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I have bought a bunch of older books from our local library, (they sell or give away the older or outdated ones,) but here's the last book I bought.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Spyro-Reignited-Trilogy/dp/1945683988
Skittles
(153,193 posts)he pursues unsolved murders....good stuff
dweller
(23,661 posts)Sounds fascinating
putting it on my list of reads
✌🏻
Skittles
(153,193 posts)quite a fascinating read
CanonRay
(14,113 posts)werdna
(495 posts)Excellent book by Michael Newton. Here's anew author's first book along the same lines you might be interested in:
https://awalkinthephysical.com/welcome/
I have yet to read it, but it has been touted by a spiritually oriented pod-caster:
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werdna
(495 posts)This is who we're referencing vis-a-vis Life Between Lives. https://www.newtoninstitute.org/dr-michael-newton/
This is the author to whom you refer. https://www.fantasticfiction.com/n/michael-newton/
Midnight Writer
(21,798 posts)Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)I found it fascinating....
Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)I love Michael Newton's work...
musette_sf
(10,206 posts)Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years - Diane di Prima
https://www.amazon.com/Recollections-My-Life-Woman-Years/dp/0140231587
Not available on Kindle so had to get the hard copy.
Tikki
(14,559 posts)and she was writing even then.
I am half way through and truly enjoying this story.
These are interesting characters living curious yet relatable lives.
https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Find-My-Way-Home-ebook/dp/B09MWLCM31
Tikki
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)I've read it a few times but never owned it until recently.
werdna
(495 posts)Beautiful, enlightening translation.
nevergiveup
(4,764 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)'Big Brother' says you shouldn't be doing that!!!!!
2naSalit
(86,776 posts)Doug Peacock
Was It Worth It?
A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home.
2022.
I read his first book many years ago and never forgot a number of events in it still. I haven't started this one yet because I started a project a few days before it arrived that consumes my time right now.
VGNonly
(7,505 posts)Hayduke Lives!
2naSalit
(86,776 posts)petronius
(26,603 posts)VGNonly
(7,505 posts)by Aldo Leopold and The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder are amongst my favorites.
petronius
(26,603 posts)3catwoman3
(24,045 posts)
Winds of War and War and Remembrance.
I am a re-reader of well told tales.
zanana1
(6,129 posts)I should read them over again.
3catwoman3
(24,045 posts)any dry old history book.
zanana1
(6,129 posts)They're a story and a history lesson all rolled into one.
wnylib
(21,606 posts)that my paperback copies are coming apart. Will need to buy new ones.
Have also watched the movie series several times. Too expensive to buy, but my library has the whole series which I currently have out on loan.
Wouk was a genius.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)There always something more to ponder. Further, studying the techniques of story telling.
Backseat Driver
(4,394 posts)One about William Churchill and the other a tall tale about how it was living in the seductiveness of pre-war Germany as war drew closer, the serving US Ambassador and his family.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)VGNonly
(7,505 posts)I'm an armchair scholar on the subject.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)The new book is an eye opener. There's much more detail about what occurred on Shackleton's expeditions. The degree of danger and misery Fiennes describes is beyond anything I've read. He also fills in details about Shackleton 's early life and his time in England between expeditions. Fills in details for me, at least. And, he's writing from the perspective of his own Antarctic adventures. It's interesting that he accomplished the trans-continent feat that Shackleton was seeking.
It's a great book.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)The Endurance / Aurora expedition doesn't begin until about 70% through the book. Fiennes has a lot to say about the previous expeditions and activities during the intervening times. It's a wonderful read.
SeattleVet
(5,479 posts)A lot of in-depth info and some amazing photos about the plight of the Southern Resident group that frequents Puget Sound, and ho they connect to native cultures.
She's a reporter for the Seattle Times that has done a lot of work with the Seattle Aquarium. The current art exhibit in the aquarium is based on this book.
https://smile.amazon.com/Orca-Shared-Waters-Home/dp/1680513265/
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,404 posts)about the suicide of his son and the events of January 6, 2021, which resulted in Raskin leading the team for the second impeachment ofTrump. Finished it this past week. Highly recommended.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58935131-unthinkable
Chipper Chat
(9,687 posts)About the Negro Leagues in Indiana 1900-1950.
Shrek
(3,983 posts)Donkees
(31,453 posts)Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does with English, Dogen utterly transforms the language of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to point to everything important in the religious life.
He is known for two major works. The first work, the massive Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye), represents his early teachings and exists in myriad English translations; the second work, the Eihei Koroku, is a collection of all his later teachings, including short formal discourses to the monks training at his temple, longer informal talks, and koans with his commentaries, as well as short appreciatory verses on various topics. The Shobogenzo has received enormous attention in Western Zen and Western Zen literature, and with the publication of this watershed volume, the Eihei Koroku will surely rise to commensurate stature.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Dogens-Extensive-Record/Eihei-Dogen/9780861716708
MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)That's not just a statement, it's the title of the book I bought off of a 'used-book' shelf - written by Al Franken - and he was correct!!!!
North Shore Chicago
(3,326 posts)For folks who are not aware, you will NEVER see Columbus Day the same way.
zanana1
(6,129 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Both Peoples History and The 1619 Project should be required reading.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And I plan to buy soon!
niyad
(113,553 posts)Dunbar-Ortiz? Will definitely make you rethink columbus day. A very painful, sad, horrifying read.
North Shore Chicago
(3,326 posts)Sounds shocking and riveting.
niyad
(113,553 posts)heartbreaking.
Let me know what you think of it.
