Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa

10 best books like Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa (Paul R. Linde): Brown Girl Dreaming, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools, Dust, Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed, Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life, HARAPPA: Curse of the Blood River, Give Me Your Answer True, The Giant Book Of Unbelievable Facts (The Big Book Of Facts 17), Don't Kill Him! The Story of My Life with Bhagwan Rajneesh, Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl

Brown Girl Dreaming
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399252517
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and...
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
AuthorJonathan Kozol
ISBN0060974990
Two cases of mothers lying about where they reside in order to get their young children into better school districts have made news recently. In Ohio in January, Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced to 10 days in county jail and three years probation for enrolling her children in the Copley-Fairlawn...
AuthorYvonne Adhiambo Owuor
ISBN0307961206
From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice.

Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and...
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed
AuthorHawa Abdi
ISBN1455503762
The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia.

Dr. Hawa Abdi, "the Mother Teresa of Somalia" and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally displaced...
Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
AuthorJenna Bush Hager
Funny and poignant personal stories and reflections from former first daughters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush.

Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years...
HARAPPA: Curse of the Blood River
AuthorVineet Bajpai
The story oscillates from history to mythology, from occult to religion, from exorcism to gunfights, from taantrics to warriors, from love to ambition. It knits 3,700 years, powerful ancient and modern-day characters and a nail-biting conspiracy - all in one literary thriller. Harappa is the first...
Give Me Your Answer True
AuthorSuanne Laqueur
"What I feel has no name..."

Suanne Laqueur's award-winning debut novel The Man I Love thrilled readers with its memorable characters and depth of emotion. Erik Fiskare's journey of love, recovery and forgiveness captivated hearts but also left questions unanswered. Now Daisy Bianco has...
The Giant Book Of Unbelievable Facts (The Big Book Of Facts 17)
AuthorJake Jacobs
As the title suggests, The Giant Book Of Unbelievable Facts, contains a huge list of unbelievable and interesting facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people.

The Giant Book Of Unbelievable Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining,...
Don't Kill Him! The Story of My Life with Bhagwan Rajneesh
AuthorMa Anand Sheela
ISBN8172344449
As His personal secretary between 1981 and 1985, and the second-in-command of His organization, Ma Anand Sheela enjoyed an enviably close relationship with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

Bhagwan called upon her when He wanted to discuss personal issues, crucial administrative matters, run...
Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl
AuthorOm Swami
Many of us struggle to remain calm during the day or to fall asleep at night.

Our restless, treacherous minds make us feel good one moment and terrible another. From where do negativity and anguish engulf us and how do we go about being serene and peaceful? Zen shows us the art of attaining that...
A Million Thoughts
AuthorOm Swami
Learn all about meditation from the Himalayan mystic

Each one of us is a master of infinite possibilities at a universal scale. Through meditation we experience our own magnificence; our true potential.

Drawing on his experience of thousands of hours of earnest and strenuous meditation,...
SHRIDURGASAPTSHATI, WITH TRANSLATION, DELUXE EDITION
AuthorGita Press
ISBN8129301792
दुर्गासप्तशती हिन्दू-धर्म का सर्वमान्य ग्रन्थ है। इसमें भगवती की कृपा के सुन्दर इतिहास के साथ अनेक गूढ़...
The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History
AuthorManu S. Pillai
From a Maratha prince who parodied caste to a Muslim deity in a Hindu temple; from a courtesan who became a warrior princess to another who sang for the gramophone; from a woman with no breasts to a goddess with three; and from an Englishman who venerated sacred Sanskrit to imperious Victoria Maharani—the...
Looking for Lovely: Collecting the Moments that Matter
AuthorAnnie F. Downs
ISBN1433689251
“I want you to take every step of your life with excitement for where you are headed. And I want you to feel beautiful and confident as you do.” But how? When the enemy whispers lies that you are not smart enough, pretty enough, or rich enough? Or you are too dumb, too loud, too quiet, too thin, too fat,...
One Point Two Billion
AuthorMahesh Rao
There are 1.2 billion people living in India; more than 1.2 billion stories in one country. A man living on a tea plantation in the Nilgiri Hills realises he’s in love with his daughter-in-law; a young family eagerly awaits the launch of Shakti-Cola; a chronically anxious yoga retreat manager struggles...
Murders of Hollywood: A collection of True Crime
AuthorLaura Fona
AN INVESTIGATIVE LOOK AT SOME OF TINSELTOWN'S TRUE CRIME MYSTERIES IN THIS ANTHOLOGY
THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF BOB CRANE
Hogan’s Heroes was Crane’s first real taste of fame, but it was also his last. Though he toured the U.S. afterwards as part of a theater group, and starred in another sitcom,...
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