Constance's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:46:34 -0700 60 Constance's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Save Your Brain: The 5 Things You Must Do to Keep Your Mind Young and Sharp]]> 8603929 Expert advice on how to ward off memory loss and dementia



Beginning with a diagnostic quiz to help you determine your overall brain health, and ending with meal plans and recipes for a brain boosting diet, Save Your Brain is an easy-to-follow comprehensive guide to getting the brain in the best shape possible, and keeping it there-for life!



Doing the daily crossword puzzle and drinking Ginko Biloba may not be enough in fighting off mental decline. Alzeimers and Dementia are on the rise but clinical neuropsychologist David Nussbaum presents a comprehensive 5-part program for keeping brains operating at their best and fighting off these debilitating diseases.



The author presents concrete, actionable tips to help you improve your:



Physical

Mental

Social

Spiritual

Nutritional



This is a complete system for getting the brain in the best shape possible and keeping it there for life. Our brains can remain as strong and as sharp at seventy as they were by twenty by following Dr. Nussbaum's 5 essential steps.

]]> 226 Paul David Nussbaum 0071717854 Constance 3 2010, aging, health 3.48 2010 Save Your Brain: The 5 Things You Must Do to Keep Your Mind Young and Sharp
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name: Constance
average rating: 3.48
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Year of Magical Thinking Adaptation Audible Original]]> 54860778 Joan Didion Constance 0 3.72 2005 The Year of Magical Thinking Adaptation Audible Original
author: Joan Didion
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]]> <![CDATA[Gilgamesh: A New English Version]]> 779852 In the ancient city of Uruk, the tyrannical King Gilgamesh tramples citizens "like a wild bull". The gods send an untamed man named Enkidu to control the ruthless king, but after fighting, Enkidu and Gilgamesh become great friends and embark on a series of adventures. They kill fearsome creatures before Enkidu succumbs to disease, leaving Gilgamesh despondent and alone. Eventually, Gilgamesh moves forward, and his quest becomes a soul-searching journey of self-discovery.

Mitchell's treatment of this extraordinary work is the finest yet, surpassing previous versions in its preservation of the wisdom and beauty of the original.

©2004 Stephen Mitchell (P)2004 Recorded Books LLC]]> 304 Anonymous 074326164X Constance 3 poetry 3.90 -1200 Gilgamesh: A New English Version
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rating: 3
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]]> Until It's Gone 22311446 170 Scott C. Miller 193458391X Constance 4 4.00 2007 Until It's Gone
author: Scott C. Miller
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average rating: 4.00
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[One Word That Will Change Your Life]]> 19214040 The guide to creating simplicity in your world and developing a discipline for life, now in a full-color, expanded edition

One Word explains how to simplify your life and business by focusing on just ONE WORD for the entire year. The simplicity of choosing one word makes it a catalyst for life-change. Clutter and complexity lead to procrastination and paralysis, while simplicity and focus lead to success and clarity. By celebrated authors Dan Britton, Jimmy Page, and Jon Gordon, One Word That Will Change Your Life shows you how to cut through to the core of your intention for the next year. It offers an action plan and simple process to discover your word for the year. It also explains how your one word will impact the six dimensions of your life—mental, physical, emotional, relational, spiritual, and financial.

This beautifully illustrated full-color Second Edition includes even more stories demonstrating the impact of embracing the One Word call to action. It explores the legacy of taking a focused approach to your life and outlines six new dimensions to the Action Plan.

Includes additional material on developing the One Word for teams and families, specifically how a group of people can also have a One Word Demonstrates how to establish a simple, disciplined, and focused approach to the next year of your life

Discover how to create simplicity in your world and develop a discipline for life through the power of One Word.

]]> 112 Jon Gordon Constance 3 3.87 2012 One Word That Will Change Your Life
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[What Matters Most and Why: Living the Spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola � 365 Daily Reflections]]> 63327955 “Jim Manney is the perfect person to write this beautiful book. Let the wisdom of St. Ignatius guide you gently through your days with these lovely meditations.�
� James Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints

How can I find meaning and joy? How can I think clearly? What’s valuable in life, and what’s irrelevant? How do we manage anger? What can we do about envy, laziness, resentment? How do I know what matters most? What do I really want? These are the questions that lie at the heart of Ignatian spirituality, the five-hundred-year-old wisdom tradition that has shown leaders, seekers, and doers the way to live a better life.

The daily readings in this book emphasize answers to pressing questions about satisfaction in work and relationships. St. Ignatius and his friends believed that “God is found in all things� and “love is best expressed in deeds rather than words.� The Ignatian way is profoundly practical. It guides us through the great challenge of life � finding God and finding our place in God’s work to save and heal the world.

]]> 440 Jim Manney 1608687775 Constance 5 5.00 What Matters Most and Why: Living the Spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola — 365 Daily Reflections
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]]> <![CDATA[Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines]]> 29954199
In Richard Foster′s best-selling book, Celebration of Discipline, he explored the "classic disciplines," or central spiritual practices of the Christian faith. Foster showed that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found. In A Year with God, the spiritual disciplines are presented in such a way that does not destroy the soul but enables the reader to enter into a transforming life with God.

Through daily spiritual exercises and meditations, A Year with God explores eighteen spiritual disciplines. The inward disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service help prepare one to make the world a better place. The corporate disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration bring one nearer to others and to God. Each discipline will be given twenty days of readings, beginning with scripture and followed by commentary, a meditation, and a spiritual exercise. Practicing these spiritual disciplines will help readers live intentionally, contributing to a more balanced spiritual life and a reformation of the inner self.]]> 440 Richard J. Foster 0062565273 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.33 1978 Year with God: Living Out the Spiritual Disciplines
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]]> Adam Resurrected 535434 384 Yoram Kaniuk 0802136893 Constance 3 2011, fiction 3.67 1968 Adam Resurrected
author: Yoram Kaniuk
name: Constance
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1968
rating: 3
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This is one of the strangest books I've ever read.
]]> The Selected Poems of Li Po 5988 160 Li Po 0856462918 Constance 4 2023 4.29 762 The Selected Poems of Li Po
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name: Constance
average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[Having Nothing, Possessing Everything: Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places]]> 39090999 160 Michael Mather 0802874835 Constance 0 2014 4.39 Having Nothing, Possessing Everything: Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places
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]]> <![CDATA[Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto]]> 60382737
From the founder and creator of The Nap Ministry, Rest Is Resistance is a battle cry, a guidebook, a map for a movement, and a field guide for the weary and hopeful. It is rooted in spiritual energy and centered in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism. With captivating storytelling and practical advice, all delivered in Hersey's lyrical voice and informed by her deep experience in theology, activism, and performance art, Rest Is Resistance is a call to action and manifesto for those who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture.]]> 224 Tricia Hersey 0316365211 Constance 0 2023 4.06 2022 Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
author: Tricia Hersey
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]]> Spare 62296528
For Harry, this is that story at last.

Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness—and, because he blamed the press for his mother’s death, he struggled to accept life in the spotlight.

At twenty-one, he joined the British Army. The discipline gave him structure, and two combat tours made him a hero at home. But he soon felt more lost than ever, suffering from post-traumatic stress and prone to crippling panic attacks. Above all, he couldn’t find true love.

