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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Emil Frankl, VIKTOR E. FRANKL

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot... (more)

Law of Attraction

by Michael J. Losier

You may not be aware of it, but a very powerful force is at work in your life. It's called the Law of Attraction and right now it is attracting people, jobs, situations and relationships in your life - not all of them good! If your life feels as if it has turned south and taken on the characteristics of a bad soap opera, it's time to pick up this book.

Chop Wood, Carry Water

by Rick Fields

Over 140,000 copies sold. An authoritative resource tool and essential companion on any spiritual journey. Practical and inspirational. A must for anyone who wants to integrate the wisdom of spiritual tradition into daily living.

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

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)

The House by the Sea: A Journal

by May Sarton

In 1973, May Sarton moved to a house on the seacoast of Maine. It was a place that was alone in all but a few months in the summer, with the sea and the woods, and a wide sky ever present. She discovered that what she has to give does not depend on others. This is her journal of that time.

On Seeing and Noticing (Pocket Penguins S.)

On Seeing and Noticing (Pocket Penguins S.)

by Alain de Botton

No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

by Miranda July

Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection. In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With... (more)

The Last Lecture

by Randy Pausch

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish... (more)

As Above, So Below

by Ronald S. Miller

An exploration of spirituality discusses finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, the Western spiritual tradition, transpersonal psychology, shamanism, mythology, feminine spirituality, and more. Original.

Why Do I Love These People?

Honest and Amazing Stories of Real Families

by Po Bronson

We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on one another’s nerves. Respect for individual identity. Mutual support, without being intrusive. So many people believe they are disqualified from having a better family experience, primarily because they compare their own family with the mythic ideal, and... (more)

Voluntary Simplicity, Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

Voluntary Simplicity, Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

by Duane Elgin

When Voluntary Simplicity was first published in 1981, it quickly became recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable ways of living. Now, more than ten years later and with many of the planet's environmental stresses having become more urgent than ever, Duane Elgin has revised and updated his revolutionary book. Voluntary Simplicity is not a book about living in... (more)

Care of the Soul

A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

by Thomas Moore, Peter Thomas

This New York Times bestseller (more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold) provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul.

Veronika Decides to Die

A Novel of Redemption

by Paulo Coelho

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does -- at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live. Inspired by events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die... (more)

A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

by Michael Sewell, Charles W. Schwartz, Aldo Leopold

First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin... (more)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

A Memoir of Life in Death

by Jeremy Leggatt, Jean-Dominique Bauby

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle , the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him... (more)

Tao Of Money

by Walter Lubeck

The Tao of Money explores how to heal material consciousness. For author WalterLubeck, money can be equated with energy, something that manifests itself inevery conceivable manner. This fascinating book about money contains manyexercises on its spiritual meaning, work, occupation, and much more.

Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth

Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth

by John Robbins

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America , beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a startling... (more)

Notes from Underground and The Gambler (Oxford World's Classics)

Notes from Underground and The Gambler (Oxford World's Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

This collection showcases Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. Includes: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead.

Plant Dreaming Deep

by May Sarton

May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire—how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon

by Sei Shonagon, Ivan Morris

Sei Shonagon was a contemporary and erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel fictionalizes the court life Shonagon describes. is a collection of anecdotes, memories of court and religious ceremonies, character sketches, lists of things the author enjoyed or loathed, places that interested her, diary entries, descriptions of nature, pilgrimages, conversations, poetry exchanges--indeed, almost everything that... (more)

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by Viktor Emil Frankl, VIKTOR E. FRANKL

by Michael J. Losier

by Rick Fields

by J. Kevin Sheehan

by May Sarton

by Alain de Botton

by Miranda July

by Randy Pausch

by Ronald S. Miller

Honest and Amazing Stories of Real Families

by Po Bronson

by Duane Elgin

A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

by Thomas Moore, Peter Thomas

A Novel of Redemption

by Paulo Coelho

by Michael Sewell, Charles W. Schwartz, Aldo Leopold

A Memoir of Life in Death

by Jeremy Leggatt, Jean-Dominique Bauby

by Walter Lubeck

by John Robbins

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

by May Sarton

by Sei Shonagon, Ivan Morris