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View book details for In the Cool Shade of Compassion
The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle
Shambhala
A fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and highly appealing way of life.This work ingeniously intermingles real-life stories about nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Buddhist monks in old …
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Jewish Libertarian Thought in Central Europe
Verso Books
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz KafkaTowards the end of the nineteenth century, there appeared in Central Europe a generation of Jewish intellectuals whose work was to transform modern culture. Drawing at once on the …
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From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
New York Review Books
A landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time.Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for …
Random House Publishing Group
NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE JAMIE MARKS IS DEADPart thriller, part ghost tale, part love story, One for Sorrow is a novel as timeless as The Catcher in the Rye and as hauntingly lyrical as The Lovely Bones. Christopher Barzaks …
An NPR Best Book of the Year * The stunning sequel to the critically acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin. An incarcerated teen writes letters to his best friend about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.An …
Penguin Young Readers Group
What was Isaac Newton like? Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and, oh, yes, brilliant. His imagination was so large that, just "by thinking on it," he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity.Yet Newton was so small-minded that …
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A Memoir of Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished American novelists of the postwar years. From the Pulitzer Prize winner The Fixer as well as The Assistant, named one of the best "100 AllTime Novels" by Time Magazineto mention only two …
Penguin Publishing Group
In Margaret Coel's latest Wind River Reservation mystery, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves immersed in the dark underbelly of the illegal market for Indian relics.
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A Cookbook
Penguin Publishing Group
With great style, wit, and joy, Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman celebrate their favorite dessert.In Cake, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman bring us a beautifully illustrated book dedicated to their love of cakes. Filled …
What if your best friend was a unicorn? Chapter book readers are flocking to this magical series, where everyone is paired with their very own unicorn!Freya wants to make the perfect birthday present for her unicorn, Honey. If Honey loves …
View book details for Death with a Double Edge
A Daniel Pitt Novel
Daniel Pitts investigation into his colleagues murder leads him through Londons teeming underbelly to the suspicious dealings of one of Englands most influential shipbuilding magnates in a thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.Timely . . . …
Mrs. Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing. Their first informant is killed, and Mrs. Pollifax begins to get the idea that her colleague is not who he says …
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A Novel
Other Press
Named a Best Book of the Year by The AdvocateAn exceptional debut novel that explores the stifled, unspoken feelings of a music teacher and his former student, and the damage done by their years of silenceHermin, a composer and instructor, …
View book details for Quizmas Carols
Family Trivia Fun with Classic Christmas Songs
Penguin Publishing Group
In this fun and festive follow-up to Plumes popular Quizmas and Family Quizmas trivia books, Gordon Pape and Deborah Kerbel turn to the holiday seasons best-loved songs. Featuring an introduction to the history of Christmas carols; Quizmas-style questions organized by …
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Country Music Stars Share Their Stories of Knowing God
The Crown Publishing Group
From the Grand Ole Opry to Radio City and beyond, country music is sweeping the globe. But country is more than just the new sound of America; many of its artists are also capturing audiences with their faith-inspired spirit. Yes, …
Penguin Young Readers Group
Ten-year-old Babo has grown up on an abandoned circus camp in a war-torn country, believing her circus-star parents will come back any day now. So she's none too happy when an American couple adopts her, calls her Betti, and takes …
Penguin Young Readers Group
The fourth grade is studying fish, and that means a trip to the Cherrydale Aquarium! Everything is going along just swimmingly until Ms. Sweet drops her brand-new engagement ring into the tankand Katie turns into a fish! Now shes stuck …
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A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep
Random House Children's Books
Add variety to your childs bedtime routine with the latest book from the author of The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep, the New York Times and international bestseller that parents have been raving about! Features all-new child-tested, parent-approved techniques …
View book details for The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear
Valuable Lessons, True Stories, and Tips For Using What You've Got (A Brain!) to Make Your Worklife Work for You
The Crown Publishing Group
Be the girl who makes it happen!Guess what? If youre not looking out for your career then nobody is. If you want to be both passionate about what you do and successful, then you must take control of your professional …
View book details for Cosmopolitan Commons
Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders
A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into …
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The Words You Long to Hear from Your Father
The Crown Publishing Group
Jesus spent more than thirty years in an alien culture, surrounded by harsh voices, isolated from affirming words. Did he sometimes wonder if he could make a difference, if he could finish the difficult work he'd come to do? Sometimes …
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Discovering the Intelligence of Materials
Insights into the intelligence throughout the natural and technical environment, in the fabric of our devices and dwellings, in our clothes, and under our skin.Is there a way to understand the materials that surround us not as passive objects, but …
Love to paint? Want to learn? Then let's get started!The adventure begins the moment you pick up a brush. Let Jerry Yarnell show you how to make the most of it! In Painting Adventures - the fifth volume of his …
Crown/Archetype
The skies of Oxford are aflame with meteors the night Edgar Jones comes into the worldclearly this porters son, born in a small cottage in 1847, is no ordinary boy. While his mother is apprehensive about her restless, inquisitive child, …
Verso Books
Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalismFor years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word capitalism sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new …
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