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David Whyte (born 2 November 1955) is an Anglo-Irish poet. He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality". His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States. Life and work Whyte's mother was from Waterford, Ireland, and his father was a Yorkshireman. He attributes his poetic interest to both the songs and the poetry of his mother's Irish heritage and to the landscape of West Yorkshire. He grew up in West Yorkshire and has commented that he had "a Wordsworthian childhood", in the fields and woods and on the moors. Whyte has a degree in marine zoology from Bangor University.During his twenties, Whyte worked as a naturalist and lived in the Galápagos Islands, where he experienced a near drowning on the southern shore of Hood Island. He led anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalayas. Whyte moved to the United States in 1981 and began a career as a poet and speaker in 1986. From 1987, he began taking his poetry and philosophy to larger audiences, including consulting and lecturing on organisational leadership models in the US and UK exploring the role of creativity in business. He has worked with companies such as Boeing, AT&T, NASA, Toyota, The Royal Air Force and the Arthur Andersen accountancy group.Work and vocation, and "Conversational Leadership" are the subjects of several of Whyte's prose books, including Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as Pilgrimage of Identity, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship and The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of The Soul in Corporate America, which topped the business best seller lists, selling 155,000 copies.Whyte has written ten volumes of poetry and four books of prose. Pilgrim is based on the human need to travel, "From here to there". The House of Belonging looks at the same human need for home. He describes his collection Everything Is Waiting For You (2003) as arising from the grief at the loss of his mother. Pilgrim was published in May 2012. His latest book is Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, an attempt to "rehabilitate" many everyday words we often use only in pejorative or unimaginative ways. He has also written for newspapers, including The Huffington Post and The Observer. He leads group poetry and walking journeys regularly in Ireland, England and Italy.Whyte has an honorary degree from Neumann College, Pennsylvania, and from Royal Roads University, British Columbia, and is Associate Fellow of both Templeton College, Oxford, and Saïd Business School, Oxford.Whyte has spent a portion of every year for the last twenty-five years in County Clare, Ireland. Over the years and over a number of volumes of poetry he has built a cycle of poems that evoke many of the ancient pilgrimage sites of The Burren mountains of North Clare and of Connemara.Whyte runs the "Many Rivers" organisation and "Invitas: The Institute for Conversational Leadership", which he founded in 2014. He has lived in Seattle and on Whidbey Island and currently lives in the US Pacific North West; he holds US, British and Irish citizenship. He is married to Gayle Karen Young, former Chief Talent and Culture Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. He has a son, Brendan, from his first marriage to Autumn Preble and a daughter, Charlotte, from his second marriage to Leslie Cotter. Whyte has practised Zen and was a regular rock climber. He was a close friend of the Irish poet John O'Donohue. Works Poetry collections Songs for Coming Home, Many Rivers Press, 1984 Where Many Rivers Meet, Many Rivers Press, 1990 Fire in the Earth, Many Rivers Press, 1992 The House of Belonging, Many Rivers Press, 1996 Everything is Waiting for You, Many Rivers Press, 2003 River Flow: New & Selected Poems, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, 2007. ISBN 9781932887174, OCLC 77908400 River Flow: New & Selected Poems. Revised Edition, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, 2012. ISBN 9781932887273, OCLC 812068424 Pilgrim, Langley, WA: Many Rivers Press, 2012. ISBN 9781932887259, OCLC 810123963 The Sea in You, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, 2016. ISBN 9781932887389, OCLC 932084907 The Bell and the Blackbird, Langley, Washington : Many Rivers Press, 2018. ISBN 9781932887471, OCLC 1032674032 David Whyte : Essentials, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, 2018. ISBN 9781932887501, David Whyte: Still Possible, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, 2022, ISBN 9781932887556Prose The Heart Aroused: Poetry & the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, London: Industrial Society, 1997. ISBN 9781858354262, OCLC 611199793 Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as A Pilgrimage of Identity, London: Penguin, 2002. ISBN 9780141005935, OCLC 828282621 The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self & Relationship, New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. ISBN 9781594484353, OCLC 426804106 Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, Langley, Washington: Many Rivers Press, 2014. ISBN 9781932887365, ISBN 9781786897633Audiobooks Pilgrim Sometimes Return What to remember when waking Echoes in the well Sweet darkness Clear mind wild heart Midlife and the great unknown Thresholds The poetry of self compassion Life at the frontier A change for the better The teacher's vocation Make a friend of the unknown The opening of eyes Faithful to all things The power and place of poetry Footsteps: A writing life Solace: The Art of Asking the Beautiful Question"References Further reading Poet David Whyte's Questions That Have No Right to Go Away, O, The Oprah MagazineExternal links David Whyte official website, Many Rivers Whyte profile in the Financial Times TED talk from Whyte 2011 on YouTube "The Conversational Nature of Reality", video. 5 mins Interview with David Whyte, from Sounds True publishing. Discover the David Whyte popular books. Find the top 100 most popular David Whyte books.
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The Other Queen
Philippa GregoryFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregorya dazzling new novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening Mary, Queen of...
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The Armageddon File
Stephen Coonts"Stephen Coonts delivers another highpowered, politicallycharged thriller that is not to be missed." The Real Book Spy "[A] headlineinspired thriller with a conservative slant."Pub...
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Why We Did It
Tim MillerA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: Why did normal people go along with the w...
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The Rejected Stone
Al SharptonLord knows, Reverend Al has had his personal and very public ups and downs, but he's come out bigger and better than everthough the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation is as fiery and o...
