10 must-read lds books like The God Seed: Probing the Mystery of Spiritual Development by M. Catherine Thomas

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The God Seed: Probing the Mystery of Spiritual Development

By: M. Catherine Thomas

4.59

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

New Book by Catherine Thomas Author of "Light in the Wilderness"The God Probing the Mystery of Spi…

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1. I Am the Messenger

By: Markus Zusak

4.03

Format: 357 pages, Paperback

protect the diamonds survive the clubs dig deep through the spades feel the hearts Ed Kennedy… read more

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"How’s yours?"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

"I’m Angelina,"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

"What do I do now?"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

"My soul needs yours"

-Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

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2. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

By: Gregory Boyle

4.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Father Gregory Boyle’s sparkling parables about kinship and the sacredness of life are drawn from t… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"If you can't fix it, feature it."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

"Sometimes, it only seems that the hurt wins."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

"Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

"[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace."

-Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

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3. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By: Greg McKeown

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underuti… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Reasons to Stay Alive

By: Matt Haig

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of Entertainment Weekly's 25 most anticipated books of 2016--Matt Haig's accessible and life-af… read more

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  • nonfiction

5. The Orphan Keeper

By: Camron Wright

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Based on a remarkable true story. Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life is forever changed when he is k… read more

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6. Moon Over Manifest

By: Clare Vanderpool

3.67

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2011 Newbery Award. The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my e… read more

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7. Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

By: Leonard Sax

5.00

Format: 229 pages,

Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on ave… read more

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8. The Tao of Pooh

By: Benjamin Hoff , Ernest H. Shepard

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The Wisdom of Pooh. Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and th… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"I think, therefore I am... confused."

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world"

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"The wise are who they are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do."

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

"No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value."

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

9. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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10. Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more

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11. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

By: Kate Murphy

4.08

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

Who listens to you? New York Times contributor Kate Murphy asked people on five continents this … read more

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  • nonfiction
"You’re not listening!"

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

"Silence is like white space in design, it surrounds what's important!"

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

"If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you. You’re not listening."

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

"[E]verybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it's on you."

-Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

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12. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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13. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World

By: Jennie Allen

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creati… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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15. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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16. The Holy Covenants: Living Our Sacred Temple Promises

By: Anthony Sweat

4.74

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

On the outside of the Salt Lake Temple is a carving of two people shaking hands, symbolizing the te… read more

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  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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17. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.00

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bests… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sometimes the best conversations between strangers allow the stranger to remain a stranger."

-Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

"If you knew my father, you would have seen him in other stressful situations, and you would have come to understand that the “frightened"

-Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

"The thing we want to learn about a stranger is fragile. If we tread carelessly it will crumple under our feet... The right way to talk to strangers is with caution and humility."

-Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

"To assume the best about another is the trait that has created modern society. Those occasions when our trusting nature gets violated are tragic. But the alternative - to abandon trust as a defense a…"

-Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

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18. The Divine Gift of Forgiveness

By: Neil L. Andersen

4.73

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

In this book, Elder Andersen writes especially to those who are "awakening" unto God—those who are … read more

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  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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19. Original Grace

By: Adam S. Miller

4.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In Original Grace, Adam S. Miller proposes an experiment in Restoration thinking: What if instead o… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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20. 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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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"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

"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

"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

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21. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

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22. Think Like a Monk

By: Jay Shetty

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Jay Shetty, social media superstar and host of the #1 podcast On Purpose, distills the timeless wis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"When we accept the temporary nature of everything in our lives, we can feel gratitude for the good fortune of getting to borrow them for a time."

-Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk

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23. The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

By: Robert Waldinger

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

What makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? In their book, the directors of the Ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Matthew Dicks

24. Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

By: Matthew Dicks

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story — and wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I’ve always said that a good storytelling show feels like a cross between therapy, rehab and hanging out after dinner with friends"

-Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

"If I can recommend storytelling to you for any reason at all, it would be that storytelling helps you realize that the biggest, scariest, most painful or regretful things in your head get small and s…"

-Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

"I also believe that great storytellers know this: The first idea is rarely the best idea. It may be the most convenient idea. The easiest to remember. The one you personally like the most. Bu rarely …"

-Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

"I also believe that great storytellers know this: The first idea is rarely the best idea. It may be the most convenient idea. The easiest to remember. The one you personally like the most. But rarely…"

-Matthew Dicks, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling

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25. At-One-Ment

By: Thomas Wirthlin McConkie

4.61

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

At the heart of the gospel is a radical message of we are capable of unlimited development, of bec… read more

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  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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26. Letters to a Young Mormon

By: Adam S. Miller

4.54

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This book is composed as a series of Letters. The letters are meant for a young Mormon who is famil… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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27. An Early Resurrection: Life in Christ before You Die

By: Adam S. Miller

4.57

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Along with Nephi, “we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ,” but in all our ta… read more

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  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of The Spiritual Physics of Light: How We See, Feel, and Know Truth by Aaron D. Franklin

28. The Spiritual Physics of Light: How We See, Feel, and Know Truth

By: Aaron D. Franklin

4.30

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Light is everywhere. It gives us vision, keeps us warm, and facilitates life. Light is even respons… read more

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  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of In the Last Days: A Brief Guide to Christ’s Second Coming for Latter-day Saints by Michael James Fitzgerald

29. In the Last Days: A Brief Guide to Christ’s Second Coming for Latter-day Saints

By: Michael James Fitzgerald

4.21

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

A Short, Scripture-based Guide to the Second Coming for Latter-day SaintsThis simple, end-times gui… read more

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  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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30. The God Seed: Probing the Mystery of Spiritual Development

By: M. Catherine Thomas

4.59

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

New Book by Catherine Thomas Author of "Light in the Wilderness"The God Probing the Mystery of Spi… read more

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  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
Cover of Return unto Me: Old Testament Messages of God's Love for You by Kerry Muhlestein

31. Return unto Me: Old Testament Messages of God's Love for You

By: Kerry Muhlestein

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

We know the power of God’s love is eternal and all encompassing—but how can God truly love the sinn… read more

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  • lds
  • religion

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Gregory Boyle

4.48

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4.01

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Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

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3.97

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The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846 (Saints, #1)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

4.55

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David A. Bednar

4.75

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Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me

Russell M. Nelson

4.87

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