<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/sandiego/rss/search?query=Gilbert%2C%20Elizabeth&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:29:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[All the Way to the River]]></title><description><![CDATA["An essential, universally resonant new memoir from the #1 bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1916658</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1916658</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1916658161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Love, Loss, and Liberation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593540985&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Magic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gilbert "offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the "strange jewels" that are hidden within each of us."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C334516</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C334516</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/334516161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Creative Living Beyond Fear</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781594634710&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Magic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gilbert digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity, offering insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the "strange jewels" that are hidden within each of us. Whether we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work, embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C340510</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C340510</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/340510161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Creative Living Beyond Fear</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781410483157&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Girls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves - and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest. Now eighty-nine years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. "At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time," she muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C562543</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C562543</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/562543161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781594634734&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Girls]]></title><description><![CDATA[1940: Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, and her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to fun-chasing showgirls, a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it ultimately leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves -- and a love that stands out from all the rest. 2010: Now eighty-nine years old, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life -- and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1248533</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1248533</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1248533161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593104361&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Girls]]></title><description><![CDATA[AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!  From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.  "A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness." - PopSugar  "Intimate and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger." -USA Today  "Pairs well with a cocktail...or two." -TheSkimm  "Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are."  Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.   In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves - and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest.   Now eighty-nine years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. "At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time," she muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1928399</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1928399</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1928399161</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780698408326&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Way to the River]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe. What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening? All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love--or to any other passion, substance, or craving -- and who yearns, at long last, for liberation."--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1945844</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1945844</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1945844161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Love, Loss, and Liberation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798217168927&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK  "A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." –People  “Entertaining, insightful, wrenching … punch-to-the-gut powerful.” –The Washington Post  “A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling…Gilbert is undoubtedly a force.” —Boston Globe   In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.  In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.  What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?  All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving—and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1944296</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1944296</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1944296161</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Love, Loss, and Liberation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780593541005&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Signature of All Things]]></title><description><![CDATA[" A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker-a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction-into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist-but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe-from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who-born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution-bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers. "-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C263329</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C263329</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/263329161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780670024858&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love]]></title><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1161418</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1161418</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1161418161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>One Woman&apos;s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780670034710&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like many others, around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. Although she had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want, including a husband, a home, and a successful career as a magazine writer, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. This is an account of her yearlong worldwide pursuit of pleasure, spiritual devotion, guidance, and what she really wanted out of life.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C20370</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C20370</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/20370161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>One Woman&apos;s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781594132667&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love]]></title><description><![CDATA["This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls aAnne Lamottas hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sistera) is poised to garner yet more adoring fans."--Wheelers.co.nz.