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  • The Life and Work of Auleshi

    Sherpa Buddhist Artist and Adept

    The Sherpa Buddhist monk Ngawang Leksh. (1913– 1983), familiarly known as Auleshi—a name that might be approximated as “Uncle Benedict” in English—occupies a unique place in the history of Buddhism in twentieth century Nepal. At once an accomplished artist and a yogi living always in retreat, he eschewed the trappings of a “Buddhist master” but taught instead through his art and, above all, his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yours Truly, Hugh Downs

    by Hugh Downs ...
    Hugh Downs, legendary broadcaster at 20/20 and The Tonight Show, describes how an endlessly creative childhood lead to his career as a radioman and broadcaster. Topics examined include: his father’s wayward attempt to automate their entire family home (down to the plumbing), a boyhood attempt to manufacture alcohol (until his Grandmother wrecked the still), being chased by a steam engine, klieg ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Letter to a Great Grandson

    A Message of Love, Advice, and Hopes for the Future

    by Hugh Downs ...
    ''When you are a great grandfather you will experience something so much more powerful and meaningful than being a father or a grandfather, that you will look at the march of generations with new eyes.''When his great-grandson Alexander was born in 2002, Hugh Downs suddenly gained a rare perspective on the world -- he had seen the evolution of American culture through five generations (his parents ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Stories that Changed America

    Muckrakers of the 20th Century

    by Carl Jensen ...
    Exuberantly written, highly informative, Jensen's Stories That Changed America examines the work of twenty-one investigative writers, and how their efforts forever changed our country. Here are the pioneering muckrakers, like Upton Sinclair, author of the fact-based novel The Jungle, that inspired Theodore Roosevelt to sign the Pure Food and Drug Act into law; "Queen of the Muckrakers" Ida Mae ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My America

    What My Country Means to Me, by 150 Americans from All Walks of Life

    Edited by Hugh Downs ...
    "Some of these essays are powerful and poetic. Some seem to reflect a stunned condition on the part of the contributor. But all of them share a newborn or reawakened feeling about the country we live in -- an underlying concern for it, whether that concern is rooted in anger and fear, or in a sensed and urgent need for action, or internal correction, or wagon-circling. Some are personal narratives ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A New Turn in the South

    Southern Flavors Reinvented for Your Kitchen: A Cookbook

    by Hugh Acheson ...
    When Hugh Acheson (now a James Beard Award winner as a chef and author) moved from Ottowa to Georgia, who knew that he would woo his adopted home state and they would embrace him as one of their own?In 2000, following French culinary training on both coasts, Hugh opened Five and Ten in Athens, a college town known for R.E.M., and the restaurant became a spotlight for his exciting interpretation of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    What Matters

    by Alison Hughes ...
    Narrated by Christian Down ...

    Unabridged

    2 min

    What happens when one small boy picks up one small piece of litter?He doesn't know it, but his tiny act has big consequences. From the minuscule to the universal, What Matters sensitively explores nature's connections and traces the ripple effects of one child’s good deed to show how we can all make a big difference. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Matters Read-Along

    by Alison Hughes ...
    Illustrated by Holly Hatam ...
    What happens when one small boy picks up one small piece of litter?He doesn't know it, but his tiny act has big consequences. From the minuscule to the universal, What Matters sensitively explores nature's connections and traces the ripple effects of one child’s good deed to show how we can all make a big difference. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD