 | West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £2.50 "Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?"
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 | The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Buy used from: £0.01 Life is beatiful, sad, meaningful and terrifying. Wonderful Book.
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £1.00 Even in the bleakest of times....beauty and love smile their gentle smiles.
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 | The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra by Thich Nhat Hanh
Buy used from: £4.78 Is everything connected? - poets amd priests seem to think so.
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 | A Confession (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £2.78 / Used from: £1.90 After Tolstoy became the world's most famous author....he realised that fame was formless...it could never fill that hole at the centre of your being.
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 | The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
Buy used from: £3.49 Even in grief, the world offers itself to you....sometimes for redemption.
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 | The Evidential Argument from Evil (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion) by Daniel Howard-Snyder
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £13.50 If you can plough through the academic language - this book may remove some of the intellectual obstacles between you and a belief in god.
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 | A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
Buy new: £4.34 / Used from: £1.11 Sometimes hope is a gentle breeze.......
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 | Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 You can hear it, if it rustles the trees.......
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 | Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £3.00 Sometimes hope is like a fire in the sky.....
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 | Enigma of Suicide by George Howe Colt
Buy used from: £2.64 It may blind you if you don't shield your eyes.
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 | Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.98 But hope can flourish....even in the deepest darkness.
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 | I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann
Buy used from: £0.01 A very moving book about suffering, meaning and dreaming. (Avoid the movie as if it were a deadly pox,)
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 | Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom by Kent Nerburn
Buy used from: £1.81 What I wish my father had taught me.
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 | The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
Buy new: £4.64 / Used from: £0.54 Careful!......If poked, the primordial beast might wake!
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £1.60 And it's true, the call of the wild may set you free.......at a price............
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 | The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £0.20 ........or you may find peace in its gentle embrace.
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 | Cross Stitch (Outlander, US) by Diana Gabaldon
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.24 Alternatively you could lose yourself for a while in passion, action and all-round wierdness.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 Love, hope, betrayal, redemption - this book is popular for a very good reason.
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 | When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession (Perennial Classics) by Irvin D. Yalom
Buy new: £7.07 / Used from: £4.72 Incredible insights into male behaviour.....may just help you avoid that mid-life crisis.
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 | A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Classics by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £2.30 Still my favourite......like Yalom says, although death destroys us, the idea of death can set you free.
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 | Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irvin D. Yalom
Buy used from: £7.16 As above, but from a more clinical perspective.
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 | The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £3.03 As above but as a Tolstoyan homily.
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 | Restoration by Rose Tremain
Buy used from: £0.01 She understands the human heart very well I feel.
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 | Ten Poems to Open Your Heart by Roger Housden
Buy used from: £2.24 Replace your sadness with kindness;-)
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