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C398571</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C398571</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/398571161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>One Woman&apos;s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9780143038412&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Signature of All Things]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henry Whittaker is a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's daughter, Alma, inherits both his money and his brilliant mind, ultimately becoming a botanist of considerable gifts. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction -- into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist, Ambrose a utopian artist, but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C270020</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C270020</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/270020161</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781410461414&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasta la orilla del ro̕ / All the Way to the River]]></title><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1942787</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1942787</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1942787161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798890985132&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club]]></title><description><![CDATA[INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK  "A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." –People  “Entertaining, insightful, wrenching … punch-to-the-gut powerful.” –The Washington Post  “A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling…Gilbert is undoubtedly a force.” —Boston Globe   In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.  In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.  What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?  All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving—and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1945295</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1945295</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1945295161</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>Love, Loss, and Liberation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798217156733&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Way to the River]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. 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They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1943749</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1943749</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1943749161</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>Love, Loss, and Liberation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9798217288472&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Girls]]></title><description><![CDATA[AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!  From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.  "A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own happiness." - PopSugar  "Intimate and richly sensual, razzle-dazzle with a hint of danger." -USA Today  "Pairs well with a cocktail...or two." -TheSkimm  "Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are."  Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.   In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves - and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest.   Now eighty-nine years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. "At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time," she muses. "After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1887870</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1887870</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1887870161</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781984888495&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Libera tu magia]]></title><description><![CDATA["La mayoría de los humanos tenemos una faceta creativa en nuestras mentes que casi nunca conseguimos o queremos desarrollar por motivos prácticos o personales. Gilbert defiende la necesidad de explorar la faceta creativa para alcanzar una existencia plena, superando el miedo (a la vergüenza, a hacer el ridículo, a perder el tiempo, a no ser tomado en serio) y abrazando la parte mística e intangible de la inspiración. La autora explica cómo tener una relación positiva con la creatividad propia, cómo ser disciplinado pero no tomárselo demasiado en serio, cómo no albergar grandes expectativas pero no dejarse desanimar y cómo cada pequeño acto cotidiano, sea un dibujo, decorar la casa o hacer patinaje artístico, alimenta esa parte creativa de los humanos y no solo puede, sino que debe formar parte orgánica de nuestras vidas. Al mismo tiempo desmitifica totalmente la figura del artista atormentado, defendiendo una actitud abierta, receptiva y positiva en busca de la inspiración como resultado de una curiosidad sana, una disciplina y una determinación que mantengan el ego a raya y permitan sobrellevar decepciones y fracasos."--Amazon.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C566912</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C566912</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/566912161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>una vida creativa más allá del miedo</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781941999998&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Magic]]></title><description><![CDATA[The instant #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller  "A must read for anyone hoping to live a creative life... I dare you not to be inspired to be brave, to be free, and to be curious.” —PopSugar  From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you’ve dreamed of.    Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the “strange jewels” that are hidden within each of us. Whether we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work,  embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1961378</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1961378</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1961378161</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle>Creative Living Beyond Fear</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781101924167&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, reza, ama]]></title><description><![CDATA[Traces the author's decision to quit her job and travel the world for a year after suffering a midlife crisis and divorce, a journey that took her to three places in her quest to explore her own nature and learn the art of spiritual balance.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C6661</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C6661</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6661161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>el viaje de una mujer por Italia, India e Indonesia en busca del equilibrio entre cuerpo y espíritu</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781598209594&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Magic]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gilbert offers powerful insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits that are needed in order to live the most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages listeners to uncover the 'strange jewels' that are hidden within each of them.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C337014</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C337014</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/337014161</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>Creative Living Beyond Fear</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781611764680&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ciudad de mujeres]]></title><description><![CDATA["En el verano de 1940 Vivian Morris llega a Manhattan con 19 años y tan solo una maleta y una máquina de coser, empujada por sus desesperados padres. Aunque su especial talento con la aguja y su dedicación a lograr el peinado perfecto no le han servido de gran cosa en la prestigiosa universidad de Vassar, la convertirán en la modista estrella del Lily Playhouse, el decadente teatro de variedades de su poco convencional tía Peg. Los días en Nueva York son de todo menos aburridos a pesar de la guerra. En esta ciudad de mujeres Vivian y sus amigas buscan ser libres y beberse la vida hasta la última gota. Pero Vivian también descubrirá que le que quedan lecciones que aprender y amargos errores que cometer, y que para vivir la vida que de verdad desea tendrá que reinventarse a cada paso."