Unplug the Christmas Machine: A Complete Guide to Putting Love and Warmth Back into the Season
10 best books like Unplug the Christmas Machine: A Complete Guide to Putting Love and Warmth Back into the Season (Jo Robinson): The Donkey's Dream, Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas, What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story, Red Ranger Came Calling, The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, A Small Miracle, Christmas At The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, And Art, Tending Brigid's Flame: Awaken to the Celtic Goddess of Hearth, Temple, and Forge
| Author | Barbara Helen Berger |
| ISBN | 0399212337 |
A beautifully illustrated story of the Nativity. He was just an ordinary donkey, but on his back he carried a miracle. He carried the Virgin Mary to Bethlehem on the night she gave birth. Along the way he dreamed he was carrying a city, a ship, a fountain, and a rose. He dreamed he was carrying a lady full...
Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas
| Author | Elise Primavera |
| ISBN | 0152024417 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
Elise Primavera returns with an adventurous companion to her beloved holiday book, Auntie Claus. This time, Santa's big sister is back with a lesson for her grand-nephew Christopher Kringle.
When Christopher hears from the Spam twins that Santa Claus is...
What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story
| Author | Caroline B. Cooney |
| ISBN | 0440226848 |
Not everyone is lucky at Christmas. Some people would call 16-year-old Liz Kitchell and her family truly fortunate, but it doesn't feel that way to her. It seems that only a miracle can give 8-year-old Katie her holiday wish. She wants a family, something she does not have as a foster child. As for 17-year-old...
| Author | Berkeley Breathed |
| ISBN | 0316102490 |
Using glowing, hypnotic images and a funny, provocative text, the narrator relives his father's most amazing childhood Christmas.
A moody young boy living with his aunt on an island, "Red" Breathed sees himself as the "Red Ranger from Mars", his hero from the movie serials, and cannot picture...
The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton
| Author | Vivian Gornick |
| ISBN | 0374530564 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton—along with her comrade-in-arms, Susan B. Anthony—was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thinker of the nineteenth...
Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
| Author | Naomi Klein |
| ISBN | 0312307993 |
Naomi Klein's No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.
Named one of Ms Magazine's Women of Year in 2001, and declared...
| Author | Sera Beak |
| ISBN | 1622030532 |
When one person dares to speak her truth, it challenges us all to live our own. With Red Hot and Holy, Sera Beak offers a provocative and intimate view of what it means to get up close and personal with the divine in modern times.
With a rare combination of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and tender...
| Author | Peter Collington |
| ISBN | 0679887253 |
This is a Christmas miracle like no other, with such richness in image and
story that children will return to it again and again" "(Booklist,"
starred review).
The wooden figures in a Christmas crè che come to life to save a poor old
woman in this truly original, deeply moving contemporary...
| Author | The New Yorker |
| ISBN | 1400061407 |
From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing...
| Author | Lunaea Weatherstone |
Brigid is worshiped worldwide as a source of inspiration, protection, and blessing. In Tending Brigid's Flame, Lunaea Weatherstone presents the beloved Celtic goddess as a true soul-friend for women today, exploring her legends and lore, attributes and allies, holidays, symbols, and sacred places....
In an era that has reclaimed many aspects of the feminine, Margaret Starbird’s The Woman with the Alabaster Jar stands out as a courageous exploration of the scorned feminine in the Western religious tradition. But espousing the marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene created a personal crisis...
I really enjoyed this book because it is one of the few positive books on the market discussing feminism within spirituality. The idea that one can be very religious and a good feminist, fighting for the rights of fellow women or setting up ritual in our daily lives to celebrate our womanhood. It was written...
| Author | Joseph Chilton Pearce |
| ISBN | 0452267897 |
"An innovative, philosophical restructuring of modern child psychology."
Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questioned the current thinking on childbirth pratices, parenting, and educating our children. Now its daring ideas about how Western society is damaging our children,...
| Author | Sharon Lovejoy |
| ISBN | 0761110569 |
Plant a pumpkinseed with a child, and cultivate wonder. This simple act of reconnecting with children with nature is Sharon Lovejoy's purpose and joy and gift. Author of Sunflower Houses: Garden Discoveries for Children of All Ages and Hollyhock Days: Garden Adventures for the Young at Heart, Sharon...
| Author | Kalle Lasn |
| ISBN | 0688178057 |
America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run;...
Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It
| Author | Jill Richardson |
| ISBN | 0981504035 |
“Jill Richardson is a fresh voice in the movement to create a healthier and sustainable food system. This book will be part of the burgeoning food social movement, as it provides a guide to the most important issues and how to work on them.”—Marion Nestle
“Jill’s work at Daily Kos...
Mary Engelbreit's A Merry Little Christmas: Celebrate from A to Z
| Author | Mary Engelbreit |
| ISBN | 0060741589 |
In a tiny little village blanketed with snow, Gregory Mouse is ready to ring in the holidays! This adorable fellow, whom readers may recognize from Mary Engelbreit's The Night Before Christmas, shares Christmas carols, sleigh rides, and gingerbread houses with his family and all the friends they've...
Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: The 3 Simple Ideas That Will Instantaneously Transform Your Life
| Author | Ariel Kane |
| ISBN | 0071601082 |
The acclaimed, life-changing book that shows you how to stop "working" on yourself--and start living in the moment
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to go through your life without stress or self-doubt? To have a real sense of inner peace and fulfillment? Now you can--through the...
Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyful Christmas
Too many people have come to dread the approach of the holidays, a season that should--and can--be the most relaxed, intimate, joyful, and spiritual time of the year. In this book, Bill McKibben offers some suggestions on how to rethink Christmastime, so that our current obsession with present buying...
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
| Author | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
| ISBN | 0805066438 |
The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author.
When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short time since,...
The Cult Files: True Stories from the Extreme Edges of Religious Belief
"The Cult Files" explores the history, features and beliefs of seventeen cults through the ages. Riveting, sometimes amusing, often horrifying stories show the inside workings of these groups, and trace their history - and often their demise. The book includes the Aum Shinrikyo followers, who killed...
The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth
| Author | Peter Stanford |
| ISBN | 0805039104 |
A quest for the truth behind one of history's most perplexing mysteries. The story of Pope Joan, an English woman who disguised herself as a man and became pope in the middle of the ninth century, has seized people's imagination for over a thousand years. Despite dismissals of the tale as an improbable--indeed,...
How Wal-Mart Is Destroying America (And the World): And What You Can Do about It
| Author | Bill Quinn |
| ISBN | 1580086683 |
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3, 500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world'¬?s largest private employer. In this third edition...
