The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life
10 best books like The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life (Joan D. Chittister): Grief is the Thing with Feathers, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, Tilly and the Bookwanderers, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter, Lanny, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, The Healer, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, Amatka, The Happy Prince
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
| Author | Max Porter |
| ISBN | 0571323766 |
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.
In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer,...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.
Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed...
Tilly and the Bookwanderers
| Author | Anna James |
| ISBN | 0008229864 |
A magical adventure to delight the imagination. A curl-up-on-the-sofa debut from a uniquely talented author.
Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents' bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of her family, Tilly loves nothing...
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
| Author | Adeline Yen Mah |
| ISBN | 0440228654 |
A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.
A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph...
| Author | Max Porter |
| ISBN | 0571340288 |
There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and...
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
| Author | Nancy Kress |
| ISBN | 1616960655 |
The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell.
Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the Six—children who were born deformed or sterile and raised in the Shell....
| Author | Antti Tuomainen |
| ISBN | 0805095543 |
One man’s search for his missing wife in a dystopian futuristic Helsinki that is struggling with ruthless climate change
It’s two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling a ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; abandoned vehicles are left burning in the streets;...
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
| Author | Francine Prose |
| ISBN | 0060777052 |
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire...
A surreal and shockingly original debut novel set in a dystopian world shaped by language--literally.
Vanja, a government worker, leaves her home city of Essre for the austere, wintry colony of Amatka on a research assignment. It takes some adjusting: people act differently in Amatka, and...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0525453679 |
I've always liked Oscar Wilde's prose, if not his drama, but I thought this was an exercise in hypocrisy, or perhaps it was just Oscar Wilde, locked out of the gates of the wealthy aristocracy, just venting his spleen on them. You would think a man who lost everything because of the prejudice against his...
| Author | Kelly Link |
| ISBN | 0804179689 |
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by Neil Gaiman as “a national treasure.” Now Kelly Link’s eagerly awaited new collection--her first for adult readers in a decade--proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer...
The Refrigerator Monologues
| Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 1481459341 |
The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics.
A series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who’s ever been “refrigerated”: comic book...
| Author | Catherine Ryan Howard |
| ISBN | 1504782542 |
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College-and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his four young victims, he drowned them in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal. Sentenced to life imprisonment when he was just nineteen,...
| Author | C.G. Jung |
| ISBN | 0691015767 |
All the creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama, poetry) can trace their roots to C. G. Jung's early work on active imagination. Joan Chodorow here offers a collection of Jung's writings on active imagination, gathered together for the first time. Jung developed this concept between...
| Author | Ragnar Jónasson |
| ISBN | 9935475417 |
Elliðaey is an isolated island off the coast of Iceland. It is has a beautiful, unforgiving terrain and is an easy place to vanish.
The Island is the second thrilling book in Ragnar Jonasson's Hidden Iceland trilogy. This time Hulda is at the peak of her career and is sent to investigate what...
BE MORE PRODUCTIVE SET BETTER GOALS AND LIVE LIFE ON PURPOSE
WHEN IT COMES TO PRODUCTIVITY, hard work is half the battle. But the first half – the most crucial – is planning well. The ‘do less’ method is a simple way to achieve your goals more often, in less time, and with greater peace of...
Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature
| Author | Tina Welling |
| ISBN | 1608682862 |
Even if we don’t write about nature, Tina Welling demonstrates, nature triggers our stories. This is because “everything we know about creating, we know intuitively from the natural world.” One can set the stage for creation by following these three steps: consciously naming the information...
| Author | Charles Eisenstein |
| ISBN | 1623172489 |
Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction
With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world...
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| Author | Mikael Niemi |
| ISBN | 1843432781 |
A series of tales based around outer space, Astrotruckers is funny, perverse, inventive and bristling with unstoppable imagination. In the illuminating company of an astrotrucker we meet the ponorists - those who venture into outer space beyond the point of no return - discover the most popular and...
