Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within
10 best books like Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within (Thomas Ashley-Farrand): Family Matters, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, 79 Park Avenue, Return to Peyton Place, The Carpetbaggers, The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice, The Four Desires: Creating a Life of Purpose, Happiness, Prosperity, and Freedom, India: A Wounded Civilization, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment (Buddhayana Series, VII), Memoirs of the Second World War
Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0684862212 |
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection...
| Author | Harold Robbins |
| ISBN | 0671818244 |
A tale from master storyteller Harold Robbins ...Marja starts out a tough girl from the mean streets of New York. Ambitious and driven, over time she rises from street urchin to stripper, later re-inventing herself as Maryann Flood, the queen of an empire of pleasure. From her posh Park Avenue office,...
| Author | Grace Metalious |
| ISBN | 1555536697 |
In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publishing industry, topped the bestseller lists for more than a year, and made its young author one of the most talked-about people in America. In 1959...
| Author | Harold Robbins |
| ISBN | 0765351463 |
A LEGENDARY MASTERPIECE
A STORY OF MONEY AND POWER,
SEX AND DEATH
Jonas Cord coveted his father's fame, fortune, even his young, beautiful wife. When his father died, Jonas swore to possess them all. But Rina Marlow was the celebrated screen goddess no man could master. Her...
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...
| Author | Rod Stryker |
| ISBN | 0553803980 |
“Desire is here to stay. The challenge we all face, and which I intend to guide you through, is to learn how to take into account the full measure of who you are and use the positive force of all four of your soul’s desires to lead you to your best life.”
—Rod Stryker
According to ancient...
India: A Wounded Civilization
| Author | V.S. Naipaul |
| ISBN | 1400030757 |
In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries...
| Author | Tulku Thondup |
| ISBN | 1570623309 |
The true nature of our minds is enlightened and peaceful, as the depth of the ocean is calm and clear. But when we mentally grasp and emotionally cling to our wants and worries with all our energy, we lose our own enlightened freedom and healing power, only to gain stress and exhaustion, suffering and overexcitement,...
Memoirs of the Second World War
| Author | Winston S. Churchill |
| ISBN | 0395599687 |
The quintessential account of the Second World War as seen by Winston Churchill, its greatest leader
As Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945, Winston Churchill was not only the most powerful player in World War II, but also the free world's most eloquent voice of defiance in the...
A Field Guide to Happiness: What I Learned in Bhutan about Living, Loving, and Waking Up
| Author | Linda Leaming |
| ISBN | 1401945090 |
In the West, we have everything we could possibly need or want—except for peace of mind.
So writes Linda Leaming, a harried American who traveled from Nashville, Tennessee, to the rugged Himalayan nation of Bhutan—sometimes called the happiest place on Earth—to teach English and unlearn...
Path of Fire and Light, Vol. 2: A Practical Companion to Volume I
| Author | Swami Rama |
| ISBN | 0893891126 |
Swāmī Rāma was born Brij Kiśore Dhasmana or Brij Kiśore Kumar,to a northern Indian Brahmin family in a small village called Toli in the Garhwal Himalayas. From an early age he was raised in the Himalayas by his master Bengali Baba and, under the guidance of his master, traveled from temple to temple...
| Author | Aravind Adiga |
| ISBN | 1848875169 |
A tale of one man refusing to leave his home in the face of property development. Tower A is a relic from a co-operative housing society established in the 1950s. When a property developer offers to buy out the residents for eye-watering sums, the principled yet arrogant teacher is the only one to refuse...
The Path of Paganism: An Experience-Based Guide to Modern Pagan Practice
| Author | John Beckett |
| ISBN | 0738752053 |
Paganism is a way of seeing the world and your place in it. It means challenging the assumptions of mainstream society and strengthening your relationships with the gods, the universe, your community, and your self. The Path of Paganism provides practical advice and support for honoring your values...
| Author | Doug Boyd |
| ISBN | 0091299616 |
A popular look at "this swami business"
This is a different sort of going-to-India-to-look-for-a-guru book in that journalist Boyd starts out in Topeka, Kansas at the Menninger Foundation with Swami Rama (of the Himalayan Institute). The year is 1970 and the Swami has come from India to show...
The Secret of the Three Cities: An Introduction to Hindu Sakta Tantrism
| Author | Douglas Renfrew Brooks |
| ISBN | 0226075702 |
The esoteric Hindu traditions of Tantrism have profoundly influenced the development of Indian thought and civilization. Emerging from elements of yoga and wisdom traditions, shamanism, alchemy, eroticism, and folklore, Tantrism began to affect brahmanical Hinduism in the ninth century. Nevertheless,...
Superconscious Meditation
| Author | Pandit U. Arya |
| ISBN | 0893890359 |
“The method of superconscious meditation is a journey of the self through the self to the self.” – Swami Veda Bharati
The profound subject is beautifully elucidated, and along with a sprinkling of analogies, it takes the reader systematically deeper into the subtleties of superconscious...
Auspicious Wisdom: The Texts and Traditions of Srividya Sakta Tantrism in South India
| Author | Douglas Renfrew Brooks |
Rooting itself in Kashmir Shaivism, Srividya became a force in South India no later than the seventh century, and eventually supplanted the Trika as the dominant Tantric tradition in Kashmir. This is the first comprehensive study of the texts and traditions of this influential school of goddess-centered,...