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White Wolf
David Gemmell“For anyone who appreciates superior heroic fantasy, David Gemmell’s offerings are mandatory.”Time Out LondonThe blooddrenched lands of the Drenai are protected by a man who has be...
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The January 6th Report
Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, David Remnick & Jamie RaskinTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNOTE: The January 6th Report appendices on pages 693–716 can be accessed via the QR code below, along with the hyperlinks from the chapter endn...
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Days of Fire
Peter BakerIn Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and ...
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Razzle Dazzle
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Stop Talking. Start Selling.
David Craig WhiteLearn How to Cold Call, Dominate Gatekeepers, Create Solid Sales Opportunities and Win More Clients‘There are hundreds, if not thousands, of nuances in selling. Stop Talking Start ...
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Florida and the West Caribbean
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New England White
Stephen L. CarterNATIONAL BESTSELLERLemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most promine...
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Trumpocalypse
David Frum"I don't take responsibility at all." Those words of Donald Trump at a March 13, 2020, press conference are likely to be history's epitaph on his presidency. A huge swath of A...
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Once in a Great City
David Maraniss“A fascinating political, racial, economic, and cultural tapestry” (Detroit Free Press), Once in a Great City is a tour de force from David Maraniss about the quintessential Americ...
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Black Man, White House
D. L. HughleyNew York Times Bestseller (Humor)"The book everyone is laughing about!"Joe Scarborough, Morning JoeFrom legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny sendup of the Obama y...
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The River at Night
Erica FerencikA “raw, relentless, and heartpoundingly real” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) thriller set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, The River at Night chart...
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Almost Interesting
David SpadeDavid Spade is best known for his harsh “Hollywood” Minute Sketches on SNL, his starring roles in movies like Joe Dirt and Tommy Boy, and his sevenyear st...
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Brothers
David TalbotThe New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking account of one of the most tumultuous periods in our historythe Kennedy Administration and its dramatic aftermathby acclaimed journal...
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The Glass Rainbow
James Lee BurkeFrom New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, Detective Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in a mystery that connects a series of grisly murders with an exconvict turned b...
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The Mother Tongue
Bill BrysonWith dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Brysonthe acclaimed author of The Lost Continentbrilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fu...
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Showdown
David CornVeteran journalist David CornWashington Bureau Chief for Mother Jones magazine and New York Times bestselling author of Hubris (with Michael Isikoff) and The Lies of George W. Bush...
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African Laughter
Doris LessingA highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." New York Times...
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Just the Funny Parts
Nell ScovellFOREWORD BY SHERYL SANDBERGYou’ve almost certainly laughed at Scovell’s jokesyou just didn’t know it until now.Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at ...
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The White Darkness
David GrannFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly...
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The 50 Funniest American Writers
Andy BorowitzNew York Times BestsellerThe creator of The New Yorker’s long running satirical column, and “one of the funniest people in America,” pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and ...
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The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens
David Gardner & Tom GardnerFrom the personalfinance duo Fortune magazine called “funny, smart, cynical, [and] opinionated” comes savvy financial advice for today’s streetsmart young investors.The Motley Fool...
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Black Klansman
Ron StallworthThe #1 New York Times Bestseller!The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Pee...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper LeeVoted America's BestLoved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prizewinning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep Southand the heroism of one man in ...
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Oath of Loyalty
Vince Flynn & Kyle MillsNamed the Best Thriller of 2022 by The Real Book SpyMitch Rapp confronts a very different kind of killer in this explosive “and entertaining from the first page to the last” (The P...
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Riding for the Brand
Louis L'AmourLouis L’Amour’s Western stories are beloved worldwide. Now, collected together for the first time in a single volume, are three of his finest tales of the West. The texts have been...
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Local Woman Missing
Mary KubicaTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD!"Dark and twisty, with whiteknuckle tension and jawdropping surprises." Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling au...
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Leadership
Doris Kearns GoodwinFrom Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln,...
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The Heart Aroused
David Whyte“With this insightful book, David Whyte offers people in corporate life an opportunity to reach into the forgotten and ignored creative life (their own and the corporation’s) and l...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
Douglas PrestonThe #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston ...
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Consolations
David WhyteWith the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents o...
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This Love Story Will Self-Destruct
Leslie CohenThis is the classic tale of boy meets girl: Girl…goes home with someone else.Meet Eve. She’s a dreamer, a feeler, a careening well of sensitivities who can’t quite keep her feet on...
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The Butler
Wil HaygoodThis mesmerizing companion book to the awardwinning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the...
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Burning Angel
James Lee BurkeFrom the New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes another brilliant Dave Robicheaux novelnow available in ebookfeaturing the Louisiana detective in a race to solve a...
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The Three Marriages
David WhyteA radical, "crystalline" (Elle) approach to integrating our work, relationships, and inner selves from the bestselling author, poet, and speaker. The author of Crossing the Unknow...
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The Man Who Sold the World
Peter DoggettThe Man Who Sold the World by Peter Doggettauthor of the critically acclaimed Beatles biography, You Never Give Me Your Moneyis a songbysong chronicle of the evolution of David Bow...
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The Matter of Black Lives
Jelani Cobb & David RemnickA collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in Americaincluding work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, TaNehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and morewit...
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Scars and Stripes
Tim Kennedy & Nick PalmiscianoINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to...
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Hearts Touched with Fire
David GergenThis instant New York Times bestseller is an “inspiring and useful” (The Washington Post) guide to the art of leadership from David Gergenformer White House adviser to four US pres...