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Crooked Cucumber
The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing...
Open Secrets
A Memoir of Faith and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2002
Open Secrets is Richard Lischer's story of his early career as a Lutheran minister. Fresh out of divinity school and full of enthusiasm, Lischer found himself assigned to a small conservative church in an economically depressed town in southern Illinois. This was far from what this overly enthusiastic...
Surviving the Dragon
A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
On a peaceful summer day in 1952, ten monks on horseback arrived at a traditional nomad tent in northeastern Tibet where they offered the parents of a precocious toddler their white handloomed scarves and congratulations for having given birth to a holy child—and future spiritual leader.
Surviving...
by Raja Arasa Ratnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
There is evidence of souls taking both mind and memories to the afterlife.
For souls to be able to take earthly facilities to the afterlife, soul, mind and memories need to be outside the earthly body. Attachment to consciousness – which envelops, while also pervading, all existence – would...
Messages from Amma
In the Language of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Lovingly known by millions around the world as Amma (Mother), the Hugging Saint, the Mother of Compassion, and the Mother of Immortal Bliss, the divinely beautiful Indian holy woman Ammachi has spent her adult life fulfilling her mission to share her message of love and compassion throughout the world...
Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition
Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Finding Ultra is an incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever
On the night before he was to turn forty, Rich Roll experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight and unable to climb the stairs without...
Faith in the Game
Lessons on Football, Work, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
As head coach of the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers for twenty-five years, Tom Osborne had one of the most impressive records in college football. Before retiring in 1997, he took his team to a bowl game every year, won three national championships in the last four years he coached, and ended...
26 Marathons
What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
***NEW YORK TIMES *BESTSELLER • A world-class runner and four-time Olympian shares the life lessons he’s learned from each of the twenty-six marathons he’s run in his storied career. **
“An athlete whose wisdom and lessons aren’t just for runners.”—The Washington Post
When...
Earl the Pearl
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics, a player known as much for his unorthodox, "playground" style of play as his championship pedigree. Observers said that watching him play was like listening to jazz, his moves resembling...
Liferider
Heart, Body, Soul, and Life Beyond the Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Surfing icon Laird Hamilton offers inspiration to anyone who wants to elevate their ordinary, landlocked lives to do extraordinary things.
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“When Laird Hamilton surfs, you must watch. When he speaks, I listen. And when he writes a book, I’m damn sure gonna...
Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
No man has affected more runners in more ways than Bill Bowerman. During his 24-year tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon, he won four national team titles and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. He also ignited the jogging boom, invented the waffle-sole running shoe that...
Shut Up, Legs!
My Wild Ride On and Off the Bike
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Beloved German cyclist Jens Voigt isn’t a superstar in the traditional sense of the word. Although he won three stages of the Tour De France—and wore the yellow jersey twice—Voigt never claimed an overall victory. He became a star because he embodies qualities that go beyond winning and losing:...
14 Minutes
A Running Legend's Life and Death and Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In 2007, after collapsing on a practice field at the Nike campus, champion marathoner Alberto Salazar's heart stopped beating for 14 minutes. Over the crucial moments that followed, rescuers administered CPR to feed oxygen to his brain and EMTs shocked his heart eight times with defibrillator paddles....
Running & Being
The Total Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A New York Times bestseller for 14 weeks in 1978, Running & Being became known as the philosophical bible for runners around the world. More than thirty years after its initial publication, it remains every bit as relevant today.
Written by the late, beloved Dr. George Sheehan, Running...