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Once on a Moonless Night - Dai Sijie
SUMMARY: A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra-once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China-is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul drs"Ampere, w... -
Old Path White Clouds_ Walking - Thich Nhat Hanh
Old Path White Clouds presents the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. Drawn directly from 24 Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources, and retold by Thich Nhat Hanh in his inimitably... -
Nothing but Trouble_ A Kevin Ke - Michael Mcgarrity
From Publishers WeeklyReturning from 2004's Slow Kill, stoic Sante Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives an unexpected visit from Johnny Jordan, a childhood friend and now ca... -
Naamah's Kiss - Jacqueline Carey
SUMMARY: Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn; the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacr... -
My Spiritual Journey - Dalai Lama; Sofia Stril-Rever
FromOne of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders reflects on his commitments as a human being, a Buddhist monk, and the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Stril-Rever, the Dalai Lama’s longti... -
My Childhood - Maxim Gorky
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Migration_ Species Imperative # - Julie E. Czerneda
From Publishers WeeklyAfter encountering the alien Dhyrn on earth and later nearly dying on the Dhyrn home world in Czerneda's Survival (2004), biologist Mackenzie "Mac" Connor re.... -
Messenger - Lois Lowry
From School Library JournalGrade 6 Up-Matty, who has lived in Village with the blind Seer since running away from an abusive childhood, is looking forward to receiving his true nam... -
Manual of Zen Buddhism - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Here are the famous sutras, or sermons, of the Buddha; the gathas, or hymns; the intriguing philosophical puzzles known as koan; and the dharanis, or invocations ... -
Lit_ A Memoir - Mary Karr
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, 'continued to set the literary ...