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Book Embrace the Infinite

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Mannucci
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2012-03-16
  • ISBN : 1846948746
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Embrace the Infinite written by Anthony Mannucci and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the modern scientific world robbed our lives of a deeper sense of meaning and purpose? Has science rendered God irrelevant? Or can science actually bring us towards a deeper spiritual understanding and a greater sense of joy in our daily lives? Space scientist and physicist Anthony Mannucci explores these questions from a unique point of view. He begins by stating the obvious: everyone wants a sense of purpose and meaning to their lives. How to achieve it? Dr. Mannucci’s narrative takes us down a path where science is a starting point for something deeper. He reveals an Absolute Truth that is central to science and to our nature as spiritual beings. Dr. Mannucci expertly explains the power and the limitations of science. He reveals that science and spirituality are not distant cousins but in fact share a bond. What follows is an exploration of mind, and how exploring the nature of mind leads us to a deeper appreciation of our spiritual nature. Dr. Mannucci shows how the right words and ideas can change your life. In concluding the book, Dr. Mannucci discusses the importance of mystery and awe, two emotions familiar to every scientist. You will find the ideas in this book original and refreshing, conveying a message of hope and joy. Those who embrace these words will not regret their decision. ,

Book Embrace the Infinite

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Mannucci
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1846948738
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Embrace the Infinite written by Anthony Mannucci and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the modern scientific world robbed our lives of a deeper sense of meaning and purpose? Has science rendered God irrelevant? Or can science actually bring us towards a deeper spiritual understanding and a greater sense of joy in our daily lives? Space scientist and physicist Anthony Mannucci explores these questions from a unique point of view. He begins by stating the obvious: everyone wants a sense of purpose and meaning to their lives. How to achieve it? Dr. Mannucci’s narrative takes us down a path where science is a starting point for something deeper. He reveals an Absolute Truth that is central to science and to our nature as spiritual beings. Dr. Mannucci expertly explains the power and the limitations of science. He reveals that science and spirituality are not distant cousins but in fact share a bond. What follows is an exploration of mind, and how exploring the nature of mind leads us to a deeper appreciation of our spiritual nature. Dr. Mannucci shows how the right words and ideas can change your life. In concluding the book, Dr. Mannucci discusses the importance of mystery and awe, two emotions familiar to every scientist. You will find the ideas in this book original and refreshing, conveying a message of hope and joy. Those who embrace these words will not regret their decision.

Book The Infinite Game

Download or read book The Infinite Game written by Simon Sinek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world. How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers—only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new book, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset. On one hand, none of us can resist the fleeting thrills of a promotion earned or a tournament won, yet these rewards fade quickly. In pursuit of a Just Cause, we will commit to a vision of a future world so appealing that we will build it week after week, month after month, year after year. Although we do not know the exact form this world will take, working toward it gives our work and our life meaning. Leaders who embrace an infinite mindset build stronger, more innovative, more inspiring organizations. Ultimately, they are the ones who lead us into the future.

Book Finite and Infinite Games

Download or read book Finite and Infinite Games written by James Carse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may change—as long as the game is never allowed to come to an end. What are infinite games? How do they affect the ways we play our finite games? What are we doing when we play—finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite games affect the ways in which we live our lives? Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world—from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion—leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed. Along the way, Carse finds new ways of understanding everything, from how an actress portrays a role to how we engage in sex, from the nature of evil to the nature of science. Finite games, he shows, may offer wealth and status, power and glory, but infinite games offer something far more subtle and far grander. Carse has written a book rich in insight and aphorism. Already an international literary event, Finite and Infinite Games is certain to be argued about and celebrated for years to come. Reading it is the first step in learning to play the infinite game.

