We have created a new section in our stores called . Reading novels, essays, poetry and philosophy can help us through difficult times in our lives. There is a human inclination to identify with others through literature, to form bonds with characters facing similar circumstances. When beset by sadness or indecision, we can be elevated and enlightened by powerful ideas.
We have chosen titles from every genre except self-help. There are titles from our teen fiction collection as well. We hope to rotate titles regularly to bring you an evolving selection of uplifting and empowering books.
Below is a list of some of the titles we're currently featuring in Bibliotherapy. Let us introduce you to a good book that just might help to heal your spirit.
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Every week for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. This extraordinary m...
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Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train—and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Wa...
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Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. pop...
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“Wickedly witty. . . . Crackling sharp. . . . Fireworks shoot out [of this collection].” —The Boston GlobeThe introduction, discussion questions, and suggestions for fur...
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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers.Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of ...
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The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilli...
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In this penetrating theological memoir, Norris (The Cloister Walk) details her relationship with acedia, a slothful, soul-weary indifference long recognized by monastics. Norris is carefu...
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Winner of the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel.Winner of the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherloc...
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Jan Wong has returned to Beijing. Her quest: to find someone she encountered briefly in 1973, and whose life she was certain she had ruined forever. In the early 70s, Jan Wong travelle...
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We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers...
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You might think life in a retirement home would be a trifle boring, but in the Idyll Inn of Joan Barfoot’s latest marvellous novel, not everyone feels ready for the quiet life. But wait, ...
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In his introduction to this volume, President Jimmy Carter writes that The Best American Spiritual Writing "approaches the writing of both poetry and prose as a spiritual discipline, a wa...
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A Complicated Kindness, Miriam Toews's third novel, is a very funny book about going AWOL in Mennonite country. Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel lives with her depressingly cheerful dad Ray o...
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Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come ...
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Winner of the 2000 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award.One morning Mel Toews put on his coat and hat and walked out of town, prepared to die. A loving husband and father, faithful mem...
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Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole life has been one big non-event. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-butboring world of Culver Creek Boarding Sc...
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Bobby's a classic urban teenager. He's restless. He's impulsive. But the thing that makes him different is this: He's going to be a father. His girlfriend, Nia, is pregnant, and their...
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For Alexandria Hyatt having a fabulous life is easy: she knows what she wants and she knows how to get it. Being glamorous and rich is simply what she was born to be. When Alexandria is a...
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For Matt and his sisters, life with their cruel, vicious mother is a day-to-day struggle for survival. But then Matt witnesses Murdoch coming to a child's rescue in a convenience store, a...
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