As we approach the holiday season, we wanted to make sure
all of our book readers have a nice selection of books to choose from! We have
some titles that will be great gift ideas for your favorite bookworm!
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Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony Paperback –
May 10, 1996 by Ming-Dao Deng
A companion volume to the bestselling 365 Tao, Everyday Tao
offers clear, specific directions on bringing the Taoist spirit into our work,
our relationships, and other aspects of our everyday lives. Each ideogram
provides the starting point for a Taoist lesson. The narrative that follows
shows how we can achieve an intimate relationship with nature, others, and our
natural selves.
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Lie Down With Lions Paperback – Bargain Price, December 2,
2003 by Ken Follett
From Library Journal
In his newest thriller, Follett updates the elements of his
popular Eye of the Needle a spy fleeing desperately across a hostile landscape;
a woman who must decide between her husband and her lover, opponents in a
deadly struggleto contemporary Afghanistan. Jane Lambert discovers that her
French doctor husband is really a KGB agent plotting to entrap a rebel leader.
Ellis Thaler, spurned by Jane when she learned he was a CIA operative, arrives
to conclude a treaty with that same leader. Soon Ellis, Jane, and her infant
daughter are fleeing for their lives through treacherous mountain terrain,
closely pursued by Russian patrols. As with Eye of the Needle , the
implausibilities, the factual errors, and the sometimes trite writing do not
slow the forward propulsion of the story. A page-turning escapist adventure
that is sure to be a success.BOMC main selection. Charles Michaud, Turner Free
Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Review
"This book, which can be used in helping design and
carry out research or in teaching research methods, will certainly play a role
in remedying this clearly identified and sorely felt absence in the field of
health research." -- Journal of Health Psychology
About the Author
Linda Tuhiwai Smith is an Associate Professor in Education
and Director of the International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous
Education at the University of Auckland.
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America Is in the Heart (Washington Papers) Paperback –
January 1, 1973 by Carlos Bulosan
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the
well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage
to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer
following the harvest trail in the rural West.
"America came to him in a public ward in the Los
Angeles County Hospital while around him men died gasping for their last bit of
air, and he learned that while America could be cruel it could also be
immeasurably kind. . . . For Carlos Bulosan no lifetime could be long enough in
which to explain to America that no man could destroy his faith in it again. He
wanted to contribute something toward the final fulfillment of America. So he
wrote this book that holds the bitterness of his own blood." - Carlos P.
Romulo, New York Times
"The premier text of the Filipino-American
experience." - Greg Castilla
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