books by Borgo Press     books:       Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry13 reviews William Glasser Borgo Press, 1990 one of the best psychology books I ever read This book saved me from dropping school. As a young student of Psychology in the Freudianism dominated Universidade de São Paulo I was disilusioned about the usefulness of psychotherapy and its antagonism with my own values system, until a friend gave me this book, 27 years ago. To this day, hundreds of books later, it remains as one of the best books I ever read. Responsibilty for self and for ...             The Vicomte de Bragelonne19 reviews Alexandre Dumas Borgo Press, 2002 Focus of the Story Changes If you are reading this review, you have probably already read the Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. You are wondering if it is worth it to continue with the series. If you decide to go on, you have three more 600+ page novels ahead of you. That is a lot of time and energy. If you are foremost into the swashbuckling aspect of the Musketeer stories, I would not go forward. The ...             The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Growing Beyond Emotional Dependence31 reviews Sue Patton Thoele Borgo Press, 1991 Every woman should read this! This book gives personal insight into how women defeat themselves. It really begins to draw your attention to the ways you think and feel. I think it is a good book to keep around, and probably re-read once a month. At times during reading it I almost bought one for every women I know. It isn't a miracle worker, but it brings your attention and awareness to self-defeating behavior. Every woman ...             Essays of E. B. White20 reviews E. B. White Borgo Press, 1991 Wonderful This is such a marvelous book. The sentences are simply perfect and the sense of wonder he creates makes this a text you will want to go back to over and over. A great gift for any literate person in your life. Really great.             Sylvia Plath: Collected Poems29 reviews Sylvia Plath Borgo Press, 1991 Collection Tracks the Course of a Genius's Rise and Fall Anyone who has not discovered Plath's poetry-- distinctly superior to her prose-- would be greatly served to seek out a slim volume called "Crossing the Water." This haunting collection features most of her greatest poems from what I think to be her most creative years: 1957-1959. If these don't grab you, then give up on her altogether. However, the Collected Poems are the inevitable place to ...             Bring Out the Magic in Your Mind15 reviews Al Koran Borgo Press, 1988 Magic & Mystery This book is my all time favourite personal development book. I have read it many, many times, and always come back to it when I need inspiration. So fascinated was I by this book and the author, that I spent months researching the life of Al Koran and the history of this book. What I found amazed me: Al Koran did not write this book. Instead, he allowed his name to be used as it was a good ...             Ninety-Three: A Play in Four Acts25 reviews Victor Hugo, Paul Meurice Borgo Press, 2009 Classic Victor Hugo This is another one of those books that has been on my reading list forever, and I picked it up several times before in the past before finally getting around to finishing it now. Like a lot of classic books, then isn't a bad read at all, but it's not written in the modern style and therefore requires a bit of discipline to get started before you get hooked by the plot. If you can make it ...             The Well at the World's End: Volume I16 reviews William Morris Borgo Press, 2000 The building of a genra I, like many others, came to read this through the influence of C. S. Lewis. Lewis said, and rightly so, that no book could match the titles which William Morris gave to his books, but that he came closer than anyone else could have. This and The Wood Beyond the World are both spectacular, and I look forward to reading his other literature when I get the chance. This particular book weaves ...             Cuentos de Eva Luna16 reviews Isabelle Allende Borgo Press, 1996 She Writes With Magic Ink What a collection of characters! An illiterate woman who sells words. A man obsessed with a little girl. A woman whose marriage was based on letters written by the wrong man. A woman who spends her life waiting for revenge. A rich man who keeps a girl prisoner. Rascals trying to break into society. A lonely dictator. Invisible Indians. Every character is flawed in some terrible way, and yet, ...             Into the Out of14 reviews Alan Dean Foster Borgo Press, 1986 Fiction, Fact, or Fantasy As a fan of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, Into The Out Of is the only book that made me sleep with the lights on! This book presents the "boogy man" as real and exposes the "darkside" in ways that most would not care to believe. I have read this book several times through the years and have recommended it to many. If you're looking for an entertaining read, this is great! If your looking for ...             Transformations of Myth Through Time8 reviews Joseph Campbell Borgo Press, 1991 One of the best storytellers of our time! This was required reading for a graduate course in the Humanities. This is a great book written by a very engaging storyteller. Joseph Campbell describes the monomyth in his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces as embodying all the necessary elements of the hero's journey in the many myths in human history. Campbell discovered through extensive research that humankind shares a universal ...             