Book Embrace The Infinite

    Book Details:
  • Author : The End
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-08-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Embrace The Infinite written by The End and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Embrace Infinity: A Hand-Drawn Collection of Wisdom, Stories, And a Plan to Save Ourselves" is a truly one-of-a-kind literary creation. This captivating book weaves together a tapestry of diverse elements, drawing readers into a world of wisdom, wonder, and introspection. At its core, the book is organized into thoughtfully crafted chapters, each offering a distinct category of insights. These chapters encompass a range of topics, like identity, joy in life, doing what you want to do in life, and many other topics that resonate with readers' personal journeys while also dipping into the spellbinding tales of the supernatural that challenge the boundaries of reality. The author paints a picture of their experience and shares some of the wisdom gained in other chapters. The heart of "Embrace Infinity" lies in its meticulously hand-drawn journal entries, each accompanied by oddly captivating illustrations that breathe life into the author's words. Through these entries, readers are granted intimate access to the mind and experiences of the author, fostering a unique connection that transcends identity and the pages. While the book touches on the inexplicable and fantastical, it's important to note that these stories are just one facet of the journey. Among the chapters, there lies a strategic plan, subtly embedded within the narrative. This plan, aimed at our collective betterment, is interwoven among the stories and wisdom, offering readers a chance to reflect on their roles in shaping a brighter future. "Embrace Infinity" is not merely a collection of disjointed elements; it's a harmonious composition of narratives, visuals, and insights that resonate deeply with the human experience. The author's intentional organization of the book's segments ensures that readers are guided through a rollercoaster of emotions, from moments of awe and inspiration to periods of profound self-reflection. In a world where books often conform to convention, "Embrace Infinity" stands out as an artistic masterpiece, an ode to individuality, the power of the collective, and a reminder that wisdom, stories, and even plans can be vehicles of transformation. As you navigate its pages, you'll find yourself immersed in a symphony of creativity that sparks contemplation, ignites the imagination, and beckons you to embrace the infinite possibilities within and around you.

Book The Infinite Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : John D. Barrow
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 0307428761
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book The Infinite Book written by John D. Barrow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen that don't. All manner of strange paradoxes and fantasies characterize an infinite universe. If our Universe is infinite then an infinite number of exact copies of you are, at this very moment, reading an identical sentence on an identical planet somewhere else in the Universe. Now Infinity is the darling of cutting edge research, the measuring stick used by physicists, cosmologists, and mathematicians to determine the accuracy of their theories. From the paradox of Zeno’s arrow to string theory, Cambridge professor John Barrow takes us on a grand tour of this most elusive of ideas and describes with clarifying subtlety how this subject has shaped, and continues to shape, our very sense of the world in which we live. The Infinite Book is a thoroughly entertaining and completely accessible account of the biggest subject of them all–infinity.

Book Infinite Value 4 Students

    Book Details:
  • Author : Taiwan Holmes
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-05-30
  • ISBN : 9781533134219
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Infinite Value 4 Students written by Taiwan Holmes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After repeated beatings, which started when I was in Kindergarten, I learned two certainties in life: I was worthless and I was unlovable. These beliefs permeated every aspect of my life from my family, to the classroom, and on to the basketball court. It followed me beyond school into my professional life, and even my new family, I became BLIND to the value that was in me, and the value that I could truly add to the world around me. Jim Rohn said, "It is more important to work harder on yourself, than you do on your job." IV4S reveals my journey as I worked to shine a light through the blindness of my value both inside and out of the classroom. The journey has uncovered one of the greatest truths the world has ever known. First and foremost, I am INFINITELY VALUABLE. The second discovery is the fact that there is an INFINITE amount of VALUE that I can add to the world around me. As a student and professional, I believed that my value was conditional. If I did well on a test, my value increased by 1 point. But if I had a bad basketball game, it decreased by 1,378 points. In a professional setting, you are only as good as your last sale or accomplishment. Fortunately, my journey revealed the reality that my value isn't conditional or static, but it is accumulating. As humans, we are the summation of all of our life experiences. It is that ever increasing minute by minute, second by second total that ultimately calculates your True Market Value. Once I was able to correctly calculate my Inherent Value, I was then able to more clearly decide what type of value that I would like to add to the marketplace and society. During my blindness, I could only see the value that I could add to someone else's company, through telling their story. The journey you are about to read is the First revelation of the Infinite amount of Value that I will add to the marketplace through telling my story and sharing my talents. When you choose to read this book in its entirety, I promise you that you will have a mirror to see both your Inherent Value and the Value that you will be able to add to the world around you. (Spoiler Alert: They are Both INFINITE!). You will be provided with tools and resources that I didn't have when I was a kid and student that will aid you uncovering your True Value even sooner. (It took me over 30 years). I could tell you to read this book to benefit yourself, but that would be too finite. You should read this book for the thousands upon thousands of people that your life will add Value to once you do. Another important reality that I learned on this journey is "It's not ONLY about me!" If it was only about me, then the tough times that I went through would really suck (not that it didn't hurt at the time, because it did). There are lives that I will be able to add value to, because I went through my beatings. And that is why I write. There are thousands of lives around this planet right now that are waiting to be helped by your experiences. My journey can show you a path to be able to reach the people you are supposed to add your INFINITE VALUE to.