Then he met Meghan. The world was swept away by the couple’s cinematic romance and rejoiced in their fairy-tale wedding. But from the beginning, Harry and Meghan were preyed upon by the press, subjected to waves of abuse, racism, and lies. Watching his wife suffer, their safety and mental health at risk, Harry saw no other way to prevent the tragedy of history repeating itself but to flee his mother country. Over the centuries, leaving the Royal Family was an act few had dared. The last to try, in fact, had been his mother. . . .

For the first time, Prince Harry tells his own story, chronicling his journey with raw, unflinching honesty. A landmark publication, Spare is full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.]]> 410 Prince Harry 0593593804 Constance 4 3.78 2023 Spare
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]]> Before I Go to Sleep 9736930
So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?

Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight.

And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story.

Welcome to Christine's life.]]> 359 S.J. Watson 0062060554 Constance 4 2023 3.90 2011 Before I Go to Sleep
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]]> <![CDATA[The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home]]> 7815744
In The Upside of Irrationality, behavioral economist Dan Ariely will explore the many ways in which our behaviour often leads us astray in terms of our romantic relationships, our experiences in the workplace, and our temptations to cheat. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities.

Among the topics Dan explores � What we think will make us happy and what really makes us happy;� How we learn to love the ones we are with;� Why online dating doesn’t work, and how we can improve on it;� Why learning more about people make us like them less;� Why large bonuses can make CEOs less productive;� How to really motivate people at work;� Why bad directions can help us;� How we fall in love with our ideas;� How we are motivated by revenge; and� What motivates us to cheat.

Drawing on the same experimental methods that made Predictably Irrational such a hit, Dan will emphasize the important role that irrationality plays in our day-to-day decisionmaking—not just in our financial marketplace, but in the most hidden aspects of our lives.]]> 334 Dan Ariely 0061995037 Constance 4 2023 4.03 2010 The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
author: Dan Ariely
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average rating: 4.03
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rating: 4
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]]> The Year of Magical Thinking 7815
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year's Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.

This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."]]> 227 Joan Didion 1400078431 Constance 3 2023 3.94 2005 The Year of Magical Thinking
author: Joan Didion
name: Constance
average rating: 3.94
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rating: 3
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]]> The Bridge of San Luis Rey 92508
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.

This new edition of Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.]]> 160 Thornton Wilder 0060088877 Constance 3 2023 3.80 1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
author: Thornton Wilder
name: Constance
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1927
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[On Desire: Why We Want What We Want]]> 1584372 sometimes changing the course of our lives.

In On Desire , William B. Irvine takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our impulses, wants, and needs, showing us where these feelings come from and how we can try to rein them in. Spicing his account with engaging observations by writers like Seneca, Tolstoy, and Freud, Irvine considers the teachings
of Buddhists, Hindus, the Amish, Shakers, and Catholic saints, as well as those of ancient Greek and Roman and modern European philosophers. Irvine also looks at what modern science can tell us about desire--what happens in the brain when we desire something and how animals evolved particular
desires--and he advances a new theory about how desire itself evolved. Irvine also suggests that at the same time that we gained the ability to desire, we were "programmed" to find some things more desirable than others. Irvine concludes that the best way to attain lasting happiness is not to
change the world around us or our place in it, but to change ourselves. If we can convince ourselves to want what we already have, we can dramatically enhance our happiness.

Brimming with wisdom and practical advice, On Desire offers a thoughtful approach to controlling unwanted passions and attaining a more meaningful life.]]> 336 William B. Irvine 0195188624 Constance 4 2023 3.89 2005 On Desire: Why We Want What We Want
author: William B. Irvine
name: Constance
average rating: 3.89
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth]]> 33836066
The Sacred Enneagram is a trustworthy, richly insightful guide to finding yourself in the enneagram s 9-type profiles, and applying this practical wisdom for a life transformed. Far more than a personality test, author Chris Heuertz writes, the enneagram is a sacred map to the soul. Lies about who we think we are keep us trapped in loops of self-defeat. But the enneagram offers a bright path to cutting through the internal clutter and finding our way back to God and to our true identity as God created us.

Chris Heuertz life was forever changed after he learned about the enneagram 15 years ago. Today, he leads enneagram workshops all over the world. Join Chris as he shows you how this ancient tool can help you awaken to the gifts God has given you, find freedom from your personal patterns of sin and fear, and grow in acceptance of your identity as you grow with God.

In conversational style with compelling stories, The Sacred Enneagram will show you


How to understand the 'why' behind your type, beyond caricatures and stereotypes How to align your type with prayer postures How to identify and find freedom from self-destructive patterns How to grow in spiritual discernment How to face your past wounds and step toward healing How to awaken your unique gifts to serve today s broken world Chris s own journey with the enneagram is an accessible introduction and exploration of how the enneagram can change your life, because to the extent that we are transformed, the world will be transformed.

"]]> 272 Christopher L. Heuertz 0310348153 Constance 0 3.95 2017 The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> No Greater Love 6603733 224 Mother Teresa Constance 0 4.57 1997 No Greater Love
author: Mother Teresa
name: Constance
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1997
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]]> <![CDATA[Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World]]> 38116650 256 A.J. Swoboda 1493412906 Constance 0 4.30 Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
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]]> <![CDATA[Receiving Jesus: The Way of Love]]> 51850740 128 Mariann Edgar Budde 1640652418 Constance 0 currently-reading, abandoned 4.52 Receiving Jesus: The Way of Love
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]]> Life Together 18883053 100 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 0334045320 Constance 0 religion-and-philosophy 4.45 1939 Life Together
author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
name: Constance
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1939
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]]> <![CDATA[On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century]]> 33917107
On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president. Against all predictions, one of the most-disliked presidential candidates in history had swept the electoral college, elevating a man with open contempt for democratic norms and institutions to the height of power.

Timothy Snyder is one of the most celebrated historians of the Holocaust. In his books Bloodlands and Black Earth, he has carefully dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, “Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.�

Twenty Lessons is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.]]> 127 Timothy Snyder 0804190119 Constance 5 4.25 2017 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
author: Timothy Snyder
name: Constance
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing]]> 50358103 Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century.
At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin.
One thing they all realized: what counts as money (and what doesn't) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad.
Lively, accessible, and full of interesting details (like the 43-pound copper coins that 17th-century Swedes carried strapped to their backs), Money is the story of the choices that gave us money as we know it today.

