The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a captivating exploration of nature's wonders. In this beautifully crafted narrative, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares her inspiring and intimate story of encountering a Neohelix albolabris—a common woodland snail. Confined to her bed due to illness, Bailey becomes an astute observer of the snail, which takes residence on her nightstand.

Through her observations, Bailey discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings. She gains a profound understanding of her own place in the world and the interconnectedness of life. Intrigued by the snail's molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, and hydraulic locomotion, Bailey offers a candid and engaging look into the life of this often overlooked and underappreciated small animal.

This remarkable journey of survival and resilience illuminates how a small part of the natural world can enrich our own human existence, providing a deeper appreciation of what it means to be fully alive.

Look into the past and you can change the future. In Memories Of My Future, Dr. Avinash Singh is the type of surgeon that other physicians envy, and has the world in his hands. That is until tragedy strikes—and it's a tragedy that puts him on the ropes, forcing him to revisit his greatest nightmares. It makes him realize that the successful life he had been living has been a façade. To overcome this, he will have to take a glimpse into the past and begin a journey that will teach him where true strength comes from. Along the way, he will see the heroism in his bloodline. He will witness the story of the first nation to defeat Genghis Khan's army. He will walk alongside the revolutionary whose love for his wife was so strong that even the mighty British Empire could not break it. But the true message Avinash will realize is that the greatest gift Man has is their mind. And once the mind is unlocked, all the answers to Man's problems will be right before their eyes.

For nearly seventy-five years, countless millions of Christians the world over have trusted the spiritual companionship of Oswald Chambers's daily devotional, My Utmost for His Highest. These brief scripture-based readings--by turns comforting and challenging--will draw you into God's presence and form you as a disciple of the Risen Lord. You'll treasure their insight, still fresh and vital. And you'll discover what it means to offer God your very best for His greatest purpose--to truly offer Him your utmost for His highest. This edition includes Chambers's text, updated by editor James Reimann, along with helpful subject and scripture indexes.

Living the Life Unexpected is a heartfelt and insightful guide by Jody Day, aimed at helping women who find themselves without children, whether by choice or circumstance. At the age of forty-four, Jody realized her journey to motherhood had ended, leading her through waves of grief, despair, and isolation.

This book addresses the complex emotions surrounding involuntary childlessness and offers a powerful, practical 12-week guide to help women come to terms with their grief. Jody's journey led her to create the Gateway Women Network, a supportive community that has aided thousands of women globally.

With compassion and understanding, Jody shows how to move towards a creative, happy, meaningful, and fulfilling future without children. This extensively revised edition includes additional content and stories from women and men around the world, providing diverse perspectives on living a fulfilling life without children.

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, When Breath Becomes Air is a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?'

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'"

When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.