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To Lose the Madness

Field Notes on Trauma, Loss and Radical Authenticity 

by L.M. Browning
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“A laconic, beautiful, and deeply insightful account about coping with loss.” –Kirkus Reviews

In this career-defining work, Browning explores the breaking point every mind has after finding her own limit during a gauntlet of traumatic events. Pulled out of this blast-crater moment in her life by a friend, she is brought away from the insanity and deep into the snowy Sangre de Cristo Mountains where, standing in front of a herd of wild buffalo, she comes face to face with the terms we all must come to surrounding the loss we face in this life. Offering no answers and seeking no pity, Browning lays herself bare in this radically authentic offering. She carries restricted subjects such as miscarriage, mental illness, and suicide out of the silence by offering her own private journey as an example of the power of transcendence.

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The Comet’s Tail

A Memoir of No Memory 

by Amy Nawrocki
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“A complex and compelling memoir.” –Kirkus Reviews

At age nineteen, Amy Nawrocki returned from her first year of college, scribbled a few notes in her journal, and took a terrifying summer trip. She remembers one night of disorientation, then nothing until Christmas, when awareness slowly restarts. The Comet’s Tail is the story of these missing months: the seizures and fever spikes, the deep nothing of coma, and the unexpected, dramatic recovery. Memory is recreated around EEG transcripts and doctors’ notes, family vigils and blurry Polaroids. From her unique perspective, Nawrocki investigates the connections between memory, trauma, and identity. She illuminates what it means to truly return to consciousness in this extraordinary memoir of illness, healing, and writing over the blank pages of our lives.

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Naming the Unnameable

89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God…Including the Unnameable God

by Matthew Fox

“Matthew Fox elegantly offers a contemplative practice that transforms the names of God to the experience of God.”  –Deepak Chopra

“Naming the Unnameable offers a smorgasbord of spiritual delights that will enrich the prayer life of both believers and nonbelievers. Fox’s radiant images and creative appellations transform the generic ‘God’ into a vibrant, intimate Source for personal communion. Even those who have abandoned conventional religion will find wisdom and inspiration in these beautifully articulated reflections.”

–Estelle Frankel, author of Sacred Therapy and The Wisdom of Not Knowing

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Terranexus

Connection and Meaning in Ordinary Places

by David K. Leff
An Offering from the Little Bound Books Essay Collection

“Reading David’s beautifully written essay will make you realize that the wonders of nature lie right beyond your doorstep. So grab your kids, turn off your cells phones, and enjoy them.” –Gina McCarthy, former U. S. EPA Administrator

Connect with ordinary places close to home.  Discover inspiration and beauty nearby through the art of deep travel. Intrigue and wonder beckon just beyond your doorstep.

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A Fistful of Stars

Communing with the Cosmos

by Gail Collins-Ranadive and Milt Hetrick
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“Gail Collins-Ranadive draws attention to the wondrous fact that, in the words of Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, ‘We are star-stuff pondering the stars.’ In crazy and contracting times it’s more important than ever to recall the Big Picture and know that the Cosmos is our larger body. These essays are like a hand-drawn map home to our true Self.” –Rev. Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution

We are made up of star stuff! This elegant idea became tangibly real when the liberal clergy author was handed a cottonwood twig with a tiny star hiding inside.  Gathering up fists full of these star sticks, and in collaboration with her “rocket scientist” partner, she set out to reframe the human experience within its cosmic context. Here she shows how living in communion with the cosmos can affect the way we live in community, understand ourselves, and connect with the Source of all Becoming.  In the addendum, she invites readers to add to the evolving new cosmic narrative of living “from ashes to ashes, dust to dust, star stuff to star stuff.”

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