Lê, Minh
Summary: When Bình fights back against a bully who makes fun of his Vietnamese heritage, he expects to be cheered as the hero. He defeated the bad guy, right? Instead, it gets him a stern warning from his vice principal and worried parents. Now he's stuck on a family trip to a silent meditation retreat. That means no talking--and no video games!--for a whole weekend. Could things possibly get any worse?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: Angry at his friends for chosing kickball over digging, Anh is revisited by Anger who demonstrates how mindful breathing can soothe and transform strong emotions. Based on teachings about mindfulness and Buddhism by Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plum Blossom Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SILHesse, Hermann
Summary: In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Classics 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HESClark, M. H.
Summary: "Create a comforting bedtime routine for kids through the guided meditations and discussion questions in this soothing illustrated children's book."--publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compendium 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLAWingate, Lisa
Summary: When Hatteras Island old-timer Iola Anne Poole passes away at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage finds herself charged with cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi Jo Reese never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls. But all that changes when she discovers eighty-one carefully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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Summary: "From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha. Eight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way to his temple. One of his acolytes directs them to each tell a story that the group can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARFoxe, Steve
Summary: Grandma has taken Baby to a serene location overlooking Carnivore Cove to practice meditating. Baby is doing his best when--AWWW! A cute little bunny slug hops up to him. He wants to focus and meditate but he keeps getting distracted because teeny tiny cute things are his absolute weakness!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CONMoshfegh, Ottessa
Summary: "From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MoshfeghNatsume, Sōseki
Summary: "Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or 'beauty, ' is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATSummary: A bureaucrat becomes a suburban guru who marries a follower with a son who's a punk rocker named Charlie Hero. Consequently, the guru's son is propelled from his bland life into a series of erotic experiences in London. Set to a backdrop of politics, fashion, music, drugs, morality and race, Karim must negotiate adolescence, a dysfunctional family and his own sexuality, as he seeks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BUDPattison, Eliot
Summary: "Shan Tao Yun, now the reluctant constable of a remote Tibetan town, has learned to expect the impossible at the roof of the world, but nothing has prepared him for his discovery when he investigates a report that a nun has been savagely assaulted by ghosts. In an ancient tomb by the old nun lies a gilded saint buried centuries earlier, flanked by the remains of a Chinese soldier killed fifty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSoontornvat, Christina
Summary: Young Plum is shocked to discover that she's been accepted to the Guardian Academy on Lotus Island, an elite school where kids learn how to transform into Guardians, magical creatures who are sworn to protect the natural world. The Guardian masters teach Plum and her friends how to communicate with animals and how to use meditation to strengthen their minds and bodies. All the kids also learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A couple's relationship breaks down along with the images, which in its second half takes a dog's-eye view of the world. It is a meditation on history and illusion, figures merging and weaving across the screen along with the film's ideas about romantic love and being-in-the-world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An old man's unexpected death creates hilarious havoc with his family. The traditional three-day undertaking becomes a sly comedy of manners as the younger generation struggles with the complex rituals of the Buddhist ceremony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FUNConnelly, Michael
Summary: As two unrelated cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire, Harry Bosch discovers that there are two kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONConnelly, Michael
Summary: Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Connelly 2017Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CONCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CONMartin, Steve
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARConnelly, Michael
Summary: An investigation into the murder of a young pharmacist leads Harry Bosch and San Fernando's detective squad into the big-business world of pill mills and prescription-drug abuse at the same time that an old case from Bosch's days with the LAPD returns to haunt him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CONHurley, Blair
Summary: "Nicole has become sexually and emotionally entangled with her mentor. To break free, she must retrace her entire life's journey--from her strict Irish Catholic upbringing to her drug-fueled year as a teenage runaway. Even as she reinvents herself in New York City, her master's intoxicating voice pursues her, whispering dangerously in her ear. Somehow, he knows everything. A hypnotic and daring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURYan, Lianke
Summary: "From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest. At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions-Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam-gather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANCotterill, Colin.
Summary: Forced to relocate to rural Thailand with her eccentric family, crime reporter Jimm Juree fears that her career is over until the bodies of two hippies are discovered in a local farmer's field and a Buddhist abbot is murdered, a case that implicates a monk and a nun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COTBarry, Quan
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upons Sticks-a luminous novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as a pair of estranged twin brothers make a journey of duty, conflict, and renewed understanding. Tasked with finding the reincarnation of a great lama somewhere in the vast Mongolian landscape, the young monk Chuluun seeks the help of his identical twin, Mun, who was recognized as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022