All Points West August 2025: Importance of Community

Updated August 1, 2025
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Look where we live! : a first book of community building
Ritchie, Scot
Paper Book
In this engaging nonfiction picture book, five young friends --- Nick, Yulee, Pedro, Sally and Martin --- spend the day traveling around their neighborhood and participating in activities designed to raise money for their local library. Along the way, they learn about the people and places that...
Find your people : building deep community in a lonely world
Allen, Jennie
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . WINNER OF THE ECPA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD . The author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creating true community, the kind that's crucial to our mental and spiritual health. "My dear friend Jennie Allen shows ushow...
The abundant community : awakening the power of families and neighborhoods
McKnight, John
Paper Book
This book is about a new possibility for us together to discover the real basis for a satisfying life. It is a life that becomes possible when we join our neighbors in creating a community that nurtures our family and makes us useful citizens. We are besieged by messages from consumer...
With a little help from our friends : creating community as we grow older
Baker, Beth
Paper Book
In this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Beth Baker...
One hen : how one small loan made a big difference
Milway, Katie Smith
Paper Book
Inspired by true events, One Hen tells the story of Kojo, a boy from Ghana who turns a small loan into a thriving farm and a livelihood for many. After his father died, Kojo had to quit school to help his mother collect firewood to sell at the market. When his mother receives a loan...
The art of gathering : how we meet and why it matters
Parker, Priya
Paper Book
"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED   From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together--at home, at work, in...
I never thought of it that way : how to have fearlessly curious conversations in dangerously divided times
Guzmán, Mónica (Journalist)
Paper Book
PORCHLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 2022 NONFICTION BESTSELLER "Assigned reading for fractured families aspiring to a harmonious Thanksgiving dinner." --New York Times "Anyone who sincerely wants to bridge the gaps in understanding will...

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