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How to meditate [sound recording] : [a practical guide to making friends with your mind]
with Pema Chödrön.
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5 sound discs (5 3/4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
When it comes to meditation, Pema Ch?dr?n is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost instructors. Yet most of her books and teaching programs have focused on the benefits and challenges of a well-established practice . . . until now. On How to Meditate with Pema Ch?dr?n, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun and author of When Things Fall Apart (Shambhala, 2000) presents her first complete audio course for those new to meditation. This in-depth, 5-session curriculum helps listeners honestly meet and compassionately relate with the mind?the fundamental skill in meditation?as they join Pema to explore: The basics of mindfulness awareness practice, including proper posture, inner and outer focus, and breathing? Overcoming common obstacles like physical discomfort, difficult emotions, wandering attention, or drowsiness? Guided sessions for resting in the nature of mind, staying present, and more?plus straightforward advice for bringing the fruits of practice into everyday life.
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Inglés/English for Spanish speakers [sound recording] : el curso completo.
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17 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 supplemental reading booklets.
El curso completo 1, Novicio/Parte A & B. English for Spanish speakers.
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Marching toward hell [sound recording] : America and Islam after Iraq
Michael Scheuer.
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11 sound discs (13 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Former CIA counter-terrorism analyst Michael Scheuer provides an analysis of the U.S. Iraqi War policy while predicting how American security will be affected by the conflict, in a report that reveals how America's foreign policy is undermining key national goals.
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Miss Julia paints the town [sound recording]
Ann B. Ross.
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8 sound discs (9 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Dismayed by developer plans to bulldoze a historic courthouse, Miss Julia launches a plan to expose the community's eccentric characters in order to scare off investors, but her investigation is challenged by the disappearances of several of her friends' husbands.
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Paradise lost [sound recording]
John Milton.
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9 sound discs (ca. 10 hr., 42 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. ; 12 cm.) + CD-Rom.
The complete epic poem chronicling Man's fall from Grace, and Satan's defiant role leading the other angels in rebellion against God.
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People of the book [sound recording]
Geraldine Brooks.
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12 sound discs (ca. 14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator, is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the book's centuries-old binding, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
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A person of interest [sound recording]
by Susan Choi.
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13 sound discs (ca. 16 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Lee is a math professor at a second-tier university in the Midwest. When a mail bomb goes off in the office of the star computer scientist next door, Lee is slow to realize that students and colleagues have begun to suspect that he's the Brain Bomber, an elusive terrorist whose primary targets appear to be academic hotshots.
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Pilgrims [sound recording]
Elizabeth Gilbert.
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5 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Prague [sound recording]
by Arthur Phillips.
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17 sound discs (20 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
In the 1990s, five young American expatriates meet in Budapest. As they seeks fortune and success, their lives reflect various facets of a city that is shaped by its history, culture, and the aftermath of Communism.
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Pride and prejudice [sound recording]
Jane Austen.
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1 sound disc (ca. 11.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Reserve [sound recording]
Russell Banks.
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8 sound discs (9.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Twenty-nine-year-old Vanessa Cole is a wild, stunningly beautiful heiress, the adopted only child of a highly regarded New York brain surgeon and his socialite wife. Twice married, Vanessa has been scandalously linked to any number of rich and famous men. But on the night of July 4, 1936, at her parents' country home in a remote Adirondack Mountain enclave known as The Reserve, two events coincide to permanently alter the course of Vanessa's callow life: her father dies suddenly of a heart attack, and a mysteriously seductive local artist, Jordan Groves, blithely lands his Waco biplane in the pristine waters of the forbidden Upper Lake. . . . [Jordan] falls easy prey to her electrifying personality, but it is not long before he discovers that the heiress carries a dark, deeply scarring family secret. Emotionally unstable from the start, and further unhinged by her father's unexpected death, Vanessa begins to spin wildly out of control, manipulating and destroying the lives of all who cross her path.--From publisher description.
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Sailing alone around the world [sound recording]
Joshua Slocum.
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7 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
First published in 1900, Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable--and entertaining--travel narratives of all time. Setting off alone from Boston aboard the thirty-six foot wooden sloop Spray in April 1895, Captain Slocum went on to join the ranks of the world's great circumnavigators--Magellan, Drake, and Cook. But by circling the globe without crew or consorts, Slocum would outdo them all: his three-year solo voyage of more than 46,000 miles remains unmatched in maritime history for courage, skill, and determination. Sailing Alone Around the World recounts Slocum's wonderful adventures: hair-raising encounters with pirates off Gibraltar and savage Indians in Tierra del Fuego; raging tempests and treacherous coral reefs; flying fish for breakfast in the Pacific; and a hilarious visit with Henry ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?") Stanley in South Africa.
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