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From Art to Empowerment: How Women Can Develop Artistic Voice by Annette Luycx

Offbeat, authentically original… A beautiful, accessible workbook. Art educator and mentor Annette Luycx present a highly practical and effective amalgamation of personal experience, practical workouts, studio process, and art exercises to help women artists-to-be develop an artistic voice through self-discovery. …
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Running Back in Time by Dr. Zeev Gilkis

Simple yet powerful… A must-read. In his empowering latest, author and renowned scientist, Zeev Gilkis, PhD, offers a spirited guide about competitive running in old age that will nudge any reader toward following their dreams. He shares his own journey…
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The You Beyond You – The Knowledge of the Willing by Ramzi Najjar

A thought-provoking and powerful transformative compendium… In this empowering guide, the award-winning Najjar offers an extraordinary life approach to reach new heights as he lays out strategies for turning negative beliefs and ideas into positive ones. Combining true-life experiences with…
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Live Your Purpose: A Step by Step Guide on How to Live Your Best Life by Rick Heyland

Fresh and truly transformative… Heyland, a highly rated management consultant and senior business leader, offers this insightful and inspiring advice aimed at helping readers to grow and live a purposeful life. Defining purpose as “the reason you were created: it…
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Finding Our Niche: Toward A Restorative Human Ecology by Philip A. Loring

Thoughtful, instructive, and comprehensive… In this beautifully written, revealing book, Loring explores the rigid hierarchy of human rankings that has shaped the history of civilization and displays how in favor of a more sustainable and just vision for the future,…
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Book blurb: Autistic and Proud: What Cat Rescue Has Taught Me About Hope, Acceptance, and Never Giving Up by Zachariah Atteberry

Zachariah Atteberry, also known as the Cat Man to many of his supporters, has devoted much of his life to saving animals. He is also a vocal advocate for people with disabilities. He can relate to them—because he, himself has…
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Surrender: A Memoir of Nature, Nurture, and Love by Marylee MacDonald

Startling, riveting, and compulsively readable… MacDonald recounts her life as an adoptee and how it influenced her psyche in this searing memoir. Filtered through decades of reflection and introspection and written with a haunting precision, the book narrates MacDonald’s life…
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Future Perfect Now: 365 visionary tapas on life, love, art and everything in between by Lewis Evans

A fresh, original, inspiring guide to living everyday life better… In this empowering guide, Evans takes readers on a personal journey, sharing his profound insights and charting ways to cultivate one’s understanding about the future to facilitate celebration of human…
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The Human Snare by Rick Wood

Splendid… Deeply stirring and elegiac. Wood combines stunningly shot photographs with his own odyssey of travelling around the globe to tell the story of world’s decimation of wildlife in this beautiful and devastating yet hopeful account. Wood began his journey…
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The Black Market: A guide to art collecting by Charles Moore

A compelling, authoritative, and accessible guides to art collecting… Drawing from his own experience of a collector, writer, and scholar in the field of modern and contemporary African-American art, Moore offers a unique take on traversing the art world in…
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Escape from the Lower East Side by Richard Peres

An eloquent tale of human aspirations and resilience… Murder, betrayal, loneliness, and perversity propel Peres’s excellent historical biography, featuring his great grandfather, who emigrated from Germany in 1851 to America. With astonishingly real details, Peres creates a convincing picture of…
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A Dreamer’s Life by Laurika Bretherton

A flat-out fabulous memoir… In this lyrical and occasionally philosophical account, Laurika narrates her time spent as a drifter on a journey of self-discovery. With a secure job, a husband, and a cozy home, things seem to be going great…
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A Bagful of Kittens Headed to the Lake: Selected Essays by Cathy Carlton Hews

Brutally honest, compulsively readable, and at times painful to read… In this intimate and gripping collection of essays, Hews shines a light on her own struggles of caring for her father who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s. Hews’s father’s deterioration by late-onset…
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The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Fallacy: A Mental Health Industry Bonanza of Profit and Human Destruction by H. Nattanya Andersen

Extensive and compelling… Anderson challenges the basic assumptions about the PTSD treatment, drawing from her own experience of being diagnosed with PTSD after she survived an airplane engine explosion during work and the subsequent dismissal treatment at the hands of…
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Crying, Learning and Laughing: Why Students Visit the Teen center by Tamika M. Murray

A compelling, insightful guide… In simply written, engrossing accounts of experiences working with emotionally traumatized adolescents, social worker turned freelance writer and author Murray educates readers about how Teen Centers, the School-Based Youth Services Programs (SBYSP), can help bringing a…
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Cultivated Abundance: How We Can Build A Better Future through Transformative Technology Entrepreneurship by Mihir Pershad

A cogent and compelling study… The serial entrepreneur Pershad offers hard-earned business advice to build startups that can fundamentally change the world through a breezy and thoroughly convincing compendium of advice. Drawing from his own experience of working as a…
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Brooklyn Bred by Dr David Garrahan

A powerful and poignant memoir that doubles as an exploration of family ties, abandonment, forgiveness, and resilience… Former university professor, the Director of Pupil Personnel Services and District Superintendent of Schools, and veteran author Garrahan chronicles his journey of rags-to-riches…
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Soul Afterlife: Beyond the Near-Death Experience by Bud Megargee

  A compelling, must-read guide for those interested in soul’s journey after death… Megargee—former senior healthcare executive; a Washington, DC, healthcare lobbyist; and award-winning author—draws both on his personal journey of self-discovery and other people’s mystical experiences as he examines…
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BAD KARMA: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell by Paul Wilson

A gritty, adventurous tale… Wilson’s chance to join two local icons on a dream surf trip to mainland Mexico that resulted in a complete disaster makes for a compelling debut memoir. Being a one of the not-so-popular guys, twenty-one-year-old Wilson…
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The Boy Behind the China Cabinet: A Memoir about Addiction, Hollywood, Mother Teresa and Me by Paul LaGreca

Uplifting and engrossing… In this intimate and entertaining debut, LaGreca shares his spiritual journey of finding his true calling while growing up in Bronx in a large Catholic Italian family and living through his oldest brother’s drug addiction. Being a…