Pure Meditation: The Tibetan Buddhist Practice of Inner Peace
By: Pema Chödrön
4.27
Format: 2 pages, Audio CD
Tibetan Buddhists regard shamatha/ vipashyana (peaceful dwelling/ insight) as both the fundamental …
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1. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
By: Lena Dunham , Joana Avillez
3.29
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
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2. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
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3. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
By: Chögyam Trungpa
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the comm… read more
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"Eventually we must give up trying to be something special."-Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
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4. 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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"What the Dalai Lama and I are offering,"-Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
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5. 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
By: Brianna Wiest
3.76
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
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"Hold yourself to your standard."-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
"Anything other than ideal is not failure. It’s life."-Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
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6. Love Poems
By: Nikki Giovanni
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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By: Dashiell Hammett
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more
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"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
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9. The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money
By: None , Carl Richards
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Whenever I tell people about my job as a financial advisor, the conversation inevitably turns to ho… read more
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11. You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Sherab Chödzin Kohn
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this book Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Zen monk, author, and meditation master, distills the es… read more
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12. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
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13. The List: A Novella (Slough House, #2.5)
By: Mick Herron
3.00
Format: 282 pages, ebook
Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. De… read more
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14. Silent Prey (Lucas Davenport, #4)
By: John Sandford
3.22
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He was right. His guards slain, the brilliant, insane pathologist of Eyes of Preyflees to New York,… read more
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15. Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
By: Sharon Creech
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
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16. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
By: Tara Brach
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hear… read more
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"The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom."-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
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"What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?"-Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
17. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By: Susan Cain
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more
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"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
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"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
18. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
19. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
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20. Dreaming in Cuban
By: Cristina García
3.68
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban… read more
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"In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
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"Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains."-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
21. Woman Without Shame: Poems
By: Sandra Cisneros
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more
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22. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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23. Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (Legion, #1-3)
By: Brandon Sanderson
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A story in three life-shattering acts. Includes the never-before-published Legion: Lies of the B… read more
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"Speak dumb person, please."-Brandon Sanderson, Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (Legion, #1-3)
"This isn't your prison. This is mine."-Brandon Sanderson, Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (Legion, #1-3)
"I'm not crazy, I'm compratmentalized."-Brandon Sanderson, Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (Legion, #1-3)
"And which would you rather live in? The fake prison where you think you are free, or the real prison where you spend each day in drudgery?"-Brandon Sanderson, Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (Legion, #1-3)
24. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
25. To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With winning candor, Jedidiah Jenkins takes us with him as he bicycle… read more
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"When the honeymoon phase is over, what's left is the continuous choosing of the other person."-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life."-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. It opens you up to see outside the patterns you follow. Because new places require new learning. I…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
"I was in the zone, each day biking farther than the last, and becoming ever more accustomed to my solitude. An entire day passed without me speaking to a single human. I did speak though, just to the…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
26. How We Live Is How We Die
By: Pema Chodron
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more
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27. Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
By: Tara Brach
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult… read more
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28. Wade in the Water: Poems
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.10
Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition
The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States … read more
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"History is a ship forever setting sail."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"In the '70s, everything shone as bright as brass."-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
"Is this some enigmatic type of test? What if we Fail? How and to whom do we address our appeal?"-Tracy K. Smith, Wade in the Water: Poems
29. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more
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30. Pure Meditation: The Tibetan Buddhist Practice of Inner Peace
By: Pema Chödrön
4.27
Format: 2 pages, Audio CD
Tibetan Buddhists regard shamatha/ vipashyana (peaceful dwelling/ insight) as both the fundamental … read more
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