I am a practicing Buddhist and was transported by Mingyur's escape journey from his sheltered and sequestered life in a monastery to his 5-year wanderings as a simple monk. His bravery in the face of panic attacks and his intimate, loving, telling of nearly dying encouraged me to be less afraid of death. Subsequently, I have become a student of Mingyur through his Tergar Institute and consider him to be a root, master teacher. We are so fortunate to be alive with him now, teaching at this time.
A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk’s near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it
“One of the most inspiring books I have ever read.”—Pema Chödrön, author of When Things Fall Apart
“This book has the potential to change the reader’s life forever.”—George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo
At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four…
Ocean Vuong's writing is poetic, which stands to reason as he was first a poet before he turned to fiction. His characters are eccentric, raw, unpretentious, often inelegant, blue collar, sometimes autistic, gender fluid, one has dementia. Life at its most fundamental. Vuong is an immigrant and writes with deep sensitivity about the experience of outsiders, like his main character Hai. But every character in the book is an outsider.
The instant New York Times bestseller • Oprah's Book Club Pick • Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive
“Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful examination of those living on the fringes of society, and the unique challenges they face to survive and thrive.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Magnificent . . . In writing this book, Vuong may have joined the ranks of an elite few great novelists.” —Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once...
I really enjoy a good detective story, and Jackson Brodie, Atkinson's detective, is one of my favorites. The characters in this yarn are eccentric, the twists and turns unexpected (although we suspect the Robin Hood like thief from the beginning.) It was fun to follow Brodie through all his permutations and foibles until he figured out what happened to the missing paintings. It felt right justice to leave the greedy brother and sister ungratified.
THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER (SUNDAY TIMES, UK) • The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Times) private eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time
“How delicious to have Jackson Brodie back, this time in a story that starts off in Agatha Christie's world but soon becomes a landscape that could only have been crafted from the pen of the incomparable Kate Atkinson.”–Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus Novels
Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed.
It's unprecedented, even in the 21st century, for a young Sicilian woman to defy the centuries-old mandate, "Family is Everything!"--but twenty-two-year old Mariella Russo is desperate to escape Sicily. She's being relentlessly coerced into an engagement with with her wealthy college sweetheart--a young man from a powerful, prominent family--by her envious and erratic mother, who hopes the match will increase her own ignominious social status. Suddenly, Mariella's lifelong home has become a claustrophobic island. In a bid for independence and an attempt to escape entrapment, she flees to San Francisco.
But Mariella's bete noire--entrapment--follows her to San Francisco, where everyone wants more from her than she wants to give.
