Stray Birds

8 best books like Stray Birds (Rabindranath Tagore): I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy, The Art of Work, The Violin of Auschwitz, The God of Animals, The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems, The Garden of The Prophet, Sand and Foam, The Warlow Experiment

AuthorHafez
ISBN0143037811
From the renowned translator of The Gift, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers

To Persians , the poems of Hafiz are not "classical literature" from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend that continue to be quoted in daily life. With...
The Art of Work
AuthorJeff Goins
ISBN0529117657
Jeff Goins, a brilliant new voice counting Seth Godin and Jon Acuff among his fans, explains how to abandon the status quo and live a life that matters with true passion and purpose.

The path to your life's work is difficult and risky, even scary, which is why few finish the journey. This is a book...
The Violin of Auschwitz
AuthorMaria Àngels Anglada
ISBN0553807781
An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The Violin of Auschwitz is the unforgettable story of one man’s refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history’s greatest atrocity.

In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously...
The God of Animals
AuthorAryn Kyle
ISBN1416533249
When her older sister runs away to marry a rodeo cowboy, Alice Winston is left to bear the brunt of her family's troubles -- a depressed, bedridden mother; a reticent, overworked father; and a run-down horse ranch. As the hottest summer in fifteen years unfolds and bills pile up, Alice is torn between...
The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems
AuthorWendell Berry
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

The poems of Wendell Berry...
The Garden of The Prophet
AuthorKahlil Gibran
ISBN0140195726
جُبران
الروح الملائكية التي عاشت بيننا يوما

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Life is deep and high and distant; and though ‎‎only your vast ‎vision can reach even her feet, yet ‎‎she is near; and though ‎only the breath of your ‎‎breath reaches her heart,...
Sand and Foam
AuthorKahlil Gibran
I bought this book (don't worry; I didn't pay much for it) under the impression it was a collection of poetry. It is not. I know, I know... I should have looked into it more. #researchfail

What it actually is is a collection of... how shall I put this?... pieces of personal philosophy. Or, slightly...
The Warlow Experiment
AuthorAlix Nathan
ISBN0385545339
Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable investigations and experiments in botany. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science--something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits...
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