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Five Book Friday: In Memoriam
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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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In the Garden of Beasts Love Terror & an American Family in Hitlers Berlin
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Larson, Erik
David Hamerly
, January 01, 2012
I have enjoyed several of Erik Larson's historically based novels and In the Garden of Beasts may be his best. It is the story of an unlikely and modestly ambitious American diplomat chosen, some would say by accident, as President Roosevelt's ambassador to Germany in the pre-war 1930s. William E. Dodd and his family that included daughter Martha Dodd Stern, are at first taken with Germany's Vice Chancellor, despite the fact that Hitler would disparage Dodd at almost ever encounter between the two men. Larson's books are nothing always filled with interesting characters and fascinating if little-known facts that enhance the main story and In the Garden of Beasts does not disappoint.
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Issue at Hand
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Gil Fronsdal
David Hamerly
, September 04, 2011
For life-long practitioners of insight meditation and those exploring mindfulness practice as a way to resolve the suffering in our lives, Gil Fronsdal's The Issue At Hand: Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice, offers nearly three dozen lessons provided with clarity and scholarly insight, yet with a gentleness and ease-of-understanding that makes the author a much sought-after teacher and speaker. In one example used to teach mindfulness to children, Fronsdal describes holdings a bell tightly and striking it, achieving only a dull thud. The bell held loosely, not grasping, rings. “When grasing is seen as being what is closest at hand, mindfulness attends carefully to the gasping.” The primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California, Fronsdal holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University, and has published a translation of the Dhammapada. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma, and was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center, where he now serves on the Elders’ Council.
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Freedom
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Jonathan Franzen
David Hamerly
, January 01, 2011
A fun commentary on the irony, sarcasm and tragedies of these times.
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