Category Archives: Nonfiction

THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt

Posted on April 5, 2024 by OnlyGoodBooks

They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but Jonathan Haidt’s latest, THE ANXIOUS GENERATION: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, a must-read for parents and educators, brilliantly captures his two … Continue reading →

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JOURNEY OF SOULS by Michael Newton

Posted on September 23, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

Dramatically gusty, rainy days like today give us ample opportunity to burrow under the covers with a good book. If you’re not sure where to turn, try JOURNEY OF SOULS, an eye-opening book by Michael Newton (1931-2016), a hypnotherapist who … Continue reading →

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THE POWER OF EIGHT by Lynne McTaggart

Posted on August 26, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

About ten weeks ago, my friends Joe and Perryanne and I launched a grounding group in our community. We announced it, then, at the appointed time, took off our shoes, sat in the local park in beach chairs, and waited … Continue reading →

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SUPERCHARGED SELF-HEALING by RJ Spina

Posted on June 28, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

On April 23, 2016, RJ Spina became paralyzed from the chest down and underwent emergency life-saving surgery.  In addition to having a rare staph-infection that compressed his spinal cord, he was also diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, hypothyroidism, and an … Continue reading →

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STORIES THAT STICK by Kindra Hall

Posted on May 27, 2023 by OnlyGoodBooks

Before I read STORIES THAT STICK (subtitled How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Your Business)on a flight to Scotland for an 8-day tour, I thought I knew pretty much everything I needed to about storytelling.  I mean, … Continue reading →

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ATOMIC HABITS by James Clear

Posted on December 23, 2022 by OnlyGoodBooks

            “You do not rise to the level of your goals.  You fall to the level of your systems.”  One morning when I heard Brené Brown quote James Clear from his book ATOMIC HABITS, I thought, That is SO TRUE.  … Continue reading →

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THE LIGHTWORKER’S MANIFESTO by Karen Walrond

Posted on April 7, 2022 by OnlyGoodBooks

While many people are struggling these days—and have been for months and months, really—so many are still fighting the good fight and trying to do good things.  We live in difficult times, and sometimes it’s hard to find joy or … Continue reading →

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THE LAST AMERICAN MAN by Elizabeth Gilbert

Posted on February 25, 2022 by OnlyGoodBooks

“By the time Eustace Conway was seven years old, he could throw a knife accurately enough to nail a chipmunk to a tree.  By the time he was ten, he could hit a running squirrel at fifty feet with a … Continue reading →

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THE GREAT INFLUENZA by John M. Barry

Posted on April 7, 2020 by OnlyGoodBooks

I first read this book—about the 1918 pandemic that killed somewhere between 21 and 100 million people on the planet—when it first came out, in 2004.  Sixteen years later, when the World Health Organization announced we were officially facing a … Continue reading →

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BLOWOUT by Rachel Maddow

Posted on December 31, 2019 by OnlyGoodBooks

One sign of a good book is that you can open it to any page and become engaged. I was reminded of this after I excitedly picked up Rachel Maddow’s latest book, BLOWOUT, and accidentally clicked a link in the … Continue reading →

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