Lending Library: Featured Book Reviews

Monthly Featured Books

September 4, 2025
August 2025 Lending Library Featured Book

How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can by Amy B. Scher is a compassionate guide to self-healing. Drawing from her own experience overcoming chronic illness and as an energy therapist, Scher provides practical energy-healing techniques to help release emotional blocks, reduce stress, and restore well-being.

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July 30, 2025
July 2025 Lending Library Featured Book

Heaven is Beautiful : How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just a Beginning was written by Peter Baldwin Panagore. His story is an account of his near death experience while hiking in Alberta Canada when he was 21 years old. He was ice climbing the Lower Weeping Wall on Cirrus Mountain, Banff National Park. Several climbing mistakes resulted in Peter and his partner being stranded on the ice wall over night and experiencing hypothermia. Peter was well versed in the stages of hypothermia and was aware of his increasing confusion, clumsiness and sleepiness as the hypothermia increased. Peter struggled to stay awake but he was unable to and he slipped into death. He died on the side of the mountain and experienced forgiveness, unconditional love and bliss.

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May 31, 2025
June 2025 Lending Library Featured Book

In "I Am The Word", Paul Selig, writer and medium, offers readers a profound journey into the realms of spiritual awakening and personal transformation. As a channel for higher wisdom, Selig’s program is dispensed by beings of higher intelligence , sometimes called guides or Ascended Masters. Selig invites us to explore the interconnectedness of all life and the divine energy that flows through it.

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April 30, 2025
May 2025 Lending Library Featured Book

Book Review: New Children and Near-Experiences by P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D. In New Children and Near-Death Experiences, P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., shares the findings of her remarkable study of 277 individuals who experienced near-death states as children. Some were interviewed while still young; others had grown into teens or adults. Atwater's work reveals how profoundly […]

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April 3, 2025
April 2025 Lending Library Featured Book

April's Recommendation The Intuition Workbookby Susan Holmes Landon, MS In The Intuition Workbook: Easy, Step-by-Step Instruction to Achieve Connection with your Spiritual Guidance, Susan Holmes Landon offers a clear and accessible guide to developing one's intuitive abilities. Landon's own journey of learning to trust her internal guidance informs the book's practical approach, making it especially […]

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March 12, 2025
March 2025 Lending Library Featured Book

Frank Joseph's Edgar Cayce's Atlantis and Lemuria: The Lost Civilizations in the Light of Modern Discoveries explores the enduring mysteries of these ancient lands, drawing from historical accounts, Cayce's psychic readings and recent archaeological discoveries. The  book traces the origins of the Atlantis legend back to Plato, who recorded that Socrates spoke of a powerful civilization that vanished beneath the sea.

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