The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
4.25
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones…
Want to Read $ 13.99"...It is good to feel this conflict, this vibrant sign of budding and wanting. The growing unease is how to know that you are not living your deepest wishes. That you are not in alignment with your inner turth."-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
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1. Pig Iron
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Pig Iron is the story of John-John, a young man wrestling with the legacy of brutality left by his … read more
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2. Black Looks: Race and Representation
By: bell hooks
4.36
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences of… read more
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- nonfiction
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"...consider the possibility that to love blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order, that death is the punishment."-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation
"Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were there because the film in no way interrogates “whiten…"-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation
"Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will ma…"-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation
"The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist patriarchal whiteness that presents itself -its way of life…"-bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation
3. Going to Meet the Man
By: James Baldwin
4.37
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
This is an older edition of ISBN 9780679761792. "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all k… read more
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"There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he would reach a height and everything would join him, the violins fi…"-James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man
4. Salt
By: Nayyirah Waheed
4.24
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
salt. a literary work. read more
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- poetry
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"i like myself. when i am myself."-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
"poetry. is the fire leaving my body."-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
"healing begins the moment you want it to"-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
"she was a beautiful place to bare my legs."-Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
5. Communion: The Female Search for Love
By: bell hooks
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American… read more
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6. The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
By: Jack Kornfield
3.77
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshak… read more
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7. The Art of Communicating
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
2.80
Format: None pages, ebook
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace is Every Stepand one of the most respected … read more
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8. Dauntless
By: Elisa A. Bonnin
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A teen girl must bring together two broken worlds in order to save her nation in this lush, Filipin… read more
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9. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
10. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- audiobook
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- self help
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
11. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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12. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Obviously my mind is not what it was, she said. Most of my facts have disappeared, but certain underlying principles have been in consequence exposed with surprising clarity."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
13. 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success
By: Liz Moody
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Liz Moody Podcast comes a science-backed guide to creating your best life. … read more
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- psychology
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- audiobook
14. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)
By: Yung Pueblo
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… read more
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15. Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World
By: Asia Suler
4.60
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An award-winning nature therapy session for the soul--encounter the benevolence of the living world… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
- self help
"When healing is needed at the deepest level nature will always call us back home, not only to the oak woods or water-filled coves, but to the homes within ourselves that we've been alienated from"-Asia Suler, Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World
16. Arrangements in Blue
By: Amy Key
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more
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17. Grievers (Grievers, #1)
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.04
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A tale of what happens when we can no longer ignore what has been lost in this world. Grievers i… read more
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18. Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day
By: Kaitlin B. Curtice
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice rec… read more
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19. Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
By: Catrina Davies
4.23
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with… read more
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"The house in Bristol belonged to a family who were traveling the world on our combined rent."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
"People I know with houses squeeze every drop of capital out of them, because, even when it's hard, squeezing capital out of a house is a hell of a lot easier than squeezing it out of work."-Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
20. Dream Big (Simple Success Guides)
By: Napoleon Hill
3.61
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A little book of wisdom from Napoleon Hill Napoleon Hill has changed the lives of millions of read… read more
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21. The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
4.25
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones… read more
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- self help
- personal development
- health
- psychology
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
- audiobook
"...It is good to feel this conflict, this vibrant sign of budding and wanting. The growing unease is how to know that you are not living your deepest wishes. That you are not in alignment with your i…"-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
