By Linda Breen Pierce
Foreword by Vicki Robin,
coauthor of Your Money or Your Life

Writer's Digest Award Winner for Nonfiction - 2000

ISBN: 0-9672067-1-5
LCCN: 99-63503
6" x 9", trade paperback
List Price: $16.95, 348 pages
Includes Resource Guide and Index

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You can purchase Choosing Simplicity on line from The Simple Living Network, Amazon and other online booksellers. This book is also available in many retail book stores.

Synopsis:
This is a groundbreaking work that goes beyond the books that tell you why and how to simplify your life. This is the book that tells all--what has really happened in the lives of real people who have done it. How does simplicity translate into our modern day-to-day world? Can people who embrace this lifestyle sustain it over time? What are the downsides? Is it worth it? Do they miss the "old way?"

These are just a few of the questions explored by Linda Breen Pierce in Choosing Simplicity. And she should know. Pierce spent three years studying people who have experimented with simplifying their lives--more than 200 people from 40 different states. She found people living simply in the country, people living simply in large cities, and everywhere in between. And she tells it like it is--the ups and downs, the challenges, and the peak experiences. What emerges from these stories is an impressive diversity and creativity in the lives of these cultural pioneers.

And it is in the telling of these stories that the author is able to harvest the insights and lessons to guide those who want to explore simplicity and to sustain those who have already embarked on this journey. A 16-page Resource Guide offers summary reviews of 42 books on simplicity, information on related web sites, organizations, simplicity study circles, workshops, newsletters and magazines.

You are in for a treat. The stories in this book are rich in texture and color, the warp on which you will find yourself weaving reflections about your own life.. . . Linda weaves her own experiences and insights throughout and brings a great deal of joy and respect to the telling of each story.
--Vicki Robin (from the Foreword of Choosing Simplicity)