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  The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace

  by Janet Mills, Miguel Ruiz

  The Voice of Knowledge is the fourth book in the Toltec Wisdom series by the best-selling author of The Four Agreements. Don Miguel Ruiz explores the concept of "impeccability of the word" as a simple yet potent prescription for countering the judgmental inner "voice of knowledge." Adhering to "the word" - saying only what you mean, refusing to speak against you - allows anyone to transform those inner tyrannical... (more)
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  An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life

  by Bstan-?dzin-rgya-mtsho

  In the summer of 1999, the Dalai Lama addressed an audience of over 40,000 in Central Park on how to live a better life. Open Heart is derived from this and other popular lectures given in New York. Here, the Dalai Lama progresses beyond his bestsellers The Art of Happiness and Ethics for the New Millennium by introducing specific practices that can engender happiness. Spiritual practice, according to the... (more)
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  Carry Me Like Water

  by Benjamin Alire Saenz

  This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed -- or that they tried to forget. Diego, a deaf-mute, is barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas. Diego's sister, Helen, who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco, long ago abandoned both her... (more)
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  Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples

  by Donald A. Grinde

  Since their first encounter with Europeans, Native Americans have seen their lands taken and their lives disrupted. Here, Grinde and Johansen (coauthors of Exemplar of Liberty: Native Americans and the Evolution of Democracy) describe the ecological consequences of those encounters. They examine native ecological practices before and during early colonization in the Southeast (Yamasees) and Southwest (Pueblos).... (more)
• The Poisonwood BibleBarbara Kingsolver, Damian Alou

  

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  The Poisonwood Bible

  by Barbara Kingsolver, Damian Alou

  La autora des suroeste de Estados Unidos nos trae una novela de pasión, y de tragedia con un paisaje bello e inesperado. Una selección de Oprah para su club de lectores. Un bestseller de toda clase.
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  I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

  by Maya Angelou

  The store was a microcosm of life; its orderlypattern was comfort, even among the meanest frustrations. But then came the intruders-first in the form of poorwhite childrenwho were bested only by grandmother's dignity. But as the awful,unfathomable mystery of prejudice intruded, so did the unexpected joy of surprise visit by Daddy, the sinful joy of going to Church, the disappointments of a depression Christmas.
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  The Bean Trees: A Novel

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with... (more)
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  Prodigal Summer

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  Barbara Kingsolver, a writer praised for her"extravagantly gifted narrative voice" ( New York Times Book Review ), has created with this novel a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern... (more)