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His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 291
Format: Book

"This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death."

From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead. This...
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Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala · Vintage
Format: Paperback

One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of the Year, a Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book, a Newsday Top 10 Books pick, a People magazine Top 10 pick, a Good Reads Best Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction BookA National Book Critics Circle Award finalistIn...
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The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning

Ernest Kurtz · Bantam
Pages: 293
Format: Paperback

I Am Not Perfect is a simple statement of profound truth, the first step toward understanding the human condition, for to deny your essential imperfection is to deny yourself and your own humanity. The spirituality of imperfection, steeped in the rich traditions of the Hebrew prophets...
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The Dementia Caregiver: A Guide to Caring for Someone with Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurocognitive Disorders

Marc E. Agronin · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

Becoming a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer's disease or another neurocognitive disorder can be an unexpected, undesirable, underappreciated - and yet noble role. It is heartbreaking to watch someone lose the very cognitive capacities that once helped to define them as a person. But because...
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What Knot?

Geoffrey Budworth · Chartwell Books
Pages: 256
Format: Book

Anyone can tie knots: learn just one or two from this book and you will be glad you bought it. Learn ten, and it could make a difference in your life. This is because there is endless pleasure to be had from the study and practice of knot tying, this fundamental but fascinating process...
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Grief Day By Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss

Jan Warner · Althea Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Grief Day by Day offers supportive readings and exercises to help you move through life after loss, one day at a time.Grief is complex. It is ever changing and may come to us differently on any given day. Grief Day by Day offers reflections and practices that address the day-to-day feelings...
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Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God

· Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Is what you're anchored to stronger than what you're going through? The answer to that question changes everything. In Unshakable Hope, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado offers encouraging, practical guidance for overcoming difficult circumstances, renewing inner...

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MELT Performance: A Step-by-Step Program to Accelerate Your Fitness Goals, Improve Balance and Control, and Prevent Chronic Pain and Injuries for Life

Sue Hitzmann · HarperOne
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The MELT Method introduces a unique, scientific-based proactive training program for improving overall balance, performance, and control while preventing pain and injury.

Are you an athlete facing constant injuries...

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Your Life Is Worth Living: 50 Lessons to Deepen Your Faith

Fulton Sheen · Image
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback

Back in print with a new preface by Robert Barron, fifty inspiring lessons to deepen your faith from one of the leading religious figures of the twentieth century and author of the Catholic bestseller Life of Christ.For over four decades, Fulton Sheen was the face of Catholicism in America...
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The Secret

Rhonda Byrne · Atria Books/Beyond Words; First Edition edition
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover

Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this...
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The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World

Mary Bond · Healing Arts Press
Pages: 225
Format: Paperback

A manual for understanding the anatomical and emotional components of posture in order to heal chronic pain * Contains self-help exercises and ergonomics information to help correct unhealthy movement patterns * Teaches how to adopt suitable posture in the modern sedentary world Many...
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Creativity

Matthew Fox · Tarcher
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Drawing on his lectures and sermons, an Episcopalian priest and theologian sheds new light on the nature of creativity, demonstrating that communication with God can be revealed in the simplest expressions of human creativity. By the author of One River, Many Wells. 12,500 first printing.
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Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey

A. J. Jacobs · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The idea was deceptively simple: New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs decided to thank every single person involved in producing his morning cup of coffee. The resulting journey takes him across the globe, transforms his life, and reveals secrets about how gratitude can make...
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I've Been Thinking . . .: Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life

MARIA SHRIVER · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 224

A book of reflections for those seeking wisdom, guidance, encouragement, and inspiration on the road to a meaningful life As a prominent woman juggling many roles, Maria Shriver knows just how surprising, unpredictable, and stressful everyday life can be. In this moving and powerful book,...
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On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross · Scribner
Pages: 237
Format: Paperback

Ten years after the death of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, this commemorative edition of her final book combines practical wisdom, case studies, and the authors' own experiences and spiritual insight to explain how the process of grieving helps us live with loss. Includes a new introduction...
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