Author: Katz, Jon.
Published: 2011
Call Number: 155.937 KATZ
Format: Books
Summary: Presents a meditation on coping with the loss of an animal who has enriched one's life, sharing observations on the ways in which people grieve for their pets, related philosophical quesions, and the process of letting go.
Author: Reiss, Michele.
Published: 2010
Call Number: 155.937 REISS
Format: Books
Summary: Psychotherapist Dr. Michele Reiss specializes in helping clients cope with life-threatening illnesses and helping their families through the grieving process. She counseled Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, and his wife, Jai, as Randy was dying of pancreatic cancer. Here, Dr. Reiss provides comfort and counsel for readers who are coping with the challenges of serious illness or grief. Through real-life examples of people who have dealt with cancer and other illnesses, she has given us a book about hope and the art of living and loving well, despite significant adversity. Dr. Reiss also reminds us that it should not take a life-threatening illness, or loss, or trauma to awaken us to living each day with joy, blessings, passion, and purpose.--From publisher description.
Author: Iyengar, Sheena.
Published: 2010
Call Number: 153.83 IYENGAR
Format: Books
Summary: Sheena Iyengar's award-winning research reveals how and why we choose: whether or not choice is innate or bound by culture, why we sometimes choose against our best interests, and how much control we really have over what we choose.
Author: Karabell, Zachary.
Published: 2007
Call Number: 201 KARABELL
Format: Books
Summary: Includes information on Abbasid caliphate, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Alexandria, Andalusia, Antioch, Arabic language, Armenians, Baghdad, Balkans, Beirut, Berbers, Byzantine Empire, Cairo, Christianity, Christians, Constantinople, Cordoba, Crusades, Damascus, Egypt, England, Europe, Fatimid dynasty, France, Franks, Greek Orthodox Church, ancient Greeks, Habsburgs, Caliph Harun al-Rashid, Hebrew language, Heraclius (Byzantine Emperor), Hezbollah, Holy Land, Hospitallers, Sharif Husayn ibn Ali, Iberian Peninsula, India, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Istanbul, Janissaries, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Jews, jihad, Judaism, Latin language, Lebanon, Moses Maimonides, Maronite Christian Church, Mecca, Medina, Mediterranean Sea, Sultan Mehmed II, monks, monasteries, Morocco, Muhammad ibn Abdullah (Prophet), Muslims, mysticism, nationalism, North Africa, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Paris, People of the Book, People of the Pact, Persia, poetry, Quran (Koran), Quraysh tribe, reform movements, Roman Catholic Church, Rome, Russia, Saladin, Salonica, Seljuk dynasty, September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Spain, sultan Suleyman I, Syria, Templars, Torah, Turkey, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, World War I, World War II, Zionism, Zoroastrians, etc.
Author: Vonnegut, Kurt, author.
Published: 2006 1974
Call Number: B VONNEGUT
Format: Books
Summary: Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, always witty, and deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this work is a window not only into Vonnegut' s mind ... but also into his heart. "A great cosmic comedian and a rattler of human skeletons, an idealist disguised as a pessimist ... has written a book filled with madness and truth and absurdity and self-revelation"--St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "He is our strongest writer ... the most stubbornly imaginative"--John Irving.
Author: Chopra, Deepak.
Published: 2006
Call Number: 202.3 CHOPRA
Format: Books
Author: Walter, Philippe, 1952-
Published: 2006
Call Number: 263 WALTER
Format: Books
Author: Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
Published: 2006
Call Number: 200.9014 ARMSTRONG
Format: Books
Summary: In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Later generations further developed these initial insights, but we have never grown beyond them. Now, Karen Armstrong reveals how the sages of this pivotal "Axial Age" can speak clearly and helpfully to the violence and desperation that we experience in our own times. The Axial Age faiths began in recoil from the unprecedented violence of their time. There was a remarkable consensus in their call for an abandonment of selfishness and a spirituality of compassion. The traditions of the Axial Age were not about dogma--all insisted on the primacy of compassion even in the midst of suffering.--From publisher description.
