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Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard

10 best books like Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard (Chen Kaiguo): The Curse of Chalion, Country Girl, Paladin of Souls, The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, Fierce Attachments: A Memoir, Jasmine, Seven Taoist Masters: A Folk Novel of China, The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors, T'Ai Chi Classics, The Magus of Java: Teachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal

The Curse of Chalion
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0007133618
A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, as the secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule.

It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it will...
Country Girl
AuthorEdna O'Brien
When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl...
Paladin of Souls
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0380818612
Unexpectedly captivating.

I'm a longtime fantasy reader, but I've gotten tired of the current crop of twenty year old heroines, the descriptions of their clothes, their vague struggles with boyfriends, and the development of their special powers. Even if coming-into-one's power storylines...
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
AuthorIan Mortimer
ISBN1847921140
The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.

We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat?...
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
AuthorVivian Gornick
ISBN0374529965
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking...
Jasmine
AuthorBharati Mukherjee
ISBN0802136303
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes...
Seven Taoist Masters: A Folk Novel of China
AuthorEva Wong
ISBN1590301765
History and legend are interwoven in this folk novel that both entertains and instructs. Written by an unknown author, Seven Taoist Masters is the story of six men and one woman who overcome tremendous hardships on the journey to self-mastery. These characters and their teacher, Wang Ch'ung-yang,...
The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors
AuthorLance Dodes
ISBN0060958030
Nobody has had an answer for why people with addictions continue to repeat them -- until now.

For more than twenty years, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions -- alcoholism, compulsive gambling, smoking, sexual addiction,...
T'Ai Chi Classics
AuthorWaysun Liao
ISBN1570627495
According to Master Liao, the great power of T'ai Chi cannot be realized without knowing its inner meaning. T'ai Chi Classics presents the inner meaning and techniques of T'ai Chi movements through translations of three core classics of T'ai Chi, often considered the "T'ai Chi Bible." The texts are...
The Magus of Java: Teachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal
AuthorKosta Danaos
ISBN0892818131
The story of John Chang, the first man to be documented performing pyrokinesis, telekinesis, levitation, telepathy, and other paranormal abilities.

• The author, a mechanical engineer, provides scientific explanations of how these powers work.

• For the first time, the...
Chasing the Bear
AuthorRobert B. Parker
ISBN0399247769
Way back in 2009 I read Robert B. Parker’s new Spenser novel The Professional and wrote up a review bitching about how he fell into bad habits late in his career. Then he died a few months later, and I felt slightly guilty about bashing a series I once loved so I started re-reading them from the beginning....
Orthopedic Physical Assessment
AuthorDavid J. Magee
ISBN0721605710
Newly updated, this full-color resource offers a systematic approach to performing a neuromusculoskeletal assessment with rationales for various aspects of the assessment. This comprehensive text covers every joint of the body, head and face, gait, posture, emergency care, the principles of...
The Little Red Chairs
AuthorEdna O'Brien
ISBN0316378232
The much-anticipated new novel from the literary world's master of storytelling, Edna O'Brien.

A woman discovers that the foreigner she thinks will redeem her life is a notorious war criminal.

Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish...
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