Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith
10 best books like Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith (Jimmy Carter): For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Four Quartets, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles", Strength to Love, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, The Cave of Time, Skellig, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, The Hour of Pain
For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Author | Ntozake Shange |
ISBN | 0684843269 |
A revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet about the experiences of women of color.
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have...
Author | T.S. Eliot |
ISBN | 0571068944 |
The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Author | James Weldon Johnson |
ISBN | 0809000326 |
James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction.
The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured...
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Author | Marianne Williamson |
ISBN | 0060927488 |
Back by popular demand -- and newly updated by the author -- the mega-bestselling spiritual guide in which Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace.
Williamson reveals how we each can become...
Author | Martin Luther King Jr. |
ISBN | 0800614410 |
Martin Luther King Jr. may be seen by many people, unfortunately, as a cliche historical figure. Everybody feels as though they know a lot about him, but in reality most people know nothing about him besides the fact that he was a civil rights leader who got assassinated. I personally have always wanted...
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Robert Fulghum engages with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental United States. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life . . . a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown...
Author | Edward Packard |
ISBN | 0553269658 |
"You're The Star! 40 Thrilling Endings!"
"Will You Become Trapped In Time" ?
You are hiking in Snake Canyon when you find yourself lost in the strange, dimly lit Cave of Time. Gradually you can make out two passageways. One curves downward to the right; the other leads upward to the left. It occurs...
Author | David Almond |
ISBN | 0440229081 |
Well, that was excellent.
This book is a brief mouthful of myth and hope and atmosphere. Reasons to read it?
1. There's a magical, irritable man in the narrator's garage. He likes Chinese take out and dead mice.
2. There is a wise and judgmental girl-neighbor who becomes the...
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
A New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything
Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life
Readers of all ages have followed...
Who the hell are the Vicchi? DEUS-EX Alert!
I went back and searched through books 1-5 and there's absolutely no mention of this group anywhere.
I bought the book after unsuccessfully waiting for the price to come down, after I kept reading how this explained and fixed everything that...
Author | John Aubrey |
ISBN | 0140435891 |
Compiled as material for Anthony Wood's histories of Oxford University, this text contributes to the oral history of Elizabethan and Stuart England. It parades statesmen, poets, philosopers and scientists, Raleigh and Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, and Boyle and Halley. They, together with less...
Author | Jonathan Evison |
ISBN | 1616200391 |
Jonathan Evison has crafted a novel of the heart, a novel of unlikely heroes traveling through a grand American landscape, and most of all, a story that offers a profound look into what it takes to truly care for another person. Bursting with energy and filled with moments of absolute beauty, this bighearted...
Author | Reginald Arkell |
ISBN | 0812967380 |
Back in print after fifty years
Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer...
The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
Author | Andy Andrews |
ISBN | 0785229213 |
A new story of common wisdom from the bestselling author of The Traveler’s Gift.
Orange Beach, Alabama is a simple town filled with simple people. But like all humans on the planet, the good folks of Orange Beach have their share of problems – marriages teetering on the brink of divorce,...
Author | Bodie Thoene |
ISBN | 0310335957 |
'Page-turning . . . Set against the political and religious turmoil of the times, the Thoenes' story vividly reimagines the evolving friendship between Jesus and Lazarus.' ---Publishers Weekly
LAZARUS---the man Jesus raised from the dead in one of the most extraordinary encounters with The...
Your Lie In April (Issues)
From Book 1: A LIFE IN MONOTONE Kosei Arima was a piano prodigy until his cruel taskmaster of a mother died suddenly, changing his life forever. Driven by his pain to abandon piano, Kosei now lives in a monotonous, colorless world. Having resigned himself to a bland life, he is surprised when he meets Kaori...
How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Why The Truth Matters More Than You Think
Author | Andy Andrews |
ISBN | 0849948355 |
It all comes down to the truth.
Much like the character in one of his best-selling books, Andy Andrews is first and foremost a Noticer. Sometimes, all one needs is a little perspective and Andy has been providing that perspective to some of the world's most influential companies and organizations...
Tender Warrior: God's Intention for a Man
Author | Stuart K. Weber |
ISBN | 1576733068 |
Leader. Protector. Friend. Lover.
God made you to be each of these…and much more. Stu Weber ’s bestseller, now revised throughout and refreshed with an attractive new look, paints a dramatic and compelling picture of balanced manhood according to God’s vision. Written in a warm, personal...
Author | Trina Paulus |
ISBN | 0809182491 |
A girlfriend gave me this book once.
At the time, I was living on an island of about two hundred people, teaching English. A foolish, miserable task--the kind of "good-for-you" intervention bound up in so many good intentions that the inevitable crass exploitation and inadequate resourcing...
Author | Albert Einstein |
ISBN | 0517345803 |
Le pouvoir nu est un recueil de correspondances qu'à entretenu Albert Einstein avec des amis proches et des organismes divers entre 1914 et 1955. Cet oeuvre ne nous dépeint pas le parcours scientifique d'Einstein, mais bien les échanges qu'il a eu sur autant de sujets que sont la première et la seconde...
Author | Cormac McCarthy |
ISBN | 0307278360 |
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made.
In that small apartment, Black and White, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins...
March comes in like a lion (Issues)
Rei, 17 ans, est un joueur professionnel de Shogi (jeu d'échec version japonaise). Ils sont seulement 5, dans l'histoire de ce jeu, à être passés professionnel en étant encore collégien. Mais Rei est aussi un adolescent meurtri par la mort de ses parents et de sa petite soeur. Alors qu'il vit une...
Instead of a Letter: A Memoir
Author | Diana Athill |
ISBN | 0393338576 |
A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End.
As a young woman, Diana Athill was engaged to an air force pilot—Instead of a Letter tells how he broke off the engagement, married someone else, and, worst of all, died overseas before she could confront...
Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music That Changed the World
Author | Robbie Robertson |
ISBN | 1770495711 |
Part memoir, part tribute, and all great storytelling ...
Music industry veterans Robbie Robertson, Jim Guerinot, Jared Levine, and Sebastian Robertson invite young readers to share with them in celebrating twenty-seven musical legends. Short profiles chronicle personal stories and...
Author | Ross Macdonald |
ISBN | 0307279049 |
Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town of Purissima, Archer discovers that orange groves may be where...
Author | Parkstone Press |
ISBN | 1844847888 |
With text by the great Bohemian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and a wealth of beautiful images, this book explores the creative power of one of history’s greatest sculptors. Mega Square Rodin features the best-known masterpieces of this genius of bronze and marble, who immortalised his revolutionary...
The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
ISBN | 0525509844 |
From the author of Letters to a Young Poet, one of the greatest letter collections of all time, comes a new selection of the great poet's writings to bereaved friends and acquaintances, reflecting on death and dying, providing comfort in a time of grief.
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous,...
Author | Natalia Brodskaya |
ISBN | 1844849562 |
A beautiful display of Impressionist work, Mega Square
Monet explores the extraordinary paintings of one of the masters of 19th century. Monet’s rapid brushstroke style in landscapes and scenes from everyday life illustrates his overall fascination with light and colour.The size of...
Author | Jhumpa Lahiri |
ISBN | 0525432752 |
How do you clothe a book?
In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce,...
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: And Two Other Short Guides to Achieving More at Work and at Home
Author | Laura Vanderkam |
ISBN | 1591846692 |
Three powerful mini e-books about high productivity, now together in paperback
Laura Vanderkam has combined her three popular mini e-books into one comprehensive guide, with a new introduction. It will help readers build habits that lead to happier, more productive lives, despite the...