The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful
7 best books like The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful (Kelsang Gyatso): The Leopard, Spies, According to Queeney, In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving, That Is That: Essays About True Nature, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939
| Author | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
| ISBN | 0679731210 |
The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this...
| Author | Michael Frayn |
| ISBN | 0571212964 |
Another from the 2002 Booker longlist, this one is a quiet revelation and a masterly piece of storytelling.
The action is narrated by an old man revisiting the scene and remembering his childhood adventures in suburban England during the Second World War. The story is narrated from the childhood...
| Author | Beryl Bainbridge |
| ISBN | 0786709820 |
Bainbridge's brilliantly imagined, universally acclaimed, Booker Prize-longlisted novel portrays the inordinate appetites and unrequited love touched off when the most celebrated man of eighteenth-century English letters, Samuel Johnson, enters the domain of a wealthy Southwark brewer...
In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
| Author | Bhikkhu Bodhi |
| ISBN | 0861714911 |
The works of the Buddha can feel vast, and it is sometimes difficult for even longtime students to know where to look, especially since the Buddha never explicitly defined the framework behind his teachings. Designed to provide just such a framework, In the Buddha's Words is an anthology of the Buddha's...
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood...
In Grief Works we hear stories from those who have experienced great love and great loss - and survived. Stories that explain how grief unmasks our greatest fears, strips away...
That Is That: Essays About True Nature is a collection of articles and answers to questions posed by spiritual seekers. It captures the essence of spiritual inquiry and provides the reader with a real transmission of Presence on every page. It is much more than an exposition about our true nature as infinite...
| Author | Anthony Burgess |
| ISBN | 0671554859 |
Anthony Burgess admitted in an interview that he pumped this book out in just two weeks because he needed the money. He could only do that because as a reviewer for The Yorkshire Post he reviewed 350 books in just over two years. It is also true that he liberally plagiarized for the first part of this book....
