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Parenting with Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids

Susan Stiffelman - New World Library
Format: Print book

Our children can be our greatest teachers. Parenting expert Susan Stiffelman writes that the very behaviors that push our buttons - refusing to cooperate or ignoring our requests - can help us build awareness and shed old patterns, allowing us to raise our children with greater ease...
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

JONATHAN FREEDLAND - Harper
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information - and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" - Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo...
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American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

D.W. Pasulka - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial...
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Celtic Traditions: Druids, Faeries, and Wiccan Rituals

Sirona Knight - Citadel
Format: Paperback

There is renewed fascination in all things Celtic. Discussing lore, traditions, beliefs, and customs, this book answers readers' desires to reaffirm their ancestral roots, bringing Celtic myth, legend, and modern practices to life. It discusses everything from the ancient Druids and faery...
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The Art of Power

Thich Nhat Hanh - HarperOne; 1ST edition
Format: Book

"Power is good for one thing only: to increase our happiness and the happiness of others. Being peaceful and happy is the most important thing in our lives and yet most of the time we suffer, we run after our cravings, we look to the past or the future for our happiness."Turning...
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

Rosemary Sullivan - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team - led by an obsessed retired FBI agent - has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed...
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Why the Chicken Crossed the Road: & Other Hidden Enlightenment Teachings from the Buddha to Bebop to Mother Goose

Dean Sluyter - Tarcher
Format: Paperback

In thirty-three short, illustrated chapters, a humorous and revealing collection illuminates the insights into spirituality and the nature of the universe latent in popular songs, jingles, jokes, sayings, and nursery rhymes. Original. 15,000 first printing.
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An Introduction to Islamic Law

Joseph Schacht - Clarendon Press
Format: Paperback

This book presents a broad account of the present knowledge of the history and outlines the system of Islamic law. Showing that Islamic law is the key to understanding the essence of one of the great world religions, this book explores how it still influences the laws of contemporary Islamic...
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The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint That Holds the Mystery of Our Times

Jonathan Cahn - Frontline
Format: Hardcover

This May Be the Most Explosive and Amazing Thing You've Ever ReadIs it possible that an ancient blueprint holds the secret behind the events of our times?Could this blueprint lie behind the rise and fall of leaders and governments?Could events that took place nearly three thousand years...
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal

Hubert Wolf - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A true, never-before-told story - discovered in a secret Vatican archive - of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant...
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