"When this wonderful little book by Warren Bluhm first dropped into my hands a decade ago, I thought it was important. Today, I think it's particularly vital," Wally Conger writes in the preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Refuse to be Afraid. As Bluhm writes: "You are the boss of you. It's your life; you have to live with the choices you make; make sure those choices are actually yours. "The first step is controlling your fear. Not 'Don't be scared' - Don't let being scared stop you altogether. Question why you're scared: Is someone trying to scare you, and why? Is it a rational concern that merits moving forward with caution? Are you frightened beyond reason, and if so, what's a more reasonable course of action? "But move forward. Act. Don't be paralyzed by the fear. "What I meant to say is: "Refuse to be Afraid. Free yourself. Dream." Tired of the fear mongers? Ready to plow through the nagging doubts and outright fears of various sizes and shapes that are keeping you from living your best life? Eager to take the leap into that new job, start that new business, or meet that person you'd really like to know better? What's keeping you back? This is the challenge before you: Faced with a scary reality, to navigate past the anxiety, refuse to be afraid, and free yourself to move on to your dreams. This revised and expanded edition of Warren Bluhm's groundbreaking 2010 book is more relevant to our times than ever.

Refuse to be Afraid: Tenth Anniversary Edition

Self-Help

Bluhm, Warren

Happiness

Warren Bluhm

Full: Rockets, Bells & Poetry

Creativity

"If your mind needs phosphorus, try 'Trivia, ' by Logan Pearsall Smith. - Roger Mifflin, proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop"It would be extravagant to claim that Pearsall Smith's Trivia, the remarkable little book from which these miniature essays are extracted, is well known: it is too daintily, fragile and absurd and sophisticated to appeal to a very large public. But it has a cohort of its own devotees and fanatics, and since its publication in 1917 it has become a sort of password in a secret brotherhood," wrote Christopher Morley in his book Modern Essays about this hard-to-categorize collection of aphorisms that, through its title, introduced a word into the English language. Smith's aphorisms are anything but trivial; alternately whimsical and insightful and heartbreaking, they are popcorn-sized glimpses into the human condition.The third in a new collection of classic books inspired by Roger Mifflin, owner of Morley's Haunted Bookshop, Trivia is an early 20th century gem.

Trivia (The Roger Mifflin Collection)

Humor & Entertainment

Pearsall Smith, Logan

Humor

"If your mind needs a tonic of iron and wine, and a thorough rough-and-tumbling, try Samuel Butler's Notebooks or The Man Who Was Thursday, by Chesterton."- Roger Mifflin (Christopher Morley), The Haunted Bookshop"It is all a huge joke, a quite absurd and laughable fantasy - or it is a sermon - or it is even an explanation. Read the book and make your choice." - Hildegarde Hawthorne, New York Times, May 2, 1908 "Mr. Chesterton has done an admirable thing, and probably knows it." - Austin Harrison, London Observer, March 1, 1908Fourth in a series of public-domain treasures inspired by Roger Mifflin, proprietor of the store owner in Christopher Morley's classic book The Haunted Bookshop - featuring new and vintage content from series editor Warren Bluhm.

The Man Who Was Thursday (The Roger Mifflin Collection)

Literature & Fiction

Chesterton, G.

Humor & Satire

Roger Mifflin, proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, said it best: "If you need 'all manner of Irish,' and a relapse into irresponsible freakishness, try 'The Demi-Gods,' by James Stephens. It is a better book than one deserves or expects. It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way."Three angels come to Earth to learn more about people. They land in the Irish countryside and encounter a nomadic man and his feisty daughter, and what happens next is what happens next. The latest volume in The Roger Mifflin Collection, classics of the early 20th century as curated by Mifflin himself in The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley.

The Demi-Gods

Stephens, James

"In the history of literature one happens, from time to time, upon a book which has been written because the author had no choice but to write it," biographer Walter Besart said of Richard Jefferies' The Story of My Heart. "He was compelled by hidden forces to write it. There was no rest for him, day or night, so soon as the book was complete in his mind, until he sat down to write it. And then he wrote it at a white heat. For eighteen years, Jefferies says, he pondered over this book-he means, that he brooded over these and cognate subjects from the time of adolescence. At last his mind was full, and then-but not till then-he wrote it. Those who have not read it must understand at the outset that it is the book of one who dares to question for himself on the most important subject which can occupy the mind."Or, as Roger Mifflin put it more simply, "If your mind needs a whiff of strong air, blue and cleansing, from hilltops and primrose valleys, try "The Story of My Heart" by Richard Jefferies." Book 6 in the Roger Mifflin Collection of vintage classics.

The Story of My Heart

JEFFERIES, Richard

History

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