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A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit

10 best books like A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit (Tim Ryan): Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future, Toil & Trouble, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Year of the Monkey, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
AuthorPete Buttigieg
ISBN1631494368
Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of,” Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation’s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American...
Toil & Trouble
AuthorAugusten Burroughs
ISBN1250019958
From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky.

"Here’s a partial list of things I don’t believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires....
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
AuthorKamala Harris
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.

Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
AuthorBenjamin Dreyer
ISBN0812995708
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century Elements of Style.

As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
AuthorLawrence Wright
ISBN0307700666
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack, the Looming Tower. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous...
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
AuthorDan Rather
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.” —Dan Rather

At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting...
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
AuthorWilliam McDonough
ISBN0865475873
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
AuthorBernie Sanders
ISBN1427287643
Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision for America. In the book, Sanders shares experiences from the campaign trail and outlines his ideas for continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive economic, environmental,...
In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
AuthorJoel Stein
ISBN1455591475
From Thurber finalist and former star TIME columnist Joel Stein comes a " brilliant exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of America's political culture war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite.

"I can think of no one more suited to defend elitism than Stein, a funny man with hands as delicate...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
AuthorDavid McCullough
ISBN1501168681
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.

As...
The Light Years: A Memoir
AuthorChris Rush
ISBN0374294410
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history

Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the...
That Churchill Woman
AuthorStephanie Barron
ISBN1524799564
The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome.

Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England...
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
AuthorElizabeth Warren
The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring book about why our middle class is under siege and how we can win the fight to save it Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America’s middle class, and by the time the people...
United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
AuthorCory Booker
ISBN1101965177
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future.
 
Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford...
An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My American Dream
AuthorJulian Castro
ISBN0316252166
The keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, former San Antonio mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro, tells his remarkable and inspiring life story.

In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, comes a candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty...
The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland
AuthorAmy Klobuchar
ISBN1627794174
One of the U.S. Senate's most candid--and funniest--women tells the story of her life and her unshakeable faith in our democracy Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has tackled every obstacle she's encountered--her parents' divorce, her father's alcoholism and recovery, her political campaigns...
Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance
AuthorBernie Sanders
ISBN1250299098
"This is not a time for despair. This is not a time for depression. This is a time to stand up and fight back."

I had the opportunity to see Bernie Sanders speak in Pittsburgh this Sunday and so it was terrific timing that the library copy of this e-book became available Saturday night. However,...
Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico
AuthorBeto O'Rourke
ISBN1933693940
The War on Drugs doesn’t work. This became obvious to El Paso City Representatives Susie Byrd and Beto O’Rourke when they started to ask questions about why El Paso’s sister city, Ciudad Juárez, has become the deadliest city in the world—8,000-plus deaths since January 1, 2008.

Byrd...
The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post
AuthorThe Washington Post
ISBN1982129735
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize–winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available.

Read the findings of the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying...
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
AuthorLouise Aronson
ISBN1620405466
As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.

For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means...
How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness
AuthorJan Chozen Bays
ISBN1590308174
A growing body of research is showing that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health, and improve one’s overall quality of life. Jan Chozen Bays, MD—physician and Zen teacher—has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary,...
Vlad
AuthorCarlos Fuentes
ISBN6071105625
Rating: 3.75* of five

The Publisher Says: Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won't mind a few disappearances? "Vlad" is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic...
A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution
AuthorMarianne Williamson
ISBN0062874098
In this stirring call to arms, the activist, spiritual leader, and New York Times bestselling author of the classic Return to Love confronts the cancerous politics of fear and divisiveness threatening the United States today, urging all spiritually aware Americans to return to—and act out of—our...
My Grape Cellar (The Grape Series Book 6)
AuthorLaura Bradbury
"Laura Bradbury's writing will make you hungry for life." - Amazon reviewer
In Book #6 (a memoirette) of Laura Bradbury's beloved #1 Bestselling Grape Series of memoirs in France, Laura and Franck embark on another adventure when they buy a long-neglected wine cellar under the streets of Beaune....
Coming Home to Merriment Bay: Part Two: Sparks Fly
AuthorEmily Harvale
Part Two of this heartwarming four-part serial about finding the strength to put the past behind you and to reach out for a future filled with happiness and love.

Cat Devon knew she couldn’t avoid Amias Wells for long. She also knew sparks would fly the moment they came face to face. They never...
A Painter's Kitchen-Revised Edition: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe
AuthorMargaret Wood
ISBN1878610619
In the mid-1940s, when O'Keeffe was settling into her Abiquiu home, the garden was one of her enduring passions--in fact, it was one of chief reasons she wanted a house in that village. Her friend Maria Chabot had already put a great deal of work into renovating the long-abandoned garden within the adobe...
On Democracy
AuthorE.B. White
ISBN0062905430
A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title

A collection of essays, letters and poems from E.B. White, “one of the country’s great literary treasures” (New York Times), centered on the subject of freedom and democracy in America.

“I am a member of a party of one,...
Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself
AuthorJill Biden
ISBN1250182328
An intimate look at the love that built the Biden family and the delicate balancing act of the woman at its center

"How did you get this number?" Those were the first words Jill Biden spoke to U.S. senator Joe Biden when he called her out of the blue to ask her on a date.

Growing up, Jill had...
In Case of Emergency
AuthorCourtney Moreno
ISBN1940450268
What do you do when you can’t function? After rookie EMT Piper Gallagher responds to a call outside a Los Angeles shopping mall for a man who can only tell her, “I can’t function,” the question begins to haunt her. How will Piper continue to function despite the horror she sees working in South...
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