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Recovery from Trauma, Addiction, or Both: Strategies for Finding Your Best Self

LISA M NAJAVITS · The Guilford Press
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

Trauma and addiction are two of the most common and difficult issues that people face--but it truly is possible to heal. In this motivating book, leading expert Lisa Najavits explains the link between trauma and addiction and presents science-based self-help strategies that you can use no matter...
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A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis

Catherine Bailey · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"I was gripped by A Castle in Wartime--it contained more tension, more plot in fact--than any thriller."--Kate Atkinson, author of Big Sky and Case Histories

An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors...
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Radically Happy: A User's Guide to the Mind

Phakchok Rinpoche · Shambhala
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

East meets West in this fresh, modern take on a timeless challenge: how to find contentment and meaning in life.In Radically Happy, a meditating Silicon Valley entrepreneur teams up with a young, insightful, and traditionally educated Tibetan Rinpoche. Together they present a path to radical...
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Medium: A Step-by-Step Guide to Communicating with the Spirit World

Konstanza Morning Star · Llewellyn Worldwide
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

Mediumship is a basic skill that can be learned and perfected through practice. Discover how mediumship works and how you can build a strong spiritual foundation so that your ability to communicate with the spirit world will flourish. Medium is a beginner-friendly book designed to help...
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Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living

Krista Tippett · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"I'm a person who listens for a living. I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard. This book chronicles some of what I've learned in what has become a conversation across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations."

Peabody...
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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it.

"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling...
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Confessions of an Islamophobe

ROBERT SPENCER · Bombardier Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

While the United States, and indeed most of the Western world, fights an active war against Islamic terrorism, we remain in deep denial about who truly is the enemy. Elites across North America and Europe fight to silence those who argue, compellingly, that the roots of terrorism are within...
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The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade

Philip Jenkins · HarperOne, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pages: 438
Format: Paperback

The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic...
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Divide Me By Zero

Lara Vapnyar · Tin House Books
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover

"In her superb and poignant new novel, Lara Vapnyar writes about love and other difficulties with the same passion, wit, and probing intelligence to be found in all her writing. Among its many treasures, Divide Me By Zero contains fascinating explorations of the fraught, tangled...

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The Witch's Eight Paths of Power: A Complete Course in Magick and Witchcraft

Lady Sable Aradia · Weiser Books
Format: Book

In his Book of Shadows, Gerald Gardner writes about the witch's Eightfold Way as a means of developing one's magickal abilities. In this contemporary take on the Eightfold Way, author, Witch, and High Priestess Lady Sable Aradia invites readers to explore the eight different components...
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Taking Sacred Back: The Complete Guide to Designing and Sharing Group Ritual

Nels Linde · Llewellyn Worldwide
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

Whether you're designing a group ritual for fifty people or five hundred, Taking Sacred Back will help you define your intent, create an outline, and bring your ritual to life. Join authors Nels Linde and Judith E. Olson-Linde as they explore creative and unique ideas for all the stages...
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All This Could Be Yours

Jami Attenberg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew?

"If I know why he is the way he is then...
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The Big Book of Practical Spells: Everyday Magic That Works

Judika Illes · Weiser Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Practical, inspirational, and comprehensive, The Big Book of Practical Spells is a useful tool and resource for beginners and experienced devotees of the magical arts. Here in one majestic volume is a basic introduction to magic; a psychic glossary; a primer on the four elements, colors,...
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America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States

Stuart Wexler · Counterpoint
Pages: 417
Format: Print book

The conventional narrative concerning religious terrorism inside the United States says that the first salvo occurred in 1993, with the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. This narrative has motivated more than a decade of wars, and re-prioritized America's domestic...
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The Last Train to London Lib/E

Meg Waite Clayton · HarperCollins
Format: Audiobook

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe--and...
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