Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival

10 best books like Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival (Alison Wright): Sex, Drugs and Meditation, Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947, The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea, Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World, The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop, The Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem, Moonfall, Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt, I Promise Not to Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail

AuthorMary-Lou Stephens
“Bracingly honest, funny and rewarding, this is a book you can’t put down.” Sydney Morning Herald

“Truth is more compelling than fiction.” Daily Telegraph.

"Perfection. Sex, Drugs and Meditation is one of the best memoirs I have read in years. Humble, witty and so very,...
AuthorGreg Lawrence
ISBN0312591934
I have always been interested in Jackie Kennedy as an editor at Doubleday - I worked for Doubleday too. I liked the idea of a mega-wealthy woman, at one time considered the most beautiful and high status woman in the world actually having a job.

This is how she gets her job as a commissioning editor....
AuthorTsering Shakya
ISBN0140196153
Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Shakya's groundbreaking history of modern Tibet shatters the popular conception of the country as an isolated Shangri-la unaffected by broader international developments. Shakya gives a balanced, blow-by-blow account of Tibet's ongoing...
AuthorMary South
ISBN0060747021
At forty, Mary South seemed to have it all: a beautiful home in Pennsylvania, a group of close friends, the companionship of two loving Jack Russell terriers and a successful career in book publishing. But shuttling between the conference room at work and her couch in front of the TV at home, South couldn't...
AuthorMary Pipher
ISBN1594488614
In this thoughtful and inspiring memoir, the author of the New York Times bestsellers Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, and Another Country explores her personal search for understanding, tranquility, and respect through her work as a psychologist and seeker.

“There are three...
AuthorBill Jones
ISBN1845966066
The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared.

A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. John Tarrant. The extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid...
AuthorKen Budd
Ken Budd’s The Voluntourist is a remarkable memoir about losing your father, accepting your fate, and finding your destiny by volunteering around the world for numerous worthy causes: Hurricane Katrina disaster relief in New Orleans, helping special needs children in China, studying climate...
AuthorTamara Thorne
ISBN0786016000
Moonfall, the picturesque community nestled in the mountains of Southern California, is a quaint hamlet of antique stores and craft shops run by the dedicated nuns of St. Gertrude’s Home for girls. As autumn fills the air, the townspeople prepare for the festive Halloween Haunt, Moonfall’s most...
AuthorJack Olsen
ISBN0385493681
Jack Olsen's Last Man Standing is the gripping story of Geronimo Pratt, war hero and community leader, who was framed by the FBI in one of the greatest travesties of justice in American history.

Geronimo Pratt did not commit the murder for which he served twenty-seven nightmarish years. As...
AuthorGail D. Storey
ISBN1594857458
With comfortable urban lives in Houston, Texas, and career and life goals mostly accomplished, Gail D. Storey and her husband were in their fifties when they decided it was time to test themselves on a new path—a 2,663-mile path known as the Pacific Crest Trail, which stretches from Mexico to Canada....
AuthorMelody Beattie
ISBN1568382863
Stop Being Mean to Yourself is a compassionate guide filled with new ideas for overcoming the pitfalls of guilt and self-doubt, and helps readers find a happier place in the world.

"In this wonderfully practical book, Melody Beattie gives you the tools to discover the magnificence and splendor...
AuthorPriscilla Warner
ISBN1439181071
Priscilla Warner has had a great life: a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks so debilitating that they leave her unable to breathe. She’s tried self-medicating—in...
AuthorMarlo Thomas
ISBN1476739919
We’ve heard it all before:
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
“When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.”

But anyone who has ever tried to make a big life change knows it can be a bit more complicated —...
AuthorMargaret Truman
ISBN0688030386
These are women we should have known about

The 12 women chosen by Truman as women of courage have little more in common than their gender and their determination. I'd of some of them but, except for Dolley Madison and Susan B. Anthony, only as names. I had also heard that someone at the FDA who kept...
AuthorBritt Collins
ISBN1501122592
For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Strays is a compelling true story of a man who rescues a stray, injured cat and how they save each other.

Homeless, alcoholic, and depressed, Michael King lives in a UPS loading bay on the wrong side of...
AuthorNoelle Oxenhandler
ISBN1400064856
One New Year’s Day, Noelle Oxenhandler took stock of her life and found that she was alone after a long marriage, seemingly doomed to perpetual house rental and separated from the spiritual community that once had sustained her. With little left to lose, she launched a year’s experiment in desire,...
AuthorScott T. Brown
ISBN0062015540
Against All Odds is the extraordinary personal story of the man who rose up to meet the challenge of terrific opposition and become one of America's most promising new political figures—Senator Scott Brown. Brown is famous for succeeding popular Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s...
AuthorBill Walker
ISBN1467960225
Since the times of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, Americans have headed off to Europe on odysseys of self-improvement. But until recently, Americans have not chosen ‘the best way’—El Camino de Santiago. Bill Walker (“Skywalker”) decided to undertake this 500 mile trek, that...
AuthorSalma Abdelnour
ISBN0307885941
As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then— even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York City—Salma has had a hunch that...
Are You My Guru?: How Medicine, Meditation & Madonna Saved My Life
AuthorWendy Shanker
ISBN0451229940
Read Wendy Shanker's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.

From the author of The Fat Girl's Guide to Life--an insightful and humorous memoir of one woman's quest to navigate the world of alternative healing.

At age 33, Wendy Shanker was on the verge of Have It All-itis:...
AuthorDave Prager
ISBN9350291312
Delhi exists in a kind of quantum state: in Delhi, all things are true at once.

When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave and Jenny moved to a city of sixteen million people and, seemingly, twice that many horns honking at once. Delirious Delhi depicts India s capital as the two experienced...
AuthorMichael Carroll
ISBN1590302729
Work can often be frustrating. On the job we frequently face conflicts, difficult personalities, disappointing results—a variety of challenges and obstacles. In this unique book Michael Carroll, a Buddhist meditation teacher and a corporate executive, shares Buddhist wisdom on how to transform...
AuthorMarina Nemat
ISBN0670064629
In the international bestseller Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat chronicled her arrest, torture, and two-year imprisonment in Iran’s notorious Evin prison at the age of sixteen. Yet her journey was far from over. After Tehran is a moving account of Nemat’s struggle to overcome her past and break...
AuthorJuliana Buhring
Juliana Buhring had been mired in a dark hole of depression after the death of a man she loved, and when an acquaintance suggested they honor his memory by biking across Canada, she thought, “Canada? Why not the world?” And why not alone.


She had never seriously ridden a bicycle before....
AuthorJoan Anderson
ISBN1401303390
From the bestselling author of A Year by the Sea, this memoir is a coming-of-age story for every woman who has asked herself: "Now what?"

The Second Journey chronicles Anderson's quest to restore equilibrium to her life after the responsibilities of being a mother, wife, grandmother, caretaker,...
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