- Our latest addition: Six Arguments for a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment from the Center for Science and the Public Interest Full of information about health, environmental, and ethical aspects of our diet, this book presents a compelling case for a more vegetarian diet. You won't think of food the same way after reading it.
- Recognition for our book Unoriginal Misunderstanding, which has received a favorable review in Law and Politics Book Review (a publication of the American Political Science Association) and has been listed in the the American Historical Review.
- Index Libertary books on the fly: Now it is easier than ever to find what you are looking for in our books! Our new index feature allows readers to create a quick look up of any word or phrase. Simply type the word in the search box beneath the chapter links and an index will immediately be created!
- New on Libertary:Invisible Ink-A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate by Brian McDonald, an award winning screenwriter who has taught his craft at major studios. This guide to storytelling has been described as enlightening and essential by successful writers who have turned to it for deep insight and practical tools in constructing stories.
- Reconciliation Road by John Douglas Marshall, our latest book, is a remarkable memoir of the author's effort to answer attacks on his grandfather, an influential military historian, who had bitterly rejected him when he became a conscientious objector in the Vietnam war. It is a journey into military politics, theory and history, as well as a story of family dynamics and personal growth. A great read!
- Luscious Chocolate Smoothies is a cocoa lover's delight of recipes filled with nutritious exotic ingredients, and you'll also find fun chocolate lore collected by Author Gabriel Constans.
- Libertary has a new look. We'd like to know what you think about the site and what you'd like to see in the Libertary forum, which you'll find under the Discussion Forums tab above. Each book also has a forum with convenient links from the reading pages. We look forward to hearing from you about our books and our site.
- Libertary's latest offering, Kathie Durbin's Tree Huggers, is a vivid account of environmentalists' political battles to protect the ancient Pacific Northwest forests.
- Sheila Bender's Writing It Real newsletter, a valuable resource for writers, features an interview with Libertary founders Ken Shear and Alice Porter. Click here to read the interview. While you're there, you can sample other articles and check out helpful online writing courses.
- Unoriginal Misunderstanding is featured on History News Network and also on the American Constitutional Society's blog.
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Health - Pain Management
A Life Larger than Pain
A book that draws on the interrelationship of mind, body, and spirit to break the cycle of physical and emotional pain...
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Fathering
Best Things Fathers Do
Practical tools for successful parenting, based on research and interviews—an inspiring guide for fathers...
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Politics - Drug Policy
Drug Crazy
America's failed $300 billion war on drugs—a powerful call for reform to end violence, corruption, and rampant...
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True Crime
Fatal Flaw
An account of a multiple murder in 1975, for which a possibly innocent man remains on Florida's death row ...
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12 Step - Recovery
Get Up
12-step recovery for everyone, even nonbelievers—an honest and engaging guide, based on an atheist’s own...
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Memoir - Baseball
Home Field
Baseball remembered by nine great writers - there's community, there's family, there's heart. Sherman Alexie leaping...
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Authorship - Screenwriting
Invisible Ink
Story structure—the writing below the surface of the words—revealed in a helpful guide for both writers and...
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Philosophy - Epistemology
Knowing and Erring
"Evolution through error" must occur for cognitive growth both for individuals and civilizations. The...
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Cookbook
Luscious Chocolate Smoothies
Luscious Chocolate Smoothies is a delicious collection of recipes that combines the rich, intoxicating taste and...
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Public Health
One World
Public health challenges worldwide examined by leading experts. ...
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Spirituality - Death
People Who Don't Know They're Dead
An extraordinary exploration of what it means to live and die. ...
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Health - Self-realization
People With MS and the Courage to Give
Inspiring stories from people who have moved past the challenges of the disease to give back to their communities...
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Memoir - Parenting
Popsicle Fish
Popsicle Fish is a series of humorous, heart-warming, and thought-provoking tales relayed by Michael Murphy, Ed.D.,...
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Memoir - Military History
Reconciliation Road
A Vietnam-era conscientious objector examines the tarnished reputation of his grandfather, a famous military historian...
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Career Transition - Life Decisions
Second Acts that Change Lives
Stories from mid-life trailblazers who share their better selves and skills to make the world a better place ...
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Environment - Health - Diet
Six Arguments for a Greener Diet
How eating more mindfully could lead to healthier lives, cleaner air and water, and more humane treatment of animals...
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Health - Psychology
Skin Deep
A noted psychotherapist explores the powerful connections between emotional health and persistent skin disorders ...
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Mystery
An exotic mystery about how insurance fraud draws an investigator into a maze of violence and romance ...
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Religion - Psychology
The First Father Abraham
Abraham is portrayed in an insightful study of family dynamics, faith, and leadership, filled with deep religious and...
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Business - Sales - Mystery
The Forecast Fatale
Techniques for sales professionals—plus a rollicking noir mystery starring business detective Bart Steele ...
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History - Civil Liberties
The Story of Civil Liberty in the United States
The struggles of Americans to secure civil liberties and the betrayal of racial, religious, and political minorities...
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Environment - History - Politics
Tree Huggers
The battle to protect the ancient Northwest forests and the evolution of America's environmental policies ...
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Religion
twenty-five words
These twenty-five words are the bedrock prayer of the worldwide Alcoholics Anonymous movement, a movement that has...
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History - First Amendment - Press Freedom
Unoriginal Misunderstanding
A new history of the deep and complicated roots of America's modern First Amendment freedoms ...
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