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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Ken Kesey

An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.

The Oxford School Shakespeare is a well-established series which helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of students' notes. These include detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. This work... (more)

The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (Enriched Classics)

The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (Enriched Classics)

by Kate Chopin

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations •... (more)

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

Edith Grossman 's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in English until you've read this... (more)

A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 4

A Feast for Crows

by George R. R. Martin

Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows , Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction. ... (more)

Tears of Artamon: Book 1

Lord of Snow and Shadows

by Sarah Ash

Combining the best of fantasy traditions with her own unique vision, Sarah Ash brings to dazzling life a new saga filled with epic adventure and unforgettable characters. Far-reaching in scope and imagination, Lord of Snow and Shadows embarks on a journey like no other—into a shape-shifting world teeming with political intrigue, astonishing magic, and passions both dark and light. Raised by his protective... (more)

The Knee Of Listening: The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light (The Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse, Book 4)

The Knee Of Listening: The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light (The Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse, Book 4)

by Adi Da Samraj

In the depth of every human being, there is a profound need for answers to the fundamental questions of existence. Is there a God? What is Truth? What is Reality? 'The Knee of Listening' has transformed the lives of thousands of secular and religious seekers since it was first published in 1972, because it answers all of these questions. This autobiography shows, with incomparable wisdom and clarity, a life... (more)

The Dawn Horse Testament of the Ruchira Avatar: The Testament of Divine Secrets of the Divine World-Teacher, Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj

by Adi Da Samraj

Adi Da Samraj's paramount "Source-Text", this great Divine testament is unparalleled in its magnitude and depth. It represents the fruit of Adi Da Samraj's immense work of teaching and revelation over more than three decades. An extraordinary Scripture, containing Adi Da's detailed revelation of every aspect of the process culminating in Divine Enlightenment. This book is the ultimate and complete summary of... (more)

Love and Blessings: The Divine Compassionate Miracles of Adi Da Samraj (Love and Blessings)

Love and Blessings: The Divine Compassionate Miracles of Adi Da Samraj (Love and Blessings)

by Bill Gottlieb

In Love and Blessings twenty-five people tell heart-breaking stories of human need and Divine Response. A soldier in Iraq, a woman going blind in Holland, a son with his dying father in Australia, a woman with cancer in America. These and others tell how they asked Adi Da Samraj for his Blessing-Regard and the miraculous process that ensued. But the stories in 'Love and Blessings' are not only about the... (more)

Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcendence of Death and Everything Else

Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcendence of Death and Everything Else

by Adi Da Samraj

The new Third Edition of the bestseller includes new talks and essays from Adi Da Samraj on death and ultimate transcendence of everything, as well as accounts of the profound events of yogic death in his own life. This book also contains many heartbreaking stories of Adi Da’s personal blessing, and profound instruction in the death-transitions of his devotees and their families.

Religion and Reality (The perfect Knowledge Series)

Religion and Reality (The perfect Knowledge Series)

by Adi Da Samraj

"Religion is 'cult' ". Adi Da Samraj once opened an essay with this provocative statement. By definition, He went on to explain, religion is a sacralized system of philosophical and practical observances within the domain of time and space. Because it necessarily consists of defined beliefs and rituals, dependent on the existence of the concrete world in which it appears, he points out the self-evident fact... (more)

The Ancient Reality-Teachings ("Perfect Knowledge" Series)

The Ancient Reality-Teachings ("Perfect Knowledge" Series)

by Adi Da Samraj

When Adi Da looked at "The Heart of the Ribhu Gita" he was moved to make his own rendering or "interpretive translation" of the text, in order to elucidate, and thereby honor, its full meaning. He was not intending to re-write the text from his point of view, but, rather, to draw out the real intention of Ribhu, as only another Realizer can. He also reviewed other great dharma from the tradition of Advaita Vedanta... (more)

The Perfect Tradition (The perfect Knowledge Series)

The Perfect Tradition (The perfect Knowledge Series)

by Adi Da Samraj

In 1980, two devotees of Adi Da visited the Tibetan master Chogyam Trungpa and showed him video footage of Adi Da. After the presentation, Chogyam Trungpa expressed his respect for the authenticity of Adi Da, and said: It is tremendously difficult to begin a new tradition. Adi Da is working to establish the Way of Perfect Knowledge (or Way of Adidam) as a new tradition a total culture of life and practice that... (more)

The Liberator (The perfect Knowledge Series)

The Liberator (The perfect Knowledge Series)

by Adi Da Samraj

There is an ancient saying: "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." What troubles human beings most, Adi Da has found, is their lack of knowledge of what Reality, God or Freedom is truly about, what It ultimately is. In this book, the truth that he gives is the truth about Reality or God. He says that spiritual liberation is not of this world it has nothing to do with the body-mind. But,... (more)

Eleutherios (The Only Truth That Sets The Heart Free)

Eleutherios (The Only Truth That Sets The Heart Free)

by Adi Da Samraj

In Eleutherios, Adi Da speaks the ultimate Truth that liberates the being, that frees the heart. This Truth cannot be found by seeking. It is a revelation and a gift that transcends not only the worldly aims that Westerners regard as 'freedom', but also the inward states of 'liberation' that are the goal of the traditional oriental search. The Truth is the Truth about Reality. What troubles human beings most,... (more)

The Way of Perfect Knowledge (The ?perfect Knowledge? Series)

The Way of Perfect Knowledge (The ?perfect Knowledge? Series)

by Adi Da Samraj

Adi Da says that it is not possible to simply work towards the most perfect knowledge of Reality or Freedom, or, otherwise, merely declare It to be so. Many of us have seen this at work in our own case or in others. He says that knowledge must be given, directly transmitted, from the Source. And before one can become fully available to spiritual transmission, radical self-understanding must unlock the... (more)

Da Love-Ananda Gita: The Free Avataric Gif of the Divine Love-Bliss

Da Love-Ananda Gita: The Free Avataric Gif of the Divine Love-Bliss

by Adi Da Samraj

The “Late-Time” Avataric Revelation Of The Great Secret Of The Divinely Self-Revealed Way That Most Perfectly Realizes The True and Spiritual Divine Person (The egoless Personal Presence Of Reality and Truth, Which Is The Only Real God) Throughout history, serious religious and spiritual practitioners have been naturally and spontaneously moved to turn to the Divine with the entire being. However, as has been... (more)

Ruchira Avatara Gita: The Avataric Way of the Divine Heart-Master

Ruchira Avatara Gita: The Avataric Way of the Divine Heart-Master

by Adi Da Samraj

The “Late-Time” Avataric Revelation Of The Great Secret Of The Divinely Self-Revealed Way That Most Perfectly Realizes The True and Spiritual Divine Person (The egoless Personal Presence Of Reality and Truth, Which Is The Only Real God) The Ruchira Avatara Gita is a supreme Divine offering to humankind. This sacred text is Adi Da Samraj's invitation to enter into direct heart-relationship with him. ... (more)

Ishta: The Way of Devotional Surrender to the Divine Person

Ishta: The Way of Devotional Surrender to the Divine Person

by Adi Da Samraj

The Ancient Walk-About Way

by Adi Da Samraj

In this beautiful collection of easy to read essays Adi Da Samraj draws the reader through a very personal consideration of the realities and suffering of the ordinary life without Truth. He explains how the ancient tradition of heart-response to the spiritual master, the one who can give the heart the freedom it deeply longs for, and who answers all its questions, is the only salvation of our mortal suffering... (more)

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