Book Unlock Your Infinite Potential  Embrace the Power of the Law of Attraction

Download or read book Unlock Your Infinite Potential Embrace the Power of the Law of Attraction written by Suzy Lavergne and published by Self Published. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to transform your life and manifest your deepest desires? "Unlock Your Infinite Potential: Embrace the Power of the Law of Attraction" is a comprehensive guide that will take you on a transformative journey, revealing the secrets behind the law of attraction and providing you with the tools needed to harness its incredible power. In this book, you will uncover the mysteries of the law of attraction and learn how to align your thoughts, emotions, and actions with your desires. You'll discover the interconnectedness of your thoughts, emotions, and vibrations, and how they shape your reality. Dive deep into the role of belief systems and subconscious programming, and understand how they can either propel you toward success or hinder your progress. With practical exercises, engaging narratives, and clear explanations, this book will guide you through the process of setting clear intentions and harnessing the power of creative visualization. You'll learn how to cultivate an attitude of gratitude and appreciation, unleashing the energy of abundance in every aspect of your life. But it doesn't stop there. "Unlock Your Infinite Potential" goes beyond theory and empowers you to take inspired action. You'll learn how to recognize signs, synchronicities, and opportunities, and overcome fear and self-doubt as you step out of your comfort zone. Cultivate an abundance mindset, navigate challenges with resilience, and maintain unwavering faith in the manifestation process. As you progress through the chapters, you'll discover the importance of self-care, the art of surrender and letting go, and the incredible impact of cultivating emotional balance and embracing playfulness. You'll explore the depths of your authentic desires and passions, understand the significance of baby steps, and gain the wisdom to never give up on your dreams. Whether you're new to the law of attraction or have been on a manifesting journey for years, "Unlock Your Infinite Potential" will provide you with a roadmap to unlock the magic within you. With its practical techniques, guided meditations, and actionable steps, this book will empower you to create a life of abundance, joy, and fulfillment. Are you ready to unleash your potential and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams? "Unlock Your Infinite Potential: Embrace the Power of the Law of Attraction" is your ultimate guide to tapping into the limitless possibilities that await you. Get ready to embark on a life-changing journey and become the deliberate creator of your reality.

Book Infinite Detail

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Maughan
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2019-03-05
  • ISBN : 0374718601
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Infinite Detail written by Tim Maughan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL! The Guardian's Pick for Best Science Fiction Book of the Year! A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it’s become a center of creative counterculture. But it’s fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York City—now the apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis? AFTER: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently switched off the Internet. Global trade, travel, and communication have collapsed. The luxuries that characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary—who has visions of people presumed dead—is sought out by grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like Grids, who runs the Croft’s black market like personal turf. Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like treasure. The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It.