Author: Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
Published: 2005
Call Number: B LINCOLN
Format: Books
Summary: This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as the one-term congressman rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals to become president. When Lincoln emerged as the victor at the Republican National Convention, his rivals were dismayed. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery led inexorably to civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. It was this that enabled Lincoln to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union.
Author: Ehrman, Bart D.
Published: 2005
Call Number: 225.486 EHRMAN
Format: Books
Summary: When Biblical scholar Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages, he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. For almost 1500 years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were influenced by the cultural, theological and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible. He makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and beliefs stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes--alterations that dramatically affected subsequent versions.--From publisher description.
Author: Feiler, Bruce, 1964-
Published: 2005
Call Number: 200.956 FEILER
Format: Books
Author: MacCulloch, Diarmaid.
Published: 2004 2003
Call Number: 270.6 MAC CULLOCH
Format: Books
Author: Hamm, Thomas D.
Published: 2003
Call Number: 289.673 HAMM
Format: Books
Author: Chidester, David.
Published: 2001 2000
Call Number: 270 CHIDESTER
Format: Books
Author: Harris, Joanne, 1964- author.
Published: 2001 2000
Call Number: F HARRIS
Format: Books
Summary: From the author of "Chocolat" comes an intoxicating tale of love lost and found, set in a small French village. As a boy Jay spent summers in Europe hanging out with his friend Joe and his homemade wines. Now a young man, Jay returns to France to recapture some of the magic of his lost youth.
Author: Evanovich, Janet.
Published: 2001
Call Number: F EVANOVIC
Format: Books
Author: Stewart, Mariah, author.
Published: 2000
Call Number: PB STEWART
Format: Books
Summary: Leah McDevitt will do almost anything to learn the location of her sister's body, even pay ransom to her killer, but when the killer dies unexpectedly in prison, she seeks the assistance of a man who lost his wife to the same butcher. As co-owner and features editor of a popular magazine, Leah McDevitt loves exploring exotic locales while she tracks fashion and social trends across the globe. Yet despite her devotion to her fast-paced career, Leah is haunted by the memory of her cherished younger sister Melissa, who years ago disappeared without a trace. So when convicted serial killer Raymond Lambert contacts her, Leah is more than willing to pay him the long-standing reward for information leading to the recovery of Melissa's body. But before Lambert can turn over all his information, he himself is killed. Devastated but determined to finally uncover the truth, Leah heads to the Maine woods to seek out Ethan Sanger, the author of a book about Lambert. A private investigator, Ethan had written the killer's story in exchange for yet another of Lambert's terrible secrets. Working together to discover the truth about Melissa's disappearance, Leah and Ethan come to realize that even amid the ashes of tragedy, love can bloom. But someone harboring secrets of his own is about to enter their lives...someone who knows more about Leah than he should...someone who won't be satisfied until his own deadly game is played out.
Author: Wilkinson, Philip. Philip, Neil.
Published: 1998
Call Number: 291.13 WILKINSON
Format: Books
Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter, 1881-1954, author.
Published: 1997 1928
Call Number: FIC ALDRICH
Format: Books
Summary: After marrying Will Deal and moving to Nebraska, Abbie endures the difficulties of frontier life and raises her children to pursue the ambitions that were once her own. The classic story of Abbie and Will Deal--pioneers who left everything behind for a new life on America's frontier. Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother, devoting herself to music and art. But at eighteen Abbie found a different dream, turning away from the promise of a comfortable life as a doctor's wife to marry handsome, quiet Will Deal. Together, they eagerly accepted the challenge of homesteading in Nebraska territory, where the prairies stretched as far as the eye could see, and only the strongest survived for long. For nearly 90 years, reader have cherished Abbie's story--an inspiring story of struggle against unexpected perils, of love and laughter, of the land she helped conquer and the family she raised.
Author: Breuilly, Elizabeth. O'Brien, Joanne, 1959- Palmer, Martin. Marty, Martin E., 1928-
Published: 1997
Call Number: 291 BREUILLY
Format: Books
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