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The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself

10 best books like The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself (Joan Anderson): Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, We the Living, How to Be Happy, Dammit: A Cynic's Guide to Spiritual Happiness, Gift from the Sea, Dandelion Wine, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, The Dance of Anger, Jitterbug Perfume, Break It Down, How Could She

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
AuthorEmily Nagoski
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.

Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women...
We the Living
AuthorAyn Rand
ISBN0451187849
Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.

First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue...
How to Be Happy, Dammit: A Cynic's Guide to Spiritual Happiness
AuthorKaren Salmansohn
ISBN1587611198
Guaranteed to perk up even the most cynical spirit, HOW TO BE HAPPY, DAMMIT is the first and only self-help book that merges psychology, biology, eastern and western philosophies, quantum physics, and the Zen of Bazooka Joe. Think love and happiness have passed you by? Think no schmaltzy book can help...
Gift from the Sea
AuthorAnne Morrow Lindbergh
ISBN0394724550
In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s...
Dandelion Wine
AuthorRay Bradbury
ISBN0671037706
The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace's reputation...
The Dance of Anger
AuthorHarriet Lerner
"Anger is a signal and one worth listening to," writes Dr. Harriet Lerner, in her renowned classic that has transformed the lives of millions of readers. While anger deserves our attention and respect, women still learn to silence our anger, to deny it entirely, or to vent it in a way that leaves us feeling...
Jitterbug Perfume
AuthorTom Robbins
ISBN1842430351
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic, which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed...
Break It Down
AuthorLydia Davis
ISBN1852424214
perfect for the holidays … very short fiction






One of Davis’s influences, from a young age, was Samuel Beckett. In this interview http://www.believermag.com/issues/200... Davis talks about her craft and other things literary. Here’s a second interview with...
How Could She
AuthorLauren Mechling
ISBN0525559388

An assured and savagely funny novel about three old friends as they navigate careers, husbands, an ex-fiancé, new suitors, and, most importantly, their relationships with one another

After a devastating break-up with her fiancé, Geraldine is struggling to get her life back on track...
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
AuthorBonnie Jo Campbell
ISBN0393353265
Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate...
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
AuthorBarbara K. Lipska
ISBN1328787303
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, the author experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to a range of mental disorders, including her professional specialty, schizophrenia....
Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves
AuthorJesse Bering
For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a successful psychologist and writer, with books to his name and bylines in major magazines. But none of that mattered. The impulse to take his own life remained. At times it felt all but inescapable.
 
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Skinny Legs and All
AuthorTom Robbins
ISBN1842430343
I can't think of any other book I've read very recently that left my mind as thoroughly blown as Skinny Legs and All. I'd only read one other Tom Robbins book -- Still Life With Woodpecker -- so I was prepared for his playfulness, humor, intricate (but goofy) language, and overall trippy feel that all come...
Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human
AuthorJesse Bering
ISBN0374532923
Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "free will" really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?

In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist and award-winning...
Eye Spy
AuthorMercedes Lackey
In this second installment of the Family Spies series, set in the bestselling world of Valdemar, the children of Heralds Mags and Amily must follow in their parents' footsteps to protect the realm.

Mags, Herald Spy of Valdemar, and his wife, Amily, the King’s Own Herald, are happily married...
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
AuthorRachel Joyce
ISBN0385682824
  When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait?

A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell...
Death and the Woman
AuthorGertrude Atherton
ISBN1499551436
Death and the Woman is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1892. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author, many of whose novels are based in her home state, California. Her best-seller Black Oxen...
Would you remember ME
AuthorLynette Ferreira
I gave this short story 4 stars. This short story is actually a suicide letter written by a 15 yr old. I think every parent of a teenager (or even pre-teen) should read this. To me, this teen is giving you insight as to why she's chosen to commit suicide. I also feel as a parent, she's giving you signs to watch...
Killer Shots Murder Mysteries: Books 1-3 (Killer Shots Mysteries Book 4)
AuthorLisa B. Thomas
HER LIFE NEEDS A DO-OVER

After losing her fiancé, friends, and job, Wendy Fairmont moves back to her hometown to lick her wounds and start over. But when she discovers the man next door may have been murdered, she’s sucked into an investigation that isn’t making her too popular with the...
It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too)
AuthorNora McInerny Purmort
ISBN0062419374
Joining the ranks of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Carry On, Warrior, a fierce, hysterically funny memoir that reminds us that comedy equals tragedy plus time.

Twentysomething Nora McInerny bounced from boyfriend to boyfriend and job to job. Then she met Aaron, a charismatic art...
I Hope This Makes You Uncomfortable
AuthorKat Savage
I Hope This Makes You Uncomfortable...yes - yes, it will. Kat Savage speaks such hard truths, shining the spotlight on things usually kept in the dark. I love honesty and I love truth, but today while reading, I just felt sad. I felt an intense sadness for Kat's struggles and a deep desire to fix them. I think...
Listen to the Marriage
AuthorJohn Jay Osborn Jr.
ISBN0374192022
A riveting drama of marital therapy

Gretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they’ve started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely...
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
AuthorZaretta Lynn Hammond
ISBN1483308014
A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction

The achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. With the introduction of the rigorous Common Core State Standards, diverse classrooms need a...
Biloxi
AuthorMary Miller
ISBN1631492160
Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take.

Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel, The Last...
Rise and Shine
AuthorAnna Quindlen
ISBN0375502246
A superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most.

From Anna Quindlen, acclaimed author of Blessings, Black and Blue, and One True Thing, a superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter...
Bathed in Prayer: Father Tim's Prayers, Sermons, and Reflections from the Mitford Series
AuthorJan Karon
ISBN0525537562
A new must-have collection for fans of the New York Times bestselling Mitford series, featuring the prayers, sermons, and inspiration from beloved Father Tim, as well as new essays and reflections on faith from author Jan Karon.

Over the course of fourteen novels, millions of readers have...
Running Home
AuthorKatie Arnold
ISBN0425284670
In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, an Outside magazine writer tells her story—of fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life.

I’m running to forget, and to remember.

For more than a decade, Katie Arnold...
Blue Moon
AuthorLuanne Rice
ISBN0553568183
Blue Moon by Luanne Rice
Lobsterville restaurant is run by the 3 sisters, fighting to keep it together.
Nora is in love, Bonnie with 2 kids wants to spread her wings and Cass is the spark.
Cass is married and they have a daughter with a disability that is taking a lot out of them, Josie.
Teens...
A Death of No Importance
AuthorMariah Fredericks
ISBN1250152976
Mariah Fredericks’ compelling adult debut novel follows Jane Prescott, a ladies’ maid in an upper-crust 1910 NYC household, after her mistress’s playboy fiancé is gruesomely murdered.

Jane Prescott has perfected the art of serving as a ladies’ maid in the upper-most echelons...
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