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Author : Florence Robinson Donaldson
Release : 1926
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Book Synopsis Loves Goes Down the Saffron Road by : Florence Robinson Donaldson
Download or read book Loves Goes Down the Saffron Road written by Florence Robinson Donaldson. This book was released on 1926. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Toomey
Release : 2015-06-04
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 94X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Saffron Road by : Christine Toomey
Download or read book The Saffron Road written by Christine Toomey. This book was released on 2015-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief meeting with a Buddhist nun in India made a deep impression on Christine Toomey. It sent her on a two-year, 60,000-mile odyssey to learn more about the contemporary women choosing in their thousands to become part of a long tradition of female spirituality that stretches back through the centuries and now embraces the radical possibility that the next Dalai Lama could be female. In The Saffron Road, Toomey follows in the footsteps of earlier generations of Buddhist nuns to trace the routes by which the philosophy has spread from a solitary order in a remote area of India in the 5th century BC, via 1950s San Francisco where Zen was popularised by the Beat generation, to the globally-renowned practitioners of mindfulness of today. Beginning her journey in the Himalayas, close to the birthplace of the Buddha, Toomey travels from Nepal, to India, through Burma, Japan and on to North America and Europe, along the way visiting contemporary nunneries to meet the women who practise there. Amongst those she talks to are a group of "kung fu" nuns, an acclaimed novelist, a princess, a concert violinist, a former BBC journalist, and a one-time Washington political aide. Through these conversations, the daily reality of the Buddhist existence is gradually revealed, together with the diverse spiritual paths leading these women towards nirvana. Combining travelogue, history, interviews and personal reflection, The Saffron Road opens the door to a rarely glimpsed world of ritual, discipline and enlightenment.
Author : Library of Congress
Release : 1968
Genre : Catalogs, Union
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Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by : Library of Congress
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress. This book was released on 1968. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Mussell
Release : 2015-10-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 424/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Wherever Love’s Camel Goes by : Alan Mussell
Download or read book Wherever Love’s Camel Goes written by Alan Mussell. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Palermo, in the summer of 1225, Maurice, a young illuminator and translator in Frederick II’s palace, finds his life changed as he begins work on a strange Sufi manuscript. When his close friend, Rashid, takes him to a meditation group, Maurice’s efforts there have a powerful effect on his mind. He starts to question everything he ever held dear, even his own sanity, and a long-standing obsession begins to unravel, changing his life forever. At the same time, a group of jongleurs, headed by a famous troubadour who had been with Maurice in the Holy Land nearly three years earlier, have returned to Languedoc only to find themselves facing serious problems with the Inquisition. They try to keep their Cathar background hidden, but the dangerous times they live in may deal them a terrible blow. Thus begin the tangled efforts of this once close-knit group of friends to reunite and find some meaning—and safety—in their lives. Set against the backdrop of medieval Europe, this historical novel, a sequel to The Last Crusade, pits a band of young friends against their worst nightmares.
Author : Alex DiFrancesco
Release : 2021-06-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 673/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Transmutation by : Alex DiFrancesco
Download or read book Transmutation written by Alex DiFrancesco. This book was released on 2021-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgressive, transformative short stories that explore the margins of trans lives. Building on the success of All City, here is a wry, and at the same time dark and risk-taking, story collection from author (and baker) Alex DiFrancesco that pushes the boundaries of transgender awareness and filial bonds. Here is the hate between 16-year-old Junie, who is transitioning, and their mom's boyfriend Chad when the family moves into Chad's house on Lake Erie. And here is the love being tested between Sawyer and his dad, who named his boat after his child and resists changing it from Sara to Sawyer now. There is DiFrancesco's willingness to enter lands that are violent and comfortless in some of these stories, testing the limits of what it means to be human, sometimes returning stronger and wiser and sometimes not returning at all as their characters surge forward into unknown spaces. DiFrancesco's first novel All City (Seven Stories 2019) was praised by Publishers Weekly as a "loving, grieving warning [that] thoughtfully traces the resilience, fragility, and joy of precarious communities in an immediate, compassionate voice." All City was one of BookRiot's "Best Post-Apocalyptic Books of 2019," Entropy Mag's "Best of 2019," and Largehearted Boy's "Favorite Novels of 2019." It was a finalist for the 2019 Ohioana Book Award for Fiction.
