WaPo’s Judy Woodruff Late-Summer Reading Suggestions

Renowned television journalist Judy Woodruff who has led an esteemed career reporting on politics at CNN, PBS, and NBC put together a summer reading list for the Washington Post’s Short Stack column.
The books, which include a few classics, some new novels and non-fiction, will bring inspiration to an un-summery political/economic climate and will hopefullly offer [...]

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Joe Jonas on THE ALCHEMIST

According to Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers (in Time Out New York), “The Alchemist” is a good book anytime…
The Alchemist is a story about the endless search of finding out who you truly are. On the road for most of our lives, sometimes it’s difficult to find something to grasp on to, to define [...]

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More lists of “good books for bad times”

From the blog “Book Club Classics: Great resources for serious readers who like to have fun…” comes another kindred list of “Good Books for Bad Times.
And the Progressive Book Club offers an essay and list of books under the title “Good Books for Bad Times: Why We Need Great Novels More Than Ever.” The article [...]

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An Avenue of Hope and Inspiration

In Sea Changes, novelist Gail Graham has created one of her most compelling characters yet- a woman who is torn between a man who is no longer alive and an undersea world that offers her peace and comfort. The torment of grief is something Graham knows well, having lost not [...]

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Need a Miracle?

In her first novel, “A Journey, a Reckoning and a Miracle,” psychiatrist KJ Fraser explores who we are as a society right now, in 2009. We have suffered through the aftermath of 9/11, and we continue to suffer through the results of the war in Iraq, the global recession, and much more. Certainly we have [...]

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More lists of good books

We’ve found more kindred spirits publishing lists of books intended to help us through these trying times. The first one is here in our own backyard! On Sunday the San Francisco Chronicle featured “Good novels for hard times.”
In February the Poughkeepsie Journal published an article called “Libraries offer fun, cheap boost during tough [...]

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Deepak Chopra’s “Buddha”

Even one as enlightened as the Buddha had some rough days. In times of sorrow, we often feel comforted by stories of those who walked similar paths.
Deepak Chopra’s Buddha is an inspiring re-imagining of the tale of a prince who gave up the glorified life of royalty to gain something even more meaningful: wisdom and [...]

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Marketing Goodness

In The Happy Soul Industry by Steffan Postaer God hires an ad agency to promote goodness. As they compete for bids, the ad men and women wonder how best to market goodness.  Can advertising be a force for good? Would a campaign promoting goodness even be possible? And what would it look [...]

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