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Amazing Cows: Udder Absurdity for Children
Boynton, Sandra
2010; Hardcover; New; IM115735
New book. From Sandra Boynton—as it could only come from Boynton—an inventive new exuberant jumble of a book for the young reader. Amazing Cows is a picture book, a storybook, a book of fun and games—it’s all those things in one. Plus it even shows you how to find the startling recording of Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero Completely Unraveled for Orchestra and Kazoos” performed by Sandra Boyton & The Highly Irritating Orchestra. (Running time is 17:14, but seems MUCH longer.) A work of pure obsession, Amazing Cows celebrates cows and offbeat cowness with a miscellany of cow stories, cow poems, cow jokes, and other bovine ephemera. Along the way, expect lively guest appearances by ducks, pigs, and excessive numbers of chickens. There’s a song: "It Had to Be Moo." A game: "Find the Hidden Cows." Famous Barnyard Composers (surely you’ve heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Moozart and Johann Sebastian Bockbockbock). Knock-knock jokes, a cow myth, and an Amazing Cow comic-book adventure: "Trouble on Zebblor 7." Cow fashion. Cow Limericks.
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The Novice: A Story of True Love
Hanh, Thich Nhat
2011; Hardcover; New; IM115731
0062005839 New book. Bestselling author and Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh transforms an ancient folktale into a timeless parable of a young woman who dares to risk her life for her faith. Born to an aristocratic family in rural Vietnam, Kinh Tam’s uncommon beauty and intelligence were obvious to all she encountered. From an early age she was drawn to the teachings of Buddha and the rewards of a monastic life, but to please her family she agreed to walk the traditional path of marriage. Throughout her marriage, Kinh Tam’s mind was devoted to her husband but her heart never waivered from her true calling. She wanted to be a monk. And yet Buddhism was still new to Vietnam and temples accepted only men for ordination. Making a decision that would forever change her life, Kinh Tam left town, disguised herself as a man, and joined a monastery as a novice. Despite the many challenges of living as a man, Kinh Tam thrived and became a beloved member of the community. Years of profound joy and peace passed until a local woman accuses the novice of fathering her unborn child. Kinh Tam is torn between two impossible choices: keep her secret and endure brutal punishment or reveal the truth that would prove her innocence but put an end to her spiritual path. Facing the unbearable with the boundless heart of Buddha, her choice forever changes her life, her country, and her faith. In spare, elegant prose, Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that we, too, face our own injustices and suffering, and by connecting with love, we can, like Kinh Tam, discover a mind and heart that are peaceful, happy, and free.
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The Seeker's Guide (previously published as The New American Spirituality)
Lesser, Elizabeth
2000; Paperback; Very Good; IM32337
0679783598 Book in very good condition. In 1977, Elizabeth Lesser cofounded the Omega Institute, now America's largest adult-education center focusing on wellness and spirituality. Working with many of the eminent thinkers of our times, including Zen masters, rabbis, Christian monks, psychologists, scientists, and an array of noted American figures--from L.A. Lakers coach Phil Jackson to author Maya Angelou--Lesser found that by combining a variety of religious, psychological, and healing traditions, each of us has the unique ability to satisfy our spiritual hunger. In The Seeker's Guid, she synthesizes the lessons learned from an immersion into the world's wisdom traditions and intertwines them with illuminating stories from her daily life. Recounting her own trials and errors and offering meditative exercises, she shows the reader how to create a personal practice, gauge one's progress, and choose effective spiritual teachers and habits. Warm, accessible, and wise, this book provides directions through the four landscapes of the spiritual journey: THE MIND: learning meditation to ease stress and anxiety THE HEART: dealing with grief, loss, and pain; opening the heart and becoming fully alive THE BODY: returning the body to the spiritual fold to heal and overcome the fear of aging and death THE SOUL: experiencing daily life as an adventure of meaning and mystery
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Natural Mandalas
Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
2006; Hardcover; New; IM46316
1844832295 New book. The route to serenity is through nature—and through these richly designed mandalas. With great originality, they break away from the traditional Eastern format, which typically depict the divine architecture of the Cosmos: instead, they reconnect us with Earth, and essential experiences of self-awareness, simplicity, and harmony. In-depth instructions explain how to meditate on the images, and why the particular patterns draw us in so intensely. Choose from mandalas of The Fertile Earth (Two Trees from One Root, A Diamond’s Light); Sky, Weather, and Myth (The Unicorn, Golden Apples); and Animal Life (Gazing at the Tiger). They’re beautiful to look at, and profoundly peace-giving.
