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Diane Eshin Rizzetto
Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion
This Zen Buddhist guide to mindful living is “a thoughtful, sensitive examination of how to be a genuinely good person in this world” (Sharon Salzlberg, author of Lovingkindness ) Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto p...
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Robert Justin Goldstein
Flag Burning and Free Speech: The Case of Texas v. Johnson
In a free society where it often seems nothing is sacred, many feel that one thing at least should be: that despite constitutional guarantees of free speech, it should be illegal to desecrate the American flag. For most Americans, no symbol is more charged with emotion, and incidents of its abuse ha...
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Maxine Hong Kingston
I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (Vintage International)
A poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age from the award-winning author of The Woman Warrior and China Men . “[A] graceful meditation. . . . Achieves meaningful insights into the art of living.” —Boston Globe “A gentle, meandering memoir, ...
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Rachel Zoffness MS PhD
The Chronic Pain and Illness Workbook for Teens: CBT and Mindfulness-Based Practices to Turn the Volume Down on Pain
In this powerful workbook for teens, pediatric pain specialist Rachel Zoffness offers evidence-based strategies to help you turn the volume down on chronic pain and illness and get back to living your life. Living with chronic pain and illness can be difficult, scary, and sometimes lonely. But if yo...
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Ben Daniel
Grace Over Guns: Pursuing Peace in a Militarized World
We need to talk about the reality of war War remains a clear and present evil, yet North American Christians often don't feel equipped to talk about it. When a US Air Force drone drops a bomb on a wedding party in Yemen, for example, few of us have the language to talk about that violence. When our ...
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and...
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Mia Birdsong
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes. They have family, frie...
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Sofia Grant
The Dress in the Window: Sisters, Ambition, and Rivalry in Post-War Vintage Fashion
A perfect debut novel is like a perfect dress—it’s a “must have” and when you “try it on” it fits perfectly. In this richly patterned story of sisterhood, ambition, and reinvention Sofia Grant has created a story just right for fans of Vintage and The Dress Shop of Dreams . World War II ha...
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David Mas Masumoto
Four Seasons in Five Senses: Things Worth Savoring
The nation's favorite literary farmer pays homage to the life of the senses. Rushing from one thing to another, we lose sight of the art of living, which for California farmer David Mas Masumoto is also the art of farming. Not fast farming, of the kind that produces fast food, but slow farming, the...
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R. Jerome Thomas
The Letter I Never Sent: A Memoir of Resilience
R. Jerome Thomas was born a preacher’s son in Louisiana and moved with his family to California when he was ten. However, Reverend Thomas, consumed by his congregation and doubting his son's potential, kept his distance. When Thomas reluctantly answers the call to the ministry himself, his father ...
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Francisco X. Alarcón
Poems to Dream Together: Poemas para soñar juntos (English and Spanish Edition)
A bilingual collection of poetry by acclaimed Chicano poet Francisco X. Alarcón celebrating family, community, nature, and the positive power of dreams to shape our future. A young boy dreams that "all humans / and all living / beings / come together / as one big family / of the Earth." So begins t...
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Reese Christian
Ghosts of Atlanta: Phantoms of the Phoenix City (Haunted America)
? Do the ghosts of Civil War soldiers still march through the mists of Kennesaw National Battlefield on the outskirts of Atlanta? ? Can those who listen still hear the voices of the guests who died in the devastating Winecoff Hotel fire of 1946? ? Does the spirit of a young boy still ride the "black...
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Lea Redmond
This Is for You: Gift-Giving as a Way of Life – The Essential Guide to Kinkeeping and Meaningful Connection
The essential guide for gift-giving that makes our dearest feel loved and offers deep and lasting connection—from the author of the bestselling Letters to My Baby and creator of the “Letters to . . .” series Riddled with obligation, expense, and waste, gifts are often reduced in our consumer...
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Jack London
Jack London - A Short Story Collection: To Build a Fire, A Wicked Woman, The Unparalleled Invasion & A Thousand Deaths
John Griffith Chaney was born on 12th January 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although her wounds were not severe the trauma made her temp...
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Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Stolen Girl
A companion to Making Bombs for Hitler and The War Below , this novel follows a Ukrainian girl who was kidnapped as a child to be raised by a Nazi family. Nadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories of the war are messy, coming back to her in pieces and flashes she can't control. Though her a...
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Angela Dalton
Ruby's Reunion Day Dinner: A Heartwarming Picture Book About African American Family Traditions and Food for Kids (Ages 4-8)
On Here Wee Read's 2021 Ultimate List of Diverse Children's Books!  Publisher Weekly Starred Review! "Warm digital art by Southerland makes excellent use of light and shadow, and offers a lovely portrait of an expressive family with varying hairstyles and body types. This hopeful, mouthwatering nar...
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S. Lily Mendoza
Back from the Crocodile's Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory
(Interior pages with greyscale images) Back from the Crocodile’s Belly is a celebration of the beauty, richness, and diversity of indigenous ways of being as revealed in the critical studies and creative performances of living native traditions in the Philippines and in the United States diaspora....
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Yang Huang
My Old Faithful: Stories (Juniper Prize for Fiction)
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction FOREWORD INDIES Winner: Multicultural (Gold), Short Stories (Bronze) Rubery Book Award Finalist The Mercury News: My Old Faithful is "a rich contemporary narrative of family dynamics and social upheaval." San Francisco Chronicle, Recommended Reading: "My O...
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Abby Mendelson
Reunion: Americans in Exile
From the award-winning author of Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges, Ghost Dancer, End of the Road, and The Oakland Quartet comes Reunion, a striking new collection of 16 stories. Subtitled Americans in Exile, Reunion chronicles the lives of Americans torn from their places and their pasts. Set in a ...
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Ruta Kahate
6 Spices, 60 Dishes: Indian Recipes That Are Simple, Fresh, and Big on Taste
A collection of 60 Indian recipes that are fresh and healthy, easy to prepare, and full of flavor. Using just six spices—cayenne, coriander, cumin, turmeric, mustard seed, and asafetida—chef Ruta Kahate presents 60 delicious recipes that are easy to prepare and deliver rich, complex flavor. Th...
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