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Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of May 1, 1994

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THE BOOK OF VIRTUES
William J. Bennett
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THE BOOK OF VIRTUES

by William J. Bennett · Simon & Schuster

19 wks on list

Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith.

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MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER
Nathan McCall
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MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER

by Nathan McCall · Random House

7 wks on list

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery. In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsrooms of The Washington Post and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring, at once an indictment and an elegy. Makes Me Wanna Holler became an instant classic when it was first published in 1994 and it continues to bear witness to the great troubles—and the great hopes—of our nation. With a new afterword by the author

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DIPLOMACY
Henry Kissinger
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DIPLOMACY

by Henry Kissinger · Simon & Schuster

2 wks on list

Kissinger defines diplomacy with an overview of his own interpretation of history and personal accounts of negotiations with world leaders.

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SOUL MATES
Thomas Moore
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SOUL MATES

by Thomas Moore · HarperCollins

16 wks on list

In companion volumes, Care of the Soul, a philosophical guide, shows how to add spirituality and meaning to modern life, and Soul Mates, explains how relationships deepen our lives and fulfill the needs of the soul.

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HEALING WORDS
Larry Dossey
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HEALING WORDS

by Larry Dossey · HarperSanFrancisco

1 wks on list

Dr. Dossey, a leading spokesperson for mind-body medicine and author of Space, Time & Medicine, shows that the physical does not always have the last word, and even that manifestations of genetic disease can yield to the power of a person's belief. He goes on to explore how the meanings people create in their lives affect their health.

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WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes · Ballantine

89 wks on list

UPDATED, WITH NEW MATERIAL BY THE AUTHOR"WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows."--Alice WalkerWithin every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. In WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES, Dr. Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul."This volume reminds us that we are nature for all our sophistication, that we are still wild, and the recovery of that vitality will itself set us right in the world."--Thomas Moore Author of Care of the Soul"I am grateful to WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES and to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, to be caring, and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this book."--Maya Angelou"An inspiring book, the 'vitamins for the soul' [for] women who are cut off from their intuitive nature."--San Francisco Chronicle"Stands out from the pack . . . A joy and sparkle in [the] prose . . . This book will become a bible for women interested in doing deep work. . . . It is a road map of all the pitfalls, those familiar and those horrifically unexpected, that a woman encounters on the way back to her instinctual self. Wolves . . . is a gift."--Los Angeles Times"A mesmerizing voice . . . Dramatic storytelling she learned at the knees of her [immigrant] aunts."--Newsweek From the Paperback edition.

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HAVING OUR SAY
Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
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HAVING OUR SAY

by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth · Kodansha

22 wks on list

An inspiring memoir by two lively, keen-witted African American senior citizens. In their 200+ combined years, Sadie and Bessie Delany have seen it all. They saw their father, who was born into slavery, become America's first black Episcopal bishop. They saw their mother--a woman of mixed racial parentage who was born free--give birth to ten children, all of whom would become college-educated, successful professionals in a time when blacks could scarcely expect to receive a high school diploma. They saw the post-Reconstruction South, the Jim Crow laws,

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SAVED BY THE LIGHT
Dannion Brinkley with Paul Perry
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SAVED BY THE LIGHT

by Dannion Brinkley with Paul Perry · Villard

2 wks on list

Dannion Brinley was struck by lightening and was clinically dead. On leaving his body he visited a spiritual realm where he was told of events that would shake the world - some have already happened. During a second near-death experience he was told to use his gifts to help the dying.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.