You've got to read this book! : 55 people tell the story of the book that changed their life / [compiled by] Jack Canfield, Gay Hendricks, with Carol Kline.
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TextPublication details: New York : Collins, c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 286 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0060891696
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
There's nothing better than a book you can't put down--or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul ® series, and self-actualization pioneer Gay Hendricks have invited notable people to share personal stories of books that changed their lives. What book shaped their outlook and habits? Helped them navigate rough seas? Spurred them to satisfaction and success?
The contributors include Dave Barry, Stephen Covey, Malachy McCourt, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Mark Victor Hansen, John Gray, Christiane Northrup, Bernie Siegel, Craig Newmark, Michael E. Gerber, Lou Holtz, and Pat Williams, to name just a few. Their richly varied stories are poignant, energizing, and entertaining.Author and actor Malachy McCourt tells how a tattered biography of Gandhi, stumbled on in his youth, offered a shining example of true humility--and planted the seeds that would help support his sobriety decades later.
Bestselling author and physician Bernie Siegel, M.D., tells how William Saroyan's The Human Comedy helped him realize that, in order to successfully treat his patients with life-threatening illnesses, "I had to help them live--not just prevent them from dying."
Actress Catherine Oxenberg reveals how, at a life crossroads and struggling with bulimia, a book taught her the transforming difference one person could make in the life of another--and why that person for her was Richard Burton.
Rafe Esquith, the award-winning teacher whose inner-city students have performed Shakespeare all over the world, recounts his deep self-doubt in the midst of his success--and how reading To Kill a Mockingbird strengthened him to continue teaching.
Beloved librarian and bestselling author Nancy Pearl writes how, at age ten, Robert Heinlein's science fiction book Space Cadet impressed on her the meaning of personal integrity and gave her a vision of world peace she'd never imagined possible. Two years later, she marched in her first civil rights demonstration and learned that there's always a way to make "a small contribution to intergalactic harmony."
If you're looking for insight and illumination--or simply for that next great book to read--You've Got to Read This Book! has treasures in store for you.
Dave Barry: Inside Benchley / Robert Benchley -- Sue Ellen Cooper: Space Trilogy ; The Great Divorce / C. S. Lewis -- EllynAnne Geisel: Gone with the Wind / Margaret Mitchell -- Earl Hamner: A History of Beekeeping, the King James version of the Bible, & The Time of Man / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Nancy Pearl: Space Cadet / Robert Heinlein -- Wally Amos: Love is Letting Go of Fear / Gerald Jampolsky -- Jack Canfield: Life After Life / Raymond Moody, M.D. -- Jim McCann: Scripts People Live / Claude Steiner (about Transactional Analysis, or how individuals interact) -- Larry Jones: Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret -- Debbie Macomber: various versions of The Bible -- Arielle Ford: Key to Yourself / Dr. Venice Bloodworth -- Michael Toms: The Creative Process / Brewster Ghiselin, ed. & Pleasures of Philosophy / Will Durant & Life of Johnson / James Boswell & A Guide to Rational Living / Albert Ellis -- Bob Young: Don Quixote -- Craig Newmark (of CraigsList): The Cluetrain Manifesto -- Kate Ludeman: Learning to Love Yourself / Gay Hendricks -- Amilya Antonetti: The Alchemist / Paulo Coelho -- Jim Guy: The Teachings of Buddha -- Gary Heavin: The Secret Kingdom / Pat Robertson -- Stephen Covey: Man's Search for Meaning / Viktor Frankl & A Guide for the Perplexed / E. F. Schumacher -- Maynard Webb: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People / Stephen Covey -- Marc Bekoff: Mutual Aid / Petr Kropotkin & On Aggression / Konrad Lorenz -- Max Edelman: Mein Makpf / Adolf Hitler -- Diane Wilson: The Hero with a Thousand Faces / Joseph Campbell -- Gary Erickson: The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods / Julia Hill -- Mo Siegel: The Urantia Book (dinosaurs and Jesus all in one text, 2000+ pages) -- Doris Haddock (Granny D): Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words -- Lois Capps: The End of Poverty: Econo
Jacquelyn Mitchard: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith & Little Women / Louisa May Alcott -- Kenny Loggins: Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse & Autobiography of a Yogi / Paramahansa Yogananda -- Catherine Oxenberg: The Power of One / Bryce Courtenay -- Jim MacLaren: The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View / Richard Tarnas -- Wyland: The Silent World / Jacques Cousteau -- Lisa Nichols: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People / Stephen Covey -- Rafe Esquith: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain & To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee -- Chellie Campbell: When I Say No, I Feel Guilty / Manuel Smith -- Malachy McCourt: A History of India & a Mahatma Gandhi biography -- John St. Augustine: The Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East & Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer -- Sheryl Leach: The Power of Now / Eckhart Tolle -- Gay Hendricks: The Enchiridion (The Book of Life) / Epictetus -- Pierce O'Donnell: Profiles in Courage / John F. Kennedy -- Pat Williams: Veek, as in Wreck: The Chaotic Career of Baseball's Incorrigible Maverick / Bill Veeck -- Lou Holtz: The Magic of Thinking Big / David Schwartz -- Rudy Ruettiger: Psycho-Cybernetics / Maxwell Maltz -- Danny Edward Scott Casalenuovo: Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Hope, Healing and Forgiveness / Jack Canfield -- Farrah Gray: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success / Deepak Chopra -- Louise Hay: The Game of Life and How to Play It / Florence Scovel Shinn -- Rhonda Byrne: The Science of Getting Rich / Wallace Wattles -- Mark Victor Hansen: Resurrection / Neville Goddard -- Michael E. Gerber: 100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings -- Tim Ferriss: How to make Millions with Your Ideas / Dan Kennedy & Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel / Rolf Potts