Posted in Book News, Inspiration, Spirituality, tagged beyond words, growing your inner light, inspiration, publisher, ram dass, Spirituality on December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Beyond Words Publishing, a co-publisher of Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books is run, in Hillsboro, OR outside of publishing’s New York epicenter. They publish 15 new mind-body-spirit titles per year with the hope that their work will inspire readers to gain wholeness and completeness for themselves, and to learn, grow, and find solutions.
While you may [...]
Posted in Book News, Holidays, tagged books, gifts, holiday, season on November 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Everywhere we look this week, it seems that the pace of life has been set to Holiday Mode. Macy’s has decked their outer facade with wreaths and lovely strands of white lights, the street lamps of San Francisco are adorned with silver stars, and the Holiday shopping list I started in August sits untouched in [...]
Posted in Book News, tagged healing, reading, prisoners, prose, literature on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Millions linked us to a great story yesterday about a new program being introduced by Exeter University in the UK called Stories Connect, which exposes prisoners to the classic stories and poems of Dickens, Steinbeck, Shakespeare and other literary pillars. Based on a successful US program, Changing Lives, Stories Connect aims to use literature [...]
Posted in Book News, Green, tagged green books, blogs, ecolibris, 100 reviews on November 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are ways to justify the use of wood pulp as a vehicle for the printed word. Trees keep us alive by providing oxygen so we can breathe, but BOOKS, to a book lover, provide just about everything else. We at GBiBT are blissful but not unaware of the environmental impact of our favorite media. So though [...]
Posted in Book News, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged emotions, healing, Spirituality, wellness on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
GBiBT is happy to host a guest article from Vaishali the author of Wisdom Rising and You Are What You Love. She is also a natural health & wellness practitioner and radio host of “You Are What You Love” on heard weekly on KTLK 1150am Sunday 11-noon PST in greater LA and Santa Barbara and [...]
Posted in Book News, Inspiration, Uncategorized, tagged Buddhism, death row, death penalty, innocence, foster care, insitutionalized, that bird has my wings on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This September, San Quentin death row inmate, Jarvis Jay Masters published the remarkable story of his journey to faith and spiritual freedom, THAT BIRD HAS MY WINGS: the Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row. By his enlightened tone and perspective, one would not imagine that the path he traveled to reach this point was so fraught [...]
Posted in Book News, LinkedIn on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our Blackberry cam ninja-at-large, Laina, is on ongoing assignment all over the Bay Area and beyond to discover what people are reading. Disguised as a commuter, she sneaks into public places such as BART and while seemingly checking work email, the shutter sound effect drowned by BART’s shrieks of metal against metal, snaps photos of book covers held by [...]
Posted in Book News, Inspiration, Spirituality, tagged bestseller, inspiration, Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, warrior of light on September 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of our favorite books here at GBiBT is Paulo Coelho’s THE ALCHEMIST, the international bestseller about a shepherd boy who learns how to live his dreams. Within the shepard’s journey, we find countless pieces of wisdom and inspiration that propel us forward whenever we need reassurance.
For over two years now, THE ALCHEMIST has occupied [...]
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