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The Lover's Dictionary eBook: David Levithan. Love & Misadventure: Lang Leav: 9781449456146: Amazon.com. Lam·bent. Don Draper's Book Club. Getting the Girl by Markus Zusak. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Tamar by Mal Peet. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. The McSweeney's Store - Fiction.

7 Books That Will Violently Shift Your Perspectives. Once in a while a book comes along that rocks your world so hard that you’re never quite the same after. Here are 7 of those books, ordered by how hard they’re going to rock your skull! On Happiness…. Zen and the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss Of all the books & articles I have read on happiness, this one is by far the best. Prentiss takes an extremely pragmatic approach to cultivating a mindset of happiness so that nothing can bring you down.

This is not ‘The Secret’ with wishy-washy ‘science’. No spirituality required. The next book on the list is offers a perfect balance to this one. On Mortality and Meaning… Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl experienced the limits of human suffering during his extended stay in Nazi concentration camps. Now that you have your mind in order, it’s time to move on to your body… Read Man’s Search for Meaning in 15 minutes for free with Blinkist.

On Health & Nutrition… Yoga of Eating by Charles Eisenstein – Health & Nutrition. 8 Books For a Higher Existence. Books are magical inventions. By carrying meaning, they gives us glimpses of experience and knowledge from a different world. Phonetic language, being cut-off from time and place, the Now, helps both to encapsulate the ego more, but also to offer guidance to make it poriferous, letting Eros free. Without books we would lose this guidance. And in these times of dire ecological and cultural crisis, we need new ways to respond to the ecosystem that we simultaneous are and are imbedded in. These are the books that can lift our spirits to a necessary higher existence. If you’re done reading this list and want to level up more – check out part two! Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche Becoming Animal – David Abram Abram’s first book The Spell of the Sensuous convincingly argued that being human is inseparably interconnected with everything that is not human.

Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal – Alan Watts The Story of B – Daniel Quinn Original photo by June. The McSweeney's Store - Home. New Books - Buy, Sell, Search Books Online at Half.com. South Country Library. 3000 Free Audio Books + eBooks, Download for iPhone, Android, Kindle and more! Fashion lifestyle.