{"title":"Shirley MacLaine","description":"Shirley MacLaine has appeared in more than fifty films, has been nominated by an Academy Award six times, and received the Oscar for Best Actress in 1984 for Terms of Endearment. A longtime outspoken advocate for civil rights and liberties, she is the author of ten international bestsellers. She lives in Malibu, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.","products":[{"product_id":"the-camino-a-journey-of-the-spirit-paperback","title":"The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt has been nearly three decades since Shirley MacLaine commenced her brave and public commitment to chronicling her personal quest for spiritual understanding. In testament to the endurance and vitality of her message, each of her eight legendary bestsellers -- from \u003ci\u003eDon't Fall Off the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eMy Lucky Stars\u003c\/i\u003e -- continues today to attract, dazzle, and transform countless new readers. Now Shirley is back -- with her most breathtakingly powerful and unique book yet. \u003cbr\u003e This is the story of a journey. It is the eagerly anticipated and altogether startling culmination of Shirley MacLaine's extraordinary -- and ultimately rewarding -- road through life. The riveting odyssey began with a pair of anonymous handwritten letters imploring Shirley to make a difficult pilgrimage along the Santiago de Compostela Camino in Spain. Throughout history, countless illustrious pilgrims from all over Europe have taken up the trail. It is an ancient -- and allegedly enchanted -- pilgrimage. People from St. Francis of Assisi and Charlemagne to Ferdinand and Isabella to Dante and Chaucer have taken the journey, which comprises a nearly 500-mile trek across highways, mountains and valleys, cities and towns, and fields. Now it would be Shirley's turn. \u003cbr\u003e For Shirley, the Camino was both an intense spiritual and physical challenge. A woman in her sixth decade completing such a grueling trip on foot in thirty days at twenty miles per day was nothing short of remarkable. But even more astounding was the route she took spiritually: back thousands of years, through past lives to the very origin of the universe. Immensely gifted with intelligence, curiosity, warmth, and a profound openness to people and places outside her own experience, Shirley MacLaine is truly an American treasure. And once again, she brings her inimitable qualities of mind and heart to her writing. Balancing and negotiating the revelations inspired by the mysterious energy of the Camino, she endured her exhausting journey to Compostela until it gradually gave way to a far more universal voyage: that of the soul. Through a range of astonishing and liberating visions and revelations, Shirley saw into the meaning of the cosmos, including the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria, insights into human genesis, the essence of gender and sexuality, and the true path to higher love. \u003cbr\u003e With rich insight, humility, and her trademark grace, Shirley MacLaine gently leads us on a sacred adventure toward an inexpressibly transcendent climax. \u003ci\u003eThe Camino\u003c\/i\u003e promises readers the journey of a thousand lifetimes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51434225598687,"sku":"9780743400732","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/d-fLhG_n6x9780743400732.webp?v=1790024891"},{"product_id":"sage-ing-while-age-ing-paperback","title":"Sage-Ing While Age-Ing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBestselling author and award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine invites readers to share in her decades-long quest for spiritual, physical, and personal harmony and truth. A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller in hardcover now in paperback, this book offers a provocative and enlightening synthesis of what Shirley has discovered in her years of searching for deeper meaning in her life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I've been a questioner all my life...\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e So begins bestselling author and award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine, as she invites readers to join her on the most powerful, provocative journey of her life. Over the years, Shirley has firmly established herself as a fearless, iconoclastic thinker and seeker of truth. Now, as she confronts the realities and rewards of growing older, she reflects on the greater understanding of her own place in the universe that her experiences have brought to her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sparked by the experience of moving into a new house, she is inspired to look back across the remarkable professional and personal milestones she has experienced so far. Surrounded by books, pictures, and the artifacts of a life well lived, Shirley is able to recognize the profound power of synchronicity at work around her, discovering the invisible threads that stitch together the seemingly random events of her days, adding meaning even to the mundane. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Having grown older, she is increasingly concerned with the potential pitfalls of modern medicine. She shares personal insights into nutrition, acupuncture, homeopathy, and alternative medicine. Practical and bracing, here is advice for anyone looking to expand his or her understanding of health and well-being. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving beyond the physical, Shirley explores what has always interested her most--those things that are unseen. What is consciousness? What is the purpose of our lives? Are we alone in the universe? And perhaps the greatest mystery of all, what happens to us after death? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Filled with her trademark wit and candor, this is a fascinating, inspiring book that will delight and captivate Shirley's legions of fans and fellow travelers everywhere.