The Sergeant's Cat
Dutch Zen Cops: Mr. Van De Wetering's short stories are even better thanhis novels. His experiences in a zen monastary in Japangive these stories a slightly Zen Fable feeling, which is weird in what basically are police procedurals. All of his mystery [... more]
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Robert Van Gulik: His Life His Work
 Born in Holland in 1910 but raised in Java, Robert Hans van Gulik explored esoteric Buddhism and translated ancient texts, including an authentic Chinese 16th century detective novel, around which he created a fictional series. Based on extensive [... more]
$47.73
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The Perfidious Parrot
Janwillem van de Wetering's fourteenth Amsterdam Cops novel, The Perfidious Parrot, finds Grijpstra, de Gier, and the commissaris blackmailed into investigating the mysterious hijacking of a supertanker's entire cargo. The adventure takes them to Key [... more]
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Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller
DIVBFrom Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjavík thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur/BBRB /BBRWhen a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the [... more]
$3.90
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Monkey: A Journey to the West
David Kherdian is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His biography of his mother,iThe Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl/i, was nominated for the National Book Award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Jane [... more]
$7.48
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Zen 24/7: All Zen, All the Time
Amazon.com Review: Philip Toshio Sudo has found Zen in the unlikeliest of places and has written about them: Zen Guitar, Zen Sex, and Zen Computer. Now, in Zen 24/7, it's Zen everything. But if it's true that being mindful in every moment is the heart of [... more]
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Death in the Steel City (Carroll Dorsey Mystery)
Death in the Steel City: Very gripping book. I couldn't put it down, and had to order all the others this guy wrote. My husband grew up in the exact area Lipinski writes about. I love to go there and visit. Lipinski's gift is that he hardly has to use [... more]
$5.99
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Murder by Remote Control
Author: Janwillem van de Wetering Author: Paul Kirchner Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973 EAN: 9780345332691 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0345332695 Number Of Pages: 100 Publication Date: 1986-04-12 Release Date: 1986-04-12 [... more]
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DeKok and the Somber Nude (Inspector DeKok Investigates)
superb Dutch police procedural: On a rainy day, Kristel van Daalen with two A's comes to Amsterdam's Warmoes Street police station to report her nineteen years old cousin Nanette Bogaard with a double A is missing. Kristel explains to Inspectors DeKok [... more]
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PERFIDIOUS PARROT-C
Amazon.com Review: In a shabby bar on Aruba, a retired Dutch police commissioner eats stewed pears, talks about Gabriel García Márquez with a cab driver and a prostitute, and listens to a four-man percussion band play what he recognizes as & [... more]
$22.00
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Robert Van Gulik: His Life His Work
One interesting character writing about another one: Van de Wetering (a Dutch) is a very interesting author of quite unique "mysteries", set in a very everyday Amsterdam and also writes interestingly about his experiences with Zen Bhuddism. Van [... more]
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Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear
Abandoning Zen = embracing its true intention ?: Van De Wetering's previous books on Zen "The Empty Mirror" and "A Glimpse of Nothingness" weren't advocating Zen as a "solution" or a "path" for anynone, rather they [... more]
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