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17 reviews
Stephan Bodian

McGraw-Hill, 2007

Wonderfully Clear and True
In Wake Up Now, Stephan Bodian presents a wonderfully clear and true explanation of awakening and offers many exercises to facilitate the experience of one's true self. I highly recommend this book for those who are awakening or who have awakened and who want to understand that process better--because, as Stephan explains, for most people, awakening isn't an endpoint but is followed by a ...

Wake

32 reviews
Lisa McMann

Simon Pulse, 2008

When life is not a dream
Adolescents beware: Lisa McMann knows you. She knows your insecurities. She knows how you might look so together, yet be so screwed up. This is why Wake rang so true for me--because I remember what it was like to be 15, 16, 17. It wasn't a lovely, dreamy existence; it was somewhat akin to living in a shark tank. So I can relate to Janie's fear that she's a freak. It makes sense; she slips ...

Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention

24 reviews
Ken Mcleod

HarperOne, 2002

More than Useful -- It's Essential
This overview of key Buddhist concepts is more than useful to anyone interested in Buddhism, or in any meditative discipline -- it's essential. Ken McLeod describes Buddhist concepts in a way that is completely accessible to any literate person. McLeod takes foreign terms like "bodhisattva", which have been bandied about Western dharma centres with imprecision for years, and translates them with ...

Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day

19 reviews
Grist Magazine

Mountaineers Books, 2007

The little bible of good information
Well written, concise and precise in our fast moving world , of twoo much inofration.

Wake Up, Sir!: A Novel

45 reviews
Jonathan Ames

Scribner, 2005

Oscar Wilde's Cousin
Jonathan Ames continues his hysterical rampage with the delightful splash of "Wake Up, Sir!" When I read "The Extra Man," I thought I'd read one of the funniest books ever written. While "What's Not to Love?" and "My Less Than Secret Life" have their zany moments (Who can forget the "mangina"?), this second novel by Ames is pure delight. Ames' voice makes you think he's cousin to Oscar Wilde. ...

Why I Wake Early: New Poems

14 reviews
Mary Oliver

Beacon Press, 2005

Pay Attention
Savoring Mary Oliver's poems bring me joy, they are a respite from the news of our times and a balm to my soul. The theme throughout this book is to pay attention, to stop and watch and be amazed. Look and See This morning, at waterside, a sparrow flew to a water rock and landed, by error, on the back of an eider duck; lightly it fluttered off, amused. The duck, too, was not provoked,but, ...

Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)

195 reviews
James Joyce

Penguin Classics, 2000

Mean Girls
Haven't read FINNEGANS WAKE in many years, probably not since grad school, but here it is again, everybody talking about it for some reason--it's resumed its place in the zeitgeist, the way Frank O'Hara's "Meditations in an Emergency," featured on the season opener of MAD MEN, is now rising up Amazon's best seller list as we speak--has anyone noticed the boxed ad for MAD MEN on AMC right on the ...

Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Jack Kerouac

Viking Adult, 2008

An account of the life of the Buddha by the author of On the Road Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing from Mexico City Blues to The Dharma Bums . Published for the first time in book form, Wake Up is Kerouac?s retelling of the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who as a ...

The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake

31 reviews
Neil Gaiman, Mikal Gilmore

Vertigo, 1997

A Fitting Finale for A Series of Serious Quality
First of all, The Wake is a gorgeous volume. Perhaps the best artwork of the series. It gives a fitting send-off for Morpheus, and for the series, as we get to revisit characters and themes, with just a touch of humor to lighten the otherwise bleak landscape. (Would you believe that Superman and Batman put in a cameo?--Well, if you're going to write for DC, how can you resist? :) While ...

Hey! Wake Up!

25 reviews
Sandra Boynton

Workman Publishing Company, 2000

My daughter loves this book!!!
My daughter is 10 months old and this is her favorite book. I've read it so much that I know much of it off the top of my head. Just hearing lines from this book is like music to my daughter's ears. She starts moving her head. The colors are beautiful too. We picked this book out when she was 7 months old. We have 2 other Sandra Boynton books but this is her favorite.

Aftershock: Help, Hope, and Healing in the Wake of Suicide

9 reviews
Arrington Cox, Candy David, ...

