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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Sadhguru's Inner Engineering and NOT the original book. Preview: Inner Engineering by yogi and mystic Sadhguru is a nonfiction book that explores the path to spiritual enlightenment, a state in which joy is constant. Human consciousness is like a...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to G. Amen’s, MD Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and NOT the original book. Preview: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by psychiatrist Daniel D. Amen is a non-fiction book based on the idea that brain functioning can be improved, and such...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to John Grisham’s Gray Mountain and NOT the original book. Preview: Gray Mountain  is a legal thriller by John Grisham that is set during the recession of 2008. The book begins when associate lawyer, Samantha Kofer, is furloughed, or laid...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Steven R. Gundry’s, MD The Plant Paradox and NOT the original book. Preview: The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in “Healthy” Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (2017) by Steven R. Gundry, MD, reveals how eating plants can actually...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Michael Pollan’s Cooked and NOT the original book.   Preview: Cooked (2013) by Michael Pollan is a journalistic study of cooking in the modern world, where convenience foods have rendered the need to cook and the knowledge of cooking...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David McCullough’s John Adams and NOT the original book. Preview: David McCullough’s John Adams is a biography designed to establish Adams’s place beside, or even above, better known figures such as Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Joel Fuhrman’s, MD Eat to Live and NOT the original book. Preview: Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss by Joel Fuhrman, MD, is a book designed to help Americans achieve and sustain healthier lifestyles,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to to Mary Beard’s SPQR and NOT the original book. Preview: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard is a single-volume history of Ancient Rome. The book covers Roman history from its semi-mythical origins in roughly 753 BC, to the decision by...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ian Caldwell’s The Fifth Gospel and NOT the original book. Preview: The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell is a literary thriller that takes place in 2004 at the Vatican, the chief residence of the Catholic Pope in Italy. The novel follows the aftermath...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Isabel Allende’s The Japanese Lover and NOT the original book. Preview: The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende is a novel that chronicles a forbidden but passionate romance that grows between two people over time, and how this relationship touches...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail and NOT the original book. Preview: Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey chronicles Rinker and his brother’s experiences reliving the journey taken by the original nineteenth-century travelers...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to James R. Doty’s, MD Into the Magic Shop and NOT the original book. Preview: In his memoir Into the Magic Shop Dr. James R. Doty describes how simple meditative techniques have had a profound effect on both his personal and professional paths. His...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Henry Cloud's The Power of the Other and NOT the original book. Preview: The Power of the Other by Henry Cloud is a self-help book that demonstrates the ways that people influence each other. It describes how to cultivate healthy relationships in...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paula McLain’s Circling the Sun and NOT the original book. Preview: Circling the Sun is a novelized account of the life of Beryl Markham written by Paula McLain. Beryl broke all the rules for a proper young lady as she grew up in colonial Kenya,...