February 2021 list by Holly Whistler
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Ask Your Guides: Calling In Your Divine Support System for Help With Everything in Life
by Sonia Choquette
This newly revised edition from world renowned teacher Sonia Choquette features brand-new stories, channeled meditations, and other tools and techniques. When we learn how to reconnect with our guides with a little bit of effort and cooperation, Choquette reveals, our lives naturally fall into a pattern of ease and flow during which we grow our souls, fulfill our life's purpose, and make our time on Earth endlessly entertaining.
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Begin Again : Your Hope and Renewal Start Today
by Max Lucado
A religious approach aims to help people struggling with sadness, pain, or disappointment. In this compilation , which also includes original content, pastor and New York Times best-selling author Max Lucado celebrates God’s promise to restore and renew and assures us of the new possibilities ahead. .
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Believe It : How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable
by Jamie Kern Lima
Jamie Kern Lima, founder of IT Cosmetics, shares her story of how a once-struggling waitress turned her against-the-grain idea into an international best-selling sensation. Faced with self-doubt, body-doubt, God-doubt, Jamie reveals for the first time what really went down and the deeply personal and powerful business lessons you, too, can use to go from underestimated to unstoppable.
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Himalaya : A Human History
by Ed Douglas
Nearly two decades in the making, this magisterial history of the Himalayas tells the epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains, makes a thrilling case for the Himalaya’s importance in global history and offers a soaring account of life at the "roof of the world."
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In Search of Wisdom: A Monk, a Philosopher, and a Psychiatrist on What Matters Most
by Matthieu Ricard, Christophe Andre, and Alexandre Jollien
What happens when a monk, a shrink, and a philosopher walk into a (proverbial) bar? If they're as well-educated and observant as the three authors of this book, expect an expansive discussion of many of the issues at the core of happiness, enlightenment, and life itself. While other books have presented interfaith and interdisciplinary dialogues, this has a warmth, intimacy, and frankness to that is only possible because of the authors' many years of close friendship.
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It's Not About the Burqa : Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
by Mariam Khan
In this anthology of essays about the contemporary Muslim female experience, seventeen Muslim women speak frankly about the hijab and wavering faith, about love and divorce, about feminism, queer identity, sex, and the twin threats of a disapproving community and a racist country. With a mix of British and international women writers, these essays are funny, warm, sometimes sad, and often angry, and each of them is a passionate declaration calling time on the oppression, the lazy stereotyping, the misogyny and the Islamophobia.
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Love and Rage : The Path of Liberation Through Anger
by Lama Rod Owens
Reconsidering the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberation and social change, Love and Rage weaves the inimitable wisdom and lived experience of Lama Rod Owens with Buddhist philosophy, practical meditation exercises, mindfulness, tantra, pranayama, ancestor practices, energy work, and classical yoga. The result is a book that serves as both a balm and a blueprint for those seeking justice who can feel overwhelmed with anger--and yet who refuse to relent. It is a necessary text for these times.
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Sovereign Self : Claim Your Inner Joy and Freedom With the Empowering Wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita
by Acharya Shunya
Claim your spiritual birthright of freedom, wholeness, and joy through the perennial wisdom of yoga's ancient spiritual texts, the Vedas, a 5,000-year-old collection of celebrated verses from ancient India. With Sovereign Self, Acharya Shunya shares a groundbreaking guide to the wisdom of these classic texts so that each of us may emancipate ourselves from restrictive belief systems and discover our true nature―that which is always whole, joyful, and free.
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