Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist
10 best books like Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist (Sharman Apt Russell): The Good Earth, Brick Lane, Dreamer's Pool, Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You, A Ladder to the Sky, Flight Behavior, We Live in Water, Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, How to Love a Duke in Ten Days, Scottish Brides
| Author | Pearl S. Buck |
| ISBN | 1416500189 |
This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet...
| Author | Monica Ali |
| ISBN | 0743243315 |
A captivating read from a debut novelist, Brick Lane brings the immigrant milieu of East London to vibrant life. With great poignancy, Ali illuminates a foreign world; her well-developed characters pull readers along on a deeply psychological, almost spiritual journey. Through the eyes of two Bangladeshi...
| Author | Juliet Marillier |
| ISBN | 0451466993 |
Award-winning author Juliet Marillier "weaves magic, mythology, and folklore into every sentence on the page" (The Book Smugglers). Now she begins an all-new and enchanting series that will transport readers to a magical vision of ancient Ireland...
In exchange for help escaping her long...
| Author | Clare Walker Leslie |
| ISBN | 1580174930 |
Experience the splendor of nature with fresh eyes! Featuring an inspiring portfolio from Clare Walker Leslie’s nature journals, this guide offers easy-to-learn techniques for capturing the world around you in pictures and words. Encouraging you to make journaling a part of your daily routine,...
| Author | John Boyne |
| ISBN | 1984823019 |
Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for success. The one thing he doesn't have is talent - but he's not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don't need to be his own.
Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988,...
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0062124269 |
Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow...
| Author | Jess Walter |
| ISBN | 0061926620 |
We Live in Water is a darkly comic, moving collection of short stories that veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This...
Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
| Author | Scott Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0875421849 |
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.
Selling more than 200,000 copies, Living Wicca has helped countless solitary practitioners blaze their own spiritual paths. Let the wise words of Scott Cunningham guide you toward a new level of practice.
Living...
How to Love a Duke in Ten Days
These men are dark, bold, and brave. And there is only one woman who can bring them to their knees...
Famed and brilliant, Lady Alexandra Lane has always known how to look out for to herself. But nobody would ever expect that she has darkness in her past—one that she pays a blackmailer to keep...
| Author | Christina Dodd |
| ISBN | 0380804514 |
an alternate cover edition can be found here
A land of legend and wild beauty--of clans, lairds, honor, and passion--Scotland forever stirs the soul to romance. Now, in one incomparable volume, four of Avon Romance's bestselling authors present stirring tales of hearts won and weddings...
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0544938321 |
National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals--her friends--who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green.
Understanding someone who belongs to another...
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In a bleak future built on virtual reality, Ginn is a romantic who yearns for something real. She designs environments for people who play at being Vikings. But when her project goes awry, she’s stranded in the actual 10th century, on a storybook...
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
| Author | Richard Preston |
| ISBN | 1400064899 |
Preston looks at the very tallest trees on our planet and the people who seek them out, climb them and study them. This was a very engaging trip into a very unfamiliar territory. One amazing thing was that knowledge of the whereabouts of earth’s wooden giants is held by a very few individuals. The people...
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1570628394 |
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön...
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
The author of The People Are Going to Rise Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis of masculinity using his upbringing in a rural, patriarchal home as an entry point to consider the personal and societal dangers of performative gender
Based on his provocative and popular New...
| Author | Margaret Alice Murray |
| ISBN | 1595479813 |
This book is intended for the general reader as well as for the student of anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic religion which finally overwhelmed it. I have traced...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day.
When Death...
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 0399123040 |
At work I have the task of reviewing books and then writing short, pithy reviews that normally say nothing more than what a book is about or why I liked or disliked it. The parameters of my reviews are tight; limited in such a way that I never get to say what I really want to express because of fears something...
The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival
| Author | Sara Tuval Bernstein |
"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein' s tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania?and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically...
Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." — Arianna...
| Author | Paul A. Harrison |
| ISBN | 1595263179 |
This was my first book on pantheism, and I am a bit disappointed. This is an introduction and history as the author, by all means, promotes it as. After reading it, I am able to express the difference and similarities between several systems that I have been more or less attracted to. However, the author...
All That He Loves, Volume 2
For fans of 50 Shades Of Grey and contemporary romance… the exciting conclusion to the Billionaire’s Seduction series!
All That He Loves (Volume 2) is the sequel to All That He Wants (Volume 1).
Lily met him after hours at work – a stunningly handsome, charming stranger who swept...
Dr. Letitia Morgan comes to Hartville, Colorado, in the late 1800s to follow her God-given calling to heal. Soon she becomes Hartville's ministering angel, reaching out to the children of the town drunk, and skillfully touching all who need her.
But not everyone warms to the lovely new physician...
| Author | Mark Sakamoto |
| ISBN | 1443417971 |
The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War-and a moving tribute to the nature of forgiveness
When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalene Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of war overseas....
In this tale of hope and love, too-tall spinster Thea Coulson wants to be a mother to a child who arrives in Nebraska on an orphan train. When Booker Hayes shows up to take his niece, a marriage of convenience suits them both. Thea’s nights are filled with dreams of the tall, dark army major, but she guards...
The Rancher Inherits a Family
| Author | Cheryl St. John |
| ISBN | 1335369627 |
Unexpected Father
The pretty redhead Seth Halloway pulls from a derailed train has surprising news for him. The children she's accompanied to Cowboy Creek aren't hers--they're his, thanks to the last wishes of a late friend. Busy rancher Seth must suddenly cope with three rambunctious boys...and...
Gone Viking: A Travel Saga
*Whistler Independent Book Awards 2019 Finalist*
“This is definitely one of the best reads of the year.” - Candice James, Silver Bow Press
“A fantastic read!” - Michael Seidelman, author of The Garden of Syn Trilogy
“Fasten your seatbelts. Gone Viking has a glorious romp in...
Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD
| Author | Roméo Dallaire |
| ISBN | 0345814436 |
Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize: In this piercing memoir, Rom�o Dallaire, retired general and former senator, the author of the bestsellers Shake Hands with the Devil andThey Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and one of the world's leading humanitarians, delves deep into his life...
| Author | Juliet Marillier |
| ISBN | 0451467019 |
Award-winning author Juliet Marillier’s “lavishly detailed”* Blackthorn & Grim series continues as a mysterious creature holds an enchanted and imperiled ancient Ireland in thrall.
Disillusioned healer Blackthorn and her companion, Grim, have settled in Dalriada to wait...
Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future
The idea of freedom is at the heart of our political and economic systems. It is foundational to our democracy, our way of life - our very conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are?
In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez compellingly dismantles the sacred myth...
