 | West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver
Buy new: £3.22 / Used from: £2.86 "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: £4.69 / Used from: £3.13 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 new: £1.29 / Used from: £3.71 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: £0.11 / Used from: £1.78 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: £6.21 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: £12.65 / Used from: £13.47 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: £2.48 / Used from: £2.10 Sometimes hope is a gentle breeze.......
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 | Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
Buy new: £2.22 / Used from: £0.01 You can hear it, if it rustles the trees.......
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 | Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Buy new: £5.66 / Used from: £5.30 Sometimes hope is like a fire in the sky.....
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 | Enigma of Suicide by George Howe Colt
Buy used from: £2.38 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: £3.07 / Used from: £2.49 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 new: £18.35 / Used from: £0.33 What I wish my father had taught me.
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 | The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories: Batard; Moon-Face; Brown Wolf; That Spot; To Build a Fire by Jack London
Buy new: £1.51 / Used from: £0.99 Careful!......If poked, the primordial beast might wake!
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £2.75 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: £1.83 / Used from: £1.35 ........or you may find peace in its gentle embrace.
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 | Cross Stitch (Outlander, US) by Diana Gabaldon
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £1.35 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: £3.15 / Used from: £1.41 Love, hope, betrayal, redemption - this book is popular for a very good reason.
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