The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story
By: Brian Swimme
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Opens up not only the exhilarating truths that science reveals of the birth of the universe, but ho…
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1. Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation
By: Thomas Keating
4.30
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
In the course of numerous workshops and retreats Father Keating is asked many questions regarding c… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
2. The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
By: Cynthia Bourgeault
4.12
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the fir… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"A sophiological Christianity focuses on the path."-Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
"It's not about right belief; it's about right practice."-Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
"To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion."-Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
"As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning."-Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
3. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
4. Man and His Symbols
By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman
4.19
Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- science
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols
5. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, cat… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
6. Revelations of Divine Love
By: Julian of Norwich , A.C. Spearing , Elizabeth Spearing
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Lovea remarkabl… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
7. The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story
By: Brian Swimme
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Opens up not only the exhilarating truths that science reveals of the birth of the universe, but ho… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- astronomy
- science
8. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
9. A Spool of Blue Thread
By: Anne Tyler
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A freshly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel from Anne Tyler "It was a beauti… read more
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10. 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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11. By Its Cover (Commissario Brunetti, #23)
By: Donna Leon
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon . . . . O… read more
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12. A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
By: Parker J. Palmer
4.00
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
In A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart… read more
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13. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
14. The Witch's Heart
By: Genevieve Gornichec
4.05
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the g… read more
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"I can’t believe,"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"We're odd. She's odd. She fits right in, does she not?"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"They say a witch used to live in these woods, a long long time ago,"-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
"My heart is so much more than it once was, even if it now beats outside my chest."-Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart
15. The Overstory
By: Richard Powers
4.12
Format: 502 pages, Paperback
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more
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"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
16. A Heart That Works
By: Rob Delaney
4.62
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
New York Times Bestseller * The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Boo… read more
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- nonfiction
"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
17. Greenwood
By: Michael Christie
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more
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"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
18. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
By: Louise Penny
4.46
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more
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"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
19. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
By: Richard Rohr
4.45
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
20. Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred (Church of the Wild, 1)
By: Victoria Loorz
4.31
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Once upon a time, humans lived in intimate relationship with nature. Whether disillusioned by the d… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- spirituality
"I longed for church to be a place where Mystery is experienced, not explained."-Victoria Loorz, Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred (Church of the Wild, 1)
21. Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
By: Brian Thomas Swimme
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The host and co-creator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe, and an award-winning professor of evoluti… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- astronomy
- science
