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Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

Glennon Doyle Melton · 269 pages

A New York Times essayist shares her journey from a self-destructive college student to a devoted family woman and teacher while illuminating the importance of trusting in a higher power and being truthful about life's challenges. "For years Glennon Doyle Melton built a wall between herself and others, hiding inside a bunker of secrets and shame. But one day everything changed: Glennon woke up to

Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

Robert Fulghum · 244 pages

Explores different everyday subjects from meatloaf to the Salvation Army Band, fireflies to funerals, and hiccups to a watch without hands.

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott · 272 pages

"Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun-Times)In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive.

Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes

Shauna Niequist · 288 pages

Letter to My Daughter

Maya Angelou · 192 pages

For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, po

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert · 288 pages

Elizabeth Gilbert digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity, offering insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need i

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah · 297 pages

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often ab

Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal

Rachel Naomi Remen · 368 pages

"Everybody is a story," writes Dr. Remen in her introduction. "When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. Despite the awesome powers of technology many of

The Antelope in the Living Room: The Real Story of Two People Sharing One Life

Melanie Shankle · 262 pages

A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories that Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit

Mike Huckabee · 208 pages

The former presidential candidate and current talk-show host shares twelve true and heartwarming stories from his past that help recall the real meaning of Christmas.

The Old Man and His God: Discovering the Spirit of India

Sudha Murty · 131 pages

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen · 480 pages

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation espouses having an understanding and appreciation of plants and animals.

Like the Flowing River

Paulo Coelho · 272 pages

Small and Simple Things

Marjorie Pay Hinckley · 154 pages

If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

Jamie Tworkowski · 182 pages

In 2006, Jamie Tworkowski wrote a story called "To Write Love on Her Arms" about helping a friend through her struggle with drug addiction, depression, and self-injury. The piece quickly went viral, giving birth to a non-profit organization of the same name. Nine years later, To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) is an internationally-recognized leader in suicide prevention and a source of hope, enco

Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from The Philadelphia Inquirer

John Grogan · 247 pages

Bad Dogs Have More Fun is an unforgettable collection of more than seventy-five newspaper articles from The Philadelphia Inquirer written by former columnist John Grogan. Combining humor, wit, poignancy, and affection, these columns provide insight into the intriguing and wonderful world we live in. Whether it be writing about animals (from dogs to elephants to geese!), powerful and moving comment

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

Dan Savage · 302 pages

The sex-advice columnist for "Savage Love" draws on his experience with the It Gets Better campaign to share pithy insights into a range of topics including health care, gun control, and marriage equality.

Every Day is an Atheist Holiday

Penn Jillette · 304 pages

Chicken Soup For The Girl's Soul: Real Stories By Real Girls About Real Stuff

Jack Canfield · 345 pages

Wildflower

Drew Barrymore · 288 pages

Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross country road trip, saying goodbye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures

I've Got Sand In All the Wrong Places

Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella · 393 pages

The mother-daughter duo present a new collection of witty, wise, and heartwarming stories. --Publisher

Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad

Firoozeh Dumas · 240 pages

In the bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines her rich Persian heritage in Laughing Without an Accent, sharing stories both tender and humorous on being a citizen of the world, on her well-meaning family, and on amusing cultural conundrums, all told with insights into the universality of the

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Donald Miller · 256 pages