomplished for you. It is not about using your will power to effect change,... (more)
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  Fruits Basket -- The Complete Series

  23 Volumes

  by Natsuki Takaya

  Complete Collective Works of Fruits Basket, volumes 1-23.
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  A Thousand Names for Joy

  Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

  by Stephen Mitchell, Byron Katie

  In her first two books, Byron Katie showed how suffering can be ended by questioning the stressful thoughts that create it, through a process of self-inquiry she calls The Work. Now, in A Thousand Names for Joy , she encourages us to discover the freedom that lives on the other side of inquiry. Stephen Mitchell—the renowned translator of the Tao Te Ching—selected provocative excerpts from that ancient text as a... (more)
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  A Return to Love

  Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles

  by Marianne Williamson

  Back by popular demand -- and newly updated by the author -- the mega-bestselling spiritual guide in which Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace. Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of... (more)
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  Psyche in a Dress

  by Francesca Lia Block

  But this is what I could not give up: I could not give up myself Psyche has known Love—scented with jasmine and tasting of fresh oranges. Yet he is fleeting and fragile, lost to her too quickly. Punished by self-doubt, Psyche yearns to be transformed, like the beautiful and brutal figures in the myths her lover once spoke of. Attempting to uncover beauty in the darkness, she is challenged, tested, and... (more)
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  Peaceful Warrior

  Way of the Peaceful Warrior

  A Book That Changes Lives

  by Dan Millman

  Way of the Peaceful Warrior is based on the story of Dan Millman, a world champion athlete, who journeys into realms of romance and magic, light and darkness, body, mind, and spirit. Guided by a powerful old warrior named Socrates and tempted by an elusive, playful woman named Joy, Dan is led toward a final confrontation that will deliver or destroy him. Readers join Dan as he learns to live as a peaceful... (more)
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  Buddhism for Mothers

  A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children

  by Sarah Napthali

  Addressing the often-overlooked spiritual needs of mothers, this book discusses Buddhist teachings as applied to the everyday challenges and stresses of raising children. Offered are ways for mothers to reconnect with their inner selves and become calmer and happier-with the recognition that a happier mother will be a better parent. This realistic look at motherhood acknowledges the sorrows as well as the joys of... (more)
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  Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

  by James Patterson

  Talk about a change of pace! Renowned suspense writer and Edgar Awardwinner James Patterson, author of such bestsellers-turned-blockbuster-movies as "Along Came a Spider" and "Kiss the Girls", exposes his sensitive side in his new novel, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. Katie Wilkinson's boyfriend Matt dumps her; not a total cad, he leaves her a gift, a diary kept by Suzanne, his first wife, for their... (more)
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  Seven Things That Steal Your Joy

  Overcoming the Obstacles to Your Happiness

  by Joyce Meyer

  #1 bestselling author Joyce Meyer reveals the seven most common obstacles to living a happy life-and the ways to triumph over them. Throughout the Bible,from 'make a joyful noise,' to 'rejoice in the Lord always,'believers are encouraged to be joyful. Not only does joy foster good feelings, but it also promotes strength and health. However, the stress of daily life often makes joy difficult to come by. Now, Joyce... (more)
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  The Art of Travel

  by Alain de Botton

  Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life , de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow. Even as de Botton takes the reader... (more)
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  The Shack

  Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity

  by William P. Young

  Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note from God inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry... (more)
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  Aleja's Beautiful Poetic Strategy In Recovery

  Aleja's Beautiful Poetic Strategy in Recovery

  by Aleja Bennett

  This book was written for the bereaved, neglected, addicted, and the abused. You will embark upon tragedies such as the World Trade Center and New Orleans’ terrible loss. Topics such as forgiveness and a process of healing are all summed up in this poetry. It is now time for change in America and the other parts of the world. We must go from negative to positive, from drugs to no drugs at all. To the alcoholic... (more)
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  A Leader Becomes a Leader

  Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

  by J. Kevin Sheehan

  A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)
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  Summer Stars (Totally Lucy) (Totally Lucy)

  by KELLY MCKAIN