Gilbert, Elizabeth.
Summary: Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure, guidance, experience and wholeness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GILBERT, ELIZABETH GILNhat Hạnh
Summary: Thich Nhat Hanh, the world's most renowned Zen master, turns his mindful attention to the most important subject of all - the art of living. The bestselling author of The Miracle of Mindfulness presents, for the first time, seven transformative meditations that open up new perspectives on our lives, our relationships and our interconnectedness with the world around us. He reveals an art of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 294.3 NHAFrancis
Summary: A collection of homilies, speeches, and "messages of the day" that brings together Pope Francis's wisdom on finding happiness in the here and now.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248 FRALamott, Anne
Summary: "I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated"--the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 170 LAMChopra, Deepak.
Summary: "... two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God, probing the fundamental questions that define the human experience"--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 201.65 CHOLucado, Max
Summary: Max Lucado delves into the meaning of Jesus' last hours on the cross. Through his death, your life has purpose and meaning. You are forgiven and loved by a Savior who died for you. And an empty tomb proclaims that death does not have the final word.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 232.96 Lucado 2019Meacham, Jon.
Summary: Jon Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. As Meacham shows, faith - meaning a belief in a higher power, and the sense that we are God's chosen people - has always been at the heart of our national experience, from Jamestown to the Constitutional Convention to the Civil Rights...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 322.1 MeaChödrön, Pema.
Summary: In this recorded retreat, based on the program 'Living beautifully with uncertainty and change' held at Omega Institute, Pema Chodron and her teaching assistant, Meg Wheatley, provide a wealth of wisdom for learning to step right into the river: to be completely, fearlessly present even in the hardest times, and the most difficult situations.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.3 CHODenhollander, Rachael
Summary: You're beautiful, worthy, and you should be loved. Because of all that you are. Different from anything else in the world, You are precious beyond the stars. How Much Is a Little Girl Worth? is Rachael Denhollander's tender-hearted anthem to little girls everywhere, teaching them that they have immeasurable worth because they are made in the image of God. Armed with this understanding, girls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE HOWKrakauer, Jon.
Summary: Few, if any, outsiders gain a peek inside the shrouded, secretive compounds of Mormon Fundamentalists. However, after years of painstaking research, Jon Krakauer has composed a shocking and insightful picture of these communities. He also provides commentary on the heinous murder carried out by polygamists Ron and Dan Lafferty.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 289.33 KRAMeyer, Joyce
Summary: Get equipped with twelve strategies that provide the antidote for every battle in your mind. With Power Thoughts, learn how you can control the way you think and positively affect every area of your life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Rivers, Francine
Summary: In this weekly devotional, Francine Rivers invites you to join her in seeking the Creator through the marvelous natural world we live in. Francine shares observations she's gathered over a lifetime of exploring--abroad and in her own backyard--and reflects on how they might apply to your daily life. What do the majestic redwoods, the persistent woodpecker, or a glorious sunrise reveal about our...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIVDenhollander, Rachael
Summary: You're beautiful, worthy, and you should be loved. Because of all that you are. Different from anything else in the world, You are precious beyond the stars. How Much Is a Little Girl Worth? is Rachael Denhollander's tender-hearted anthem to little girls everywhere, teaching them that they have immeasurable worth because they are made in the image of God. Armed with this understanding, girls...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Denhollander 2019 2019Gerges, Fawaz A.
Summary: The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as he provides a unique history of the rise and growth of ISIS. Moving...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956 GERGore, Albert
Summary: "At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the 2004 presidential campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism. We live in an age when the 30-second television spot is the most...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.931 GORCarter, Jimmy
Summary: In an intensely personal recollection, the president describes his encounter with faith, and how it has sustained him in both happiness and disappointment. Quoting eminent Protestant theologians, he describes his belief in religious freedom, moral politics, and the place of prayer in his daily life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 234 CARJessop, Carolyn
Summary: Chronicles one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children, and her account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 289.3092 JESLusko, Levi
Summary: A guide to overcoming suffering is relayed through the story of the author's loss of his five-year-old daughter to an asthma attack.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 248 LUSNhá̂t Hạnh
Summary: Thich Nhat Hanh, a renowned Zen Buddhist monk, presents personal insight into the essence of true love. Hanh also relates the four key Buddhist aspects of love to daily life and offers basic Buddhists techniques for conditioning one's self to give and receive love.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.3 NHAMeacham, Jon
Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LINChödrön, Pema.
Summary: An introduction to lojong, a Tibetan Buddhist practice created for training the mind to work with everyday challenges. Includes a session of tonglen meditation, a practice for cultivating inner-strength and compassion.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 294.3 CHOWilliamson, Marianne
Contents: 1. Overcoming all obstacles. Spiritual solutions -- 2. Anger. Moving out of pain -- 3. Fear of success. Removing the rock -- 4. Handling fear. Embracing change.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 152.46 WILFong, Kevin.
Summary: Anesthesiologist, intensive care expert, and NASA adviser Kevin Fong explores how physical extremes push human limits and spawn incredible medical breakthroughs.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.02 FONPercy, Jennifer.
Summary: A report on the long-lasting effects of war on individual and national psyches shares the experiences of veterans working through post-traumatic stress disorder at a Christian rehabilitation camp.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2014