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Spirituality and Religion March 2020
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When Less Becomes More: Making Space for Slow, Simple, and Good
by Emily Ley
The best-selling author and founder of a brand of planners and organizational tools for women helps readers who are feeling fatigued and overwhelmed unravel their patterns of emptiness and build a life of nourishment, fullness, dreaming and joy.
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Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber ScorahWhat it's about: the personal and religious trials of third-generation Jehovah's Witness Amber Scorah, from growing up in the church to missionary work to ultimately losing her faith and her family of origin.
What makes it unique: the circumstances and story of the author's missionary posting in China, where religious expression is tightly controlled by the government.
Reviewers say: "[Scorah] has a winning sense of humor" in this "impressive debut" (Publishers Weekly).
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
by Reza Aslan
The author of the best-selling No God but God presents a meticulously researched biography of Jesus that draws on biblical and historical sources to place his achievements and influence against the turbulent backdrop of his time.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe black leader discusses his political philosophy and reveals details of his life, shedding light on the ideas that enabled him to gain the allegiance of a still growing percentage of the black population.
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Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography
by Kathryn Spink
From her childhood in the Balkans as a member of a remarkably openhearted and religious family to her work in India, from attending the victims of war-torn Beirut to pleading with George Bush and Saddam Hussein to choose peace over war, Mother Teresa was driven by an absolute faith. During her lifetime, Mother Teresa resisted having her full biography written. Then in 1991, realizing that accounts of her life and work could inspire others, she gave Kathryn Spink, who had long been intimately involved with the work of Mother Teresa and her order, permission to proceed with a complete biography on the understanding that it would not be finished until after her death.
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Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life With Carlos Castaneda
by Amy Wallace
A portrait of the cult-like inner circle of Carlos Castaneda, as presented by one of his disciples and lovers, reveals many of the mystical writer's spiritual rituals and magical instructions, the author's denial of her harem-like life, and her quest for the truth.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine
by Saint Augustine, translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey
The Confessions of St. Augustine is the collection of St. Augustine's thirteen autobiographical books, each singly known as Confessions. In these books he details his sinful youth, his conversion to Christianity, and the regrets he thereafter lives with of his previous convictions and action. It is an incredibly important work, both as the theological study of his thought processes and development and also as a minute historical account from the 4th and 5th centuries.
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