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Ignite Your Heart & Mind

**Now updated from this summer's retreats!

During our summer Yoga & Wellness Retreats each year, everyone gathers around the fire with a list of 3 or more books that they had read recently and loved.

Each person talks about their 3 books and why they enjoyed them so much.

Here they all are...for your reading pleasure...

Summer 2025

Bright Remarkably Creatures – Shewlby Van Pelt

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

The Authenticity Project - Claire Pooley

You are Stronger than You Think - Joel Osteen

Stolen Pride - Arlie Russell Hochschild

Say You’ll Remember Me - Abby Jimenez

The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson

The Last American Road Trip - Sarah Kendzior

The Light We Carry – Michelle Obama

The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede

Let them – Mel Robbins

The Grief Recover Method - John James

The Yoga of Self Love - Ramaa Krishnan

Caste – Isabel Wilkerson

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

Skin- Ted Dekker

So Gay for You - Leisha hailey and Katherine Moennig

How to Retire and Not Die - Gary Sirak and Max Sirak

Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief – David Kessler

All the books by Frieda McFadden

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease - Caldwell B. Esselstyn

The Whole 30 - Dallas Hartwig and Melissa Hartwig Urban

Life Force – Jeffrey S. McCombs

First Lie Wins – Ashley Elston

The Wheel of Time – Robert Jordan

“In Death” book series - J.D. Robb (the pseudonym used by Nora Roberts for this series)

Foundation trilogy – Issac Asimov

LaRose – Louise Erdrich

Tom Lake – Ann Pachett *the audio book is read by Meryl Streep!

Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama – Nathan Thrall

How to Stand up to a Dictator – Marie Reesa

Master Slave Husband Wife - Ilyon Woo

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Summer 2024

The Measure – Nikki Erlick

The Women – Kristin Hannah

Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus

Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt

Braving the Wilderness – Brene Brown

The Imperfections – Sam Mariano

The Gift of Imperfection – Brene Brown

Stop Being Lonely - Kira Asatryan

Expiration Dates – Rebecca Serle

The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Alma Cuervo

The Storytellers Secret - Sejal Badani

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

Good Material – Dolly Alderton

Verity – Colleen Hoover

The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides

Caleb’s Crossing – Geraldine Brooks

In the Heart of the Sea – Nathaniel Philbrick

Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson

Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman

Falling – T.J. Newman

The Measure – Nikki Erlick

The Other Boleyn Girl – Phillipa Gregory

Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet

Devil in The White City – Erik Larson

Aging with Grace – Sharon Betters & Susan Hunt

Sacred Self Care -Dr. Walker Barnes

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Summer 2023

For you Mom, Finally – Ruth Reichl

Getting in Touch with Your Guardian Angels – Jill Kempner

Awareness – Anthony DeMelle

The Color of Water – James McBride

The Art of Racing in The Rain - Garth Stein

Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

Right Brain and Left brain – Daniel Pink, Patrick Linconi

The Next Big Idea Club - https://nextbigideaclub.com/?fbclid=IwAR0atPUiP9jcbu0mqKzbNF-9yxhmRVFd0a_tMZa_OnCR_2wo76Qrf8KDNDE

*and a Facebook group

Daisy Jones & the 6th - Jenkins Reid

The Seed Keeper – Diane Wilson

The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Shafak

She Said - Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neal

Horse – Jeralidine Brooks

The Measure – Mickey Eirlich

Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolve

Crying in H-Mart – Michelle Zauner

The Artists Way – Julia Cameron

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Album

With The Fire on High – Elizabeth Acevedo

This is How it Always Is – Laurie Frankel

The Great Alone – Kristen Hannah

Willow Rose (author) a series of books

Enlightenment For Idiots – Anne Cushman

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

Nightingale – Kristen Hannah

The Advocate (series) – Theresa Burrell

Noble Beginnings – L.T. Ryan

My Grandmother Told me to Tell You “I’m Sorry” – Frederick Bachman

The Women in Black – Susan Hill

Mutant Message Down Under – Marlo Morgan

The Positive Dog – Jon Gordon

The Eight Dates – The Gotmans

Speeches (?) – David McCullough

Being Mortal – Atul Gawande

Learning to Pray – A Guide for Everyone – James Martin

Sacred Self Care – Dr Chanequa Walker-Barnes

The Sociopath Next Door – Dr. Martha Stout

Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson

Such A Fun Age – Kiley Reed

The Whole Thirty – Dallas Hartwig

Food Freedom Forever – Melissa Hartwig

Eric’s Story – Carol Hill

Proof of Heaven – Eben Alexander

How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan

House of Sand & Fog – Andre Dubus

The Bible Code – Michael Drosnin

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Fall 2022

You Before Me – JoJo Moyes

The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Picnic with Picasso – Anthony E. Thorogood

The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

River of Doubt – Candice Millard

Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard

Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger

Breath – James Nestor

What Happened to You – Bruce perry and Oprah Winfrey

Me & White Supremacy – Layla Saad

The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk

The Death of Josseline – Margaret Regan

American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins

The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

This is How it Always Is – Laurie Frankel

The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz

Metta Human – Deepak Chopra

Total Meditation – Deepak Chopra

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

Becoming – Michelle Obama

The Soul of America – Jon Meacham

The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt

The Girl on The Train - Paula Hawkins