The Long Snapper – An Improbable True Story About a Second Chance

If you’ve ever played in an organized sports league you well know that there’s no “I” in “team” and while that may be true, there are always those critical moments when an athelete will find that they’re holding all the keys of destiny.  In these moments, everything a team has been working for will be won or [...]

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All We Need is a Little Perspective

NY Times bestselling author Andy Andrews has taken his personal struggles and turned them into hope. In this video, Andrews tells the story of those personal hardships and how he made it through tough economic times.

His latest book, The Noticer, his second bestseller, is based on his own remarkable true story of his accidental meeting of a man named Jones who [...]

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Publisher Showcase: Beyond Words Publishing

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 [...]

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Contest: An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor

Fans of Eat, Pray, Love or Animal, Vegetable, Miracle most likely, will also be familiar with acclaimed spiritual author and preacher, Barbara Brown Taylor, author of AN ALTAR IN THE WORLD and LEAVING CHURCH.
As a writer she has opened up the meaning of faith to include everyday living and offered ways to observe it outside of [...]

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Today Just a Quote

Due to technical difficulties here at Good Books HQ – today’s post is just a quote that supports our quest:
“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.” – John Milton
We’ll return tomorrow with at least one new suggestion for an uplifting addition to your reading list.

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A GOOD Magazine, Two Shows and a Book in Bad Times

Throughout October, GOOD Magazine has focused on five inspiring, exciting, innovative people, projects or things each day. Obviously on October 20th, they hit 100 of them!  They must have been exhausted after going through all of the service projects and organizations that exist and are currently conspiring to make this planet liveable WELL beyond 2012.
We also [...]

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Finding Freedom Behind Bars

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 [...]

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Got a light?

These days it seems all we can do is try to be a light in the chaotic dark. But how can we begin to feel light or airy when we are bogged down by everyday stresses and seemingly endless supplies of bad news? When will we realize that maybe all we need is an inner-self [...]

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