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The Pocket Pema Chodron
Pema Chödrön
TPP
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Steve López
TSA
Seven Days in the Art World
Sarah Thornton
SDI
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
Philip Plait
DFT
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Irvin D. Yalom
SAT
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
John J. Ratey
STR
Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God
Bob Kauflin
WML
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Ariel Sabar
MFP
Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Sally Brampton
STD
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Paul Theroux
GTT
Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
Patti Digh
LIA
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Ellen Bass
TCT
Things I've Been Silent About
Azar Nafisi
TIB
Walking With God: Talk to Him, Hear From Him, Really
John Eldredge
WWG
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Deborah Heiligman
CAE
Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale
Russell T. Davies
DWT
Angels in My Hair
Lorna Byrne
AIM
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
TIS
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
George Friedman
TN1
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Tom Vanderbilt
TWW
JavaScript: The Good Parts
Douglas Crockford
JTG
The Case for the Real Jesus
Lee Strobel
TCF
We Bought a Zoo
Benjamin Mee
WBA
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Geoff Colvin
TIO
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
Paul B. Preciado
TJS
The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets from One of the World's Top Shooters
Joe McNally
TMI
Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
BHL
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
Andy Hunt
PTA
The Purpose of Christmas
Rick Warren
TPO
The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
Cynthia Bourgeault
TWJ
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
Rashmi Bansal
SHS
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
Dave Logan
TLL
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases
Michael Capuzzo
TMR
The Power Of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential
Leo Babauta
TPO
Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God
Mark Batterson
WGC
The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
Jack Kornfield
TWH
Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church
Michael Scott Horton
CCT
The Revolution: A Manifesto
Ron Paul
TRA
Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
Natasha Walter
LDT
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Daoud Hari
TTA
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
Julie Andrews Edwards
HAM
Look Me in the Eye
John Elder Robison
LMI
Love Is a Mix Tape
Rob Sheffield
LIA
Surprised by Hope: A Study of Christian Hope and Resurrection
N.T. Wright
SBH
I Am America
Stephen Colbert
IAA
A Three Dog Life
Abigail Thomas
ATD
Slash
Slash
S
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
John Truby
TAO
Life's Golden Ticket
Brendon Burchard
LGT
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Joe Biden
PTK
The Braindead Megaphone
George Saunders
TBM
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Maryanne Wolf
PAT
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Christopher Hitchens
TPA
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Joel Salatin
EIW
The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
Yongey Mingyur
TJO
In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams
Tahir Shah
IAN
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip G. Zimbardo
TLE
Full Frontal Feminism
Jessica Valenti
FFF
Brother, I'm Dying
Edwidge Danticat
BID
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
Michael Lopp
MHB
I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame
Brené Brown
ITI
Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
Shauna Niequist
CTC
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Gabor Maté
ITR
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
Joe Bageant
DHW
Strengths Based Leadership
Tom Rath
SBL
The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
William Ury
TPO
The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort
TWO
The Art of Power
Thich Nhat Hanh
TAO
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
OGA
3:16: The Numbers of Hope
Max Lucado
3TN
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott
G(T
Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals
Shane Claiborne
JFP
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
Jay Heinrichs
TYF
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays
Anne Fadiman
ALA
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
LHH
The Wild Places
Robert Macfarlane
TWP
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz
OHS
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
Kathleen Flinn
TSY
A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted
Will Bowen
ACF
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Elyn R. Saks
TCC
The Coming Insurrection
The Invisible Committee
TCI
The Red Parts
Maggie Nelson
TRP
The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us through the Events in Our Lives
Ravi Zacharias
TGW
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
Brian Kolodiejchuk
MTC
You Were Born Rich: Now You Can Discover And Develop Those Riches
Bob Proctor
YWB
Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
Jennifer O'Connell
EIN
The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Philip M. Rosenzweig
THE
F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way
John C. Parkin
FIT
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Karen Abbott
SIT
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Bryan Caplan
TMO
Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
Deepak Malhotra
NGH
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Christine Montross
BOW
Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life
Cesar Millan
BTP
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Matthew Polly
ASF
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind
Pema Chödrön
HTM
In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad
Tariq Ramadan
ITF
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
BAS
Tim Gunn: A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style
Tim Gunn
TGA
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
J. Mark G. Williams
TMW
The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
Zhu Xiao-Mei
TSP
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
Ted Kerasote
MDL
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Todd Gilbert
SOH
Simply Christian
N.T. Wright
SC
This Is Your Brain on Music
Daniel J. Levitin
TIY
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew--Three Women Search for Understanding
Ranya Tabari Idliby
TFC
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
Immaculée Ilibagiza
LTT
Miracle in the Andes
Nando Parrado
MIT
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
Paul Rusesabagina
AOM
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
Jay Allison
TIB
The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel
TLA
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
TAO
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Daniel C. Dennett
BTS
The Freedom Manifesto
Tom Hodgkinson
TFM
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Roy Peter Clark
WT5
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Francis S. Collins
TLO
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
Elmore Leonard
EL1
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
Esther Perel
MIC
Peeling the Onion
Günter Grass
PTO
Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
Seth Godin
SIT
The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life
Thomas M. Sterner
TPM
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard
LMP
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
Nick Hornby
HVT
The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
Harry Bernstein
TIW
The Gospel of Judas
Rodolphe Kasser
TGO
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson
DBB
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
TCG
Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
Philip Yancey
PDI
Anonymous: Jesus hidden years and yours
Alicia Britt Chole
AJH
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip Heath
MTS
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
Victor L. Wooten
TML
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
Jonathan Franzen
TDZ
Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith
Henri J.M. Nouwen
SDW
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War
David Bellavia
HTH
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
J. Maarten Troost
GSW
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
MTN
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Chuck Klosterman
CKI
Evil and the Justice of God
N.T. Wright
EAT
A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
Frances Mayes
AYI
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Derrick Jensen
EV1
How To Get Rich
Felix Dennis
HTG
When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God—And Joy
John Piper
WTD
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
Jason Fried
GRT
The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship
Dallas Willard
TGO
The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef
Marco Pierre White
TDI
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
Frank Luntz
WTW
The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome
Tony Attwood
TCG
Don’t Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal
Toni Maguire
DTM
The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town
Ron Franscell
TDN
How to See Yourself As You Really Are
Dalai Lama XIV
HTS
Relationships: A Mess Worth Making
Paul David Tripp
RAM
How to Become a Straight-A Student
Cal Newport
HTB
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: Unleash A Revolution In Your Life in Christ
Peter Scazzero
EHS
How People Change
Timothy S. Lane
HPC
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Jimmy Carter
PPN
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
David Miller
AOT
Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
Jack Holland
MTW
Communicating for a Change: Seven Keys to Irresistible Communication
Andy Stanley
CFA
Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot
Max Lucado
CFT
Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men, One Message
Donald J. Trump
WWW
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
TGC