The Complete Buddhism for Mothers

10 best books like The Complete Buddhism for Mothers (Sarah Napthali): Desert Flower, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts., No One Belongs Here More Than You, Eileen, So Sad Today: Personal Essays, Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult, Desert Dawn, Siegfried, De Vriendschap, Everything You Told Me

Desert Flower

Author	Waris Dirie
ISBN	0688172377

Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take...

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Author

Brené Brown

In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.

Leadership...

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Author	Miranda July
ISBN	0743299396

I bought this book cause I was walking through a bookstore with a friend of mine... a friend I adore more than newborn puppies and tiny rabbits hopping in fields of grass, and she said, "MIRANDA JULY! I love her. She made the movie You, Me, and Everyone We Know."
I hadn't seen the movie, but I remember...

Eileen

Author	Ottessa Moshfegh
ISBN	1594206627

So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison...

So Sad Today: Personal Essays

Author	Melissa Broder
ISBN	1455562726

Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated...

Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult

Author	Rachel Jeffs
ISBN	0062692828

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.

Born into the Fundamentalist...

Desert Dawn

Author	Waris Dirie
ISBN	1844080080

Fashion model, UN ambassador, and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman. Born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia, she told her story in the worldwide bestseller Desert Flower: enduring female circumcision at the age of 5; running away through the desert at 12 to escape...

Siegfried

Author	Harry Mulisch
ISBN	0141009144

Celebrated author Rudolf Herter is in Vienna to read from his masterpiece, The Invention of Love, when in a TV interview he speaks of his desire to write about evil. He is later contacted by an elderly couple who believe he should hear their shocking story. As servants at the Berghof, Hitler's retreat...

De Vriendschap

Author	Connie Palmen
ISBN	9053333487

In deze roman staat de ontwikkeling van de vriendschap centraal tussen twee vriendinnen, Catherina en Barbara, die elkaar als jonge scholieren leren kennen. Zij voelen zich direct tot elkaar aangetrokken, ofschoon (of juist omdat) zij in alles elkaars tegenstelden zijn: dik staat tegenover tenger,...

Everything You Told Me

Author

Lucy Dawson

'A gripping read that kept me guessing'
C.L TAYLOR

You went to bed at home, just like every other night.
You woke up in the back of a taxi, over 250 miles away.
You have no idea how you got there and no memory of the last ten hours.
You have no phone, no money; just a suicide note in your...

Girl on the Train - Preview

Author

Paula Hawkins

More depth than your average page turner, this psychological thriller was a pleasant surprise.

I couldn't help but feel sorry for the main character even though I didn't really like her. And my initial judgement was nicely paralleled by the morals told in this story, which centre around:
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The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

Author	Corey White
ISBN	0670079340

The current thinking in social work circles is that there are better long-term outcomes for children left with their family in an unstable home, than those removed and placed in foster care. This was in the back of my mind as I read comedian Corey White's recently published memoir, The Prettiest Horse...

Alles over Tristan

Author	Tommy Wieringa
ISBN	9023419944

Bijna twintig jaar na de dood van de jonge, visionaire dichter Viktor Tristan is er ondanks zijn voortdurende populariteit nog altijd geen biografie. Jakob Keller, universitair docent en bewonderaar van Tristan, neemt de taak op zich het weinige wat over de dichter bekend is aaneen te smeden tot een...

De man van je leven

Author	Arthur Japin
ISBN	9029588454

'Te willen beschermen wat je lief is, desnoods voorbij dit leven.' Dit lijkt Tilly's drijfveer. Zij is ernstig ziek en zoekt een vervangster voor zichzelf, iemand die straks haar plaats naast haar man kan innemen. De vrouw die zij vindt blijkt echter zo perfect bij hem te passen dat hij haar - zonder dat...

Jij zegt het

Author

Connie Palmen

Voor de meeste mensen bestaan wij alleen in een boek, mijn bruid en ik. De afgelopen vijfendertig jaar heb ik met een machteloos afgrijzen moeten aanzien hoe onze echte levens bedolven raakten onder een modderstroom van apocriefe verhalen, valse getuigenissen, roddels, verzinsels, mythen, hoe...

Rosie en Moussa voor altijd

Author

Michael De Cock

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(Over)Leven

Author

Petra de Sutter

Jarenlang leefde Petra De Sutter als vrouw in een mannenlichaam, tot ze op haar veertigste besloot zich te bevrijden en de transitie te maken. In dit openhartige boek kijkt de befaamde gynaecologe terug op de bepalende momenten in haar leven. Ze graaft diep in haar ziel: hoe heeft ze het gevecht met zichzelf...

Twenty Years A-Growing

Author	Maurice O'Sullivan
ISBN	1879941392

A powerful, rich, and funny book about a young man's childhood on the Great Blasket island off the west coast of Ireland. I enjoy visualizing the magical scenery where his stories are set. His humor is so understated that it sometimes takes a second read to catch it -- his wit is dry, but his characters are...