B&H Publishing Group, 2003

Aftershock: Help, Hope and Healing in the Wake of Suicide
This is an incredibly helpful book for which, sadly, there long has been a tremendous need. How I wish it had been available thirty or forty years ago. Silence too often follows suicide, which only delays and compounds the challenges of grieving such a loss. The authors rightly stress how vital it is that survivors talk about what has happened. This book is a powerful aid and encouragement in ...

I Wake up Screening: What to Do Once You've Made That Movie

6 reviews
John Anderson, Laura Kim

Billboard Books, 2006

MUST READ - If you make a film you must read this book
Think of yourself running in a mile-long race - you kill yourself to finish the mile, and when you can see the tape, you find out you have four more miles to go! That's exactly how the authors frame the problem for a filmmaker. You got the money scraped together, you shot your film, you've been in post cutting the film, and then (and perhaps only then) do you become aware of the millions of ...

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

173 reviews
Norman Cantor

Harper Perennial, 2002

Interesting, but uneven
This is an interesting book about one of the direst slice of history. In just three years (1347 - 1350), the Plague will have wiped out over a third of Western Europe. Some countries incurred lesser but significant recurrence of the plague centuries later, including England in 1665. England will recover its pre-plague population level not until 1750 or four centuries later. Gathering ...

It Wakes in Me

10 reviews
Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Tor Books, 2007

Thank goodness the third book is already released!
It Wakes In Me by Kathleen O'Neal Gear is the sequel to It Sleeps In Me. The first of the series began an intricate and erotic journey to the start of a scandal. Event after another create questions that seem to leave the reader even more puzzled. Theories are created only to find them incorrect and then reconsidered again. The end of the story drops off leaving you with so many unanswered ...

Wake Up and Roar

4 reviews
H. W. L. Poonja

Sounds True, 2007

Profound Wisdom, Extraordinary Sage
This version of "Wake Up and Roar" is a compilation of two formerly published books, Volume I and II, with the added treasure of photos of this contemporary, extraordinary sage of modern day India, Papaji. The book is presented in a dialogue manner, so that the reader is able to witness the intuitive manner in which he guided his students in satsang. This is a book that every student who is ...

The Bookman's Wake (Cliff Janeway Novels)

51 reviews
John Dunning

Pocket Star, 1996

The Bookman
If you love mysteries and you love books, this is your dream book. John Dunning always puts Cliff in the thick of things and brings along a treasure trove of books with him. The mystery is great, of course, as always, and Cliff rules the day in his inimmitable fashion. A great read!

Before I Wake: The Nightmare Chronicles

8 reviews
Kathryn Smith

Avon, 2008

Fantastic start of a new paranormal series
Dawn is not only the daughter of Morpheus, the king of dreams, but she is also a Nightmare. But she turned her back on her heritage because she can't deal with the situation between her mother and Morpheus. Dawn works at a Sleep and Dream research centre, where she meets Noah Clarke who is one of her patients. Noah is stalked by something evil and Dawn has to accept who she is to save the man she ...

How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success that Works
Donald Gordon Carty, Dorothea Brande

Personal Development Institute, 2005

"How to Wake Up and Live: A Formula for Success that Works" takes Dorothea Brande's original 1936 book "Wake Up and Live" and brings it back to life with some light editing and additional content. Simply written and easy to read, it shows you how to overcome the obstacles that are holding you down. It will prove to you that the USE, not the quantity, of your brains is what counts most toward successful living. This book will certainly ...

To Wake in Tears: Understanding Interstitial Cystitis

62 reviews
Catherine M. Simone

IC Hope, 1998

Gives IC patients hope
This book is very well written and an easy read. She offers many new aspects to this devastating illness. I personally have already tried many of the methods she used to heal herself and have been feeling much better. After 10 years of battling this illness and several doctors visits I found hope in her words and a better understanding of IC.

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake: Unlocking James Joyce's Masterwork

10 reviews
Joseph Campbell, Henry Morton Robinson

New World Library, 2005

night keys to the skeleton of a wake
finnagans wake is not comprehensible. it is not like reading or watching a film. Mr.Joyce spoke over a dozen languages fluently and this book is in English and french and Swahili and Italian and Latin, Greek AND mostly in his own language which is kindof like English. it is not understandable because some many words are derivative of others, the characters are always changing and the story is ...

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