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The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath

10 best books like The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath (Joe Lieberman): The Lottery and Other Stories, Dawn, Trump: The Art of the Deal, When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World, Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology, The Diamond of Darkhold, The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win, Chop Wood, Carry Water, Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis

The Lottery and Other Stories
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0374529531
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites...
Dawn
AuthorElie Wiesel
ISBN0809037726

Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death...
Trump: The Art of the Deal
AuthorDonald J. Trump
ISBN0345479173
Trump reveals the business secrets that have made him America’s foremost deal maker!
 
“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”—Donald J. Trump
 
Here is Trump in action—how he...
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
AuthorHarold S. Kushner
ISBN1400034728
When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts...
Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World
AuthorSeth M. Siegel
ISBN1250073952
As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions.The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states—and 60 percent of the earth's land surface—will soon face alarming gaps between available water and the...
Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
AuthorSands Hall
"I could not put down this book—it is a triumph, a work of great honesty and insight. It is a necessary book for our time." —Karen E. Bender, author of Refund



In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology. Her time in the Church,...
The Diamond of Darkhold
AuthorJeanne DuPrau
ISBN0375955712
It’s been several months since Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and, along with the rest of their people, joined the town of Sparks. Now, struggling through the harsh winter aboveground, they find an unusual book. Torn up and missing most of its pages, it alludes to a mysterious device from...
The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
AuthorJocko Willink
ISBN1250195780
THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Extreme Ownership comes a new and revolutionary approach to help leaders recognize and attain the leadership balance crucial to victory.

With their first book, Extreme Ownership (published in...
Chop Wood, Carry Water
AuthorRick Fields
ISBN0874772095
More than a thousand years ago a Chinese Zen Master wrote:

Magical Power, Marvelous Action!

Chopping Wood, Carrying Water...

The message is as true today as it was then: the greatest lessons and the profoundest heights of the spiritual path can be found in our everyday life....
Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis
AuthorRobert Barron
The sexual abuse scandal has gripped the Catholic Church for the past thirty years, and continues to wreak havoc even today.

It's been a diabolical masterpiece, one that has compromised the work of the Church in every way and has left countless lives in ruin.

Many Catholics are understandably...
The Second Worst Restaurant in France
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
ISBN1846974216
Renowned Scottish cookbook writer Paul Stuart is hard at work on his new book, The Philosophy of Food, but complicated domestic circumstances, and two clingy cats, are making that difficult.

So when Paul's eccentric cousin Chloe suggests that he join her at the house she's rented in the French...
Legend: The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines
AuthorEric Blehm
ISBN0804139512
The unforgettable account and courageous actions of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret staff sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines

In Legend, acclaimed bestselling author Eric Blehm takes...
Antisemitism: Here and Now
AuthorDeborah E. Lipstadt
ISBN0805243372
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville,...
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN0062285203
The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament—and ultimately in our understanding of Christianity.

Throughout...
The Forever Millionaire: Making Wise Choices With Your Wealth
AuthorDavid W. Shepherd
ISBN1599327538
SAFEGUARD YOUR WEALTH. FOREVER! Have you tried to make the best financial decision possible only to find out later on that you were either mistaken or misled? If so, you know what a gut-wrenching feeling that is. And it's beyond the money. It's disappointing, frustrating, and painful! The so-called...
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
AuthorLouis D. Brandeis
Before he was a supreme court justice, Louis Brandeis wrote a series of articles for Harper’s Magazine that he fleshed out and expanded into this book. He was arguing for greater regulation, oversight, and openness in the banking industry after a series of collapses and scandals that caused a lot...
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
AuthorYossi Klein Halevi
ISBN0060545763
Interweaving the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who liberated Jerusalem, the acclaimed international journalist traces the history of Israel from the Six Day War to the present

In June 1967, Israel won a swift and decisive victory in the Six Day War. Many of the soldiers responsible...
Uplifting Service
AuthorRon Kaufman
Today's clients are furious and baffled; they don't feel listened. Administration suppliers are similarly irritated by purchaser protests. Administration master Ron Kaufman shows organizations how to rethink client administration to wow their customer bases.

Kaufman discloses how...
The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger
AuthorBud Labitan
ISBN0615241298
"The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger" examines each of the basic steps they perform in "framing and making" an investment decision. This book is a focused look into this amazing invention within "Behavioral Finance." The genius of Buffett and Munger's parsimonious four...
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
AuthorRobert Kegan
ISBN1625278624
Passages I found particuly useful:

Being yourself
- Page 11: Research by Brené Brown shows that vulnerability is at the core of shame, fear, and our struggle for worthiness. Vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, creativity, belonging, and love.
- Page 136: If you are too humble...
No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results
AuthorCy Wakeman
The New York Times bestselling author of Reality-Based Leadership rejects the current fad of "engaging" employees and the emotional drama of "meeting their needs"--returning leadership to leaders and productivity to businesses.

For years now, leaders in almost every industry have accepted...
Three Weeks in Washington
AuthorLuana Ehrlich
Titus exposes a plot to attack the nation's capital with chemical weapons. Book III in the Titus Ray Thriller series, featuring CIA intelligence officer, Titus Ray. Encountering a Shooter . . . CIA intelligence operative, Titus Ray, arrives in Washington, D.C. on the day a terrorist enters...
Two Days in Caracas
AuthorLuana Ehrlich
ISBN1511628650
Titus Ray faces a threat he never imagined. Can he overcome the obstacles and capture Ahmed Al-Amin before it’s too late? In this pulse-racing Christian thriller, CIA intelligence officer, Titus Ray, travels from Costa Rica to Venezuela in an effort to stop Ahmed Al-Amin, a Hezbollah assassin,...
Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall In Love With the Process of Becoming Great
AuthorJoshua Medcalf
Guided by “Akira-sensei,” John comes to realize the greatest adversity on his journey will be the challenge of defeating the man in the mirror.

This powerful story of one boy’s journey to achieve his life long goal of becoming a samurai warrior, brings the Train to be CLUTCH curriculum...
One Night in Tehran
AuthorLuana Ehrlich
ISBN1500157236
Read the first novel in a new series of thrillers featuring intelligence officer Titus Ray.

Trained in lies, a covert agent learns the truth

Veteran CIA officer, Titus Ray--on the run from the Iranian secret police--finds shelter with a group of Iranian Christians in Tehran. While...
How to Be Well: The Everyday Actions, Reliable Rituals, and Proven Tactics of the Healthiest and Happiest People
AuthorFrank Lipman
ISBN1328904784
From celebrity health guru and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Frank Lipman, the definitive guide to total wellness
In his best-selling book, The New Health Rules, Dr. Frank Lipman laid out a modern manifesto for living a healthy and fulfilling life. How to Be Well is the essential...
The Book of Mychal: The Surprising Life and Heroic Death of Father Mychal Judge
AuthorMichael Daly
ISBN0312301502
The inspiring story of New York Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge

His death certificate bears the number one. As chaplain to the Fire Department of New York, Father Mychal Judge was officially the first to go. A loving priest with a gift for the gab-gregarious yet humble, a healer...
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
AuthorCole Nussbaumer Knaflic
ISBN1119002257
Don't simply show your data--tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative...
Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom
AuthorRyan T. Anderson
ISBN1621574512
In the first book to respond to the Supreme Court's decision on same-sex marriage, Ryan Anderson draws on the best philosophy and social science to explain what marriage is, why it matters for public policy, and the consequences of its legal redefinition.

Attacks on religious liberty have...
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