In the Shadow of the Buddha: Secret Journeys, Sacred Histories, and Spiritual Discovery in Tibet
10 best books like In the Shadow of the Buddha: Secret Journeys, Sacred Histories, and Spiritual Discovery in Tibet (Matteo Pistono): Eugene Onegin, The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, The Samurai's Garden, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying, How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation, The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who, The Museum at Purgatory, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0192838997 |
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in imperial Russia during the 1820s, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the emotions and destiny of three men - Onegin the bored fop, Lensky the minor elegiast, and a stylized Pushkin himself...
The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House
| Author | Nada Bakos |
| ISBN | 0316260479 |
The story of a young woman from Montana who joined the CIA and worked her way up through the ranks to the frontline of the fight against Islamic extremists.
In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
| Author | Rick Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1627790438 |
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental...
| Author | Gail Tsukiyama |
| ISBN | 0312144075 |
A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and...
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
| Author | T.S. Eliot |
| ISBN | 0151686564 |
T.S. Eliot is known for masterworks of poetry like The Waste Land, but somehow also the author of this delightful collection of cat poems. The full book consists of 15 very short poems, most of which describe a distinct personality of cat. There's the cat who can never be pleased, for example, the thieving...
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
As the title of her current book makes clear, Sallie Tisdale is a provocative writer who likes to address uncomfortable (even taboo) subjects that many prefer to avoid. If you can get past the blunt, weirdly funny, and challenging title of this book, you’ll be okay with the contents: an interesting...
| Author | John Dominic Crossan |
| ISBN | 0062203592 |
The acclaimed Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus and God & Empire—“the greatest New Testament scholar of our generation” (John Shelby Spong) —grapples with Scripture’s two conflicting visions of Jesus and God, one of a loving God, and one of a vengeful God, and explains...
The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who
| Author | Anthony S. Burdge |
| ISBN | 0981949584 |
The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who is a volume of essays examining the abundant mythological elements underpinning the 50-year-run of the popular BBC television series Doctor Who. Contributors include a well known Doctor Who novelist, an organizer of one of the largest Doctor Who communities,...
Nick Bantock's many fans have come to expect strange and wonderful experiences as they enjoy his beautifully illustrated books, and this newest work will not disappoint. An otherworldly mixture of surreal drawings, photographs of invented and actual objects, fake documents, altered engravings,...
In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
| Author | Yongey Mingyur |
| ISBN | 0525512535 |
At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat,...
