In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
By: Bruce Reyes-Chow
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
When did kindness become a sign of weakness? These days we view kindness as an inert act based sole…
Want to Read $ 12.99"There will always be injustice in the world, because, you know, humans. The question is how we will choose to respond to the injustice around us."-Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
"There will always be injustice in the world, because, you know, humans. The question is how we will choose to respond to the injustice around us."-Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
"Kindness is not just the absence of being mean or hateful. Being kind entails actively resisting actions, ideas, and institutions that rob others of dignity."-Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
"Kindness is not just the absence of being mean or hateful. Being kind entails actively resisting actions, ideas, and institutions that rob others of dignity."-Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
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1. Thoughts in Solitude
By: Thomas Merton
4.03
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, T… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
"Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything."-Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
"If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit."-Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
"Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the…"-Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
"My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am followin…"-Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude
2. Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)
By: Jana Deleon
4.24
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
It was a hell of a longshot... CIA Assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most diffi… read more
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"So, what were you doing that was such a secret?" "Making moonshine." I stared. "You're kidding me." "Nope." "Moonshine? As in rednecks and brown jugs and prohibition?" Ida Belle drew herself up strai…"-Jana Deleon, Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)
"There wasn't any place on my body I could hide a gun not with that sleazy dress I had to wear. And that shoe had a spike on it. What the hell else is it good for?'' '' Jesus, Redding.'' Harrison laug…"-Jana Deleon, Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)
3. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
By: Dalai Lama XIV , Desmond Tutu , Douglas Carlton Abrams
4.38
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face … read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
"What the Dalai Lama and I are offering,"-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
"It is not happiness that makes us grateful, it’s gratefulness that makes us happy."-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
"The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience."-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
"Our perspective toward life is our final and ultimate freedom. - Viktor Frankl quoted by Desmond Tutu"-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
4. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
By: Brené Brown
4.13
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we k… read more
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- nonfiction
"Joy is probably the most vulnerable emotion we experience in our lives."-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
"Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth."-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
"When we're suffering, may of us are better at causing pain than feeling it. We spread hurt rather than let it inside."-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
"(Quoting Viola Davis) I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in…"-Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
5. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
3.76
Format: 6 pages, ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grac… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
6. The Love That Split the World
By: Emily Henry
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Kindle Edition
Natalie Cleary must risk her future and leap blindly into a vast unknown for the chance to build a … read more
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7. How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
4.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate … read more
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8. The Impossible Dead
By: Ian Rankin
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more
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9. The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
By: Pema Chödrön
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us … read more
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10. The Case of the Gypsy Good-Bye (Enola Holmes, #6)
By: Nancy Springer
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
In the series conclusion, Enola searches for missing Lady Blanchefleur while her brother Sherlock s… read more
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11. When Bad Things Happen to Good People
By: Harold S. Kushner
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he woul… read more
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12. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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13. Northwest Angle (Cork O'Connor, #11)
By: William Kent Krueger
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
With his family caught in the crosshairs of a group of brutal killers, detective Cork O'Connor must… read more
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14. North of Nowhere
By: Allison Brennan
4.09
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan’s latest standalone is an unputdownable race to the drama… read more
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15. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
16. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.42
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more
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- nonfiction
" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
18. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
19. Confidence
By: Rafael Frumkin
3.60
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Two lifelong friends, occasional lovers, and constant conmen find themselves on top of the world af… read more
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20. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By: Barbara Demick
4.45
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more
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"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
21. This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.63
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her … read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
"Anxiety is not a passive predator."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"Those who believe love is a scarcity are less likely to give it away freely."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
"In community, we can push back on the expectation that we exhaust ourselves."-Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
22. The Midnight Children
By: Dan Gemeinhart
4.16
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary story about a family of runaways who take up residence in a small town, and the ou… read more
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"Stories, after all, are about choices."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children
"And determined is nearly always a very good thing to be."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children
"I’ll be your creep, Ravani Foster, if you’ll be my freak."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children
"But the truth, sometimes, can be the cruelest thing of all."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children
23. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
By: Susan Jonusas
3.45
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more
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24. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
By: Regina Jackson
4.48
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling … read more
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25. How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
By: Leslie Jordan
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about th… read more
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"True happiness can only come from being of loving service to others, especially those in the last throes of life's journey."-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
"I suppose someone had tossed the puppy out of the car, since we were in the middle of nowhere, too far out for a puppy to get to on her own. Who on Earth would do such a thing?! People like that need…"-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
"When our country was erupting in protests and marches, asking for the end of injustice against African American men and women, I was somewhat chastised by many of my followers for not speaking out ag…"-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
26. Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country
By: Adam Kinzinger
4.14
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Adam Kinzinger captures one of the most transformative periods in… read more
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27. Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human
By: Cole Arthur Riley
4.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
28. What Dreams May Come
By: Dana LeCheminant
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a bid to escape the incessant attentions of a man she does not love, governess Lucy Hayes embark… read more
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29. If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority
By: Angela N. Parker
4.19
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
A challenge to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy that calls into question how Christians are taugh… read more
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- nonfiction
- theology
30. In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
By: Bruce Reyes-Chow
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
When did kindness become a sign of weakness? These days we view kindness as an inert act based sole… read more
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- philosophy
- religion
- nonfiction
- theology
"There will always be injustice in the world, because, you know, humans. The question is how we will choose to respond to the injustice around us."-Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
"Kindness is not just the absence of being mean or hateful. Being kind entails actively resisting actions, ideas, and institutions that rob others of dignity."-Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
"Risk stepping into the mess because, more times than not, on the other side of the tension there are new beginnings, strengthened relationships, and the knowledge that conflict is not something to av…"-Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
". . . if we do not continue to choose kindness together, can you imagine how much worse the world will become? The least we can do in response to and in gratitude for all those kindness giants who ha…"-Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
31. Speak with the Earth and It Will Teach You: A Field Guide to the Bible
By: Daniel Cooperrider
4.48
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
God's First Book: Nature “I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bibl… read more
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