Kamenetz, Rodger
Contents: Sparks -- Flames -- Roadblocks -- Heights -- Blessings -- Contact -- The angel of Tibet and the angel of the Jews -- Always remind -- Debating monks and angels -- Shabbat Shalom and Tashe Delek -- Jewish Buddhists, Buddhist Jews -- JUBUs in America -- Tibetan intellectuals, Tibetan orphans -- An interview with the oracle -- Secret doors -- Tantra and Kabbalah -- Survival strategies -- One last...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3 KAMMochkofsky, Graciela
Summary: "The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Catholics to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and inspiring a wave of emerging Latin American Jewish communities"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VILLANUEVA, SEGUNDO MOCGompertz, Ron.
Contents: Introduction: celebrating the holidays together -- The Chrismukkah timeline -- Tradition, tradition! -- Santa Claus vs. Hanukkah Harry -- Decorating the hybrid home -- Menorahments and more -- Plethora of Menorahs -- Kris Kringle Kippas and Yarmulclaus hats -- Spin the dreidel under the mistletoe -- Secular harassment in the workplace, or, the office party -- Happy hour -- Musikkah -- Twas the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 263.915 GOMTworkov, Helen
Summary: "From the woman who helped introduce Buddhism to the West and founded Tricycle magazine comes a brilliant memoir of forging one's own path that Pico Iyer calls "unflinching" and "indispensable." The daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism; yet from an early age, she questioned the value of Western cultural norms. Her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dillon, Michael
Summary: "Now available for the first time--more than 50 years after it was written--is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self : A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fordham University Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DILLON, MICHAEL DILBusch, Colleen Morton.
Summary: An account of how five monks saved the U.S.'s oldest Zen Buddhist monastery describes the monastery's location in a remote area that was plagued by hundreds of wildfires in 2008 and the monks' decision to remain behind when even firefighters were evacuated.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.37 BUSThurman, Robert A. F.
Summary: Explores why the Dalai Lama has earned the world's love and respect, and how restoring Tibet's autonomy within China is not only possible, but also highly probable.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 THUMann, Lonnie
Summary: "A coming-of-age graphic novel memoir about a young man who, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community, realizes he's gay and struggles to reconcile his faith with who he is"--Page 4 of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 MANN, LONNIE MANYogis, Jaimal.
Summary: The author examines his own fears while exploring "the complicated spectrum of why we feel afraid: fear of loss, fear of not being good enough, fear of being trapped in the wrong job, fear of not being able to realize our dreams, fear of pain, and ultimately, fear of our own mortality"--Dust jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152 YOGYogis, Jaimal.
Summary: Fed up with his suburban life, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a copy of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and enough cash for a surfboard. His journey is a coming-of-age saga that takes him from communes to monasteries, from the warm Pacific to the icy New York shore. Saltwater Buddha is a chronicle of finding meditative focus in the barrel of a wave and eternal truth in the great...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wisdom Publications 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOGIS, JAIMAL YOGYogis, Jaimal
Summary: "In this meditative memoir--a compelling fusion of Barbarian Days and the journals of Thomas Merton--the author of Saltwater Buddha reflects on his "failing toward enlightenment," his continued search to find meaning and a greater understanding of the Divine in the world's oceans as well as everyday life."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOGIS, JAIMAL YOGMatthiessen, Peter.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 1986
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 MATLawrence, Robyn Griggs.
Summary: Wabi-sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that focuses on appreciating the simple and letting go of the superficial. This book provides a history of the practice and detailed and illustrated guidelines on how to introduce wabi-sabi into your home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747.01 LAWSanche, Heather
Summary: "In this charming tale for kids, the classic life story of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, is told along beautiful illustrations. The book goes through his childhood to his enlightenment, chronicling the ups and downs he faced along the way"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bala Kids, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, Inc. 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUDTenzin Priyadarshi
Summary: "The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi was born in India to a prominent Hindu Brahmin family. At the age of six he began having visions of a snowy mountainous region in which men with shaved heads, in robes the color of sunset, wandered about. "It was as vividas if I were watching a scene from life," he writes. At the age of ten, he ran away from boarding school to find this place, taking a train to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TENZIN PRIYADARSHI TENChopra, Deepak.
Summary: An account of the life of the Buddha traces his spiritual journey while explaining how his experiences and teachings have changed the world and continue to influence every facet of life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHOBlum, Deborah
Summary: Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley set out to ensure food safety. He selected food tasters to test various food additives and preservatives, letting them know that the substances could be harmful or deadly. The tasters were recognized for their courage, and became known as the poison squad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILEY, HARVEY WASHINGTON BLUGovinda, Anagarika Brahmacari.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3923 GOVLekas Miller, Anna
Summary: "Love Across Borders takes readers through contentious frontiers around the world to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Anna Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem Rizk in Istanbul, where they were reporting on the Syrian civil war. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay there, nor could he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 LEKDalai Lama XIV
Summary: Draws on stories from the author's own childhood to share universal lessons about peace, compassion, and bringing kindness to the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DALToomey, Christine
Summary: In 2011, Christine Toomey met an unforgettable group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. After hearing their stories—of prison, extreme hardship, and ultimately fleeing across the Himalayas into exile—she resolved to learn more about the private, courageous women of Buddhism: who they are, their experience of suffering, what motivates them to seek enlightenment, and what stands in their way. Toomey’s...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 TOOLadin, Joy
Contents: Introduction: shipwrecked with God -- The genesis of gender -- Trans experience in the Torah -- Close encounters with an incomprehensible God -- Reading between the binaries -- Knowing the soul of the stranger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brandeis University Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296.3086 LADWolpe, David J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1999
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Kushner, Harold S.
Summary: Harold Kushner, a Jewish rabbi facing his own child's fatal illness, deftly guides us through the inadequacies of the traditional answers to the problem of evil, then provides a uniquely practical and compassionate answer that has appealed to millions of readers across all religious creeds.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2004