The Mystical Poems of Rumi 1: First Selection, Poems 1-200
7 best books like The Mystical Poems of Rumi 1: First Selection, Poems 1-200 (Rumi): Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, The Sisters Brothers, Zeitoun, The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century, The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths, Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385480016 |
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
| Author | Patrick deWitt |
| ISBN | 0062041266 |
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't...
| Author | Dave Eggers |
| ISBN | 1934781630 |
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates...
The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 1590300394 |
The personal tones of the translations, the blend of reverence and humor so characteristic of him, show how deeply Merton identified with the legendary authors of these sayings and parables, the fourth-century Christian Fathers who sought solitude and contemplation in the deserts of the Near East.
The...
| Author | Padraic Colum |
| ISBN | 0689868855 |
Before time as we know it began, gods and goddesses lived in the city of Asgard. Odin All Father crossed the Rainbow Bridge to walk among men in Midgard. Thor defended Asgard with his mighty hammer. Mischievous Loki was constantly getting into trouble with the other gods, and dragons and giants walked...
Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths
| Author | Nancy Marie Brown |
| ISBN | 0230338844 |
Much like Greek and Roman mythology, Norse myths are still with us. Famous storytellers from JRR Tolkien to Neil Gaiman have drawn their inspiration from the long-haired, mead-drinking, marauding and pillaging Vikings. Their creator is a thirteenth-century Icelandic chieftain by the name of Snorri...