--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1262950</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1262950</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1262950161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9781644730966&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasta la orilla del río]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gilbert regresa con la historia del gran amor de su vida.La autora que inspiró a millones de lectores a vivir con autenticidad (Come, reza, ama) y creatividad (Libera tu magia) nos muestra cómo alcanzar la libertad.En 2000, Elizabeth conoció a Rayya. Se hicieron amigas, luego mejores amigas, luego inseparables. Cuando la tragedia irrumpió en sus vidas, la verdad quedó finalmente al descubierto: estaban enamoradas. También eran un par de adictas, abocadas inevitablemente a la catástrofe.¿Qué pasaría si tu más hermosa historia de amor se convirtiera en tu peor pesadilla? ¿Y si el más devastador dolor abriera el camino a tu mayor despertar?Hasta la orilla del río es un libro de memorias que llegará al corazón de cualquiera que haya estado alguna vez cautivo del amor -o de cualquier otra pasión, sustancia o deseo- y que anhele, por fin, la libertad.«La autora del libro de memorias más famoso del mundo vuelve al género para contar la historia de un gran amor... Encantador y desgarrador a partes iguales». Kirkus«Entretenido, lúcido, conmovedor, humilde, autoindulgente y profundamente real». The Washington Post«Un hermoso retrato de una mujer aprendiendo a cuidar de sí misma». Real SimpleLa crítica ha dicho:«La autora del libro de memorias más famoso del mundo vuelve al género para contar la historia de un gran amor... Encantador y desgarrador a partes iguales».Kirkus«Entretenido, lúcido, conmovedor, humilde, autoindulgente y profundamente real... Sus escenas más impactantes te golpean el estómago con su potencia».The Washington Post«Una admirable capacidad para mirar a la oscuridad a los ojos sin perder la esperanza. Los lectores encontrarán una sabiduría incalculable en estas páginas».Publishers Weekly«Un exitazo: brutalmente honesto, escabroso, trascendente y cautivador... Sin duda, Gilbert es arrolladora».Boston Globe«Profundamente personal... Un hermoso retrato de una mujer aprendiendo a cuidar de sí misma».Real Simple«Una historia valiente con un final lleno de esperanza».Booklist«Una deliciosa mezcla narrativa que es a veces desgarradora y a veces sanadora».People]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1965328</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1965328</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1965328161</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Amor, pérdida y liberación</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9791387512378&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[La firma de todas las cosas]]></title><description><![CDATA[En los albores de un nuevo siglo, en un invierno característico de Filadelfia, nace Alma Whittaker. Su padre, Henry Whittaker, es un explorador botánico audaz y carismático cuya vasta fortuna oculta unos orígenes humildes: comenzó de pilluelo en los jardines Kew de Sir Joseph Banks y de grumete a bordo del Resolution del capitán Cook. La madre de Alma, una estricta holandesa de buena familia, sabe tanto de botánica como cualquier hombre. Niña independiente, con una sed de conocimientos insaciable, Alma no tarda en adentrarse en el mundo de las plantas y de la ciencia. Sin embargo, a medida que el minucioso estudio de los musgos la acerca más y más a los misterios de la evolución, el hombre al que ama la arrastra en la dirección opuesta: al mundo de lo espiritual, lo divino y lo mágico. Ella es una científica de mente despejada; él es un artista utópico. Pero lo que une a esta pareja es la pasión compartida por el saber: el desesperado deseo de comprender cómo funciona el mundo, de qué están hechos los mecanismos de la vida.]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1852880</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1852880</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1852880161</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9788466330336&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ciudad de mujeres]]></title><description><![CDATA[La autora deCome, reza, ama regresa con una deliciosa novela llena de glamur, humor y pasión por la vida.En el verano de 1940 Vivian Morris llega a Manhattan con 19 años y tan solo una maleta y una máquina de coser, empujada por sus desesperados padres. Aunque su especial talento con la aguja y su dedicación a lograr el peinado perfecto no le han servido de gran cosa en la prestigiosa universidad de Vassar, la convertirán en la modista estrella del Lily Playhouse, el decadente teatro de variedades de su poco convencional tía Peg.Los días en Nueva York son de todo menos aburridos a pesar de la guerra. En esta ciudad de mujeres Vivian y sus amigas buscan ser libres y beberse la vida hasta la última gota. Pero Vivian también descubrirá que le quedan lecciones que aprender y amargos errores que cometer, y que para vivir la vida que de verdad desea tendrá que reinventarse a cada paso.«En la vida de una mujer, llega un momento en que se cansa de sentirse culpable todo el rato. Y, a partir de ese momento, es libre de convertirse en quien de verdad es.»Reseñas:«Una novela glamurosa, sexi, fascinante y divertida... Una historia adictiva con personajes femeninos llenos de intensidad y trazados sin pudor. Radical y refrescante.»Sunday Times«Una gloriosa celebración, compleja y emocionalmente inteligente, de lo que significa ser mujer.»Guardian«Perfecta... una novela absorbente y con corazón, que encierra además un potente mensaje sobre la realización personal y la felicidad.»Publishers Weekly«Una novela tan vibrante, sexi y sabia como el superéxito de la autora Come, reza, ama.»People Magazine«Los ingeniosos diálogos de Elizabeth Gilbert resplandecen como diamantes en el champán.»The Washington Post«Deliciosa... Personajes fantásticos, vestidos espléndidos, frases increíblemente ingeniosas, sugerente atmosfera de la época de la guerra y excelentes descripciones del sexo...»KirkusReviews«Gilbert traza un fascinante perfil de las aventuras de la joven Vivian, abordando temas como la libertad, la responsabilidad y el empoderamiento que son intemporales y a la vez resultan muy oportunos.»Time«Leer Ciudad de mujeres es una pura delicia, gracias a sus personajes llenos de vida, sus ingeniosos diálogos, sus divertidas y a la vez emotivas tramas, sus escenas auténticamente eróticas, su inteligencia sexual, su suspense y sus incisivas verdades.»Booklist«Una fascinante novela sobre amor, libertad y encontrar tu propia felicidad.»PopSugar«Llena de personajes memorables.»BuzzFeed News«Ferozmente feminista, además de repleta de inspiradores verdades sobre el amor y la libertad, esta historia es a la vez un festín para los sentidos y un bálsamo para el alma.»Esquire.comLos lectores opinan:«Una novela femenina y potente, de carácter dramático, llena de glamour, amistad, amor, honor, desenfreno, rebeldía, empoderamiento, escándalo, erotismo y grandes dosis de ingenio y humor.»Anika entre libros«Un retrato profundo de una mujer joven que intenta descubrir quién es realmente y encontrar toda la alegría y la pasión que puede extraer de la vida.»Subookish«Es de esas lecturas que una vez las terminas te dejan con una sensación de libertad, de ir a por aquello que quieres, de fortaleza, y te llena de confianza en ti misma.»Planeta Singular]]></description><link>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1909028</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S161C1909028</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gilbert, Elizabeth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sandiego.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1909028161</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url>https://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/Jacket.aspx?&amp;userID=SDPL33010&amp;password=CC92101&amp;Value=9788491291879&amp;content=M&amp;Return=1&amp;Type=M</image_url></item></channel></rss>