The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.
]]> 272 Jacob Goldstein 031641719X Constance 5 4.16 2020 Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
author: Jacob Goldstein
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond (Artist's Way)]]> 28804972 “The book you hold in your hands is the distillate of a quarter century’s teaching. It is my attempt to answer, â€What next?â€� for students who are embarking on their â€second act.’â€� —Julia Cameron   Julia Cameron has inspired millions with her bestseller on creativity, The Artist’s Way. In It’s Never Too Late To Begin Again, she turns her eye to a segment of the population that, ironically, while they have more time to be creative, are often reluctant or intimidated by the creative process. Cameron shows readers that retirement can, in fact, be the most rich, fulfilling, and creative time of their lives. When someone retires, the newfound freedom can be quite exciting, but also daunting. The life that someone had has changed, and the life to come is yet to be defined. In this book, Cameron shows readers how cultivating their creative selves can help them navigate this new terrain. She tells the inspiring stories of retirees who discovered new artistic pursuits and passions that more than filled their days—they nurtured their souls.  This twelve-week course aimed at defining—and creating—the life you want to have as you redefine and re-create yourself, this book includes simple tools that will guide and inspire you to make the most of this time in your -  Memoir writing offers an opportunity to reflect on and honor past experience. This book guides you through the daunting task of writing an entire memoir, breaking it down into manageable pieces.  -  Morning Pages—private, stream-of-consciousness writing done daily—allow you to express wishes, fears, delights, resentments, and joys, which in turn, provide focus and clarity for the day at hand. -  Artist Dates encourage fun and spontaneity. -  Solo Walks quell anxiety and clear the mind.This fun, gentle, step-by-step process will help you explore your creative dreams, wishes, and desires...and help you quickly find that it’s never too late to begin again.]]> 295 Julia Cameron 110198354X Constance 0 brrowsed 4.21 2016 It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond (Artist's Way)
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> <![CDATA[Life Lessons From A Brain Surgeon: Practical Strategies for Peak Health and Performance]]> 42374490 From the operating room, where he performs some of the riskiest surgeries around, to the lab, where he is working on growing skin cells and injecting them into the brain to replace worn out neural tissue, Dr. Rahul Jandial is on the cutting edge of the latest advancements in neuroscience. This fascinating book draws on Dr. Jandial’s broad-spectrum expertise and brings together the best of various fields-–surgery, science, brain structure, the conscious mind�-all to explain the bigger picture of brain health and rejuvenation. It is a journey into his operating room, around the world on his surgical missions, inside his laboratory, and to the outer edges of neuroscience to reveal the latest brain breakthroughs that are turning science fiction into reality, translating their implications for everyday life. Busting myths along the way, Jandial helps readers get wired for success at work and school, perform better when the pressure is on, boost memory, control stress and emotions, minimize pain, stick to a healthy eating plan, unleash creativity, raise smarter kids, and stay sharp as they age. Combining the treatment guidelines he gives his patients, the most promising concepts from frontier science, and the smartest super-achiever hacks, he provides practical takeaways for optimizing brain function and leading a healthier, happier, more productive life.]]> 274 Rahul Jandial 1328969835 Constance 0 4.48 2019 Life Lessons From A Brain Surgeon: Practical Strategies for Peak Health and Performance
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name: Constance
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Book of Gold: Fundraising for Small (and Very Small) Nonprofits]]> 18969217
The Little Book of Gold is dedicated to helping small (and very small) non-profits unlock their fundraising potential. Avoid common pitfalls and get tips on proven methods that work. This short guide helps new Executive Directors, active board chairs, and other key staff in charge of fundraising to learn the basics of professional and sustainable fundraising. Geared specifically for non-profits with small and very small budgets (a few hundred thousand dollars a year down to the smallest budgets).

Revised and expanded in 2011! Major Topics in The Little Book of Gold Learn how

Board Giving Approach a Board of Directors about board giving and “ask without asking� Deal with different kinds of board members � those who don’t want to give, who see themselves as “rebels,� those who are already good givers, new board members, and more. Set up monthly giving for board members Increase board giving a year later Asking Outside the Board Ask without sounding desperate Build more monthly donations Get “loose change� donations Set up online giving Thank donors so they want to give again Fundraising Events Avoid events that suck your time for not-enough money Get more money out of events you currently throw Set up one of the most lucrative fundraising events that no one ever thinks of New Grants Be your best self Find new grant opportunities easily Get your foot in the door Thinking Big Build your donors from the year before Set up donor levels without giving away too much Stay friends with donors Thinking Bigger Evaluate whether your non-profit can handle a capital campaign Make your organization open for planned giving Online Features More than a book, The Little Book of Gold is like a special weekend conference in condensed form. In addition to the material covered below, purchase of the book will unlock special password-protected features online! Resources

2 sample direct mail asks (.doc files) Customizable event budgets and checklists (.xls) Table Captain Guide for events Event Sponsorships Strategy Guide Online Giving after Obama Overview of recommendations for churches and schools Deal]]> 162 Erik Hanberg 0982714548 Constance 5 4.03 2011 The Little Book of Gold: Fundraising for Small (and Very Small) Nonprofits
author: Erik Hanberg
name: Constance
average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[Understanding Nonprofit Financial Statements in 30 Pages: A Short Tutorial for Board, Management, and Staff (30-Page Nonprofit Guides)]]> 53504757 38 Thomas R. Ittelson Constance 5 4.31 Understanding Nonprofit Financial Statements in 30 Pages: A Short Tutorial for Board, Management, and Staff (30-Page Nonprofit Guides)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Picture Book of Nonprofit Financial Statements]]> 35289804 52 Thomas R. Ittelson Constance 5 4.21 A Picture Book of Nonprofit Financial Statements
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]]> <![CDATA[Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary]]> 53911858
And that was before the pandemic. We have since watched American hospitals, long understaffed and undersupplied, buckling under waves of coronavirus patients. The federal government made matters worse through willful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering. Our system of commercial medicine failed the ultimate test, and thousands of Americans died.

In this eye-opening cri de coeur, Snyder traces the societal forces that led us here and outlines the lessons we must learn to survive. In examining some of the darkest moments of recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds glimmers of hope and principles that could lead us out of our current malaise. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and medical knowledge, and planning for our children's future can we create an America where everyone is truly free.]]> 179 Timothy Snyder 0593238893 Constance 5 4.18 2020 Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
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]]> <![CDATA[The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America]]> 36217163 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.

"A brilliant analysis of our time."--Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker

With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States.

Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself. The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies.

In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy and law. To understand the challenge is to see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us--between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood--Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty.]]> 359 Timothy Snyder 0525574468 Constance 5 4.33 2018 The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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]]> <![CDATA[Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital]]> 45169247 The Emmy Award-winning star of General Hospital chronicles his astonishing and emotional life journey in this powerful memoir—an inspiring story of success, show business, and family, and his struggle with mental illness.

Maurice Benard has been blessed with family, fame, and a successful career. For twenty-five years, he has played one of the most well-known characters on daytime General Hospital’s Michael “Sonny� Corinthos, Jr. In his life outside the screen, he is a loving husband and the father of four. But his path has not been without hardship. When he was only twenty, Maurice was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

In Nothing General About It, Maurice looks back to his youth in a small town and his tenuous relationship with his father. He describes how his bipolar disorder began to surface in childhood, how he struggled to understand the jolting mood swings he experienced, and how a doctor finally saved his life. For years Maurice was relentless in his goal to be a successful actor. But even after he “made it,� he still grappled with terrifying lows, breakdowns, and setbacks, all while trying desperately to maintain his relationship with his wife, who endured his violent, unpredictable episodes. Maurice holds nothing back as he bravely talks about what it was like to be medicated and institutionalized, and of how he learned to manage his manic episodes while on the set of GH.

Nothing General About It is also an incredible love story about an enduring marriage that demonstrates what those vows—for better, for worse, in sickness and in health—truly mean. Maurice also pays tribute to the community that has been there for him through thick and thin, and ruminates on the importance of both inherited and created family.

A shocking, riveting, and utterly candid memoir of love, adversity, and ultimately hope, Nothing General About It offers insights and advice for everyone trying to cope with mental illness, and is a motivational story that offers lessons in perseverance—of the importance of believing in and fighting for yourself through the darkest times.

Nothing General About It includes a 16-page insert featuring approximately 50 photographs.

]]> 248 Maurice Benard 0062973401 Constance 5 4.41 Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital
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]]> <![CDATA[Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation]]> 44139381 From a rising star at The New Yorker , a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet—and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream.

