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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Louisiana

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

3ds Max Fundamentals 

William Shakespeare

Russ McDonald

A. R. Braunmuller

Stephen Orgel

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Two pairs of star-crossed lovers, a feuding pair of supernatural sprites, and a love potion gone awry all come together in an enchanted moonlit forest.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans--mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer--whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras.

The Dharma Bums

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Edmund White

A Life

Marcel Proust

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Abigail Thomas

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Thinking about Memoir

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Ruth Ozeki

A revelatory short memoir from the author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life

The Face: a Time Code

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Ben Lerner

"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

The Hatred of Poetry

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Thubten Yeshe

Philip Glass

The Transformation of Desire

Introduction to Tantra

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Bill Walsh

A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--And How to Avoid Them

The copy chief for the Washington Post business desk offers an entertaining but practical guide to the ins and outs of modern language usage, discussing the complexities of modern style, grammar, punctuation, and trendy words, foreign terms, and web speak. Original.

Lapsing into a Comma

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Alex Preminger

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

English

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

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William Burto

William E. Cain

Marcia Stubbs

Essays, Fiction, Poetry and Drama

Literature for Composition, 5/e, is a versatile anthology which has both diverse selections and excellent writing instruction. Beginning with six chapters on the reading and writing processes, followed by a section on literary works and literary forms and a section on argument, the text ends with a thematic anthology. New co-author William E. Cain adds to the stellar author team and reinforces an emphasis on diverse and contemporary writers.

Literature for Composition

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Pamela Haag

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Post-Romantic Age of Workhorse Wives, Royal Children, Undersexed Spouses, and Rebel Couples Who Are Rewriting the Rules

Marriage Confidential

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Andy Fraser

Daniel Goleman

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Sogyal Rinpoche

Clifford  Saron

Leading Experts on Buddhism, Psychology, and Medicine Explore the Health Benefits of Contemplative Practice

"Meditation has developed from a New Age novelty into a powerful tool for alleviating suffering in the modern world. The book shares profound insights on meditation and the mind from the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and reveals some of the very latest scientific evidence showing meditation's potential to benefit a wide range of people in surprising ways."

Meditation has developed from a New Age novelty into a powerful tool for alleviating suffering in the modern world. The book shares profound insights on meditation and the mind from the heart of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and reveals some of the very latest scientific evidence showing meditation's potential to benefit a wide range of people in surprising ways.

Once a symbol of the counterculture, meditation is now a household word, routinely discussed in the media, used by the advertising industry to promote all kinds of products and lifestyle choices, and practiced in its various forms--both spiritual and secular--by millions of people across the planet.

Ask the pioneering contributors to this book where they think all of this will lead, and they describe a not-too-distant future in which meditation is practiced as a matter of course in schools, hospitals, hospices, retirement homes, offices, jails, and households around the world--not in the name of any particular religion or belief system, but simply because it is good for us. The one who put meditation on the map 2,500 years ago, the Buddha himself, would no doubt be very happy indeed.

Contributors-

* Dr. Frédéric Rosenfeld--The Benefits of Meditation- A Scientific Reality
* Sogyal Rinpoche--The Buddhist Approach to Understanding the Mind and Meditation
* Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn--Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Medicine and Psychiatry
* Dr. Clifford Saron--Training the Mind- The Shamatha Project
* Dr. Sara Lazar--Meditation and Neuroscience
* Dr. Erika Rosenberg--Meditation and Emotion
* Dr Lucio Bizzini--Therapeutic Applications of Meditation (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy)
* Dr. Edel Maex--Therapeutic Applications of Meditation (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction)
* Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche--Meditation Methods in the Buddhist Tradition
* Rosamund Oliver--Being Present When We Care
* Ursula Bates--Mindfulness in the Public Health Service in Ireland
* Dr. Cathy Blanc--Meditation as a Means of Taking Care

The Healing Power of Meditation

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Azar Nafisi

A Memoir in Books

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran. Nafisi’s account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum. When a radical Islamist in Nafisi’s class questioned her decision to teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that preached falsehoods of “the Great Satan,” she decided to let him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the defense. Azar Nafisi’s luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice. Praise for Reading Lolita in Tehran “Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book. Azar Nafisi takes us into the vivid lives of eight women who must meet in secret to explore the forbidden fiction of the West. It is at once a celebration of the power of the novel and a cry of outrage at the reality in which these women are trapped. The ayatollahs don’ t know it, but Nafisi is one of the heroes of the Islamic Republic.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Nine Parts of Desire

Reading Lolita in Tehran

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Lana April Reed

Full color illustrations describing exercises and meditation practices from Kundalini Yoga

Unlock Your Inner Potential Through Life-Changing Exercise

This yoga book is a sampling of the vast wealth called Kundalini Yoga.  Here you learn about the branch of yoga based on the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, PhD, who brought Kundalini Yoga from India to the West in 1969.     

