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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story
After writing a successful memoir, Donald Miller's life stalled. During what should have been the height of his success, he found himself unwilling to get out of bed, avoiding responsibility, even questioning the meaning of life. But when two movie producers proposed turning his memoir into a movie, he found himself launched into a new story filled with risk,...
 
 
Paramhansa Yogananda: A Biography with Personal Reflections and Reminiscences
Paramhansa Yogananda’s classic Autobiography of a Yogi was more about the saints Yogananda met than about himself—in spite of the fact that Yogananda was much greater than many he described. Now, one of Yogananda’s few remaining direct disciples, Swami Kriyananda, author of award winning book The New Path, tells the untold story of this great spiritual master and...
 
 
A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World
Revealing a forgotten truth in the present day, this account illuminates the crumbling political and economic structures of the West, shedding light on an ongoing and arduous search for a sense of purpose. Recounting a true story, this exploration tells of a wandering Mongol shaman who made a dramatic appearance around the Mediterranean centuries before the time...
 
 
Noe: A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death
Written with clarity and grace, this memoir of an adolescent boy’s four-year struggle with leukemia, his untimely death at sixteen, and the aftermath is presented from three perspectives. Using journals and recollection, Noe’s father Phil Wolfson recalls the events chronologically. His son’s chemotherapy journal offers a stricken teenager’s private view of illness, his wrestling with such enormous stress while...
 
 
Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir
When he resigned last June, Justice Stevens was the third longest serving Justice in American history (1975-2010)--only Justice William O. Douglas, whom Stevens succeeded, and Stephen Field have served on the Court for a longer time. In Five Chiefs, Justice Stevens captures the inner workings of the Supreme Court via his personal experiences with the five Chief...
 
 
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebratesTerry Tempest Williams’s mother told her: “I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.”Readers of Williams’s iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was one of...
 
 
Join NCR's Six-Word Memoir Challenge
Say It All in Six Words! Are you as good as Papa? Legend has it that Hemingway wrote this memorable six-word memoir: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." Can you capture your own real-life stories in six words (no more, no less)? To join NCReview’s Six-Word Memoir Challenge all you have...
 
 
Return of Love to Planet Earth: Memoir of a Reluctant Visionary
Nina Brown’s illuminating narrative, "Return of Love to Planet Earth: Memoir of a Reluctant Visionary," describes her voyage as she ascends to the highest frequencies of love using the secrets of S.T.A.R.: surrender, trust, allow, and receive. Her ten-year alchemical journey illustrates for each one of us the simple yet challenging path to our own spiritual ascent. This award...
 
 
Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History
Abina and the Important Men is a compelling and powerfully illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The book is a microhistory that does much more than simply depict an event in the past; it uses the power of illustration...
 
 
Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir
“Maybe I’ve finally beaten this thing, maybe three years’ struggle will not have been in vain. Maybe this is finally over . . .” —from Damon’s blog, May 2004 A FAMILY’ S LOVE lies at the heart of this gifted boy’s fight to survive. Born with a congenital heart defect that required surgery when he was a baby, Damon...
 
 
 
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