For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers"—the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly—from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room—and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality. Combining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding, Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape—the landscape in which we all now live. Marantz shows how alienated young people are led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization, and how fringe ideas spread—from anonymous corners of social media to cable TV to the President's Twitter feed. Marantz also sits with the creators of social media as they start to reckon with the forces they've unleashed. Will they be able to solve the communication crisis they helped bring about, or are their interventions too little too late?]]> 400 Andrew Marantz 0525522263 Constance 5 4.20 2019 Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
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]]> <![CDATA[The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning]]> 35297297 A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.

In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called »ĺö˛őłŮä»ĺ˛Ôľ±˛Ô˛µ, »ĺö meaning “deathâ€� and ˛őłŮä»ĺ˛Ôľ±˛Ô˛µ meaning “cleaning.â€� This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming.

Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you’d ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children’s art projects). Digging into her late husband’s tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also become more comfortable with the idea of letting go.]]> 117 Margareta Magnusson 1501173243 Constance 5 3.39 2017 The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
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]]> <![CDATA[Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver]]> 34959502 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.

Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world]]> 480 Mary Oliver 0399563253 Constance 0 4.45 2017 Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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]]> <![CDATA[Faith That Matters: 365 Devotions from Classic Christian Leaders]]> 35703182 Together for the first time in one devotional, experience daily readings from such bestselling and respected voices as Frederick Buechner, Brennan Manning, Henri Nouwen, Eugene Peterson, James Bryan Smith, A. W. Tozer, Dallas Willard, and N. T. Wright. Faith That Matters was designed to help you confidently walk in faith every day of the year.

In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to get lost in a never-ending list of projects and demands. We become distracted with what's urgent instead of what matters most. And in the process, we lose sight of who we are . . . and who God is.

Faith That Matters is a beautifully designed devotional that reminds us of the timeless truths of Scripture. Each reading offers powerful stories and inspiring insights from trusted Christian communicators such


Frederick Buechner
Brennan Manning
Henri Nouwen
Eugene Peterson
James Bryan Smith
W. Tozer
Dallas Willard
N. T. Wright
All 365 devotions also include a relevant Bible verse, practical suggestions for living out that day's reading, and a brief closing prayer.

The variety of contributors provides a treasure trove of unique perspectives on issues ranging from God's love, mercy, and hope to themes of grace, provision, and peace. These well-known authors have sold a combined total of millions of books. Now, for the first time, their writings have been brought together in one devotional.

Whether you seek to understand the foundation of our faith tenets or simply need a daily dose of spiritual encouragement, your heart and soul will be refreshed anew with each reading.

Draw closer to God every day of the year with Faith That Matters.]]> 390 Frederick Buechner 0310090199 Constance 0 4.41 Faith That Matters: 365 Devotions from Classic Christian Leaders
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]]> <![CDATA[You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional]]> 36324503 The Return of the Prodigal Son and The Wounded Healer offers deep spiritual insight into human experience, intimacy, brokeness, and mercy.

Nouwen devoted much of his later ministry to emphasizing the singular concept of our identity as the Beloved of God. In an interview, he said that he believed the central moment in Jesus's public ministry to be his baptism in the Jordan, when Jesus heard the affirmation, "You are my beloved son on whom my favor rests." "That is the core experience of Jesus," Nouwen writes. "He is reminded in a deep, deep way of who he is. . . . I think his whole life is continually claiming that identity in the midst of everything."

You Are Beloved is a daily devotional intended to empower readers to claim this truth in their own lives. Featuring the best of Nouwen's writing from previously published works, this devotional will propel the canon forward as it draws on this rich literature in new and compelling ways. It will appeal to readers already familiar with Nouwen's work as well as new readers looking for a devotional to guide them into a deeper awareness of their identity in Jesus.]]> 394 Henri J.M. Nouwen 1101906383 Constance 0 4.62 You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional
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]]> <![CDATA[The Awakened Heart: Opening Yourself to the Love You Need]]> 8248311 Publishers Weekly]]> 272 Gerald G. May Constance 0 4.42 1991 The Awakened Heart: Opening Yourself to the Love You Need
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)]]> 77392 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213171

New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and her frivolous new friend Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises . . . including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide whether she's ready for love.]]> 243 L.M. Montgomery Constance 0 2018, fiction 4.25 1915 Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
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]]> March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) 29844341
Now, experience John Lewis' incredible story first-hand, brought to life in a stunning graphic novel trilogy. With co-writer Andrew Aydin and Eisner Award-winning artist Nate Powell, John Lewis' MARCH tells the story of how a poor sharecropper's son helped transform America, from a segregated schoolhouse to the 1963 March on Washington and beyond.]]> 576 John Lewis 1603093958 Constance 5 2018, nonfiction, memoir 4.73 2013 March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)
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]]> <![CDATA[365 Days With Self-Discipline (Simple Self-Discipline #5)]]> 37765836 How to Build Self-Discipline and Become More Successful (365 Powerful Thoughts From the World’s Brightest Minds)

Its lack makes you unable to achieve your goals. Without it, you’ll struggle to lose weight, become fit, wake up early, work productively and save money. Not embracing it in your everyday life means that you’ll never realize your full potential. Ignoring it inevitably leads to regret and feeling sad about how more successful and incredible your life could have been if you had only decided to develop it.

What is this powerful thing? Self-discipline.

And if there’s one thing that self-discipline is not, it’s instant. It takes months (if not years) to develop powerful self-control that will protect you from impulsive decisions, laziness, procrastination, and inaction.

You need to exhibit self-discipline day in, day out, 365 days in a year. What if you had a companion who would remind you daily to stay disciplined and persevere, even when the going gets tough?

365 Days With Self-Discipline is a practical, accessible guidebook for embracing more self-discipline in your everyday life. You’ll learn how to do this through 365 brief, daily insights from the world’s brightest minds, expanded and commented upon by bestselling personal development author Martin Meadows.

This isn’t just an inspirational book; most of the entries deliver practical suggestions that you can immediately apply in your life to become more disciplined. Here are just some of the things you’ll

- why living your life the hard way makes it easy (and other suggestions from a successful entrepreneur and longevity scientist);

- how to overcome your initial resistance and procrastination based on the remark made by one of the most renowned Renaissance men;

- why, according to an influential neurosurgeon, it’s key to see problems as hurdles instead of obstacles (and how to do that);

- how to embrace an experimental mindset to overcome a fear of failure (a technique recommended by a successful entrepreneur and musician);

- how to quit in a smart way, according to a world-famous marketing expert;

- how to improve your productivity at work by implementing the advice from one of the most successful detective fiction writers;

- how a trick used by screenwriters can help you figure out the first step needed to get closer to your goals;

- how to maintain self-discipline in the long-term by paying attention to what a bestselling non-fiction author calls necessary to survive and thrive;

- how your most common thoughts can sabotage your efforts (and other valuable insights from one of the most respected Roman Stoics); and

- how to overcome temporary discouragement and look at your problems from the proper perspective, as suggested by a well-known public speaker and author.]]> 699 Martin Meadows Constance 0 3.89 365 Days With Self-Discipline (Simple Self-Discipline #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife]]> 25776251
There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody. In fact, midlife can be a great new adventure, when you can embrace fresh possibilities, purposes, and pleasures. In Life Reimagined , Hagerty explains that midlife is about It’s the time to renegotiate your purpose, refocus your relationships, and transform the way you think about the world and yourself. Drawing from emerging information in neurology, psychology, biology, genetics, and sociology—as well as her own story of midlife transformation—Hagerty redraws the map for people in midlife and plots a new course forward in understanding our health, our relationships, even our futures.]]> 464 Barbara Bradley Hagerty 1594631700 Constance 0 2018, aging, nonfiction 3.84 2016 Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice]]> 51087394 Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top to bottom reform.

Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Preposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability.

Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that heirarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place.

This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.

A Macmillan Audio production from All Points Books]]> 0 Fredrik deBoer 1250752043 Constance 0 to-read 3.53 2020 The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
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]]> <![CDATA[Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked]]> 30962055
In this revolutionary book, Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, tracks the rise of behavioral addiction, and explains why so many of today's products are irresistible. Though these miraculous products melt the miles that separate people across the globe, their extraordinary and sometimes damaging magnetism is no accident. The companies that design these products tweak them over time until they become almost impossible to resist.

By reverse engineering behavioral addiction, Alter explains how we can harness addictive products for the good—to improve how we communicate with each other, spend and save our money, and set boundaries between work and play—and how we can mitigate their most damaging effects on our well-being, and the health and happiness of our children.]]> 368 Adam Alter 1594206643 Constance 0 to-read 3.83 2017 Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
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]]> <![CDATA[Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond]]> 45894128 An engaging and deeply reported investigation of friendship: its evolution, purpose, and centrality in human and nonhuman lives alike.

The bonds of friendship are universal and elemental. In Friendship, journalist Lydia Denworth visits the front lines of the science of friendship in search of its biological, psychological, and evolutionary foundations. Finding it to be as old as life on the African savannas, she also discovers that friendship is reflected in our brain waves, detectable in our genomes, and capable of strengthening our cardiovascular and immune systems. Its opposite, loneliness, can kill. As a result, social connection is finally being recognized as critical to our physical and emotional well-being.

With warmth and compassion, Denworth weaves together past and present, field biology and cutting-edge neuroscience, to show how our bodies and minds are designed to make friends, the process by which social bonds develop, and how a drive for friendship underpins human (and nonhuman) society. With its refreshingly optimistic vision of the evolution of human nature, this book puts friendship at the center of our lives.]]> 312 Lydia Denworth 0393651541 Constance 0 currently-reading 3.65 2020 Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
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]]> <![CDATA[Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones]]> 40121378 Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:
- Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);
- Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;
- Design your environment to make success easier;
- Get back on track when you fall off course;
...and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.]]> 319 James Clear Constance 0 currently-reading 4.34 2018 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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]]> <![CDATA[The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration]]> 8171378
Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California.

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration� within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.]]> 622 Isabel Wilkerson 0679444327 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.45 2010 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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]]> <![CDATA[Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents]]> 51152447 The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.�

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.]]> 544 Isabel Wilkerson 0593230256 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.52 2020 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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]]> A Promised Land 55361205
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office.

Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.

A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,� and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.

This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.]]> 768 Barack Obama 1524763187 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.32 2020 A Promised Land
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]]> <![CDATA[Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times]]> 52837614 Walk the path of love with one of the warmest, most beloved spiritual leaders of our time, and learn how to put faith into action.

As the descendant of slaves and the son of a civil rights activist, Bishop Michael Curry's life illustrates massive changes in our times. Much of the world met Bishop Curry when he delivered his sermon on the redemptive power of love at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle. Here, he expands on his message of hope in an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. Through the prism of his faith, ancestry, and personal journey, Love Is the Way shows us how America came this far and, more important, how to go a whole lot further.

The way of love is essential for addressing the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing the world today: poverty, racism, selfishness, deep ideological divisions, competing claims to speak for God. This book will lead readers to discover the gifts they need in order to live the way of love: deep reservoirs of hope and resilience, simple wisdom, the discipline of nonviolence, and unshakable regard for human dignity.]]> 272 Michael B. Curry 0525543031 Constance 0 4.45 2020 Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
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]]> <![CDATA[The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan: Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and Living Generously]]> 52871618 In the spirit of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning and The Joy of Less, experience the benefits of buying less and sharing more with this accessible 7-step guide to decluttering, saving money, and creating community from the creators of the Buy Nothing Project.

In 2013, when friends Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller launched the first Facebook Buy Nothing Project group in their small town off the coast of Seattle, they never expected it to become a viral sensation. Today there are thousands of Buy Nothing groups all over the world, boasting more than a million members, and 5,000 highly active volunteers.

In their island community, Clark and Rockefeller discovered that the beaches of Puget Sound were spoiled by a daily influx of plastic items and trash washing on shore. From pens and toothbrushes to toys and straws, they wondered, where did it all come from? Of course, it comes from us—our homes, our backyards, our cars, and workplaces. And so, a rallying cry against excess stuff was born.

Inspired by the ancient practice of gift economies, where neighbors share and pool resources, The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan introduces an environmentally conscious 7-step guide that teaches us how to buy less, give more, and live generously. At once an actionable plan and a thought-provoking exploration of our addiction to stuff, this powerful program will help you declutter your home without filling landfills, shop more thoughtfully and discerningly, and let go of the need to buy new things. Filled with helpful lists and practical suggestions including 50 items you never need to buy (Ziploc bags and paper towels) and 50 things to make instead (gift cards and salad dressing), The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan encourages you to rethink why you shop and embrace a space-saving, money-saving, and earth-saving mindset of buying less and sharing more.]]> 288 Liesl Clark 1982113812 Constance 0 currently-reading 3.61 2020 The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan: Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and Living Generously
author: Liesl Clark
name: Constance
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul]]> 20417968 318 Danielle LaPorte 1622033469 Constance 0 currently-reading 3.92 2012 The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul
author: Danielle LaPorte
name: Constance
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Book of Boards: A Board Member's Handbook for Small (and Very Small) Nonprofits]]> 24022051 204 Erik Hanberg Constance 0 4.42 2014 The Little Book of Boards: A Board Member's Handbook for Small (and Very Small) Nonprofits
author: Erik Hanberg
name: Constance
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Just Relationships: Living Out Social Justice as Mentor, Family, Friend, and Lover]]> 33789522 165 Douglas L Kelley Constance 0 currently-reading 4.20 Just Relationships: Living Out Social Justice as Mentor, Family, Friend, and Lover
author: Douglas L Kelley
name: Constance
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]]> <![CDATA[Head and Heart: How to Run a Smart and Compassionate Nonprofit]]> 48710923 252 Hillary B. Marotta Constance 0 currently-reading 4.50 Head and Heart: How to Run a Smart and Compassionate Nonprofit
author: Hillary B. Marotta
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]]> <![CDATA[Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country]]> 672948 Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on � all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he’s given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times�.]]> 464 Erich Maria Remarque Constance 4 fiction 4.44 1945 Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
author: Erich Maria Remarque
name: Constance
average rating: 4.44
book published: 1945
rating: 4
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date added: 2020/03/27
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This is a pretty amazing book. Here there are passages of great lyric beauty, despair leavened by a certain absurdist gallows humor, and a riveting plot. This novel makes me want to read more of Remarque.
]]> <![CDATA[Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything]]> 43305818 New York Times Bestseller | A habit expert from Stanford University shares his breakthrough method for building habits quickly and easily. With Tiny Habits you’ll increase productivity by tapping into positive emotions to create a happier and healthier life. Dr. Fogg’s new and extremely practical method picks up where Atomic Habits left off.