Master yoga teacher and author Shakta Kaur Khalsa demonstrates how Kundalini Yoga works for everyday life and every person. Kundalini comes from the Indian word "kundal," which means "lock of hair from the beloved." The uncoiling of this "hair" is the awakening of the kundalini, the creative potential that already exists in each human body.  

You are not required to be in perfect physical shape or share any particular belief system. Kundalini Yoga works for you if you can breathe and move your body! In this type of yoga, the most important thing is experience. Your experience goes right to your heart, your core. These ancient teachings are designed to give you a hands-on approach to experiencing your deepest emotions and highest consciousness. By approaching Kundalini Yoga with openness and respect, and by following the steps included in this book, you can change and enrich your life.

Whole Way Library: Kundalini Yoga

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Susan Orlean

Robert Atwan

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.

The Best American Essays 2005 includes

Roger Angell * Andrea Barrett * Jonathan Franzen * Ian Frazier * Edward Hoagland * Ted Kooser * Jonathan Lethem * Danielle Ofri * Oliver Sacks * Cathleen Schine * David Sedaris * Robert Stone * David Foster Wallace * and others

Susan Orlean, guest editor, is the author of My Kind of Place, The Orchid Thief, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, and Saturday Night. A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1982, she has also written for Outside, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.

The Best American Essays 2005

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Athanasios Karta Singh Megarisiotis

Brigitte Sporrer

A gorgeous volume! Every oage is heavy weight, glossy, and full color. Each exercise is illustrated with high quality photos.

Techniques for Developing Strength, Awareness, and Character

Kundalini Yoga

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Dalai Dalai Lama

The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

Explains how science and religion can work together to alleviate human suffering, arguing that understanding the connections between science and faith holds the key to achieving peace both within oneself and the world at large.

The Universe in a Single Atom

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David Sedaris

Naked

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Clara Winston

Richard Winston

Carl G. Jung

Autobiography of C.G. Jung as told in interviews.

An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings.

In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. Fully corrected, this edition also includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos.

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Anne Bernays

Pamela Painter

Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

This how-to-write fiction book is comprised primarily of exercises introduced by brief but informative essays on the aspects of fiction. Long on specifics and short on theoretical information so often found in books about the art of writing, this text provides a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction. Organized by the elements of fiction and concluded by an anthology of contemporary fiction, this book helps all fiction writers hone and improve their craft.The elements of fiction-character, point of view, dialogue, plot, style and revision.For those interested in improving fiction-writing skills.

What If?

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Alfie Bown

Srecko Horvat

Srećko Horvat: Subversion!

Advancing Conversations

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Edward Hirsch

And Fall in Love with Poetry

A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives.



How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse from around the world, including work by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, among many others, Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts.



"The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read as poem is: Ecstatically."--Boston Book Review

How to Read a Poem

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Pandit Rajmani Tigunait

A personal and historical perspective on the origins of modern yoga as told by the son of one of the most influential yogis of our time. This book has some underlining.

A Living Tradition

The tradition of the Himalayan sages that exists today is an unbroken chain that extends for more than 5,000 years. Undisturbed by the passage of time, this traditionis not concerned with teachings that apply only to a particular era of history or geographical region of the world--its entire emphasis is on the experience of the universal truth of who we are. The Himalayan Masters: A Living Tradition explores the lives and teachings of eight prominent sages of this timeless tradition--men who knew how to be successful in daily life while experiencing the innermost truths of life here and hereafter. Pandit Tigunait brings the experiences and teachings of these great masters to life, with practical insights into how to discover and understand life's richest secrets for ourselves. Purchase your copy of The Himalayan Masters: A Living Tradition and discover the perennial wisdom of the Himalayan sages.

The Himalayan Masters

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