Book The Great Work

Download or read book The Great Work written by Amin Jaberansari and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Work brings in a new understanding of consciousness recognized through geometric relationships that are infinite in nature. As Astras communication is felt and grasped, a new sense of knowing and outlook on the universe is introduced to the reader. Astras inspiration is to bring us to a level of awareness where we are capable of communicating and acknowledging the higher consciousness within celestial bodies such as asteroids and embracing a new approach toward conscious universal integration. This book is a collection of written material, teachings, and transcribed recordings intuitively channeled (streamed) by the writer. The Great Work is written to allow the reader to find their greatest work through self-transformation and provides a new perspective on spirituality and the universe. May you be the love, that one day welcomes asteroids into this life, just like joyous children. Astra

Book The Infinite Playground

Download or read book The Infinite Playground written by Bernard De Koven and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final work, a visionary game designer reveals how a surprising range of play-based experiences can unlock our imagination and help us capture the power of fun and delight. Bernard De Koven (1941–2018) was a pioneering designer of games and theorist of fun. He studied games long before the field of game studies existed. For De Koven, games could not be reduced to artifacts and rules; they were about a sense of transcendent fun. This book, his last, is about the imagination: the imagination as a playground, a possibility space, and a gateway to wonder. The Infinite Playground extends a play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination. It offers a curriculum for playful learning. De Koven guides the readers through a series of observations and techniques, interspersed with games. He begins with the fundamentals of play, and proceeds through the private imagination, the shared imagination, and imagining the world—observing, “the things we imagine can become the world.” Along the way, he reminisces about playing ping-pong with basketball great Bill Russell; begins the instructions for a game called Reception Line with “Mill around”; and introduces blathering games—Blather, Group Blather, Singing Blather, and The Blather Chorale—that allow the player's consciousness to meander freely. Delivered during the last months of his life, The Infinite Playground has been painstakingly cowritten with Holly Gramazio, who worked together with coeditors Celia Pearce and Eric Zimmerman to complete the project as Bernie De Koven's illness made it impossible for him to continue writing. Other prominent game scholars and designers influenced by De Koven, including Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Jesper Juul, Frank Lantz, and members of Bernie's own family, contribute short interstitial essays.

Book Embracing the Ordinary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Foley
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-07-05
  • ISBN : 184983914X
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Embracing the Ordinary written by Michael Foley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain, Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely book' Guardian It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet, with characteristic wit and earthiness, Michael Foley - author of the bestselling The Age of Absurdity - draws on the works of writers, thinkers and artists who have celebrated and examined the ordinary life, and encourages us to delight in the complexities of the everyday. With astute observation, Foley brings fresh insights to such things as the banality of everyday speech, the madness and weirdness of snobbery, love and sex, and the strangeness of the everyday environment, such as the office. It is all more fascinating, comical and mysterious than you think. Intelligent, funny and entertaining, Foley shows us how to find contentment and satisfaction by embracing the ordinary things in life. 'A convincing argument for the beauty of the seemingly banal… ' Scotsman

Book Permission to Screw Up

Download or read book Permission to Screw Up written by Kristen Hadeed and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring, unlikely, laugh-out-loud story of how one woman learned to lead–and how she ultimately succeeded, not despite her many mistakes, but because of them. This is the story of how Kristen Hadeed built Student Maid, a cleaning company where people are happy, loyal, productive, and empowered, even while they’re mopping floors and scrubbing toilets. It’s the story of how she went from being an almost comically inept leader to a sought-after CEO who teaches others how to lead. Hadeed unintentionally launched Student Maid while attending college ten years ago. Since then, Student Maid has employed hundreds of students and is widely recognized for its industry-leading retention rate and its culture of trust and accountability. But Kristen and her company were no overnight sensa­tion. In fact, they were almost nothing at all. Along the way, Kristen got it wrong almost as often as she got it right. Giving out hugs instead of feed­back, fixing errors instead of enforcing accountability, and hosting parties instead of cultivating meaning­ful relationships were just a few of her many mistakes. But Kristen’s willingness to admit and learn from those mistakes helped her give her people the chance to learn from their own screwups too. Permission to Screw Up dismisses the idea that leaders and orga­nizations should try to be perfect. It encourages people of all ages to go for it and learn to lead by acting, rather than waiting or thinking. Through a brutally honest and often hilarious account of her own strug­gles, Kristen encourages us to embrace our failures and proves that we’ll be better leaders when we do.

