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10 best books like Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment (Geneen Roth): Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada, The Magician's Wife, Bible Code II: The Countdown, Girl Coming in for a Landing, Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross, Elements of Witchcraft: Natural Magick for Teens, Overcoming Overeating: Conquer Your Obsession With Food, Watching the Tree, The Body Reset Diet, Insight: Case Files from the Psychic World

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada
AuthorWill Ferguson
Canada's number one humorist, routinely compared to our own Bill Bryson, has written a funny, idiosyncratic, and warmly humane book full of sly observations and witty stories culled from his travels among the people and places of our neighbors up north.
Will Ferguson spent the past three years...
The Magician's Wife
AuthorBrian Moore
ISBN0452279593
Summoned to the grand country estate of Napoleon III, the famed illusionist Henri Lambert and his wife Emmeline are drawn into an elaborate plan to further French influence in North Africa and subdue the rebellious Arab tribes. An ambitious, intelligent man, Lambert will go to desperate lengths to...
Bible Code II: The Countdown
AuthorMichael Drosnin
ISBN0142003506
The Bible code-the ancient code encrypted in the Bible that may reveal our future-was made known to the world by investigative reporter Michael Drosnin. Now he reveals startling new predictions warning that we may have only three years to stop the countdown to Armageddon. This dramatic account opens...
Girl Coming in for a Landing
AuthorApril Halprin Wayland
ISBN0440419034
You walk into class—
my head clears.

No kidding.
You are my aspirin.

One girl. One school year. All poems. From friends to first dates, school dances to family fights, this inspiring collection captures the emotional highs and lows of teen life with refreshing honesty...
Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross
AuthorAugusta Stevenson
ISBN0020418205
I really enjoyed reading the story of Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross by Augusta Stevenson. The writing was simple and easy to understand, yet it was still interesting. The author made it easy to connect with the characters by the way she explained everything. I think that connecting...
Elements of Witchcraft: Natural Magick for Teens
AuthorEllen Dugan
ISBN0738703931
I first read this book back in 2003. It was the first book of Ellen's that I'd ever read and I've been hooked on her books ever since. And don't let the "for Teens" in the title fool you; this book is PERFECT for any beginner to the Craft. Ellen is funny, personable, and gives several personal anecdotes to compliment...
Overcoming Overeating: Conquer Your Obsession With Food
AuthorJane R. Hirschmann
Do you feel compelled to eat when you're not hungry? Do you feel guilty and worthless after binge eating? Would you like to:

* Lose weight naturally?
* Enjoy the food you most desire?
* Forget your preoccupation with eating and weight?
* Discover the freedom of no restraints?
*...
Watching the Tree
AuthorAdeline Yen Mah
ISBN0006531547
Adeline Yen Mah, whose autobiography ‘Falling Leaves’ is an international bestseller, here interweaves her own experiences with her views on Chinese thought and wisdom to create an illuminating and highly personal guide for Western readers.

Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, and...
The Body Reset Diet
AuthorHarley Pasternak
ISBN0143188410
Complicated diets and extreme cleanses guarantee little more than short-term results, and overdoing it at the gym causes injuries and can actually trigger weight gain. It seems that we’ve lost our way when it comes to nutrition and exercise. Now, expert Harley Pasternak offers a proven program...
Insight: Case Files from the Psychic World
AuthorSylvia Browne
ISBN0525949550
In her most personal book to date, New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Browne shares intimate stories about her career giving psychic readings. Insight is Sylvia Browne’s exploration of the experiences she has had during psychic readings over the course of her career. Opening up completely,...
The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness
AuthorTimothy Caulfield
ISBN0807022055
A bold look at how commercial agendas distort the real science behind health and fitness studies and misinform the public about how to live a healthy life
 
Researcher Timothy Caulfield talks with experts in medicine, pharmaceuticals, health and fitness, and even tries out many of the health...
The Philosopher's Diet: How to Lose Weight & Change the World
AuthorRichard A. Watson
ISBN1567920845
Long before the current spate of "eat local, eat moral" books (think Animal, Vegetable, Miracle or Michael Pollan, there was The Philosopher's Diet. Based on an article published in the mid-80's in The Atlantic Monthly, this book neatly and in a no-nonsense fashion tells you how to do what must be done:...
A Still, Small Voice: A Psychic's Guide to Awakening Intuition
AuthorEcho Bodine
ISBN1577311361
In A Still, Small Voice, famed psychic Echo Bodine turns to a subject she knows deeply and is passionate about: intuition. Using humorous anecdotes and a positive, readable style, this sequel to Echoes of the Soul explores what intuition is, where it’s located, what it sounds like, and how to cultivate...
The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
AuthorDavid Richo
ISBN1590303083
Why is it that despite our best efforts, many of us remain fundamentally unhappy and unfulfilled in our lives? In this provocative and inspiring book, David Richo distills thirty years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness—and the surprising secret to finding...
We Had It So Good
AuthorLinda Grant
ISBN1451617402
A generational novel which opens memorably in a fur storage house in Los Angeles with its American protagonist as a boy trying on Marilyn Monroe’s coat. When he grows up, Stephen goes to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and stays on to avoid the draft and Vietnam.  He marries an Englishwoman, and they...
The Lawless Roads
AuthorGraham Greene
ISBN0143039733
In the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all...
The Thief of Broken Toys
AuthorTim Lebbon
ISBN0981297897
I finished reading The Thief of Broken Toys this afternoon. It’s a short novel or a long novella packaged as a separate book (ISFDB calls it a Chapterbook). It’s also very good. As it’s a horror story I’m not quite sure I can say I enjoyed it, but I did find it mesmerizing.

The Thief of Broken...
Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin
AuthorAllen Zadoff
ISBN0738211052
Allen Zadoff spent years reasoning that a big, healthy man should have a big, healthy appetite and that his rapidly increasing girth was no more than a regular guy thing. At 350 pounds, however, it became clear that what had started as a little weight problem was destroying his life. Desperate to find...
Deep Writing
AuthorEric Maisel
ISBN0874779472
I read this book while still in school writing short stories for the first time. This is a review I wrote then, eight years ago.

Maisel’s book supports the notion that writers can take control of the process of writing through a series of practical exercises, which allows one to write “...passionately...
By Any Greens Necessary: A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Phat
AuthorTracye Lynn McQuirter
ISBN1556529988
* The first vegan guide geared to African American women

* More than forty delicious and nutritious recipes highlighted with color photographs

* Menus and advice on transitioning from omnivore to vegan

* Resource information and a comprehensive shopping list...
The Coconut Oil Miracle
AuthorBruce Fife
ISBN1583332049
Use nature's elixir to lose weight, prevent heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, and beautify skin and hair.

Can saturated fat be good for you?

Natural coconut oil-not the hydrogenated version often found in processed foods-is a saturated fat, but not the kind your doctor has warned...
The Jesus Diet: How the Holy Spirit Coached Me to a 50-Pound Weight Loss
AuthorRobin Merrill
ISBN0991270606
I read this book for an online book club this month. I am morbidly obese and have tried ever diet under the sun. I am always on the lookout for the newest diet books published. I’ve tried some of those. This book takes a Christian viewpoint of weight loss. It examines what the scriptures say about our bodies....
The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy: A Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Beyond
AuthorDawn Dais
ISBN1580056334
The fourth book in Dawn Dais's popular Sh!t No One Tells You series offers "been there, freaked out about that" advice for expectant parents

The fourth title in Dawn Dais's popular parenting series, The Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy is quite possibly the funniest, and most heartfelt,...
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