North Shore Chicago
(3,326 posts)I just ordered the book, I am also voraciously reading Holocaust survivor stories. I must be a masochist.
niyad
(113,553 posts)the events and the powers involved.
Bayard
(22,149 posts)I have a small library of Native books.
niyad
(113,553 posts)mopinko
(70,215 posts)a tale of the rising in '98 (1798)
about an ancestor of mine, written in 1856.
Emile
(22,915 posts)Ordered but not here yet.
demmiblue
(36,885 posts)Lettuce Be
(2,336 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Anderson's in Naperville, Illinois.
Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis. This is the latest in a detective series set in Rome under the Flavian emperors. The other is The Sourdough Whisperer by Elaine Boddy. For those of you interested in sourdough bread making, I cannot recommend Elaine enough. Her website is https://foodbodsourdough.com/
Kali
(55,019 posts)Discovering Paquimé
Minnis, Paul E., Whalen, Michael E., University of Arizona Press
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)yardwork
(61,705 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)baseball stuff
Harker
(14,034 posts)Found it for a dollar at my local library's little bookshop.
Thich Hanh, or Thich Nhat Hanh... that is the question.
Auggie
(31,187 posts)NNadir
(33,545 posts)...[link:http://|Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid] by my friend Meredith Angwin.
It's not a novel, but is a novel horror. There's a word for lack of access to reliable power: Poverty.
We're running out of room for books in this house, so I'm trying to rely on the library more and more, that and electronic downloads.
Ocelot II
(115,836 posts)Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: sonder. Or maybe youve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. Thats called lachesism. Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time youve never actually experienced. Thats anemoia.
If youve never heard of these terms before, thats because they didnt exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have, says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human conditionfrom astrophe, the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to zenosyne, the sense that time keeps getting faster.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Dictionary-of-Obscure-Sorrows/John-Koenig/9781501153648
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)area51
(11,920 posts)BuddhaGirl
(3,609 posts)about a magical Middle Eastern kingdom, by S. A. Chakraborty. I'm currently on the 2nd book and this series is awesome.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P61V629?searchxofy=true&binding=kindle_edition&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin&qid=1645817683&sr=8-1
ruet
(10,039 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)Anne Perry
Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)The last book I bought is, What Color Is Your Parachute For Teens...
benpollard
(199 posts)By Andrew L. Seidel
I have poor eyesight so I'm listening to the audiobook. It's good, but I'm not enamored with the narration. Add a little mirth to your voice, for crap's sake (like Seidel does when he speaks)!
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)by John Pavlovitz
Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)The Cold Smell of Sacred Stone
The Beasts of Valhalla
Two Songs This Archangel Sings
Great stuff.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)I HIGHLY recommend it (not just for what she says about TFG, which is plenty).
She has a lot to say about dictators from Mussolini to Khadafy to Saddam and Putin. A quality read.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have been seriously looking into psychedelic healing lately and even talking to my therapist about it. I expect that I will do it within the next year, but wanted to read up on it first. The subject really fascinates me and he is one of the leading experts in this field.
Not Heidi
(1,290 posts)So far I'm not impressed.
Too many of the prompts require only a one-line answer. My favorite of these: "What color are your eyes?"
Eliciting the best/longest answer: "Write about a song and the memories of feelings it evokes in you."
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Closed-ended ones are asking a lot of the writer.
😕
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Wolf
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)and "Go Set a Watchman"
Found "Watchman" interesting but had some problems with it
Partly through "Lion," long and exhausting in detail
"One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness"
by: Tony Nader, MD, PhD
https://www.amazon.com/One-Unbounded-Ocean-Consciousness-Questions/dp/B09NP8VL8W/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26ZWAL02LEMPL&keywords=one+unbounded+ocean+of+consciousness+tony+nader&qid=1645936181&s=books&sprefix=one++unbounded%2Cstripbooks%2C243&sr=1-1
nolabear
(41,991 posts)The movie was so striking I just had to see how the plot played out in the book. Im about 1/3 through and its really good.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)Hope he continues the series since he introduced an interesting new character.
niyad
(113,553 posts)America" by Stephanie Gorton. About one of the most influential magazines of its time, demonstrating the indispensible role of true investigative journalism.
Mad_Dem_X
(9,565 posts)I've yet to read it, but hopefully will soon.
Bayard
(22,149 posts)Finished it a few weeks ago. Its a good one!
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)It is a good series. Title is "The Nazi's Engineer" I was disturbed by the punctuation until I realized the Nazi refers to an individual, not the party as a whole. In fact, the author has a note regarding the punctuation.
#20 in the series, which can be read out of order if you choose.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0779M3KWH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I do not remember the last physical book I purchased. My campaign to avoid running out of space for books has been highly successful!!
LudwigPastorius
(9,170 posts)Its part of The Expanse series.
These days all I can stand is some escapist, pulp sci fi.
Real life is too heavy for nonfiction right now.
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)a Memoir, by Poe Ballantine.
Author Poe Ballantine investigates the disappearance of a brilliant mathematics professor, who is later found mysteriously tied to a tree and burned beyond recognition.
http://hawthornebooks.com/catalogue/love-and-terror-on-the-howling-plains-of-nowhere
Also available at Amazon.
A documentary was made about the book. Here's video preview of the doc on You Tube:
I lived in Chadron, NE until a year and half ago and became very interested in the case.
Chris, the guy in the video who said it would make perfect sense for Haataja to have killed himself was being sarcastic, as he later clarified in person. And how, with a lot of F words.