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  • Journeys of Simplicity

    Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Bashō, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others

    by Philip Harnden ...
    Where do our journeys take us?What do we leave behind?What do we carry with us?How do we find our way?You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with them—from place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.Edward Abbey Nellie Bly ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journeys of Simplicity: Traveling Light with Thomas Merton, Bashō, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard & Others

    by Philip Harnden ...
    Where do our journeys take us? What do we leave behind?What do we carry with us? How do we find our way?You are invited to consider a more graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity, Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and the few, ordinary things they carried with themfrom place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.Edward Abbey Nellie Bly ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Building High-Performance Local Governments

    Case Studies in Leadership at All Levels

    by John Pickering, Gerald Brokaw, Philip Harnden, Anton Gardner ...
    Don’t permit your organization to be lulled into complacency after recovering from a tough recession.Explore what’s necessary to improve the performance of your organization, including the development of leaders at all levels who will use their full capabilities to boost collective results. The High-Performance Organization Model identifies the steps needed to diagnose what will be required to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Annie Dillard Reader

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today" ( Boston Globe) collects her favorite writing selections in The Annie Dillard Reader.This collection of stories, novel excerpts, essays, poetry and more demonstrates the depth and resonance of the writing of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard.Includes chapters from the novel Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and An American Childhood, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Writing Life

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague." — Chicago TribuneFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection of essays on writing that illuminates the dedication and daring that characterizes a writer's life.In these short essays, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Teaching a Stone to Talk

    Expeditions and Encounters

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "A collection of meditations like polished stones — painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world." — Kirkus ReviewsHere, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.Veering away from the long, meditative ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Poetry as Spiritual Practice

    Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions

    by Robert McDowell ...
    "[When we read and write poetry,] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again." -- from the IntroductionPoetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry creates clarity, deepens and expands spiritual inquiry, and cultivates wisdom, compassion, self-confidence, patience, and love. In author Robert McDowell's ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    by Annie Dillard ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book ReviewPilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Become What You Are

    Expanded Edition

    by Alan W. Watts ...
    The prominent Zen Buddhist scholar and author of The Wisdom of Insecurity draws on Taoism, Christianity, and other world religions to explore the dilemma of seeking your true selfIn this collection of writings, including nine new chapters never before available in book form, Alan Watts displays the intelligence, playfulness of thought, and simplicity of language that has made him so perennially ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Field Guide to Getting Lost

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    **“An intriguing amalgam of personal memoir, philosophical speculation, natural lore, cultural history, and art criticism.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the award-winning author of Orwell's Roses, a stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown**Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Why We Write

    20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do

    Edited by Meredith Maran ...
    Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life.Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbreaking writing can be. So what makes writers stick with it? In Why We Write, twenty well-known authors candidly share what keeps them going and what they love most—and least—about their vocation ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Essential

    Essays by The Minimalists

    by Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus ...
    The best of The Minimalists.This book by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays—some short, some long—from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com. This collection has been edited and organized to create an experience that's considerably different from reading individual selections online. From simple living, decluttering, and finances, to passion, health, and ... Read more

    $12.67 CAD