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My goal is to read a book a week!
My #1 All-Time Favorite!
The Price of the Ticket
Compiled into one volume are James Baldwin's essays from the past five decades. Except for the lead article, "The Price of the Ticket," all have been published before. The selections are arranged in chronological order and include his three book-length essays, "The Fire Next Time," "No Name in the Street" and "The Devil Finds Work." Baldwin's writings on the civil rights movement, his analysis of Richard Wright's Native Son (Harper, 1940) and his thoughts on his childhood experiences are a few of the topics in this volume. Baldwin brilliantly, intensely and passionately details his hopes, his joys, his bitterness and his feelings about himself, his community and especially his country.
Books by My Bedside
February House By Sherrill Tippins
For a brief period just before the United States entered WWII, 7 Middagh Street, a shabby Brooklyn brownstone, was the unlikely setting for a unique arrangement in bohemian living and a circle that became the talk of fashionable Manhattan. At its center was the flamboyant literary editor George Davis, who, at loose ends after being sacked by Harper's Bazaar, invited several of his talented New York friends to form an art commune. Sharing a chaotic yet convivial life were poet Auden and his compatriot composer friend Britten, who busied themselves with an opera drawing on their developing experience of American life. Also present was the fragile, sherry-sipping Southerner Carson McCullers, who began her novel The Member of the Wedding at 7 Middagh Street, developed a lesbian crush and split with her failed novelist husband, Reeve; Paul Bowles, then a composer, who crafted a ballet score while his wife, Jane, wrote a novel and worshiped Auden (much to Bowles's consternation); the warm-hearted burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee, whom Davis helped to write a novel; the émigré political activist siblings Erika, Klaus and Golo Mann (children of Thomas Mann); and the distinguished theatrical designer Oliver Smith. Drawing on numerous archival and biographical sources, Tippins, formerly a public television producer, conveys with verve the pace and tenor of life in the house, reconstructing its wild parties, broken romances and supper talk. Her narrative interweaves biographical surveys and lively anecdotes gleaned from interviews with surviving contemporaries into a broader overview of wartime literary and artistic New York. This enjoyable and well-paced read should appeal to anyone interested in 1940s American intelligentsia and Brooklyn history alike.
Just Finished!
The Confession
More than a coming-out memoir, The Confession is the story of one man’s quest to repair the rift between his public and private selves, at a time in our culture when the personal and political have become tangled like frayed electrical cables. Teeming with larger-than-life characters, written with honesty, grace, and rare insight into what it means to negotiate the minefields of American public life, it may be among the most honest political memoirs ever written.
Robert’s Recommended Reading!
Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine
These revolutionary recipes do more than stimulate your palate. Properly understood, they enhance your understanding of the biological terrain of the body and mind and the process of attaining optimal health and expanded consciousness. The authors of Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine have created the first sophisticated, gourmet, multinational cuisine based on natural, organic, living food.
A Return to Love
In this spiritual guide, Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace. Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether our psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health, she shows us how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and loving world for our children.
The Courage to be Rich: Creating a Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance By Suze Orman
Practical, spiritual, and above all soundly financial, The Courage to be Rich addresses the rites of passage we all must face – marriage, divorce, death; spending (and overspending) on life's necessities and luxuries; taking control of our financial tomorrows today. From the business of love to buying a home; from imparting proper values to our children to defining our own self-worth; from starting over to staking a claim to our future, Orman shows us how to find the clarity, conviction, and courage to meet the obstacles and opportunities of a lifetime.
Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Lives By Khephra Burns and Susan L. Taylor
Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Lives is a very personal collection of inspirational writings gathered by the husband and wife team of Khephra Burns and Susan L. Taylor from more than a hundred different sources, representing the wisdom of diverse cultures throughout the world that have helped to shape their spiritual life. Introduced by a moving essay describing Susan and Khephra's spiritual coming-of-age, and informed by scores of narrative bridges by the authors explaining and annotating the selections they include, the collection spotlights the wisdom of the ages that has been at the core of the author's spiritual growth over the past twenty years.
The Four Agreements
In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
Words That Heal
God’s Word is full of healing. And this little book and its companion CD are full of words that heal – from powerful scriptures, to songs of healing and faith, to faith-filled prayers and confessions, to encouraging quotes from Gloria Copeland. They’ll increase your faith for healing over and over.
Acts of Faith
Acts of Faith, more affectionately known as “the purple book”, has truly taken on a life of its own. It has crossed gender lines to foster understanding, racial divides to create peace, religious barriers to encourage tolerance, and has become somewhat of a lantern for those seeking a better way of life. Some say it has comforted them. Others say it has enlightened them. It has changed perspectives for some, direction for others, and lives for many.
The Living Foods Lifestyle By Brenda Cobb
Anyone can have good health and happiness if they are willing to do what it takes! This inspiring guide about the Living Foods Lifestyle is a must read for anyone seeking knowledge about a natural way to heal the body, mind and spirit. It’s a remarkable story of how Brenda Cobb turned her own health challenges into a mission to help heal the world. It’s not just a diet, but a whole new way of thinking that really changes lives. Her delicious recipes and practical advice have empowered people around the world to take charge of their own health and well-being and take control of their lives.
The Bliss Principle: 5 Easy Ways to Reduce Stress By Kellye Davis
In The Bliss Principle, yoga instructor and stress management counselor Kellye Davis offers five easy ways to address your peace urge and reduce stress in your life. With her simple but effective program, you will learn strategies that help you get in touch – and stay in touch –with the calm inside you wherever you are, no matter how busy you are. The tools to recharge and refuel are available whenever you need them: at the office, waiting in line at a store, or at home after a long and exhausting day in an over-busy, over-stimulated world.
Healing is a Choice: Ten Decisions That Will Transform Your Life & Ten Lies That Can Prevent You from Making Them! By Stephen Arterburn, M. Ed.
Author Stephen Arterburn outlines ten choices crucial to receiving healing. Embracing these choices means rejecting the lies we often tell ourselves. These are not hoops God requires you to jump through to earn your miracle; they form, instead, the journey He desires for you. He can and will walk with you. But you must also choose to let the hurt go and let the healing begin.
The Wealthy Spirit: Daily Affirmations for Financial Stress Reduction
Through 365 affirmations and inspiring stories that focus on inner strength and our innate power to change, The Wealthy Spirit sends you on a path toward personal enlightenment and wealth in body, mind and spirit.
Every Man’s Battle: Winning the War on Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time By Stephen Arterburn & Fred Stoeker with Mike Yorkey
From the television to the Internet, print media to videos, men are constantly faced with the assault of sensual images. It is impossible to avoid such temptations…but, thankfully, not impossible to rise above them. Shattering the perception that men are unable to control their thought lives and roving eyes, Every Man’s Battle shares the stories of dozens who have escaped the trap of sexual immorality and presents a practical, detailed plan for any man who desires sexual purity – perfect for men who have fallen in the past, those who want to remain strong today, and all who want to overcome temptation in the future.
Includes a special section for women, designed to help them understand and support the men they love.
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