Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day
10 best books like Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day (David Steindl-Rast): The World That We Knew, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, How to Be an Antiracist, The Escape Room, Olive, Again, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 1501137573 |
In 1941, during humanity’s darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman.
In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows...
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
| Author | Elaine F. Weiss |
| ISBN | 0525429727 |
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.
"Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values...
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| ISBN | 0525509283 |
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
| Author | Megan Goldin |
| ISBN | 1250219655 |
Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are ruthlessly ambitious high-flyers working in the lucrative world of Wall Street finance where deception and intimidation thrive. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to reach the top.
When they are ordered to participate in a corporate...
| Author | Elizabeth Strout |
| ISBN | 0812996542 |
The iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading
| Author | Leah Price |
| ISBN | 0465042686 |
Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look...
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
| Author | Mary Pipher |
| ISBN | 1632869608 |
A New York Times Bestseller
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age.
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy...
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
| Author | Margaret Renkl |
| ISBN | 1571313788 |
An Indie Next Selection for July 2019
An Indies Introduce Selection for Summer/Fall 2019
From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family--and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.
Growing...
| Author | Joanna Macy |
| ISBN | 1577319729 |
The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond...
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0525537449 |
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives
"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott...
On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
| Author | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 1587433893 |
This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us...
| Author | Masanobu Fukuoka |
| ISBN | 8185569312 |
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This book made me realize that something else is possible.
The author writes that he is a farmer in Japan who gets rice yields that meet or eclipse the most highly productive regions in Japan, yet he:
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| Author | Anthony DeStefano |
| ISBN | 0385509898 |
A recent Newsweek poll reports that 76 percent of Americans believe in heaven. Yet even avid believers have difficulty conjuring up more than vague images of halos, harps, and wispy angels in flowing robes. Anthony DeStefano knew there had to be a more complete, meaningful, and comforting vision of...
| Author | Kimberly Rae Miller |
| ISBN | 0544025830 |
A stunning memoir about a childhood spent growing up in a family of extreme hoarders and hiding squalor behind the veneer of a perfect family. Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a beautifully tidy apartment in Brooklyn. You would never guess...
