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Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
John Wooden
WAL
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
Terrence Real
IDW
To Live Is Christ: Joining Paul's Journey of Faith
Beth Moore
TLI
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
WAA
Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
Steve Hagen
BP&
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
David Schnarch
PMK
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Richard Koch
T8P
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Lewis Hyde
TMT
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
David Deida
TWO
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
Michael Pollan
APO
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
Dossie Easton
TES
The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
John Ortberg
TLY
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
Jack Canfield
CSF
A Hunger for God
John Piper
AHF
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan D. Culler
LTA
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Peter A. Levine
WTT
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
Geoff Dyer
OOS
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
ITW
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
Neale Donald Walsch
CWG
The Vagina Monologues
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
TVM
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
John O'Donohue
ACA
The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
James Hillman
TSC
Café Europa: Life After Communism
Slavenka Drakulić
CEL
Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
Jonathan Larson
RTP
In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People
George K. Simon Jr.
ISC
7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher
Jim Rohn
7SF
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Michael J. Behe
DBB
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
Damien Keown
BAV
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal
Rachel Naomi Remen
KTW
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
CFA
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
Gordon MacKenzie
OTG
I Remain in Darkness
Annie Ernaux
IRI
The Other Side of Heaven
John H. Groberg
TOS
The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America
Mike McIntyre
TKO
The Cloister Walk
Kathleen Norris
TCW
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
WTA
Palestine
Joe Sacco
P
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Richard Sennett
TCO
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Thomas J. Stanley
TMN
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy
Sarah Ban Breathnach
SAA
Shepherding a Child's Heart
Tedd Tripp
SAC
An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks
AAO
High Tide in Tucson
Barbara Kingsolver
HTI
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
HTI
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock
FOT
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
Emma Thompson
TSA
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
FFT
Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Sharon Salzberg
LTR
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss
Jerry Sittser
AGD
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
Deborah Curtis
TFA
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Dave Grossman
OKT
Making Movies
Sidney Lumet
MM
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works
Evelyn Tribole
IEA
Holding the Man
Timothy Conigrave
HTM
Permanent Midnight
Jerry Stahl
PM
Stein on Writing
Sol Stein
SOW
Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy From A Buddhist Perspective
Mark Epstein
TWA
Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
Phil Hine
CCA
The Railway Man
Eric Lomax
TRM
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Temple Grandin
TIP
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins
BTL
Hyperspace
Michio Kaku
H
When God Writes Your Love Story
Eric Ludy
WGW
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
Lori Schiller
TQR
The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
Roger Connors
TOP
Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Brennan Manning
ACT
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Randolph M. Nesse
WWG
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Robert Wright
TMA
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Fran Lebowitz
TFL
Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Nathaniel Branden
SPO
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Bill Bryson
MIA
The Art of Being
Erich Fromm
TAO
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
Hope Edelman
MDT
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Fatema Mernissi
DOT
A Woman's Worth
Marianne Williamson
AWW
Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives
Laura Schlessinger
TST
The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
David M. Buss
TEO
Radical Honesty : How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
Brad Blanton
RH:
The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense
John Bevere
TBO
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature
Dorothy Allison
STA
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
G. Edward Griffin
TCF
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Jim Paul
WIL
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
Christiane Northrup
WBW
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
WEW
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Richard J. Herrnstein
TBC
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Stephen W. Hawking
BHA
Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
Scott Cunningham
LWA
Writing
Marguerite Duras
W
Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Milan Kundera
TBA
Nothing Special: A Zen Buddhist Guide to Awakening Through Daily Life's Feelings, Relationships, and Work
Charlotte Joko Beck
NSA
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Robert M. Sapolsky
WZD
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
Alfie Kohn
PBR
The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
James Hollis
TMP
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Robert D. Hare
WCT
True Hallucinations
Terence McKenna
TH
Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
Robert Fulghum
M(N
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
William Dalrymple
COD
Culture and Imperialism
Edward W. Said
CAI
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
Wendell Berry
SEF
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk
Al Ries
T2I
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Ernesto Che Guevara
TMD
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
WWR
When Nietzsche Wept
Irvin D. Yalom
WNW
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Marianne Williamson
ART
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
Henri J.M. Nouwen
LOT
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Carl Sagan
SOF
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
Christopher Vogler
TWJ
Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
Ruth Klüger
SAA
The Book of Job
Anonymous
TBO
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
TEO
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Neil Postman
TTS
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
Henry Cloud
BWT
How to Travel With a Salmon & Other Essays
Umberto Eco
HTT
Changes That Heal: How to Understand the Past to Ensure a Healthier Future
Henry Cloud
CTH
He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle
Max Lucado
HSM
Black Looks: Race and Representation
bell hooks
BLR
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific
Paul Theroux
THI
Imperium
Ryszard Kapuściński
I
Mindfulness in Plain English
Henepola Gunaratana
MIP
Princess Sultana's Daughters
Jean Sasson
PSD
Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas
BNF
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West
Wallace Stegner
WTB
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Leonard Peikoff
OTP
The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
John Piper
TPO
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Michael Pollan
SNA
Me: Stories of My Life
Katharine Hepburn
MSO
Behold a Pale Horse
Milton William Cooper
BAP
Why Read the Classics?
Italo Calvino
WRT
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Stephen Jay Gould
BFB
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus
BTT
Disciplines of a Godly Man
R. Kent Hughes
DOA
Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
Jacques Philippe
SFA
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
David Wojnarowicz
CTT
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
Pico Iyer
TLA
The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
Pema Chödrön
TWO
H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
Michel Houellebecq
HLA
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
Slavenka Drakulić
HWS
Uh-oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
Robert Fulghum
USO
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond
TTC
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
P.J. O'Rourke
POW
Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior
Dan Millman
SJO
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
Gloria Steinem
RFW
On Directing Film
David Mamet
ODF
Last Chance to See
Douglas Adams
LCT
The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf
TBM
The Ragamuffin Gospel
Brennan Manning
TRG
Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
Anthony de Mello
ACW
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Camille Paglia
SPA
Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story
Alexander Shulgin
PAC
A Natural History of the Senses
Diane Ackerman
ANH
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
Thomas Sankara
WLA
The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency
Melody Beattie
TLO
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Jon Kabat-Zinn
FCL
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
Susan Forward
TPO
The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
Joseph Campbell
THJ
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
Patricia Hill Collins
BFT
The Journalist and the Murderer
Janet Malcolm
TJA
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Jon Krakauer
EDV
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
John Kenneth Galbraith
ASH
Iron John: A Book About Men
Robert Bly
IJA