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67940994679007,"sku":"9781416550426","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7vBuIlTcDf9781416550426.webp?v=1791417139"},{"product_id":"im-over-all-that-and-other-confessions-paperback","title":"I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller--now in paperback. Award-winning actress Shirley MacLaine pens the most funny, accessible, and timely book of her career, detailing all the things she's over...and a few she's not.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a certain time in life, we all come to realize what is truly important to us and what just doesn't matter. For Shirley MacLaine, that time is now. In this wise, witty, and fearless collection of small observations and big-picture questions, she shares with readers all those things that she is over dealing with in life, in love, at home, and in the larger world...as well as the things she will \u003ci\u003enever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eget over, no matter how long she lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong the things that Shirley is over: people who repeat themselves; conservatives \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eliberals; ill-mannered young people; the poison of celebrity; being polite to boring people; and getting older in Hollywood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs frank and personal as Nora Ephron's \u003ci\u003eI Feel Bad About My Neck\u003c\/i\u003e--which, incidentally, Shirley doesn't since she knows the secrets of good lighting--\u003ci\u003eI'm Over All That \u003c\/i\u003eis MacLaine at her acerbic and irreverent best.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67942602866911,"sku":"9781451607307","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hSPLNI2ZZ59781451607307.webp?v=1791442328"},{"product_id":"what-if-a-lifetime-of-questions-speculations-reasonable-guesses-and-a-few-things-i-know-for-sure-paperback","title":"What If . . .: A Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses, and a Few Things I Know for Sure - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Academy Award-winning actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine, a collection of imaginative ruminations: \"Fun and thoughtful by turns and told in MacLaine's feisty, funny voice, this should appeal to fans and doubters alike\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates everything from the everyday to the esoteric in this collection of ideas and observations, each of which begins with two simple, powerful words: \u003ci\u003eWhat if\u003c\/i\u003e? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking this as her starting point, Shirley explores a wide range of matters--spiritual and secular, humorous and profound, earthbound and intergalactic, personal and universal. Along the way, she also reflects on joining the cast of \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e, receiving the prestigious American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, and introducing a new puppy into her formerly one-dog home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Shirley's questions emerges a striking portrait of a constantly curious woman who thrills to new ideas and discoveries--all while enjoying one of the most extraordinary and enduring careers in Hollywood. \u003ci\u003eWhat if . . .\u003c\/i\u003e captures the one and only Shirley MacLaine at her witty, acerbic, imaginative, and irresistible best.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67943057916127,"sku":"9781476728612","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8epG0hISMu9781476728612.webp?v=1791456751"},{"product_id":"above-the-line-paperback","title":"Above the Line - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA funny, fierce, imaginative memoir chronicling New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine's remarkable experiences filming Wild Oats in the Canary Islands and the extraordinary memories her time there brought forth of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis.Her agent advised her not to get on the plane. The male leads weren't even cast. The financing was shaky at best. The script had been rewritten countless times. And yet something about Wild Oats lured Shirley MacLaine to the film's location shoot in the far-off Canary Islands--and straight to the center of one of the most thrilling and paradigm-shifting adventures of her life. The making of the film reads like a screwball comedy, as the cast and crew face unpredictable daily obstacles with ingenuity, grit, and personal sacrifice. Yet the chaos leads Shirley to a revelatory new understanding of the demise of one of history's most elusive yet endlessly intriguing places. Scholars have long theorized that Spain's Canary Islands are the remnants of the mighty lost continent of Atlantis. As the movie set descends into pandemonium, Shirley finds fascinating corollaries between the island's cataclysmic fate and our own dangerous trajectory. Can we learn the lessons the citizens of Atlantis failed to comprehend? The answer is borne out of recovered memories from Shirley's past life on Atlantis and through a series of meditations that reveal the necessity of unfettered imagination when looking for bold new truths, rendering this evocative, irreverent, and honest memoir essential reading for anyone seeking a broader understanding of what it means to be human--both where we came from and where we are going.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67944676589791,"sku":"9781501136429","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/p5-45-pr0p9781501136429.webp?v=1791478316"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/shirley-maclaine.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}