I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology
10 best books like I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology (Abraham Joshua Heschel): The World According to Garp, The Bird King, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, Year of the Monkey, A Fortune for Your Disaster, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, The Reign of the Kingfisher, Leisure: The Basis of Culture
The World According to Garp
| Author | John Irving |
| ISBN | 0345915593 |
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes—even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet...
New from the award-winning author of Alif the Unseen and writer of the Ms. Marvel series, G. Willow Wilson
Set in 1491 during the reign of the last sultanate in the Iberian peninsula, The Bird King is the story of Fatima, the only remaining Circassian concubine to the sultan, and her dearest friend...
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 1416553649 |
In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away."
Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0099449897 |
And here it is...the best collection of short stories I've ever read.
Where has Carver been all my life? Why did no one slap me over the head with his work fifteen years ago? I mourn that it took me this long to discover him and now I must get my little claws on everything Carver asap.
How the...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0374280002 |
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
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...
A Fortune for Your Disaster
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book...
My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams
| Author | Abigail Adams |
| ISBN | 0674026063 |
In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to "Miss Adorable," the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the...
The Reign of the Kingfisher
| Author | T.J. Martinson |
| ISBN | 1250170214 |
Thirty years ago a superhero tried to save Chicago. Now the city is again under siege, in this gritty, suspenseful, and beautifully written novel from award-winning debut author T.J. Martinson.
Somewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The hostages will be killed...
| Author | Josef Pieper |
| ISBN | 1890318353 |
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that the Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval...
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
| Author | Richard Rohr |
| ISBN | 1524762091 |
Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.
In his decades as a globally...
| Author | Robert A. Johnson |
| ISBN | 1585425869 |
The esteemed Jungian psychologist counsels on how to cope with feelings of failure or regret in the latter half of life and how to open to a more meaningful existence, even if outer circumstances cannot be changed.
In Living Your Unlived Life, the renowned therapist Robert A. Johnson, writing...
| Author | Samantha Hunt |
| ISBN | 0312425236 |
The narrator of The Seas lives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chambermaid, granddaughter to a typesetter, and daughter to a dead man, awkward and brave, wayward and willful, she is in love (unrequited) with an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. She is convinced...
God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils
Many people wrestle with questions of evil. Some appeal to mystery (“God’s ways are not our ways”). Others say God allows evil for some greater purpose. Still others say God punishes with evil. Not only are these answers unsatisfying, they fail to support the view that God loves everyone all the...
| Author | Antonio Di Benedetto |
| ISBN | 9879396472 |
Publicada por primera vez en 1956, Zama está considerada de manera unánime como una de las grandes novelas del siglo veinte en lengua española.
Con una escritura bella y precisa, Antonio Di Benedetto narra la existencia solitaria y suspendida de Don Diego de Zama, un funcionario de la corona...
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 0812995325 |
A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the environment
Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8 develops a unique skill: He teaches himself...
What Makes Love Last?: How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal
| Author | John M. Gottman |
| ISBN | 1451608497 |
A world-renowned relationship expert shares his research about love and what it takes to develop a trustful, intimate, and emotionally fulfilling bond.
In this insightful book, celebrated research psychologist and couples counselor John Gottman plumbs the mysteries of love and shares...
Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life
| Author | Robert C. Solomon |
| ISBN | 0195161114 |
In business, politics, marriage, indeed in any significant relationship, trust is the essential precondition upon which all real success depends. But what, precisely, is trust? How can it be achieved and sustained? And, most importantly, how can it be regained once it has been broken?
In Building...
