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  • Nine-Headed Dragon River
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    Nine-Headed Dragon River

    In August 1968, naturalist-explorer Peter Matthiessen returned from Africa to his home in Sagaponack, Long Island, to find three Zen masters in his driveway-guests of his wife, a new student of Zen...
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  • True Nature
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    True Nature

    Richardson, Lance

    The first major biography of Peter Matthiessen, celebrated author of The Snow Leopard, founder of the Paris Review, towering figure of 20th-century American literature **A NEW YORKER & VOGUE BEST...
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  • Meeting the Buddha
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    Meeting the Buddha

    From E.M. Forster to Peter Matthiessen to Allen Ginsberg, many of the world's most acclaimed writers have traveled to the holy lands of India seeking spiritual enlightenment. Their lyrical and highly...
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  • Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can)
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    Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can)

    Peter Matthiessen

    In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town...
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  • Bayou Coeur and Other Stories Bayou Coeur and Other Stories
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    Bayou Coeur and Other Stories

    Larry Gray

    Forget Duck Dynasty and True Detective. Read Bayou Coeur and enter a world as different from the homogeneity of American life as étouffée is different from Campbell’s soup. Gray leads us through this...
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  • Endless Vow
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    Endless Vow

    Endless Vow is the first English-language collection of the literary works of Soen Nakagawa Roshi. An intimate, in-depth portrait of the master of Eido Tai Shimano, his Dharma heir, introduces the...
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  • At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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    At Play in the Fields of the Lord

    In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the...
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  • Totch Totch
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    Totch

    Loren G. Brown

    "Totch Brown's memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades--the last real frontier in Florida, and even today the greatest roadless wilderness in the United States--are...
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  • The Lobstering Life
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    The Lobstering Life

    David Middleton

    On May 18, 1605, George Waymouth, captain of the English ship Archangel, anchored in the lee of Monhegan Island, finding shelter from a three-day storm. Putting ashore, the crew found fresh water to...
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  • American Koan
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    American Koan

    Overmeire, Ben Van

    How American Buddhists use Zen riddles to imagine who they are The koan is one of the most recognizable East-Asian spiritual exercises-a thought experiment in the form of a riddle or puzzle that Zen...
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    American Koan

    Overmeire, Ben Van

    How American Buddhists use Zen riddles to imagine who they are The koan is one of the most recognizable East-Asian spiritual exercises-a thought experiment in the form of a riddle or puzzle that Zen...
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    Talking on the Water

    Jonathan White

    During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array...
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  • Bedside Book of Birds
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    Bedside Book of Birds

    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD Featured in the vast majority of mythologies and religions, birds are generally associated with creativity and the human spirit. From the Christian dove to...
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  • Prize Stories 1990
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    Prize Stories 1990

    "Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction"-The Atlantic MonthlyThe O. Henry Prize Stories 1990 gathers 20 of the best short stories of the year, selected from...
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  • Basic Teachings of the Buddha
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    Basic Teachings of the Buddha

    For students of Buddhism and spiritual seekers eager to move beyond The Dhammapada, into the very heart of the Buddha's original teachings.In Basic Teachings of the Buddha, Glenn Wallis selects...
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  • Making Nature Sacred
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    Making Nature Sacred

    Since colonial times, the sense of encountering an unseen, transcendental Presence within the natural world has been a characteristic motif in American literature and culture. American writers have...
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  • On the Avenue of the Mystery On the Avenue of the Mystery
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    On the Avenue of the Mystery

    Gary Hentzi

    This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945-65) in conjunction with the films made from them during a later period of a little less than three decades straddling the...
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  • One Square Inch of Silence
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    One Square Inch of Silence

    Gordon Hempton

    In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our...
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