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Library Express: Mind, Body & Spirit

We live in a busy and stressful world. This month’s Library Express will highlight titles that offer an excuse to slow down and focus on living a healthful life with emphasis on the mind, body, and spirit. Whether your patrons want to eat healthfully, need a break from their daily routines, or would like to feel more connected with their bodies, these books will give them the insights necessary to start a journey toward spiritual and mental health.  

Paws & Effect
In Paws and Effect, interviewees explain how the bond they share with their dogs has transported them through terrible illnesses, both physical and psychological. Not only are their dogs faithful, intuitive companions, but they are also often spiritual guides to good health. The book also covers new scientific findings on how dogs can save lives, sniff out cancerous tumors, and warn epileptics of impending seizures.

The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook 
Ayurveda is a holistic healing tradition from India that focuses on spiritual health through a variety of means including diet, aromatherapy, and yoga.  The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook is an all-vegetarian cookbook based on Ayurvedic traditions.  The book features colorful pictures, cleansing programs, yoga poses, and delicious recipes to restore health and energy.  

Pause: Putting the Brakes on a Runaway Life 
Contemporary life is filled with work meetings, exercise classes, and social obligations.  Pause gives us an excuse to slow down and take a break to indulge in our passions.  The book contains thirty chapters, each offering an idea for a single “pause” from our daily routines to nourish our bodies and souls.  

Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic 
This book explores ways individuals, parents, youth, action groups, healthcare agencies, cities, businesses, governments, and the world as a whole can work to prevent cancer.  It provides clear information about ways to eliminate cancer and should end the mistaken belief that we don’t know how to stop this terrible epidemic.  

The Great Life Diet 
Health counselor and teacher Denny Waxman offers us a chance to significantly improve the quality of our lives through healthful eating.  This guide to health and personal fulfillment combines a diet full of whole grains and vegetables with a lifestyle that feeds the mind and the spirit.  

The Body-Mind-Soul Solution 
“This is a ground-breaking book with a most unique and satisfying approach.  I highly recommend this program to everybody who needs a fresh way to handle life’s traumas and challenges.” –Ann Louise Gittleman, author of New York Times bestsellers The Fat Flush Plan and Before the Change  

Get Healthy Now! with Gary Null 
Nutritionist and best-selling author Gary Null offers a widespread guide to healthy living.  He gives dietary advice to help with ailments ranging from fatigue and menopause, to diabetes and insomnia.  Dr. Null’s book covers many topics and is over 1,200 pages in length.  His methods have been supported by thousands of years of use in other societies, as well as recent discoveries in modern medicine, he suggests alternatives to drugs, surgical intervention, and customary Western techniques.  

To Be Healed by the Earth 
Licensed psychologist Warren Grossman gives a unique look at the correlation between love, nature, and health.   “An exquisite treasure of a book, designed to be read again and again.  Don’t be deceived by the apparent simplicity of this volume—it offers profound wisdom and guidance.” –Belleruth Naparstek, author of Your Sixth Sense: Unlocking the Power of Your Intuition and creator of the Health Journeys guided imagery series  

The Life of Meaning 
This book has many well-known contributors (including Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Madeleine L’Engle and more) who describe how faith is possible amid the tragedy and senselessness in our current world.  This thoughtful collection features insights about prayer, suffering, religious observance, and the decision to live with or without god.  

Still Life 
“Still Life documents the profundities and intense struggles associated with cancer and survivorship…in exquisite and deeply personal works, both collectively and individually.” –Stephen Verderber, Tulane University 

“Powerful, curative images; a blueprint for the hardest part of survivorship, the aftermath of the cure.” –Dr. Barron Lerner, professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University and author of The Bread Cancer Wars  

The Body 
The Body explores ways to form a good relationship with your body through meditation.  By befriending and nurturing our bodies we can develop a more insightful approach to life.








To Be Healed by the Earth
Second Edition
Warren Grossman, PhD (Author)
Seven Stories Press
9781583227497 | $22.95 | Trade Paper







The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook
Healthful, Healing Recipes for Life
Amrita Sondhi (Author)
Arsenal Pulp Press
9781551522043 | $22.95 | Trade Paper







Pause
Putting the Brakes on a Runaway Life
Katherine Gibson (Author)
Insomniac Press
9781897178232 | $14.95 | Trade Paper







Get Healthy Now! with Gary Null
A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment, and Healthy Living (Second Edition)
Gary Null (Author)
Seven Stories Press
9781583227534 | $29.95 | Trade Paper







Cancer
101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic
Liz Armstrong (Author) Guy Dauncey (Author) Anne Wordsworth (Author)
New Society Publishers
9780865715424 | $22.95 | Trade Paper







