Ritual: Power, Healing and Community

8 best books like Ritual: Power, Healing and Community (Malidoma Patrice Somé): The Rembrandt Affair, The Old Drift, Xala, There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir, The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective, How to Fight, The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection, かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～ 1

The Rembrandt Affair

Author	Daniel Silva
ISBN	0399156585

Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for ...

Determined to sever his ties with the Office, Gabriel Allon has retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful Venetian-born wife Chiara. But once again his seclusion is interrupted by a visitor from his tangled...

The Old Drift

Author	Namwali Serpell
ISBN	1781090491

A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time

On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the story...

Xala

Author	Ousmane Sembène
ISBN	1556520700

Needing a book starting with the letter X for an A to Z title challenge, I selected Ousmane Sembene's Xala. Last year as I focused on reading books by women of color from around the globe, my books by men of color were lacking. Looking back I think I read less than five, so reading more men of color is a goal of...

There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir

Author	Casey Gerald
ISBN	0735214204

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time by just looking outside his window and inside himself. Extraordinary." - Marlon James

"Staccato...

The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective

Author	Richard Rohr
ISBN	0824519507

In this book Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert explain the enneagram, an ancient personality test used first by Christian ascetics and monks and later by Muslim sufis. It divides people into nine personality types which can be described by their primary need ("need to be perfect", "need to succeed", etc.),...

How to Fight

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	1941529860

Learn how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment, and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves and others.
The Mindfulness Essentials series introduces beginners and reminds seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. This time Nhat Hanh brings...

The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection

Author

Michael A. Singer

From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes this thought-provoking, inspirational memoir on the magic that happens when you just let go

Spirituality is meant to bring about harmony and peace. But the diversity of our philosophies, beliefs, concepts, and...

かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～ 1

Author

Aka Akasaka

Two really smart teens are in love, but both want the other to reveal their feelings first.

That premise sounds fun, sorta, but then you think about at and wonder, if the focus is so heavily on "winning" over the other person, can they really be in love? Maybe, possibly, but I didn't really see any...