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Forgiveness: An Alternative Account

Matthew Ichihashi Potts - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving world Matthew Ichihashi Potts explores the complex moral terrain of forgiveness, which he claims has too often served as a salve to the conscience of power rather than as an instrument of healing...
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Sylvia Browne's Lessons for Life

Sylvia Browne - Hay House
Format: Hardcover

In this unique eight-step program, Sylvia helps you to: realize your essence; identify your patterns; utilize past-life memories to your advantage; become more psychic; develop spiritual wealth; find the right relationship; deal with death and separation; and maintain a state of wellness....
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Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics

Rebecca L. Davis - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover

Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America. Rebecca L. Davis...
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Bending the Binary: Polarity Magic in a Nonbinary World

Deborah Lipp - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback

A Groundbreaking New Perspective on Polarity MagicBreak polarity free from outmoded ideas of gender and heteronormativity while still celebrating its energy. This pioneering book explores polarity from many angles, examining its evolution throughout history, why it's important in the occult,...
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Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving

Merissa Nathan Gerson - Mandala Publishing
Format: Paperback

Though at times it may seem impossible, we can heal with help from our friends and community- if we know how to ask. This heartrending, relatable account of one woman's reckoning with loss is a guide to the world of self-recovery, self-love, and the skills necessary to meeting one's...
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Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities

EMILY TAMKIN - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A journalist and author of The Influence of Soros examines the history of Jewish people in America and explores their ever-evolving relationship to the nation's culture and identity - and each other.What does it mean to be a Bad Jew?Many Jews use the term "Bad Jew" as a weapon...
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Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted

Daniel Sokatch - Bloomsbury Publishing; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

"Can't you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?" This is the question Daniel Sokatch is used to answering on an almost daily basis as the head of the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis, not just...
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The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

Mark Epstein M.D. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

For years, Dr. Mark Epstein kept his beliefs as a Buddhist separate from his work as a psychiatrist. Content to use his training in mindfulness as a private resource, he trusted that the Buddhist influence could, and should, remain invisible. But as he became more forthcoming with his patients...
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

Jennifer Michael Hecht - HarperOne
Format: eBook

In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from...
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