“There are many great books on the topic [of habits]: The Power of Habit, Atomic Habits, but this offers the most comprehensive, practical, simple, and compassionate method I've ever come across.â€� —John Stepper, Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ user

BJ FOGG is here to change your life—and revolutionize how we think about human behavior. Based on twenty years of research and Fogg’s experience coaching more than 40,000 people, Tiny Habits cracks the code of habit formation. With breakthrough discoveries in every chapter, you’ll learn the simplest proven ways to transform your life. Fogg shows you how to feel good about your successes instead of bad about your failures.

This proven, step-by-step guide will help you design habits and make them stick through positive emotion and celebrating small successes. Whether you want to lose weight, de-stress, sleep better, or be more productive each day, Tiny Habits makes it easy to achieve—by starting small.]]> 322 B.J. Fogg 0358003997 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.20 2019 Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
author: B.J. Fogg
name: Constance
average rating: 4.20
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]]> <![CDATA[Creative Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners--Create with Paints, Inks, Markers, Glitter, and More! (Art for Modern Makers)]]> 43882679 A fun, modern, and practical approach with instructions on how to paint simple motifs, create elegant lettering, and embellish projects beautifully.Popular watercolor artist and workshop instructor Ana Victoria Calderón shares her step-by-step techniques for painting modern designs in this classic medium. All the fundamentals needed to get started in watercolor are here, allowing you to quickly learn how to create beautiful watercolor paintings. Through a series of easy tutorials and projects, you basic materials and tools, plus options for embellishing your paintingsMaster essential techniques, starting with easy warm-up activities. Then, learn to layer, and get into the flow with watercolorGet an introduction to scanning and digital editing for making multiplesPaint a variety of simple, beautiful flowers and leaves, butterflies and critters, fruits and vegetables, and delightful letteringUse what you’ve learned to create unique, stylish stationery, including beautiful invitations, place cards, menus, monograms, recipe gift cards, thank you notes—any project you can imagine, for any kind of event you can think of!There’s never been a better time to dive into the world of watercolor, so why wait? Grab a brush and get painting!Perfect for all skill levels, the books in the Art for Modern Makers series take a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.]]> 127 Ana Victoria Calderón Constance 0 currently-reading 4.17 Creative Watercolor: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners--Create with Paints, Inks, Markers, Glitter, and More! (Art for Modern Makers)
author: Ana Victoria CalderĂłn
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]]> <![CDATA[Reimagining the Ignatian Examen: Fresh Ways to Pray from Your Day]]> 25226592 123 Mark E. Thibodeaux 0829442456 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.45 2014 Reimagining the Ignatian Examen: Fresh Ways to Pray from Your Day
author: Mark E. Thibodeaux
name: Constance
average rating: 4.45
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]]> <![CDATA[Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith]]> 6706813
"The table is one of the most intimate places in our lives. It is there that we give ourselves to one another. When we say, 'Take some more, let me serve you another plate, let me pour you another glass, don't be shy, enjoy it,' we say a lot more than our words express. We invite our friends to become part of our lives. We want them to be nurtured by the same food and drink that nurture us. We desire communion.... Every breakfast, lunch, or dinner can become a time of growing communion with one another."

Intimately personal and inspiring, Bread for the Journey is a daily feast of fresh insight into the challenges and deep joys of a life lived in close communion with God. Nouwen is a wise, loving companion who invites us along as he finds joy in the community of loss, true freedom in forgiveness of others, and hope in surprising places. Each daily meditation is a stepping–stone along a path of private discovery, offering Nouwen's seasoned yet fresh ideas on kindness, love, suffering, and prayer, the Church as God's people, and the importance of Jesus in one's life–reflecting, as a whole, Nouwen's own 'personal creed.' Bread for the Journey brims with daily nourishment and guidance for devoted followers and new friends alike –� food for thought on a yearlong journey of discovery and faith.]]> 405 Henri J.M. Nouwen Constance 0 4.46 1996 Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
author: Henri J.M. Nouwen
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average rating: 4.46
book published: 1996
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]]> <![CDATA[I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions]]> 18921132 416 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1611641292 Constance 0 4.39 2005 I Want to Live These Days with You: A Year of Daily Devotions
author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
name: Constance
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[Practices of Love: Spiritual Disciplines for the Life of the World]]> 35913158 210 Kyle David Bennett 1493409581 Constance 3 3.82 Practices of Love: Spiritual Disciplines for the Life of the World
author: Kyle David Bennett
name: Constance
average rating: 3.82
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]]> <![CDATA[Rough Fugue: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)]]> 39292222 83 Betty Adcock 0807166707 Constance 0 currently-reading 0.0 Rough Fugue: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)
author: Betty Adcock
name: Constance
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]]> <![CDATA[Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom]]> 38897617 258 John O'Donohue Constance 0 currently-reading 4.51 1996 Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
author: John O'Donohue
name: Constance
average rating: 4.51
book published: 1996
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]]> <![CDATA[The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language]]> 16034712 The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them.

Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That’s fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist.

From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.]]> 241 Mark Forsyth Constance 0 to-read 3.95 2012 The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
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]]> <![CDATA[The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion]]> 29587429
In The Day the Revolution Began, N. T. Wright once again challenges commonly held Christian beliefs as he did in his acclaimed Surprised by Hope. Demonstrating the rigorous intellect and breathtaking knowledge that have long defined his work, Wright argues that Jesus� death on the cross was not only to absolve us of our sins; it was actually the beginning of a revolution commissioning the Christian faithful to a new vocation—a royal priesthood responsible for restoring and reconciling all of God’s creation.

Wright argues that Jesus� crucifixion must be understood within the much larger story of God’s purposes to bring heaven and earth together. The Day the Revolution Began offers a grand picture of Jesus� sacrifice and its full significance for the Christian faith, inspiring believers with a renewed sense of mission, purpose, and hope, and reminding them of the crucial role the Christian faith must play in protecting and shaping the future of the world.]]> 448 N.T. Wright 0062334409 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.30 2016 The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
author: N.T. Wright
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average rating: 4.30
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Lent: A Painting A Day From Ash Wednesday To Easter]]> 37551793 Join Sister Wendy on a journey through Lent, and discover the timeless wisdom to be found in some of the world’s greatest paintings.

Illustrated in full colour with over forty famous and lesser-known masterpieces of Western art, this beautiful book will lead you into a deeply prayerful response to all that these paintings convey to the discerning eye.

â€For those who want to appreciate the spirituality behind some of the world’s greatest works of art, this book will be hugely inspiring â€� not only during Lent but at any time of the year.â€�
Dr Janina Ramirez, art historian and broadcaster

]]> 105 Wendy Beckett 0281078564 Constance 0 4.28 The Art of Lent: A Painting A Day From Ash Wednesday To Easter
author: Wendy Beckett
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]]> <![CDATA[God Is on the Cross: Reflections on Lent and Easter]]> 19072867 112 Dietrich Bonhoeffer Constance 0 4.47 2012 God Is on the Cross: Reflections on Lent and Easter
author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
name: Constance
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent]]> 25854355 147 Richard Rohr 1616360429 Constance 0 4.61 2010 Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent
author: Richard Rohr
name: Constance
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life]]> 33224650 170 Tish Harrison Warren 0830892206 Constance 0 4.40 2016 Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
author: Tish Harrison Warren
name: Constance
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2016
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]]> <![CDATA[The Daily Message: Through the Bible in One Year]]> 21506845 The Daily Message is the perfect one-year reading Bible, allowing for both flexibility and time to let the readings soak into your heart and mind. Arranged into six readings per week, this simple, easy-to-do plan will revolutionize your daily quiet time with God.

