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Why it makes a good book club book: This would be a great choice for a fun and festive type of book club meeting. I can totally see everyone talking about potential castings, your favorite references, and more. You can also pair it with a movie and/or food referenced in the book. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
This slim book of poetry brings moments of intense wonder about the unknowableness of the human condition. Some of these poems calm me like a drink of cold, clear water. That there is someone like Milosz, who can understand and distill the human experience in this way, helps make our modern social chaos recede. I love a read that leaves me believing I can change by practicing simple steps, and this book is all that. Blake teaches us how to tap into our most powerful intelligence — namely, posture, gestures and sensations — and truly live from our authentic power. I think that Freedman is one of the wisest thought leaders in the aging and longevity world. With this book, he’s crafted a masterpiece — it’s written with such deep humanity and insight — in which he delivers a soulful rallying cry for intergenerational collaboration like we’ve never seen before. I finished it brimming with optimism about our future. tobacco brown (TED talk: What gardening taught me about life) I f you want to regain a sense of wonder about the world This book changed my life. Dyer encourages readers to live at a higher level of awareness and consciousness, and he is unwavering in his instructions on how to master the art of manifesting. I have used positive affirmations, meditation and mindfulness to better understand myself and the law of attraction, and Wishes Fulfilled— along with his other popular books — have been instrumental in helping me grow and expand even further.This book is full of useful information about the past and present of humanity. I loved how open-minded it was, and I was very excited to learn the little details that drive the way we behave.
The science of the soul. Tiny jumping spiders who can see the moon. Firestorms. Fantastic beasts. You can’t go wrong with the latest installment of this annual series — it will leave you filled with questions, knowledge, motivation and wonder!Gold Diggers is a coming-of-age story with a big pinch of magical realism, humor, and heart.Neil Narayan is a second generation Indian American teenager growing up during the Bush era in the Atlanta suburbs. Neil’s parents want him to be successful, but all he really wants is Anita Dayal, the girl of his dreams who lives across the cul-de-sac. Then Neil discovers Anita is brewing a magical potion out of stolen gold that harnesses the ambition of the person who owned the gold. And Neil’s life is changed forever. Vinay Shandal (TED talk: How conscious investors can turn up the heat and make companies change) If you thrill to people’s survival stories, both real and fictional
Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Lifeby Dr. Laura Markham Wright writes with a combination of humility and wisdom, summarizing the best research on the science behind Buddhist practices in an approachable manner. This book makes me feel hopeful that there is a life beyond our human neuroses, no matter what form they take, and it’s a great read for both skeptics of meditation and experienced meditators.
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Over the course of a decade, they spend Christmas in New York together as friends, but impending major life changes are threatening the continuation of their annual festivities. We all want to be happy, but so few of us know how or even what the word really means. In this profound book, the Tibetan leader shares practical suggestions on how to do the inner self-work necessary for cultivating it and also the exceptional wisdom that we can only find true happiness when that work is dedicated to the benefit of other beings. In other words, our happiness is intrinsically linked to the happiness of others — true happiness is when we work hard, internally and externally, to make it a reality for all of us. The patron saint of chefs and travel tragically died by suicide in 2018. Listen to the audio version of the memoir that made him famous; it’s read aloud by the man himself. It will make you miss him all over again, but you’ll also laugh and smile for what he once gave us. SAMARITANS has launched an online book club to encourage self-care and raise vital funds for the charity.
Set in a small town on the North Carolina coast in the 70s, haunting stories of the ‘Marsh Girl’ are often passed around and whispered between the locals. Kya Clark, the girl in these rumors, lives an isolated existence on her family’s marshlands. We follow her life story, from her abusive childhood to her vulnerable teenage years and finally, her run-in with the law after she’s accused of murdering a past lover. Kya is a lot smarter than the people around her believe. She’s fiercely independent and has learned all she knows from the wildlife around her. Unfortunately, it’s this very wildness that has led to her imprisonment. Elderly, and recently widowed Tova loves her job cleaning the aquarium in town in the quiet of the night, especially because of her fondness for Marcellus, the octopus. She finds solace in the aquarium as it makes her feel closer to her son, Erik – a marine life lover – who disappeared on a boat when he was 18. My Favorite Things; Beloved Dog; and The Principles of Uncertainty— all by Maira Kalman (TED talk: The illustrated woman)
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Read it because: It’s a romance done right. O’Leary is known for her witty and fun characters and this book delivers on that. It’s the perfect leisurely read and you’ll be desperate to finish it in one sitting.
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