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Make the connection: ten steps to a better body--and a better life
By Bob Greene, Oprah Winfrey. 1996
Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer details ten steps he claims will increase metabolism and help shed excess weight. Winfrey…
describes her ongoing struggle with weight loss and her successes while training with Greene. BestsellerTime present, time past: a memoir
By Bill Bradley. 1996
Using notes made during the 1992 presidential campaign as he traversed the country for the Democratic Party, the U.S. senator…
from New Jersey offers his observations about America, expanding them with thoughts he says have germinated for years. Topics include the self-indulgence and loss of values of Americans, economic justice, race relations, campaign financing, immigration, tax reform, political integrity, and the environment. BestsellerUndaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West
By Stephen E Ambrose, Stephen E. Ambrose. 1996
The author, who spent twenty years following and studying the route Lewis and Clark traveled between 1803 and 1806, focuses…
on Lewis. Ambrose explains why the captain was chosen to lead the search for a western waterway and describes Lewis's life afterward. Tells how the explorers recorded species of animals and plants, mapped the U.S. interior, and established ties with the Indians. Bestseller. 1996The way of the wizard: twenty spiritual lessons in creating the life you want
By Deepak Chopra. 1995
Using the legend of Arthur, Chopra presents steps for spiritual transformation to being a free and loving person. Here, Merlin…
is the source of spiritual wisdom, and his stories guide the reader to perspectives fostering growth to find the wizard, or spiritual transformer, within. BestsellerAn easy burden: the civil rights movement and the transformation of America
By Andrew Young, Andrew J. Young. 1996
Young--former congressman, U.N. ambassador, and Atlanta mayor-- uses his life story to trace the history of the civil rights movement…
in America. A close advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he recounts the movement's evolution in philosophy from quiet accommodation to nonviolent activism. Some strong language. BestsellerA good life: newspapering and other adventures
By Benjamin C Bradlee, Benjamin C. Bradlee. 1995
Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post for twenty-six years, believes he has had a "good life" simply because he was…
often in the right place at the right time. Bradlee's portrait of his life, including schooling, military service, family, and career, depicts people he worked with and the events he covered as a writer and editor. Some strong language. BestsellerA simple path
By Teresa, Mother Teresa, Mother Mother Teresa. 1995
Tells how from an early age, Mother Teresa, born in 1910, felt a need to help others. Then in 1946,…
she received her second call that instructed her to "give up all and follow Jesus into the slums--to serve him in the poorest of the poor." Mother Teresa says she follows a simple path: "The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace." BestsellerThe choice: How Bill Clinton Won
By Bob Woodward. 1996
A political history tracing the preparations of candidates Clinton and Dole for the 1996 presidential election. Examines the personal and…
political relationships among key policy makers and provides inside views on the federal budget battles, the top-secret Bosnian strategy sessions, and the making of major campaign decisions. Strong language. BestsellerIn this sequel to You Belong to Me (DB 39614), Rule describes a love triangle in which a woman divorces…
her husband to marry his high school coach and both men end up dead. Other true crime stories complete the collection. Some strong language and some violence. BestsellerReviving the spirit: a generation of African Americans goes home to church
By Beverly Hall Lawrence, Beverly H. Lawrence. 1996
A journalist born in Georgia and living in New York City draws on personal experience to show that African Americans…
are turning to churches for affirmation and a sense of racial pride. She focuses on the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland, describing its "dashing" pastor, its involvement in economic development, and its "Mighty Men of God" ministryA place in space: ethics, aesthetics, and watersheds : new and selected prose
By Gary Snyder. 1995
A collection of essays that are "Buddhist, poetic, and environmental calls to complex moral thought and action." Holds that nature…
is not something apart from human society, but intrinsic. Urges humans to transcend their differences and find common ground for their own good and nature's. c1995.Full house: the spread of excellence from Plato to Darwin
By Stephen Jay Gould. 1996
Asserts that trends cannot be interpreted in isolation, but should be seen in terms of a "full house" of general…
variation within an entire system. For example, in the evolution of life, it is diversity, rather than increasing complexity, that represents nature's standard of excellence. BestsellerHis Holiness: John Paul II and the hidden history of our time
By Carl Bernstein, Marco Politi. 1996
Investigative journalists argue that Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan conspired to hasten the collapse of Soviet Communism.…
Evidence they cite includes the CIA's support of the Polish Solidarity Movement and the sharing of American military intelligence with the Pope. BestsellerOn grief and reason: essays
By Joseph Brodsky. 1995
The Russian-born former U.S. poet laureate and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature offers twenty-one essays, speeches, and letters…
first published elsewhere. In the title essay, Brodsky analyzes Frost's poem "Home Burial." In "Collector's Item," prompted by a Russian postage stamp honouring spy Kim Philby, the poet reflects on aspects of espionage. 1995.The message of the Sphinx: a quest for the hidden legacy of mankind
By Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval. 1996
Hancock and Bauval attempt to decipher the mysteries of the Great Sphinx of Egypt, which they claim is eight thousand…
years older than formerly believed. The authors use computer simulations of ancient skies to support their theories as to the origin and meaning of the Great Sphinx and also the three pyramids of Giza. BestsellerThe re-enchantment of everyday life
By Thomas Moore. 1996
Moore avers that a spiritual, enchanted engagement with life is not a childish thing to be put away with adulthood…
but a necessity for personal and collective survival. Describes how such ordinary aspects of life as gardens, food, and language can take on a new sense of wonder and beauty. 1996.A humorous look at the workplace from the creator of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip. The Dilbert Principle is that "the…
most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--management." BestsellerWhere angels walk
By Joan Wester Anderson. 1993
After the author's dangerously stranded son was rescued by a tow truck that then mysteriously vanished, she began researching angels…
in earnest. Anderson concludes that one of the three basic purposes of angels is to act as caretakers. She presents the stories people have submitted to her about angels they believe have helped them. The stories describe appearances by these spirits as adults, children, dogs, or disembodied voices. BestsellerThe cloister walk
By Kathleen Norris. 1996
Norris has been a Benedictine oblate, or associate, for ten years and has twice spent extended periods of time at…
St. John's Abbey in Minnesota. In diary form, she describes her "immersion" into this liturgical world and the benefits she derives from her time there. BestsellerA 3rd serving of chicken soup for the soul: 101 more stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen. 1996
The authors provide even more stories to "inspire and motivate you to love more unconditionally, live more passionately, and pursue…
your heartfelt dreams with more conviction." Topics include love, parenting, attitude, and wisdom. Sequel to A Second Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul (DB 40454). Bestseller