Bookstore

Do you have a burning passion for information about how to make the world a better place? What about how to transform your life? If so, you're in good company! Simply Living members love to read! We are ahead of the curve in many issues ranging from radical simplicity to the new cosmology. Our beloved bookstore helps us to maintain our intellectual niche. It also gives us the tools to intelligently "be the change." Located physically at the Clintonville Community Market and on-line via this site, check out these titles and join in on the brain candy!

Simple Living

  • Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
  • Voluntary Simplicity, Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich by Duane Elgin
  • The Simple Living Guide by Janet Luhrs
  • The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life by Cecile Andrews
  • Slow Is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure And Joie De Vivre by Cecile Andrews
  • Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth by Jim Merkel Living
  • The Simple Life: A Guide To Scaling Down and Enjoying More by Elaine St. James
  • Simplicity Lessons: A 12-Step Guide to Living Simply by Linda Breen Pierce
  • The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas by Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Fischer, M.K.Gandhi, and Gandhi
  • Walden With Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay on Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau

Ecology and Environment

  • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
  • The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait Of A Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards and David W. Orr
  • Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey by Jane Goodall and Phillip Berman
  • Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability by Greg Horn
  • Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet by David Suzuki and Holly Dressel
  • One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change our World by Julia Hill, Jessica Hurley, Julia Hill, and Jessica Hurley
  • An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
  • PowerDown: Options And Actions For A Post-Carbon World by Richard Heinberg The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson

Nonviolent Communication

  • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values by Marshall B. Rosenberg and Arun Gandhi
  • Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook: A Practical Guide for Individual, Group or Classroom Study by Lucy Leu Raising Children Compassionately: Parenting the Nonviolent Communication Way by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Spirituality and Wisdom Traditions

  • The Gospel According to Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers by Stephen Mitchell
  • The Enlightened Heart by Stephen Mitchell The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
  • A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart
  • Tolle Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh and Jack Kornfield
  • The Heart's Code, by Paul P. Pearsall
  • The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto and David A. Thayne
  • The Essential Dalai Lama: His Important Teachings by Rajiv Mehrotra

Cultural Transformation

  • The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
  • The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World by Paul H. Phd Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson
  • Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn
  • The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain
  • The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life by Riane Eisler
  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future by Duane Elgin
  • The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David C Korten

Community

  • And We Are Doing It: Building an Ecovillage Future by J.T. Ross Jackson
  • Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities by Diana Leafe
  • Christian Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves by Kathryn McCamant
  • Communities Directory, 2007: A Comprehensive Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living (Communities Directory) by Fellowship for Intentional Community
  • Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future by Margaret J Wheatley

Social Change Issues

  • Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken (Author), Amory Lovins (Author), L. Hunter Lovins
  • Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken
  • The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
  • The Blue Pages: A Directory of Companies Rated by Their Politics and Practices by PoliPointPress and Carol Pott
  • When Corporations Rule the World by David C Korten
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler
  • The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late by Thom Hartmann, Joseph Chilton Pearce, and Neale Donald Walsch
  • Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
  • Censored 2007: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored) by Peter Phillips, Project Censored, and Robert Jensen

Personal Growth

  • Emotional Clearing: An East / West Guide to Releasing Negative Feelings and Awakening Unconditional Happiness by John Ruskan
  • Making a Change for Good: A Guide to Compassionate Self-Discipline by Cheri Huber
  • When You're Falling, Dive: Acceptance, Freedom and Possibility by Cheri Huber and June Shiver
  • How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Cheri Huber
  • The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness by Pema Chodron
  • When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
  • Change Your Aura, Change Your Life: A Step-By-Step Guide to Unfolding Your Spiritual Power by Barbara Y. Martin and Dimitri Moraitis
  • The Essential Crazy Wisdom by Wes Nisker
  • Succulent Wild Woman by Sark
  • The Bodacious Book of Succulence: Daring to Live Your Succulent Wild Life by Sark
  • Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Martha Beck
  • Radical Honesty, The New Revised Edition: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth by Brad Blanton 

Literature, Essays, Poetry, Art

  • Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
  • Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Prodigal Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Full Woman, Fleshy Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Stephen Mitchell
  • A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman New and Selected Poems, Volumes One and Two by Mary Oliver
  • The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations by Gary Snyder
  • Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey by Alex Grey, Ken Wilber, and Carlo McCormick
  • Transfigurations by Alex Grey

Parenting and Children's Books

  • Time-Out for Parents: A Guide to Compassionate Parenting by Cheri Huber and June Shiver
  • Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
  • The Everything Seed: A Story of Beginnings by Carole Martignacco and Joy Troyer
  • The Lorax by Dr Seuss
  • Born With a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story (Sharing Nature With Children Book) by Jennifer Morgan and Dana Lynne Andersen
  • Mammals Who Morph: The Universe Tells Our Evolution Story (Sharing Nature With Children Book) by Jennifer Morgan and Dana Lynne Andersen
  • From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth's Story (Sharing Nature With Children Book) by Jennifer Morgan and Dana Lynne Andersen
  • Starbright (and Moonbeam)--Meditations for Children by Maureen Garth 

Health and Wellness/Cookbooks

  • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health by Andrew Weil
  • Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating by Jane Goodall, Gary McAvoy, and Gail Hudson
  • Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore
  • Lappe Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements ... A-To-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies) by Phyllis A. Balch
  • Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their Herbal Remedies by Phyllis A. Balch
  • The Healthy Kitchen by Andrew Weil and Rosie Daley
  • Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry
  • Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to Staying Healthy, Living Longer & Achieving Your Ideal Weight by Peter J. D'Adamo and Catherine Whitney
  • The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook by Louise Hagler and Dorothy R. Bates
  • Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon
  • Student's Go Vegan Cookbook: Over 135 Quick, Easy, Cheap, and Tasty Vegan Recipes by Carole Raymond
  • Vegan Family Favorites: Tasty And Satisfying Recipes Even Your Kids Will Love by Erin Pavlina
  • The Saucy Vegetarian by Joanne Stepaniak
  • The New Moosewood Cookbook (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking) by Mollie Katzen

Science, Ecology, and the New Story of the Universe

  • The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story by Brian Swimme
  • The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story by Brian Swimme
  • The Universe Story : From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era--A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry
  • The Great Work: Our Way into the Future by Thomas Berry
  • The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature by David Suzuki and Amanda McConnell
  • The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything by Ken Wilber
  • Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World by Ken Wilber
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine by Candace B. Pert
  • The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe by Lynne Mctaggart
  • We'Moon Datebook (annual)