Still Life
Documenting Cancer Survivorship
Umbrage Editions
9781884167652 | $29.95 | Trade Paper







The Body
Paramananda (Author)
Windhorse Publications
9781899579778 | $10.95 | Trade Paper







The Life of Meaning
Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World
Bob Abernethy (Author) William Bole (Author)
Seven Stories Press
9781583227589 | $29.95 | Trade Cloth







Paws & Effect
The Healing Power of Dogs
Sharon Sakson (Author)
Alyson Books
9781593500382 | $24.95 | Trade Cloth



Fall Library Journal Reviews

 

You'll Be Okay 

September 15, 2007

“An insider’s account of the birth of the Beat Generation in New York City . . . this book offers a fresh look at Kerouac as husband and lover as well as a new chapter on the role of women in the Beat Generation. Highly recommended.”


Getting Off
September 15, 2007

“A former newspaper reporter, [Robert] Jensen writes from his perspective as a social activist . . . his firsthand experience of pornography—only video is really considered here—extends even to interviewing some of its creators and performers. Jensen states an unequivocal anti-pornography case . . . [and] has the genuine potential to provoke fresh discussion.”



The Rowing Lesson
August, 2007


“Betsy Klein journeys to South Africa to be with her dying father. During her hospital-room vigils, she talks to the unconscious man about his ancestors from Lithuania, love for life in South Africa, childhood in a large family, and work as a doctor respected by both blacks and whites. . . . A powerful story of the father-daughter bond in all its fragility and strength.”






Getting Off
Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Robert Jensen (Author)
South End Press
9780896087767 | $12.00 | Trade Paper







You'll Be Okay
My Life with Jack Kerouac
Edie Kerouac-Parker (Author)
City Lights Publishers
9780872864641 | $14.95 | Trade Paper



Sneak Peeks: January Titles

How Coaching Works
This book draws together the themes and principles of coaching, revealing the ideas that work at the root of all successful coaching techniques. It is a must-have for practicing coaches, students, and anyone interested in this increasingly popular subject.  

The Advocate Guide to Gay Men’s Health and Wellness
Focusing on prevention, lifestyle modification, and healthcare, Dr. Frank Spinelli has channeled his years of experience and research in order to create a comprehensive medical guide for gay men. The book covers topics ranging from immunization, physical exams, depression, and substance abuse. 

The Lives They Left Behind
More than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings were found when Willard Psychiatric Center closed in 1995 after 125 years of operation. In this fully-illustrated social history, they are skillfully examined and compared to the written record to create a moving—and devastating—group portrait of twentieth-century American psychiatric care.  

The Year of the Rat
The third in the popular series introduces the twelve charismatic animals from the Chinese calendar. “Absolutely adorable . . . what a fabulous cast of characters your books contain!”—Kate Ferguson, Book Passage 

Losing Kei
A young mother fights impossible odds to be reunited with her child in this acutely insightful first novel about an intercultural marriage gone terribly wrong. Told with tenderness, humor, and an insider’s knowledge of contemporary Japan, Losing Kei is the debut novel of an exceptional expatriate voice.

Delusion
At once a ghost story and a psychological thriller, this elegant novel again demonstrates that Michele Roberts is a literary talent of the highest order. Roberts’ previous book is Reader, I Married Him, also from Pegasus Books.

The Food-Mood-Body Connection
The second edition of The Food-Mood-Body Connection, by best-selling health and nutrition expert Gary Null, draws from up-to-the-minute research and a wealth of patient testimonials. Null reveals how alternative, nutrition-based approaches can effectively treat many mental disorders, chronic conditions, and a variety of commonly misdiagnosed organic conditions.

 








Losing Kei
Suzanne Kamata (Author)
Leapfrog Press
9780972898492 | $14.95 | Trade Paper







The Year of the Rat
Tales from the Chinese Zodiac
Oliver Chin (Author) Miah Alcorn (Illustrator)
Immedium
9781597020114 | $15.95 | Trade Cloth







The Lives They Left Behind
Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Bellevue Literary Press
9781934137079 | $25.00 | Trade Cloth







The Advocate Guide to Gay Men's Health and Wellness
Frank Spinelli, MD (Author)
Alyson Books
9781593500405 | $21.95 | Trade Paper







How Coaching Works
The Essential Guide to the History and Practice of Effective Coaching
Joseph O'Connor (Author) Andrea Lages (Author)
A&C Black
9780713682618 | $19.95 | Trade Paper







The Food-Mood Connection
Nutritional and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Second Edition)
Gary Null (Author) Amy McDonald (Author)
Seven Stories Press
9781583227886 | $24.95 | Trade Paper

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