Features include: (1) Discipleship Journal's "Book-at-a-Time" reading plan, (2) Inspirational words from Psalms or Proverbs and thoughtful questions for deeper reflection, and (3) Alternative reading plans that allow you to start any day of the year and read at your own pace.

]]> 2542 Eugene H. Peterson 1612919855 Constance 0 4.62 2008 The Daily Message: Through the Bible in One Year
author: Eugene H. Peterson
name: Constance
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2008
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]]> <![CDATA[Almost Everything: Notes on Hope]]> 39518652 From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her How to bring hope back into our lives "I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated"--the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox," Lamott writes, "and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change." That is the time when we must pledge not to give up but "to do what Wendell Berry 'Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'" In this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward. Candid and caring, insightful and sometimes hilarious, Almost Everything is the book we need and that only Anne Lamott can write.]]> 206 Anne Lamott 0525537570 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.21 2018 Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
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]]> <![CDATA[Slow Kingdom Coming: Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly in the World]]> 30047551
The road can be so challenging and the destination so distant that you may be discouraged by a lack of progress, compassion or commitment in your quest for justice. How do you stay committed to the journey when God's kingdom can seem so slow in coming?

Kent Annan understands the struggle of working for justice over the long haul. He confesses, "Over the past twenty years, I've succumbed to various failed shortcuts instead of living the freedom of faithful practices." In this book, he shares practices he has learned that will encourage and help you to keep making a difference in the face of the world's challenging issues.

All Christians are called to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly in the world. Slow Kingdom Coming will guide and strengthen you on this journey to persevere until God's kingdom comes on earth as it is in heaven.]]> 140 Kent Annan 0830899987 Constance 0 4.23 2016 Slow Kingdom Coming: Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly in the World
author: Kent Annan
name: Constance
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2016
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]]> <![CDATA[God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas]]> 13138015 103 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1611640717 Constance 0 4.45 2010 God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas
author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
name: Constance
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[NRSV, The Daily Bible: Read, Meditate, and Pray Through the Entire Bible in 365 Days]]> 18930983
Many people have embraced the spiritual disciple of reading through the Bible in a year. Now the NRSV Daily Bible makes the entire New Revised Standard Version available to you in a daily reading format, helpfully divided into 365 manageable readings. Along with the biblical text, this resource offers you wisdom from the classic writings of Christians luminaries such as Mother Teresa, Henri Nouwen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, N. T. Wright, Madeleine L’Engle and Frederick Buechner.

Renowned for its beautiful balance of scholarship and readability, the NRSV faithfully serves the church in personal spiritual formation, in the liturgy, and in the academy. The foremost Bible translation vetted by Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, and Jewish scholars invites you to deeply explore Scripture.



The text of the New Revised Standard Version (Protestant canon), vetted by an ecumenical pool of Christian academics and renowned for its beautiful balance of scholarship and readabilityA daily reading plan that can be started at any time during the yearDaily insights from thinkers like Mother Teresa, Henri Nouwen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, N. T. Wright, Madeleine L’Engle and Frederick BuechnerIndividual book introductions to aid in the practice of prayerful readingPresentation page]]> 1541 Anonymous Constance 5 2018, 2017 4.70 2012 NRSV, The Daily Bible: Read, Meditate, and Pray Through the Entire Bible in 365 Days
author: Anonymous
name: Constance
average rating: 4.70
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[365 Saints: Your Daily Guide to the Wisdom and Wonder of Their Lives]]> 19293476
The life of a saint is the life of an ordinary person lived well. And that's the life readers will discover in this delightful and often surprising collection of words and wisdom from saints throughout the ages. A lovely and inspiring gift book, 365 Saints illuminates how the saints actually lived, detailing their hopes, fears, joys, and sorrows, as well as their lesser–known idiosyncracies and saying. Witty and wondrous, simple and sublime, 365 Saints offers a full year of meditations and practical suggestions for emulating the saints today.]]> 384 Woodeene Koenig-Bricker Constance 0 2018, spirituality 4.17 1995 365 Saints: Your Daily Guide to the Wisdom and Wonder of Their Lives
author: Woodeene Koenig-Bricker
name: Constance
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[Simply Wait: Cultivating Stillness in the Season of Advent]]> 36159071
"The idea for this book arose from my own experience of contemplative prayer, prayer that finds its home, not in busy doing or speaking, but in becoming, in being," writes Hawkins.

Some Advent titles promise reflective simplicity but actually require a lot of time or reading; Simply Wait is the exception. The exercises are very doable and focus on anticipation, hope, patience, and obedience. Questions and journal space are provided to help you contemplate more fully. This is an ideal individual or small-group study; a guide for groups is included.

Instead of doing more and moving faster, find a way to reflect more, worry less, and connect authentically to the season with the grace-filled wisdom of *Simply Wait**.]]> 109 Pamela C Hawkins 0835817563 Constance 0 4.50 Simply Wait: Cultivating Stillness in the Season of Advent
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]]> <![CDATA[Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent]]> 18866078 —Richard Rohr

Advent is a time to focus our expectation and anticipation on “the adult Christ, the Cosmic Christ,� who challenges us to empty ourselves, to lose ourselves, to surrender. Preparing for Christmas offers daily meditations, prayers, Scripture readings, and questions for reflection for each day of Advent.]]> 70 Richard Rohr 1616366168 Constance 0 4.46 2000 Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent
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name: Constance
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2000
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]]> Befriending Our Desires 32567582 146 Philip Sheldrake 0814647421 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.06 1994 Befriending Our Desires
author: Philip Sheldrake
name: Constance
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1994
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]]> <![CDATA[Crafting a Rule of Life: An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way]]> 19421061 193 Stephen A. Macchia Constance 0 currently-reading 4.09 2012 Crafting a Rule of Life: An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way
author: Stephen A. Macchia
name: Constance
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within]]> 19013431 Through the power of everyday words, find and deepen your connection with faith and self in the spiritual practice of writing. Whether you approach this book primarily as a reader or a writer, you can open a rich correspondence with yourself and learn what your own heart has to say. Karen Hering offers a path of self-exploration and a contemplative practice of writing that engages memory and imagination, story and poetry, images and the timeless wisdom of world religions and myth-ology. It will open your ear to your own truths while opening your heart to the world around you. Blending writing prompts, meditations, and stories, this book invites you to begin wherever you are and discover your own unique relation­ship with language, spirituality, and the world around you. The next chapter is yours to write, and Writing to Wake the Soul offers all you need to write it.]]> 306 Karen Hering Constance 0 currently-reading 4.64 2013 Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within
author: Karen Hering
name: Constance
average rating: 4.64
book published: 2013
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning]]> 37652224 A call for Christians to move past the shallows of idealized beliefs and into a deeper, more vibrant, beatitude-like faith rooted in sacred practices and intimate experiences with God.When the limits of his own faith experience left him feeling spiritually empty, Niequist determined God must have a wider vision for worship and community.In his search, Aaron discovered that there was historical Christian precedent for enacting faith in a different way, an ancient and now future way of believing. He calls this third way "practice-based faith." This book is about loving one's faith tradition and, at the same time, following the call to something deeper and richer. By adopting some new spiritual practices, it is possible to learn to swim again with a renewed sense of vigor and divine purpose.]]> 200 Aaron Niequist 0735291179 Constance 5 4.23 The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning
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name: Constance
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]]> <![CDATA[To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings]]> 8134438 242 John O'Donohue Constance 0 4.60 2008 To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
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name: Constance
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2008
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]]> <![CDATA[Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die]]> 36692830 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea's chances--essential reading in the "fake news" era.

Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists--struggle to make them "stick."

In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds--from the infamous "kidney theft ring" hoax to a coach's lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony--draw their power from the same six traits.

Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It's a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice.

Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas--and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.]]> 306 Chip Heath Constance 0 currently-reading 4.23 2006 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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]]> Carver: A Life in Poems 93598 112 Marilyn Nelson 1886910537 Constance 4 2018, poetry 3.98 1997 Carver: A Life in Poems
author: Marilyn Nelson
name: Constance
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> The Last Black Unicorn 34974310 288 Tiffany Haddish 1501181823 Constance 3 2018, memoir 3.81 2017 The Last Black Unicorn
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name: Constance
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2017
rating: 3
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]]> When Breath Becomes Air 25614898 When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,� as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life� into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.]]> 229 Paul Kalanithi 081298840X Constance 0 to-read 4.37 2016 When Breath Becomes Air
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name: Constance
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2016
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]]> <![CDATA[The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)]]> 16319
But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry?

The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery� before tongues start to wag.

Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel "The Body in the Library." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."]]> 191 Agatha Christie 157912626X Constance 3 2017, mystery, fiction 3.86 1942 The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
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name: Constance
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)]]> 16341
Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "The Moving Finger." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."]]> 299 Agatha Christie 0007120842 Constance 0 2017, fiction, mystery 3.85 1942 The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
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name: Constance
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date added: 2018/07/17
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]]> A Colony in a Nation 35167682
America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure―wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation―reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first “law and order� president. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller, Twilight of the Elites, Chris Hayes upends our national conversation on policing and democracy in a book of wide-ranging historical, social, and political analysis.

Hayes contends our country has fractured in two: the Colony and the Nation. In the Nation, we venerate the law. In the Colony, we obsess over order, fear trumps civil rights, and aggressive policing resembles occupation. A Colony in a Nation explains how a country founded on justice now looks like something uncomfortably close to a police state. How and why did Americans build a system where conditions in Ferguson and West Baltimore mirror those that sparked the American Revolution?

A Colony in a Nation examines the surge in crime that began in the 1960s and peaked in the 1990s, and the unprecedented decline that followed. Drawing on close-hand reporting at flashpoints of racial conflict, as well as deeply personal experiences with policing, Hayes explores cultural touchstones, from the influential “broken windows� theory to the “squeegee men� of late-1980s Manhattan, to show how fear causes us to make dangerous and unfortunate choices, both in our society and at the personal level. With great empathy, he seeks to understand the challenges of policing communities haunted by the omnipresent threat of guns. Most important, he shows that a more democratic and sympathetic justice system already exists―in a place we least suspect.

A Colony in a Nation is an essential book―searing and insightful―that will reframe our thinking about law and order in the years to come.]]> 272 Christopher L. Hayes 039335542X Constance 4 2018, nonfiction 4.14 2017 A Colony in a Nation
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name: Constance
average rating: 4.14
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rating: 4
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]]> Soldier: A Poet's Childhood 188046 288 June Jordan 0465036821 Constance 4 2018 4.22 2000 Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
author: June Jordan
name: Constance
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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]]> Citizen: An American Lyric 20613761 Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.]]> 169 Claudia Rankine 1555976905 Constance 3 2018, poetry 4.26 2014 Citizen: An American Lyric
author: Claudia Rankine
name: Constance
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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date added: 2018/07/15
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection]]> 32699798 188 Louisa Thomsen Brits 0735214107 Constance 0 currently-reading 3.23 2016 The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection
author: Louisa Thomsen Brits
name: Constance
average rating: 3.23
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]]> <![CDATA[Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens]]> 19158477 590 Barbara Pleasant 1603423672 Constance 5 3.87 Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens
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name: Constance
average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)]]> 22124113 A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,� The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has journeyed from Easter Island to Ethiopia, Cuba to Kathmandu, think that sitting quietly in a room might be the ultimate adventure? Because in our madly accelerating world, our lives are crowded, chaotic and noisy. There’s never been a greater need to slow down, tune out and give ourselves permission to be still.In The Art of Stillness—a TED Books release—Iyer investigate the lives of people who have made a life seeking from Matthieu Ricard, a Frenchman with a PhD in molecular biology who left a promising scientific career to become a Tibetan monk, to revered singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who traded the pleasures of the senses for several years of living the near-silent life of meditation as a Zen monk. Iyer also draws on his own experiences as a travel writer to explore why advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. He reflects that this is perhaps the reason why many people—even those with no religious commitment—seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or seeking silent retreats. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age. Growing trends like observing an “Internet Sabbath”—turning off online connections from Friday night to Monday morning—highlight how increasingly desperate many of us are to unplug and bring stillness into our lives.The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so many—from Marcel Proust to Mahatma Gandhi to Emily Dickinson—have found richness in stillness. Ultimately, Iyer shows that, in this age of constant movement and connectedness, perhaps staying in one place is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before.In 2013, Pico Iyer gave a blockbuster TED Talk. This lyrical and inspiring book expands on a new idea, offering a way forward for all those feeling affected by the frenetic pace of our modern world.]]> 97 Pico Iyer 1476784736 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.09 2014 The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
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]]> <![CDATA[Vinyl Me, Please: 100 Albums You Need in Your Collection]]> 34785263 The music experts at the beloved vinyl subscription service share 100 essential albums—from iconic classics to hidden gems—in this collector’s guide.Brought to you by the subscription club of the same name, Vinyl Me, Please is a vibrant visual guide to curating must-have records for any music lover’s shelf. Celebrating artists as varied and influential as Bikini Kill, Aretha Franklin, Wilco, and beyond, each entry includes an album’s artwork, a short essay from a contributing music writer, and further suggestions to help you expand your taste and build your collection. This comprehensive compendium even includes cocktail recipes to pair perfectly with your listening experience. Essential for both new collectors and die-hard wax-spinners, Vinyl Me, Please revels in the album as art form and exudes the style, expertise, and passion that all crate-diggers share.]]> 396 Vinyl Me, Please 1683350863 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.00 Vinyl Me, Please: 100 Albums You Need in Your Collection
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]]> <![CDATA[Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude]]> 25132457 Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.]]> 112 Ross Gay 0822980401 Constance 0 currently-reading 4.03 2015 Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
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name: Constance
average rating: 4.03
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]]> Everyone's Way of the Cross 33664225 34 Clarence Enzler 159471455X Constance 0 4.74 1987 Everyone's Way of the Cross
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name: Constance
average rating: 4.74
book published: 1987
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Listen to and Understand Opera]]> 8889480 Robert Greenberg 1565858034 Constance 4 2010, music 4.55 1997 How to Listen to and Understand Opera
author: Robert Greenberg
name: Constance
average rating: 4.55
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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date added: 2018/04/07
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]]> Fathers and Sons 19117
Fathers and Sons enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. Fathers and Sons is now considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to come—and offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, ever changing world.

Introduction by Jane Costlow]]> 244 Ivan Turgenev 0451529693 Constance 0 2018, fiction 3.99 1862 Fathers and Sons
author: Ivan Turgenev
name: Constance
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book published: 1862
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