A Woman Defined

Art & Culture by Mahvash Mossaed

Welcome to My Library

July 4, 2014

mahvash-mossaed-reading When my two sisters and I were young, living in Iran, we did not watch TV – we read instead. We read a lot of books. We would save all our pocket money to buy books so we could make a library among the three of us. We inherited the love for books from my father. I remember he would wake up early every Friday, the Iranian day off. He would sit himself at the garden summer table, pick a rose from the garden and lay it next to his plate, and he would have his book of poems by Rommi or Hafez open on the table. He would read while having his breakfast, and as we would come to the garden, he would offer us the rose to smell and hand us the book so we could read to him aloud while he was eating. He loved to read and we girls learned the love of reading from him. Now that I am living in California without my two sisters, without my father, now that decades have passed and the world has changed so tremendously, I have still remained faithful to my love of reading. I decided to give up watching TV so I could have the time for the books I love to read. I made that decision twelve years ago, and since then, I have read many books. As I read them, I entered them into my file. Here they are. I would like to share them with you, and I would like to tell you about what they gave me and how they made me feel every time I update my blog.

  • The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
  • The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
  • David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  • My Painted Dreams – Mahvash Mossaed (my book!)
  • Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
  • Opening the Eye of New Awareness – Dalai Lama
  • Maya Angelou Poetry – Maya Angelou
  • The Path to Tranquility – Dalai Lama
  • Conversation with God – Neale Donald Walsch
  • A History of Music in Western Civilization
  • The Poetry of Sylvia Plath – Sylvia Plath
  • The God of Small Thing – Arundhati Roy
  • Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child – John Bradshaw
  • Spiritual Power – Caroline Myss
  • The Collection of Classic Poetry
  • The Academy of American Poets
  • It Takes A Village – Hillary Clinton
  • Anatomy of Spirit – Caroline Myss
  • William Wordsworth Poetry
  • Collection of Love Poetry
  • Collection of Poetry of Edger Allen Poe
  • Meaningful Work – Thomas Moore
  • The Guide to Mediation – Joan Borysenko
  • The Heart of Spiritual Practice – Jack Cornfield
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
  • The Poet Speaks
  • Don’t Know Much About the Bible – Kenneth Davis
  • The Human Shadow – Robber Bly
  • Ethics for The New Millennium – Dalai Lama
  • A Simple Path – Mother Teresa
  • The Healing Power of Compassion – Sogyal Rinpoche
  • Classic Poe – Edgar Allan Poe
  • A Magical Life – Thomas Moore
  • War Poetry Collected Poems
  • The Third Millennium – Ken Carey
  • A World Waiting to be Born – M. Scott Peck
  • Being Spacious – Sogyal Rinpoche
  • Conversation with God, Book 2 – Neale Donald walsch
  • A Treasury of Great Poetry – Louis Untermeyer (editor)
  • Gandhi – Willam L. Shirer
  • The Academy of American Poets – Donald Justice
  • The Making of a Woman – Judy Sheindlin
  • Timebends: A Life – Arthur Miller
  • Five Classic Meditation – Shinzen Young
  • The Emperor’s New Mind – Rojer Penrose
  • By the Light of My Father – Alice Walker
  • The Complete Sonnets – William Shakespeare
  • Earth in Balance Ecology and the Human Spirit – Senator Al Gore
  • A Road Ahead – Bill Gates
  • All the Best – George Bush
  • The Voice of the Poet – W. H . Auden
  • Hamlet – William Shakespeare
  • Sylvia Plath’s Collection of Poetry – Sylvia Plath
  • Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson
  • Believe and Achieve: W. Clement Stone’s 17 Principles of Success – W. Clement Stone and Michael Ritt
  • Poets Speak: A Collection of Poetry edited by Joseph Paris
  • Emily Dickinson Poems and Letters – Alexandra O’Karma
  • Emily Dickinson and the Demon Lover – Marion Woodman
  • Emily Dickinson Selected Poems – Emily Dickinson
  • One Times One: Collection of Poems – e. e. . cummings
  • When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It’s Time to Go Home – Erma Bombeck
  • The Poetry Collection: Volume Two – North America’s Greatest Poets
  • How to Understand Great Music: The Ancient World Through the Early Baroque (Part One of Six) – Robert Greenberg
  • How to Understand Great Music: The High Baroque (Part Two of Six) – Robert Greenberg
  • Women’s Great American Speeches – Lucreta Mott , Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, and others
  • Tao Te Ching – Lao-Tzu and Stephen Michel
  • How to Understand Great Music: The Classic Era (Part Three of Six) – Robert Greenberg
  • Putting Excellence to Work – Thomas J. Peters
  • Selected Poems – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Selected Poems – Dylan Thomas
  • Selected Poems – Robert Goddess
  • How to Understand Great Music (Part Four of Six) – Robert Greenberg
  • Selected Poems – T.S Elliot
  • How to Understand Great Music (Part Six of Six) – Robert Greenberg
  • The Poetry of Shelly
  • Selected Poems of Lord Yron
  • The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
  • First Things First – Stephen Merrill
  • How to Understand Great Music (Part Five of Six) – Robert Greenberg
  • Collected Poems edited by Harold Gropp
  • John Keats Selected Poems – John Keats
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
  • Would Not Take Nothing for My Journey Now – Maya Angelou
  • The Psychology of Human Motivation – Denis Waitly
  • What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire: Collected Poems – