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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"A tragicomic novel of a fame-obsessed American society yet again on the brink. Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi's About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston. There we meet Val Face, a charismatic self-help guru who captivates multitudes with his uncanny ability to heal adherents using only the power of his words, the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Mick is a good kid, but maybe he can use just a little guidance. But it's unclear who will be guiding whom, because Mick's brother came home from Tibet with the self-proclaimed Guru Lumpo Smythe-Finkel and his dog Lhasa--and then promptly settled both of them in Mick's bedroom. (The thing about this kind of guru is that he doesn't seem to know exactly what he's trying to do. He sure does seem to be hungry, though.) Anyway, Mick agrees to something...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Guru Nanak (1469-1539) is the founder of the Sikh religion, which has over 25 million followers worldwide. As a young man, he embarked on an inspired mission that took him from the sacred Himalayas to the holy city of Mecca, preaching a message of one God, sincere worship, and of peace and equality for all. Award-winning author, Demi, recounts the remarkable life of Guru Nanak, who today is revered by Hindus and Muslims alike"--Provided by publisher....
Author
Pub. Date
1980.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, scriptwriting conferences at M-G-M, intellectual sparring...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Attending a retreat in the desert mountains of Sedona, Arizona, at the insistence of socialite wellness guru Marley Dewhurst, lifelong New Yorker Ronnie Khan soon discovers that all is not well in wellness town as Marley's blind ambition turns into madness"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a seventy-year-old man set sail from India to America with a few books in his bag, pennies in his pockets, and a message of love in his heart. He landed in New York at the peak of the revolutionary counterculture movement of the '60s, and went on to spark a global spiritual renaissance that led to the creation of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Through the depiction of Prabhupada as both an enlightened luminary and a...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Guru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to yoga and to a tolerant, scientifically minded universalist conception of religion. Ruth Harris explores the many legacies of Vivekananda's thought, including his impact on anticolonial movements and contemporary Hindu nationalism"--
15) The guru
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
A porn queen takes a young Indian man under her wings to learn the tricks of the sex trade. But when her student inadvertently becomes a celebrity "sex guru", it catapults him into a wildly outrageous version of the American dream.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Stranded on a tropical island, SpongeBob and his friends find themselves being swept away by a giant wave. While trying to get back to Bikini Bottom they meet the infamous surf guru Jack Kahuna Laguna who tells them they must surf the legendary wave called 'The Big One' before they can get home.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Fullscreen version].
Language
English
Description
Stranded on a tropical island, SpongeBob and his friends find themselves being swept away by a giant wave. While trying to get back to Bikini Bottom they meet the infamous surf guru Jack Kahuna Laguna who tells them they must surf the legendary wave called 'The Big One' before they can get home.
19) The love guru
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Guru Pitka is an American-born, Indian-raised guru who was taught to become an expert in matters of love. Now, a world famous spiritual advisor, he guides hundreds of followers. A way for Pitka to increase his popularity is by helping to heal the troubled relationship between Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Darren Roanoke and his wife, Prudence. Jane Bullard is the owner of the Maple Leafs who wants Pitka to help Darren with his waning skills. When...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"This collection features over 120 pages of vintage Crumb comics starring the white-bearded, diminutive sage-cum-charlatan, ranging from charming, free-wheeling early '70s stories to the disturbing, controversial '90s stories (as seen in the Crumb movie), including the entire 40-page 'Mr. Natural and Devil Girl' saga from Hup! (collected here for the first time in book form)"--Publisher's web site.
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