Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

10 best books like Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are (Jack Kornfield): The Dalai Lama's Cat, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, The Last Camel Died at Noon, The Mummy Case, Mindfulness in Plain English, Lady Macbeth, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

The Dalai Lama's Cat

Author	David Michie
ISBN	1401940587

“‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed.

I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?

‘If only she could speak,’ continued the actress. ‘I’m sure she’d have such wisdom to share.’

And...

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Author	Tara Brach
ISBN	0553380990

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become...

The Last Camel Died at Noon

Author	Elizabeth Peters
ISBN	1841193879

Elizabeth Peters takes a slightly different direction in her sixth book and pays homage to Sir Henry Rider Haggard. Thus The Last Camel Died at Noon (you have to love that title!) is a romantic adventure in the style of King Solomon's Mines. It is great!

Of course we are still treated to Amelia's...

The Mummy Case

Author	Elizabeth Peters
ISBN	0446601934

So glad I decided to read this series as it just keeps getting better and better.

In The Mummy Case we get more of the wonderful Amelia rampaging her way across Egypt with her equally wonderful husband, Emerson. Both characters are larger than life and always entertaining, especially in their...

Mindfulness in Plain English

Author	Henepola Gunaratana
ISBN	0861713214

“A masterpiece.”
—Jon Kabat-Zinn

Since Mindfulness in Plain English was first published in 1994, it has become one of the bestselling — and most
influential — books in the field of mindfulness. It’s easy to see why.

Author Bhante Gunaratana, a renowned...

Lady Macbeth

Author	Susan Fraser King
ISBN	0307341747

I am  granddaughter to a king and
daughter to a prince, a wife twice over, a queen
as well. I have fought with sword and bow, and
struggled fiercely to bear my babes into this world.
I have loved deeply and hated deeply, too.


Lady Gruadh, called Rue, is the last female descendent...

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	0767903692

“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”
                                                                                               ...

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Author	Simon Winchester
ISBN	0061702587

"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence,...

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Author	Daniel J. Siegel
ISBN	0553804707

From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. Mindsight allows you to make positive changes in your brain-and in your life.

- Is there a memory that torments...

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Author	Daniel Goleman
ISBN	0062114867

Bestselling author Daniel Goleman returns with a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention

For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences...

The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice

Author

T.K.V. Desikachar

The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga--yoga adapted to the needs of the individual.

• A contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher.

• This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya...

The Wonder of Now

Author

Jamie Beck

Moving on has never been harder—or so perfectly unpredictable… Peyton Prescott would give anything for the carefree life she knew before breast cancer changed everything. But instead of using her second chance to move forward, she’s stuck promoting the memoir her brother convinced her...

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Author	Pema Chödrön
ISBN	1590304497

We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom...

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Author	Chögyam Trungpa
ISBN	1570629579

In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the...

In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon

Author	Bhikkhu Bodhi
ISBN	0861714911

The works of the Buddha can feel vast, and it is sometimes difficult for even longtime students to know where to look, especially since the Buddha never explicitly defined the framework behind his teachings. Designed to provide just such a framework, In the Buddha's Words is an anthology of the Buddha's...

The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

Author	Richard Rohr
ISBN	1524762091

Richard Rohr, one of the world's most influential spiritual thinkers, delivers his long-awaited book on Jesus. In this radical message of hope, Rohr shows how "Jesus" + "Christ" reveal the divine wholeness at the heart of things--and what that means for every one of us.

In his decades as a globally...

Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery

Author	Chögyam Trungpa
ISBN	1590306961

Many of us, without even realizing it, are dominated by fear. We might be aware of some of our fears—perhaps we are afraid of public speaking, financial hardship, or losing a loved one. But in this book meditation master Chögyam Trungpa shows us that most of us suffer from a far more pervasive form of...

Zen: The Art of Simple Living

Author

Shunmyō Masuno

Zen is the perfect antidote to the chaos of modern life . . .

In clear, practical and easy to follow lessons - one a day for 100 days - renowned Buddhist monk Shunmyo Masuno draws on centuries of wisdom to show you how to apply the essence of Zen to modern life.

You will learn how to exhale deeply...

True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

Author

Tara Brach

How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old trauma, obsessive thinking, overwhelming emotion, or inevitable loss? If you’re like most people, chances are you react with fear and confusion, falling back on timeworn strategies: anger,...

The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights

Author	Dalai Lama XIV
ISBN	1594487383

The Wisdom of Compassion offers rare insights into the Dalai Lama’s life and his efforts to translate compassion into action through deeply engaging, behind-the-scene stories about his interactions with remarkable people from all walks of life.

This is the Dalai Lama at his most human,...

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

Author

Donald J. Robertson

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual...

The Art of Living

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	1846045096

Master the art of living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders.

Thich Nhat Hanh, the world’s most renowned Zen master, turns his mindful attention to the most important subject of all – the art of living.

The bestselling author of The Miracle of Mindfulness...

Buddhism for Busy People: Finding Happiness in an Uncertain World

Author	David Michie
ISBN	1741142601

Opening the door to the core teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, this guide offers the personal story of one man's journey into a more spiritual and focused life through both philosophy and action. After incorporating simple Buddhist practices into his daily life, the author now teaches others how to understand...

Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart

Author

Ram Dass

Ram Dass’s long-awaited Be Love Now is the transformational teaching of a forty year journey to the heart. The author of the two-million-copy classic Remember, Be Here Now and its influential sequel Still Here, Dass is joined once more by Rameshwar Das—a collaborator from the Love Serve Remember...

Queen Victoria's Granddaughters 1860-1918

Author

Christina Croft

On 6th July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was ‘a very uninteresting thing for it seems to me to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park.’ Her apathy was understandable – this was her fourteenth grandchild, and, though she had given...

Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

Author

Lucy Worsley

Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black? Or a passionate young princess, a romantic heroine with a love of dancing? There is also a third Victoria - a woman who was also a remarkably successful queen, one who invented a new role for the monarchy....

The Art of Power

Author	Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN	0061242349

"Power is good for one thing only: to increase our happiness and the happiness of others. Being peaceful and happy is the most important thing in our lives and yet most of the time we suffer, we run after our cravings, we look to the past or the future for our happiness."Turning our conventional understanding...

Killer Pancake

Author	Diane Mott Davidson
ISBN	0553095889

Book Review
3 of 5 stars to the fifth entry in the "Gold Bear Culinary" mysteries, Killer Pancake, written in 1995 by Diane Mott Davidson. As we've all come to expect, Goldy's off searching for the killer in another crazy story line. In this one, she delves into the seedy cosmetic business where...

The Murder Pit

Author

Jeff Shelby

Daisy Savage finally has everything she wants. A new husband. A bunch of kids. A charming old house.

What she doesn't want is a dead body.

When a frozen pipe in the basement of her century-old home leads her and her husband downstairs into a newly discovered crawl space, they find a coal...

Rich Enough? A Laid-Back Guide For Every Kiwi

Author

Mary Holm

Find out what many in the financial world don't want you to know. Laid-back investing is not only easier, it can actually make you richer.

Learn how to kill off debt, curb spending, find your best KiwiSaver fund, save painlessly, buy a house or be happy not buying one, and move confidently towards...