Animated Earth
Daniel Statnekov
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Daniel Statnekov's life changed forever when he bought an artifact at a Pennsylvania auction. This ancient vessel created a hypnotic sound when blown into, a sound that started him on a journey across the country to California and then on to Peru.
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Charles Olson
Tom Clark
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In this provocative biography of a poet, Charles Olson, both feared and revered, Tom Clark shows how massive contradictions troubled Olson's life even as it fueled his art.
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Cutting Remarks
Sidney M. Schwab, M.D.
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Written for inquisitive laymen as well as anyone in the medical profession, this fascinating first-person account documents the career of one of America's top surgeons.
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Dreaming in Real Time
Linda Forman
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The story of Dreaming in Realtime is the saga of an ordinary American family faced with extraordinary happenings, and how they nurtured an amazing gift.
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Edward Dorn
Tom Clark
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America's poet of dissent and difference, of geography and distance, Edward Dorn grew up in rural obscurity, Depression-era poverty and social estrangement as a dispossessed son of the Prairie.
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Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams
Don Hanlon Johnson
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This is a bracing backward turn toward the diverse and often conflicting visions passed down to Johnson by his immigrant ancestors who settled in the Sacramento Valley in the nineteenth century.
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Glimpses
Benjamin Bender
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A survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp presents his memoir of his and his wife's experiences in the camps, his experiences as a veteran of Israel's war of independence, and his feelings on returning to Buchenwald fifty years later.
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Goodbye
Bruce Jenkins
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This richly anecdotal biography relates the life of Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures who throughout his 50-year career collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz.
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Gypsy
Gypsy Rose Lee
Afterword by her son Erik Lee Preminger
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GYPSY... The New York Times bestseller that inspired one of Broadway's greatest musicals and two acclaimed motion pictures. Now back in print for the first time in 40 years with 93 vintage photographs and newspaper clippings from Gypsy's personal scrapbooks.
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In Search of the Warrior Spirit
Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Foreword by George Leonard
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In a top-secret U.S. military experiment, Richard Heckler was invited to teach Eastern awareness disciplines ranging from Aikido to meditation to a group of 25 Green Berets
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Lessons Out of School
As told to Barry S. Kaplan, M.D., & Charles Stein
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John Upledger has never avoided risks, whether performing an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane, as he did while on Coast Guard duty in the 1950s, or telling the story of his life.
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My Emily Dickinson
Susan Howe
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This is a serious and personal literary study of Dickinson's work by a scholar and fellow poet who appreciates both the art and the attitude of one of her American literary forebears.
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My G-String Mother
Erik Lee Preminger
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Few people can claim to have known a real-life Auntie Mame. For Erik Preminger, “Mame” was his mother, famed stripper and personality Gypsy Rose Lee.
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Nelson Mandela
Jean Guiloineau, Translated by Joseph Rowe
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This unique biography tells of Mandela’s early years through the age of twenty-three.
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New Moon
Richard Grossinger
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In this account of his growing up in New York, Richard Grossinger unveils layers of internal dialogue, dreams, self-witnessing, and personal myth-making, exposing the mechanism of a universal human act: telling our own story.
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Old Bears
Dave Newhouse
Foreword by Darryl Brock
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Feeling a bit guilty about his own high-school experience, author Dave Newhouse searched out classmates from his graduating class, the class of 1956 at Menlo-Atherton High School, to find out what happened to them since high school.
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Out of Babylon
Richard Grossinger
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Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossinger's looks at his mother's life and suicide, his brother's vision-quest, and the rise and fall of his family's resort in the Catskills.
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Strange Big Moon
Joanne Kyger
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Strange Big Moon is Joanne Kyger's journal of four full, tumultuous years as a young poet in her late twenties. Hungry to explore Zen and newly married to Gary Snyder, Kyger makes discoveries that will shape a lifetime of poetry.
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Tenzin Gyatso
Claude B. Levenson
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Claude B. Levenson, a personal friend of the Dalai Lama, prolific journalist, and member of the Committee of 100 for Tibet, provides an authoritative, intimate, and moving portrait of the first twenty-four years of his life.
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Amy Wallace
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When the teenaged Amy Wallace, daughter of bestselling writer Irving Wallace, was introduced by her father to the infamous, reclusive Carlos Castaneda, she little suspected this meeting would lead to a twenty-year friendship and, ultimately, a life-changing love affair.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Jean-Pierre & Rachel Cartier
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This account shows what daily life is like in this celebrated community of the Vitenamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Travels With the Evil Inclination
Gershon Winkler
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Travels with the Evil Inclination offers a tongue-in-cheek account of a most unusual life journey, a humorous and sometimes exaggerated tale of personal spiritual dissolution and re-emergence.
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Why Do I Scream at God for the Rape of Babies?
Claudia J. Ford
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This is a tragic story of a five-month-old South African baby named Vyanna who is left alone in a Johannesburg porn theater by her homeless mother and then gang-raped. The story's heart, however, is one of healing, courage and growing love that Vyanna's adoptive mother experiences from the moment she sees the little girl.
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Working the Sea
Wendell Seavey
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A vivid, first-person account of life in the fishing communities of coastal Maine, which takes the reader through first solo fishing trips, into the Army before Vietnam, and back to the fishing grounds.
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