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We're still talking about Anne Lamott's visit to IslandWood last fall, when she wowed us at our Circle of Friends retreat. She left behind fond memories...and signed copies of her books! Now they can be yours.

Find a special place on your shelf for these signed treasures:

Somehow - Thoughts on Love: "Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks."

Help, Thanks, Wow - The Three Essential Prayers: These three prayers - asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us - can get us through the day and show us the way forward. Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas.

Dusk, Night, Dawn - On Revival and Courage: Anne explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up-from climate crises to daily assaults on civility-how can we cope? Where, she asks, "do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back . . . with our sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?"

Almost Everything - Notes on Hope: Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated"--the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand.

Hallelujah Anyway - Rediscovering Mercy: "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others-and yourself-to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult.

All five books have been signed by Anne Lamott.