Essential Zen
10 best books like Essential Zen (Kazuaki Tanahashi): Tao Te Ching, Mostly Dead Things, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage, The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas, Mister Wonderful: A Love Story, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World, Swamplandia!, Upgrade Soul
| Author | Lao Tzu |
| ISBN | 0679724346 |
The Wisest Book Ever Written...
Complete on Audio...The Entire 81 Chapters (and Introduction to) Stephen Mitchell's exquisite new tradition of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way -- the classic manual on the art of living revered as one of the wonders of the world. Dating from the 6th century...
| Author | Kristen Arnett |
| ISBN | 1947793306 |
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into...
Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
| Author | Rick Hanson |
| ISBN | 1572246952 |
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.
With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of...
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
| Author | Alexander Chee |
| ISBN | 1328764524 |
From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.
As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times,...
Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage
| Author | Grant Morrison |
| ISBN | 1563890348 |
Since I've reviewed Showcase
Presents Doom Patrol Volume 1 and Umbrella Academy Volume 1 recently, I thought I'd give the series that fills the gap (of sorts) between them a try, Grant Morrison's renowned Doom Patrol run.
The book starts with Robotman in a mental institution after...
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is - each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. The White...
| Author | Daniel Clowes |
| ISBN | 0307378136 |
The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally serialized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected and with forty pages of new material.
Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He’s been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie,...
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 0007190611 |
Massmarket edition of this spiritual guide to making the most of life, through bad times as well as good, from bestselling author Pema Ch?dr?n. This accessible book has been on the US bestseller lists consistently for four years now. In The Wisdom of No Escape, bestselling author Pema Ch?dr?n shows...
The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Everglades—and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the "World of Darkness."
Ava, a resourceful...
| Author | Ezra Claytan Daniels |
| ISBN | 1549302922 |
For their 45th anniversary, Hank and Molly Nonnar decide to undergo an experimental rejuvenation procedure, but their hopes for youth are dashed when the couple is faced with the results: severely disfigured yet intellectually and physically superior duplicates of themselves. Can the original...
| Author | David Small |
| ISBN | 1631496271 |
Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who...
Black Hammer, Vol. 3: Age of Doom Part One
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1506703895 |
The Eisner Award-winning superhero saga returns with this two-part mystery with lots of revelations!
Picking up immediately where we left off--Lucy Weber has become the new Black Hammer and right as she's about to reveal to our heroes how they got stuck on the farm and can escape she vanishes....