Book Infinite Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Harper
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2011-11-16
  • ISBN : 1846949254
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Infinite Music written by Adam Harper and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few decades, new technologies have brought composers and listeners to the brink of an era of limitless musical possibility. They stand before a vast ocean of creative potential, in which any sounds imaginable can be synthesised and pieced together into radical new styles and forms of music-making. But are musicians taking advantage of this potential? How could we go about creating and listening to new music, and why should we? Bringing the ideas of twentieth-century avant-garde composers Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage to their ultimate conclusion, Infinite Music proposes a system for imagining music based on its capacity for variation, redefining musical modernism and music itself in the process. It reveals the restrictive categories traditionally imposed on music-making, replaces them with a new vocabulary and offers new approaches to organising musical creativity. By detailing not just how music is composed but crucially how it's perceived, Infinite Music maps the future of music and the many paths towards it.

Book Infinite Life

Download or read book Infinite Life written by Robert Thurman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Time magazine's 25 Most Influential People in America writes about taking responsibility for our own happiness and our actions. Robert Thurman is America's most popular and charismatic Buddhist. His first book, Inner Revolution, is an international bestseller and his lectures sell out to thousands. Infinite Life demonstrates that our every action has infinite consequences for ourselves and others, here and now and after we are gone. He introduces the Seven Paths to reconstructing body and mind carefully in order to reduce the negative consequences and cultivate the positive. In his powerful, pragmatic style, Thurman delivers life-changing lessons on virtues and emotions through the lens of Buddhist practices and ways of thinking. He invites us to take responsibility for our actions and their consequences while we revel in the knowledge that our lives are truly infinite. Infinite Life is the ultimate guidebook to understanding our place in the universe and realizing how we can personally succeed while helping others.

Book The Infinite Leader

Download or read book The Infinite Leader written by Chris Lewis and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2021 - Leadership Bestselling and award-winning author duo Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren are calling it out. In The Infinite Leader, they argue that the spectacular leadership failures that we have witnessed in recent history, stretching across business, community life and politics, can be explained by a lack of balance. Having spent centuries perfecting processes and systems to maximize productivity and being indicted to the shrine of numbers, KPI's and financial forecasting, we have to admit, there are very few examples of sustainable and inspirational leadership figures out there. By over-relying on the hard stuff, we have disregarded whole dimensions of values that are desperately needed when trying to engage communities of people towards a common goal. The Infinite Leader is a roadmap to introducing balance back into organizations. You can adapt your stance to the infinite possibilities facing you as a leader, and balance the main quadrants of the rational, emotional, spiritual and physical leader, to deliver sustainable leadership with integrity. Business is still about people - people operate across paradoxes and opposing forces, in a world that confounds these influences. Leaders need to continuously juggle and neutralize these to succeed. Be what your people need you to be and learn what they don't teach you in business schools; remain analytical and numbers-focused when needed, but also bring your heart, person and integrity to leadership.

Book Infinite Country

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Engel
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-03-02
  • ISBN : 1982159480
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Infinite Country written by Patricia Engel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, A 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST, AND A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS “BIG READS” SELECTION “A profound, beautiful novel.” —People * “Poignant.” —BuzzFeed * “A breathtaking story of the unimaginable prices paid for a better life.” —Esquire This “heartbreaking portrait of a family dealing with the realities of migration and separation” (Time) is “a sweeping love story and tragic drama [and] an authentic vision of what the American Dream looks like in a nationalistic country” (Elle). I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country. Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family. How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see Talia’s parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogotá with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro’s deportation and the family’s splintering—the costs they’ve all been living with ever since. Award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel, herself a dual citizen and the daughter of Colombian immigrants, gives voice to all five family members as they navigate the particulars of their respective circumstances. Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America, Infinite Country “is as much an all-American story as it is a global one” (Booklist, starred review).