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10 best books like When the Wind Stops (Charlotte Zolotow): Drawn Together, The Day You Begin, When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons, The Curious Garden, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong, The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen, California Master Gardener Handbook, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path, The Convoluted Universe - Book Four

Drawn Together
AuthorMinh Lê
ISBN1484767608
Each year my family reads all the Goodreads-award-nominated picture books, and we have been doing this for years. Everyone rates each book and adds a comment and it may (or may not) affect my overall rating. This is book #5 of 2018. I read this in June 2018 but will bump up my rating from 3 stars to 4 stars because...
The Day You Begin
AuthorJacqueline Woodson
ISBN0399246533
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpre Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lopez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.

There will be times when you walk into a room
and...
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons
AuthorJulie Fogliano
ISBN1596438525
december 29

and i woke to a morning
that was quiet and white
the first snow
(just like magic) came on tip toes
overnight

Flowers blooming in sheets of snow make way for happy frogs dancing in the rain. Summer swims move over for autumn sweaters until the snow comes back...
The Curious Garden
AuthorPeter Brown
ISBN0316015474
One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.

While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world.

This...
Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
AuthorNorman Fischer
ISBN1611800404
Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West only in the last twenty years or...
The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0938077511
The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusions presents a dialogue between the Buddha and his disciple Subhuti which illuminates how our minds construct limited categories of thought. It offers us alternative ways to look at the world in its wholeness so we can encounter a deeper reality; develop reverence...
Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
AuthorShunryu Suzuki
ISBN0060957549
Practising the true spirit of Zen.

Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures, which gives his thoughts an urgency...
California Master Gardener Handbook
AuthorDennis R. Pittenger
ISBN1879906546
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The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path
AuthorNorman Fischer
It’s an odd title for a book on Buddhism, which is supposed to devote itself to the world as it is. When Fischer lectured on the book at the Chapel Hill Zen Center, someone asked him about that, and he said, among other things, that our imagination may show us that the world actually is otherwise, that we’re...
The Convoluted Universe - Book Four
AuthorDolores Cannon
ISBN1886940215
This is the fourth volume in the wildly successful Convoluted Universe series. Premier hypnotherapist and psychic researcher Dolores Cannon does it again. Using deep hypnosis and past life regression techniques, she presents mind-blowing theories and concepts originating from other dimensions.In...
The Convoluted Universe - Book Five
AuthorDolores Cannon
I have been trained in QHHT by Dolores, attended a number of her talks over the years, and conversed with her through the membrane separating our dimensions via one of my QHHT clients. It was great to read another of her books since her passing.

This was one of the better books in the Convoluted...
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