Jonah's Gourd Vine: A Novel11 reviews Zora Neale Hurston Borgo Press, 1990 One of the best books I have ever read I always thought of Toni Morrison as the leader, the queen, and the matriarch of black women's fiction, but the more I read of Zora Neale Hurston, the more I feel that everyone else must have taken their cues from her! Her writing is enchanting and thought provoking, her use of "black" language is absolutely delightful. The story and the characters are interesting in and of themselves. What ...             Lord of the World11 reviews Robert Hugh Benson Borgo Press, 2001 Amazing This book is amazing. It has helped me realize what this world would be like without the catholic church, the inherent dangers of secularism, and the path to rectify the evil of modernism. By doing this, it has helped bring me back to the catholic church. This author is on par with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell in both his ability to visualize alternate worlds with precise understanding and ...             Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949 (Under My Skin)10 reviews Doris May Lessing Borgo Press, 1995 masterful autobiography Under My Skin Doris Lessing's autobiography traces her political and emotional development from her earliest childhood memories to her growing, overwhelming, disenchantment with provincial (as she saw it) small town life. "Small town" life for her was pre-WWII Salisbury in the (then) British colony of Southern Rhodesia. Salisbury was a complacent capital city of 10,000 white settlers in a country ...             Evangeline7 reviews Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Borgo Press, 2002 Highly recommended I heard about this book from my mom a few weeks ago after I went to see the movie Serendipity. I told her about the plot of the two people in love searching for one another and just missing every time. She said it reminded her of another story, Evangeline. Since i attend an engineering school I am always very eager to read books with real meaning behind them, given that all my textbooks focus ...             Walk Like an Egyptian7 reviews Ramona Louise Wheeler Borgo Press, 2002 A highly valued contribution to New Age studies. Walk Like An Egyptian is a compelling and informative survey of ancient Egyptian philosophy and religion. Chapters are devoted to basic concepts of reality and the human soul; the essential Egyptian view of the self; the role and symbolism of ancient Egyptian deities, and much, much more. Walk Like An Egyptian is a highly valued contribution to New Age studies and will prove of immense ...             The Bat in My Pocket: A Memorable Friendship9 reviews Amanda Lollar Borgo Press, 1992 You Don't Know Beans About Bats Until You've Read This Book This little book revealed the true personalities and capabilities of one of the most misunderstood mammals on earth. I used to think bats were cute, like mice with wings, until I read The Bat In My Pocket several years ago. The author helps people understand that bats are gentle, intelligent, long-lived and highly beneficial, by telling the tale of the injured bat she rescued and befriended one ...             Storm Over Warlock7 reviews Andre Norton Borgo Press, 2008 The Power of Perseverance Storm Over Warlock is the first novel in the Warlock series. Warlock is the second planet in the Circe system. First scouted four years previously, a Terran Survey Corps team has been sent to prepare the planet for the coming of the first pioneers. In this novel, Shann Lantee has joined the Survey team as contract labor from the Dumps of Tyr, performing the dirty, tedious clean-up jobs and the ...             The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge9 reviews Marvin Kaye Borgo Press, 2003 Scrooge Unplugged You don't have to be a Dickens fanatic to enjoy this book. I was intrigued to find out what really happened AFTER Ebenezer Scrooges's Christmas Eve conversion from miser to man of charity. Marvin Kaye gives full life to those who until now we've only glimpsed. A poor Jewish boy called Paulie is the lad who fetches the turkey for the ecstatic Scrooge when he wakes from his nightmare on Christmas ...             The Lure of the Basilisk (Lords of Dus)12 reviews Lawrence Watt-Evans Borgo Press, 2001 An excellent tale. This short book (clocking at only 200 pages) is the beginning of a four-book series. I haven't yet read the other books, but I must honestly say that the author made good use of description (But it's not slow and boring, like it is in Ursula LeGuin's or Tad Williams' books). The Main character, the Overman Garth, a renowned warrior among his people, goes on a quest for something any sane ...              search for books approach, autobiography, basilisk, bragelonne, christmas, collected, courage, cuentos, dependence, ebenezer, egyptian, emotional, essays, evangeline, friendship, growing, memorable, ninety-three, pocket, psychiatry, reality, scrooge, sylvia, therapy, through, transformations, vicomte, volume, warlock, yourself books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen musical instruments: Remo Medium (20" x 10") Festival Djembe, Constellation Burgundy Design home  impressum - about us