Meeting the Buddhas: A Guide to Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Tantric Deities
By: Vessantara (Tony McMahon),
4.38
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring journey to the heart of the rich and magical realm of Buddhist visualisation …
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1. Living with Kindness
By: Sangharakshita
4.29
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Kindness is one of the most basic qualities we can possess, and one of the most powerful. Living wi… read more
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2. A Tale for the Time Being
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more
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"Maketa,"-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Live. For Now. For the time being."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"True freedom comes from being unknown."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
3. What is the Dharma?: The Essential Teachings of the Buddha
By: Sangharakshita
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
To walk in the footsteps of the Buddha we need a clear and thorough guide to the essential principl… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Island
By: Aldous Huxley
3.85
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal … read more
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"I fell,"-Aldous Huxley, Island
"I’m not denying their kindness,"-Aldous Huxley, Island
"A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms."-Aldous Huxley, Island
"La teología de un pueblo refleja el estado de las nalgas de sus niños."-Aldous Huxley, Island
5. The History of My Going for Refuge
By: Sangharakshita
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Going for refuge" is the act of committing one's life to Buddhism. Tracing his own path of discove… read more
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6. Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything
By: Bernardo Kastrup
3.71
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
The present framing of the cultural debate in terms of materialism versus religion has allowed mate… read more
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7. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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8. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
9. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
10. The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
By: Sangharakshita
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The Noble Eightfold Path--the Buddha's first teaching--is a timeless truth. One starts with a visio… read more
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11. Weather
By: Jenny Offill
3.55
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a v… read more
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"How do you know all this?"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"They say when you're lonely you start to lose words."-Jenny Offill, Weather
"Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!"-Jenny Offill, Weather
"If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep. "-Jenny Offill, Weather
12. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)
By: Ian Rankin
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more
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13. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
14. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
By: Jenny Odell
3.68
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more
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15. Death in Her Hands
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.24
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more
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"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
16. Sangharakshita: The Boy, the Monk the Man
By: Nagabodhi
4.29
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Sangharakshita was a Buddhist monk, a writer, a poet, and the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Orde… read more
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"He did live a remarkably rich life, and manifested in a number of ways. The introverted London child who’d been moored to a bed for two years with nothing but books for company died as the founder of…"-Nagabodhi, Sangharakshita: The Boy, the Monk the Man
17. Meeting the Buddhas: A Guide to Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Tantric Deities
By: Vessantara (Tony McMahon),
4.38
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring journey to the heart of the rich and magical realm of Buddhist visualisation … read more
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18. The Journey and the Guide: A Practical Course in Enlightenment
By: Maitreyabandhu
4.31
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Building on the success of Life with Full Attention , Maitreyabandhu offers a profoundly useful wor… read more
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19. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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20. Wild Awake: Alone, Offline and Aware in Nature
By: Vajragupta
4.21
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
"I had not met or interacted with a human being for weeks. I had just spent the night alone on a cl… read more
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21. What Is the Sangha: The Nature of Spiritual Community
By: Sangharakshita
4.43
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The usual image of the Buddha is of a man seated alone, deep in meditation. So it can be a surprise… read more
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