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Eckhart Tolle guides readers toward a pain‑free existence by teaching how to recognize and release mental patterns that cause suffering, encouraging living fully in the present moment.

Steal Like an Artist is a visually engaging guide that translates Austin Kleon’s viral lecture into actionable advice for writers, artists, designers, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to make things in the digital age.

A groundbreaking guide to embracing vulnerability and courage.

Elizabeth Gilbert shares her personal creative process, guiding readers to embrace curiosity, overcome fear, and unlock hidden inspiration through practical attitudes and habits for a more creative, passionate life.

Learn how to use improvisational comedy to boost confidence, creativity, and spiritual growth – with step‑by‑step exercises, real‑world stories, and self‑discovery techniques that apply to business, relationships, and everyday life.

When a sudden illness threatens a quiet life, Jan Carroll and the free‑spirited Tina Nelson must navigate unexpected romance and the decision to write their own future in Spokane.

"Tony J. Selimi's new masterpiece and Amazon No 1 Best Selling A Path to Wisdom is a thought provoking book that can center your soul, touch your heart and heal your body-mind." Dr John Demartini, World’s renowned human behaviour specialist and international best-selling author Living Your Life in Peace is Priceless says Tony J. Selimi Amazon best-selling and award-winning book A Path to Wisdom by Tony Jeton Selimi, is a timeless life manual that offers a road map that safely guides the reader through an inside out reflective journey to find and address the root cause of their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, financial, business, relationship and self-love, self-worthiness, and self-confidence issues that keep them out of their natural healthy state of inner balance. Empowering readers to activate, advance and accelerate their human and business potential. Selimi truly breaks new ground in a volume that received a Finalist Award in the 2014/15 USA Book Contest, got over fifty sterling Amazon reviews, and was given readers favorite five-star seal. It’s also been a hit among critics, too, with one recently writing, "In every page and in every paragraph Tony has hidden an ocean of wisdom awaiting the reader to discover. His TJS Evolutionary Method® once understood can help you dissolve and break through many emotional problems giving readers a new way to balance their skewed perceptions, reconnect with their truth, awaken their hearts intelligence, and connect them to their infinite wisdom within”.

Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, this book is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. It combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. The authors' harmoniously interwoven perspectives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the authors invite readers to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world.

Inspired by sailing and spiritual wisdom, this inspirational novel guides grown men through childhood lessons of life and choice-making.

"Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theatre by Playback Theatre cofounder Jo Salas is the basic text used by new and seasoned Playback practitioners, trainers, and in university courses. The 20th Anniversary edition includes a foreword by Roberto Gutiérrez Varea of Theatre Without Borders and co-founder of the Performing Arts and Social Justice Program at the University of San Francisco. Entertaining and thoughtful, Improvising Real Life is illustrated with photos and real-life stories told in performances and workshops." -- Amazon. "In a Playback Theatre performance, audience members tell stories about their lives -- memories, dreams, tragedies, and farces -- and a team of actors improvises theatre pieces on the spot. First developed in 1975 in upstate New York, Playback Theatre is now practiced around the world, in theatres, schools, refugee camps, prisons, community centers -- anywhere there are people with stories to tell." -- Cover.

Tara Mohr reveals practical skills to help women achieve business success, build self‑esteem, and break limiting gender norms.