Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor’s guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past. A new york times bestseller “I’ll be forever changed by Dr. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom. She survived unspeakable horrors and brutality; but rather than let her painful past destroy her, she chose to transform it into a powerful gift—one she uses to help others heal.
Jeannette walls, new york times bestselling author of The Glass Castle Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and Christopher AwardAt the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Josef mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edith eva Eger is my kind of hero. Eger’s story…the choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we’ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.
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The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage
Library Journal starred review. Offering motivation as well as ways to accomplish change. Booklist “a series of short essays to encourage and refresh the spirit of activists. This is spirituality in action; this is practical and powerful activism for our times. Praise for the time is now“for decades Chittister has been a prolific author and advocate for women and social justice inside and outside the realm of the Catholic Church.
A beloved nun and social activist offers a soul-stirring guide for all who feel disillusioned and dissatisfied with the power-hungry institutions and systems of this world “Both a call to arms and a faith-based guide for activists and readers disgusted with today’s political and cultural climate.
Publishers weekly starred review in the time is now, both ancient and modern, Sister Joan Chittister—a rabble-rousing force of nature for social justice and fervent proponent of personal faith and spiritual fulfillment—draws on the wisdom of prophets, to help us confront the societal forces that oppress and silence the sacred voices among us.
Pairing scriptural insights with narratives of the truth-tellers that came before us, Sister Joan offers a compelling vision for readers to combat complacency and to propel ourselves toward creating a world of justice, peace, freedom, and empowerment. For the weary, the cranky, and the fearful, this energizing message invites us to participate in a vision for a world greater than the one we find ourselves in today.
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe
God loves things by becoming them, ” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. Most know who jesus was, but who was christ? is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, religious debate, our understandings have been limited by culture, Rohr writes, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center.
Drawing on scripture, history, rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, and spiritual practice, unfolding work in the world. New york times bestseller • from one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ, ” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives.
Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book. Melinda gatesin his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality.
Life Code: The New Rules for Winning in the Real World
Phil's new book gives you the “evil eight” identifiers so you can see them coming from a mile away, as well as their “Secret Playbook, physically, ” which contains the “Nefarious 15” tactics they use to exploit you and take what is yours mentally, socially and professionally. You take flying lessons to learn to fly, swimming lessons to learn to swim, and singing lessons to learn to sing.
So, why not take winning lessons to learn to win? Bird Street Books. In life code: the new rules for winning in the Real World, six-time New York Times #1 best-selling author Dr. Phil again abandons convention to prepare you to claim what you deserve and claim it now. Phil mcgraw abandons traditional thinking and tells you the ugly truth about the users, abusers, and overall “bad guys” we all have in our lives.
Dr. He also reveals the secrets of how they think and how they get to and exploit you and those you love.
Man's Search for Meaning, Gift Edition
Kushner, and several of frankl’s previously unpublished letters, Frankl’s classic is presented here in an elegant new edition with endpapers, speeches, supplementary photographs, and essays. Man’s search for meaning has become one of the most influential books of our times, selling over twelve million copies worldwide.
With a foreword by Harold S. Bird Street Books.
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
Bird Street Books. On the second mountain, life moves from self-centered to other-centered. 1 new york times bestseller • everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.
They embrace a life of interdependence, not independence. They look around and find the view. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose.
In short, this book is meant to help us all lead more meaningful lives. In the second mountain, brooks shows what can happen when we put commitment-making at the center of our lives. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness.
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The German Girl: A Novel
An international bestseller featured in entertainment weekly, the millions, people, and USA TODAY “An unforgettable and resplendent novel which will take its place among the great historical fiction written about World War II. Adriana trigiani, bestselling author of the shoemaker's wife a young girl flees nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, Lilac Girls, starred review debut novel, only to discover that the overseas refuge they had been promised is an illusion in this “engrossing and heartbreaking” Library Journal, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, and We Were the Lucky Ones.
Berlin, 1939. Its contents inspire anna and her mother to travel to Havana to learn the truth about their family’s mysterious and tragic past. On her twelfth birthday, anna Rosen receives a mysterious package from an unknown relative in Cuba, her great-aunt Hannah. Before everything changed, Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life.
Louis, a transatlantic ocean liner promising Jews safe passage to Cuba. Bird Street Books.
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose
That journey starts right here. In her latest book, offering the framework for creating not just a life of success, Oprah shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself, The Path Made Clear, but one of significance. Renowned figures such as eckhart tolle, elizabeth gilbert, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Brene Brown, Jay-Z, and Ellen DeGeneres share the greatest lessons from their own journeys toward a life filled with purpose.
Paired with over 100 awe-inspiring photographs to help illuminate the wisdom of these messages, The Path Made Clear provides readers with a beautiful resource for achieving a life lived in service of your calling – whatever it may be. Age range:adult Bird Street Books. Oprah opens each chapter by sharing her own key lessons and the personal stories that helped set the course for her best life.
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City of Girls: A Novel
But when vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. An instant new york times bestseller!from the # 1 new york times bestselling author of eat pray love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, and adventure, sex, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.
A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness. Popsugar"intimate and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger. Usa today"pairs well with a cocktail. Or two. Theskimm"life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are.
Man's Search for Meaning
An engrossing read - This moving novel celebrates female empowerment and the idiosyncrasies of true love. Great gift - city of girls makes a nice birthday present or holiday stocking stuffer for any fan. Hardcover - Contains 480 pages. Great product! A 1991 reader survey for the library of congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.
Beacon press, is issuing this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, the original English-language publisher of Man's Search for Meaning, biographical Afterword, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers. Psychiatrist viktor frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival.
Between 1942 and 1945 frankl labored in four different camps, brother, including Auschwitz, while his parents, and pregnant wife perished. The second mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life Hardcover. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, as freud maintained, from the Greek word logos "meaning"-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Kirkus, starred review"rarely have i read a book that challenged me to see myself in an entirely new light, and was at the same time laugh-out-loud funny and utterly absorbing. Katie couric"this is a daring, delightful, and transformative book. Arianna huffington, founder, smart, Thrive Global"Wise, warm, Huffington Post and Founder & CEO, and funny.
Bird Street Books. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. As gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.
With startling wisdom and humor, guilt and redemption, gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, meaning and mortality, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, terror and courage, hope and change. Maybe you should talk to someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.