Healing through Books

Healing Place of the Soul

-Inscription over the door to the library of the ancient city of Thebes

A book is a refuge, a guide, a source of inspiration, a friend. Share a favorite book with Healing Hamlet.

Once Was Lost

A Novel by Sara Zarr “Fifteen-year-old Samara Taylor lives a lie. To the outside world, she and her family have the perfect life. But in reality, she feels like she’s exploding into a million pieces. And her parents, the ones who should be able to put her back together, barely notice her plight. Sam’s pastor …

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Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing The true account of Ernest Shackleton’s quest to cross Antarctica. An Incredible Tribute to the Human Spirit in the Face of Impossible Odds Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling …

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The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

A Novel by Brady Udall If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.   As formative events go, nothing else comes close; my careening, zigzag existence, my wounded brain and faith in God, my collisions with joy …

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