 | So Far from God: A Novel by Ana Castillo
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $3.95 Magical, mystical, and an affirmation of the strength of women. Fun ride.
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 | Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $0.01 Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Beautiful story. Beautifully written. Everything about this book was beautiful.
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 | Power: A Novel by Linda Hogan
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.22 Hogan is a masterfully poetic writer. All her work resonates with an intimate relationship to the earth and all the sentient beings on it.
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 | Aboke Girls. Children Abducted in Northern Uganda by Els De Temmerman
Buy new: $16.96 / Used from: $14.71 It's difficult to think about the circumstances under which children of Northern Uganda live. The heroic actions of a teacher there made me proud to be a teacher, and was yet another reminder of the difference one brave person can make.
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 | The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $0.38 Everyone already knows this book is brilliant.
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 | Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.34 Deeply compassionate towards the kinds of heartbreaks we experience in different phases of our lives.
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 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel by Rebecca Wells
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 My friend Sue, who gives me pretty much all my favorite books, gave me this when I lived on Lake Quinault, near as I can figure just a couple doors down from where that part of the book was set.
I love how this book, with both humor and heart, encourages everyone to be more compassionate toward their mothers.
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 | Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel by Frederick Lenz
Buy used from: $1.85 SURFING THE HIMALAYAS came first, but I read them out of order, and you can too. It doesn't wreck anything. I loved the quirk and humor along with enlightening explanations of different aspects of life. This book was such a fun ride and full of ideas to consider. Both books are Lenz's true account of snowboarding right into a Buddhist monk who then became his teacher.
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 | How to Make an American Quilt
Buy used from: $4.99 This movie is such a beautiful tribute to the different paths women can take, to the endurance it takes to live a life, and the strength it takes to survive our heartbreaks. I've watched it probably thirty times, and it never gets less powerful for me. Beautiful soundtrack too.
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![Antonia`s Line ~ Oscar Winning Original Version [Import, All-region] (Dvd)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kr74aw%2BjL._SL75_.jpg) | Antonia`s Line ~ Oscar Winning Original Version [Import, All-region] (Dvd)
Four generations of women each with a different way of being exceptional. Must-see for all empowered women.
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 | Like Water for Chocolate
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.65 You'll never look at food the same. Be sure to get the one with subtitles and not English dubbing!
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 | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Strong quirky women AND bees? What more could I ask for. Loved it, loved it, loved it.
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 | A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 My favorite book for young readers. The grandmother is an inspiration for all of us spunky women who are a force to be reckoned with.
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 | A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.82 This book was a lovely mid-winter read-in-the-bathtub vacation. For me, it affirmed something about the value of living alone, and it made me want to be a bee keeper!
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 | Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Dan Millman
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $2.80 Fun, spiritual, and unlikely-- all the qualities I love in a book.
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 | Mutant Message Down Under, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Marlo Morgan
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $2.23 Very affirming message about unity, with each other and with nature.
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 | Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa by Farley Mowat
Buy used from: $0.01 Powerful and inspiring.
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 | On The Divinity Of Second Chances by Kaya McLaren
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $12.93 Okay, I wrote this book, but I have to say that I love it just as much as the day I wrote it, perhaps more. Second chances are powerful, and this book weaves together the six different second chances of six different characters. It's brilliant. It's fun. You'll laugh, you'll cry. I'm so proud of this book. I know you'll enjoy it.
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 | Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $0.01 What I love about small towns are all the interwoven stories of the residents. Every small town has great quirky characters. Hegi's has great quirky characters with a German twist. I've enjoyed several of her works, but this was my first love.
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 | The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $2.49 I couldn't put it down! Funny! Scary! Mystical! It's an intricate glimpse into an America few ever get to see.
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 | The Death of Bernadette Lefthand by Ron Querry
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $0.01 This book brilliantly captures the essences and nuances of my former home-- Dulce, NM, on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. Mesmerizing!
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 | Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.85 Beautifully woven, deeply compassionate, and very funny at times. Affirms that the courage to love is at the core of what it means to live.
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 | Northern Exposure - The Complete Series
Buy new: $135.99 / Used from: $163.77 The most intelligent, quirky, and funny show ever to grace my television screen. My favorite episode? Perhaps the one where the northern lights cause everyone's dreams to get switched.
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 | Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap Novels) by Adriana Trigiani
Buy used from: $0.01 I can't get enough of books with quirky small towns.
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 | Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants / Second Summer of the Sisterhood / Girls in Pants (3 Book Set) by Ann Brashares
Buy used from: $8.97 Okay, I picked this up in the airport without realizing it was for teenagers. I ended up staying up all night reading it. These books helped me look back at my younger self with compassion and forgiveness.
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