Buddha Is the Center of Gravity
By: Teisho of Joshu Sasaki-Roslu at Lama Foundation
3.58
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Book of Discourse (Teishos) by a Zen Master who taught at the Lama Foundation. Beautiful psychedeli…
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1. Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple
By: Juliet Winters Carpenter , Kaoru Nonomura
3.41
Format: None pages,
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2. How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
By: Dōgen , Kosho Uchiyama , Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
In the thirteenth century, Zen master Dogen--perhaps the most significant of all Japanese philosoph… read more
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3. The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza
By: Taigen Dan Leighton , John Daido Loori
2.90
Format: 96 pages,
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4. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
By: Nyogen Senzaki , Paul Reps
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When Zen Flesh, Zen Boneswas published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire genera… read more
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5. Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)
By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Politimannen Harry Hole er i Sydney for a bista australsk politi i etterforskningen av drapet pa en… read more
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6. A Head Full of Ghosts
By: Paul Tremblay
3.79
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-… read more
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"On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school."-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
"Father Wanderly said, “Are we speaking with a demon right now?"-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
"And I asked her about the holes in the walls and Mom tried to joke, saying, “Yes, Marjorie was sleep punching too."-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
"Are you scared and confused like I am?" Her voice was as small as I'd ever heard it. "I think everyone is secretly like me."-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
7. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious
By: Douglas E. Harding
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Headlessness, the experience of "no-self" that mystics of all times have aspired to, is an instanta… read more
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8. Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
By: Brad Warner
4.02
Format: 982 pages, Paperback
A Radical but Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye "Even if the whole u… read more
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9. Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
By: Shohaku Okumura , Thomas Wright , Kosho Uchiyama , None
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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10. A Visit from the Goon Squad
By: Jennifer Egan
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more
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11. Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
By: Leonard Cohen , Shozan Jack Haubner
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"This punk of a monk, who should be tending to his own affairs, has decided to infect the real worl… read more
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12. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
13. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
14. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
15. The Memory Police
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.72
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more
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"No one can erase the stories!"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"Few people here have any need of novels"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police
16. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
17. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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18. Counterweight
By: Djuna
3.06
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more
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19. Discovering the True Self: Kodo Sawaki's Art of Zen Meditation
By: Kodo Sawaki
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“You can’t see your true Self. [But] you can become it. Becoming your true Self is zazen.” Profound… read more
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20. Buddha Is the Center of Gravity
By: Teisho of Joshu Sasaki-Roslu at Lama Foundation
3.58
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Book of Discourse (Teishos) by a Zen Master who taught at the Lama Foundation. Beautiful psychedeli… read more
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21. Street Zen: The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey
By: David Schneider
4.26
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Drag queen, junkie, alcoholic, commune leader - and, finally, Buddhist teacher: these words describ… read more
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