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
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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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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A Century Of Great Suspense Stories
All you need to know about this great collection of the best mystery stories from the past century are the names of the great authors inside: Robert Bernard, Robert Bloch, Lawrence Block, Anthony Boucher, Frederic Brown, James M. Cain, Max Allan Collins, [... more]
$40.14
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Zen 24/7
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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The Streetbird (Amsterdam Cops)
A strange proposition . . .: I must agree with my friend from Forest Hills, New York. The ending does make you scratch your head a piece. However, I have read The Butterfly Hunter and The Japanese Corpse, and this is the man's style for sure. However, I [... more]
$12.00
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The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery
A humorous, grouchy, true story: In the summer of 1958 Janwillem van de Wetering showed up at the door of a Zen monastery in Kyoto Japan, knowing pretty much no one, not speaking the language, and without a really good idea what he was doing there. This [... more]
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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]
$14.00
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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]
$12.00
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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]
$13.95
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The Perfidious Parrot (Amsterdam Cops)
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]
$12.00
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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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