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Voices from the Sound : Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino, 1899-1929
Margaret Horsfield
2008; Hardcover; New; IM6281
0969700822 New book. Set against a background of rapid social and economic change, Voices from the Sound examines the years 1899 to 1929 on the west coast. These years saw the demise of the fur seal trade, the coming of scheduled steamships and the development of commercial whaling, logging and fishing. Zealous missionaries radically altered the lives of native people, while the upstart settlement called Tofino gradually eclipsed nearby Clayoquot as the dominant community in the area. Voices from the Sound is based on thousands of first-hand documents, written by people in the area. When Margaret Horsfield began unearthing all these obscure west coast documents in unlikely locations, she found herself nearly deafened by a cacophony of voices from Clayoquot Sound. She draws us skilfully into their world, allowing these voices be heard, revealing the high hopes, bitter losses, and cockeyed dreams that dominated the lives of many people on the west coast.
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
PAPERBACK; New; INSTORE 6I2 1
A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and the Margarita has become an astonishing publication phenomenon in Russia and has been translated into more than twenty languages, and made into plays and films. Mikhail Bulgakov's novel is now considered one of the seminal works of the twentieth-century Russian literature. In this imaginative extravaganza the devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930's with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the devil's existence, even as it is confronted with the diabolic results of a magic art gone wrong. This visit to the world of capital atheism has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, a writer who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, and is now in a mental hospital. By turns acidly satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, this work constantly surprises and entertains, as the action switches back and forth between the Moscow of the 1930's and first century Jerusalem. The commentary and afterword provide new insight into the mysterious subtexts of the novel, and here The Master and the Margarita is revealed in all its complexity.
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After Dark (Vintage International)
Murakami, Haruki
2008; Paperback; New; IM115727
New book. A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters—Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’s toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they’ve met before, a burly female “love hotel” manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman. These “night people” are haunted by secrets and needs that draw them together more powerfully than the differing circumstances that might keep them apart, and it soon becomes clear that Eri’s slumber—mysteriously tied to the businessman plagued by the mark of his crime—will either restore or annihilate her. After Dark moves from mesmerizing drama to metaphysical speculation, interweaving time and space as well as memory and perspective into a seamless exploration of human agency—the interplay between self-expression and empathy, between the power of observation and the scope of compassion and love. Murakami’s trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery
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Snow
Pamuk, Orhan
2005; Paperback; New; IM36221
0375706860 New book. Dread, yearning, identity, intrigue, the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism–these are the elements that Orhan Pamuk anneals in this masterful, disquieting novel. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka finds himself pursued by figures ranging from Ipek’s ex-husband to a charismatic terrorist. A lost gift returns with ecstatic suddenness. A theatrical evening climaxes in a massacre. And finding god may be the prelude to losing everything else. Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense, Snow is of immense relevance to our present moment.
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Keeping Bees
Peacock, Paul
2010; Hardcover; New; IM46324
New book.For the beginning beekeeper who seeks practical advice, Keeping Bees is the perfect guide to help in getting started with the hobby. Keeping Bees provides a comprehensive overview of everything a beekeeping novice needs to setup and properly maintain a hive in his or her garden and how to harvest honey, wax, and propolis. The book lists the best flowers and plants to keep in a garden that will help encourage your bees to gather the best pollen. It also reviews all necessary equipment required for beekeeping as well as bee health issues. A detailed maintenance section offers expert advice on seasonal routines. The step-by-step photographs show key techniques on how to handle and check your bees. Twelve delicious recipes are included that incorporate use of your homemade honey. Reflecting the current concern with the decline of bee populations, the book offers useful tips that can help keep your bees healthy and productive.
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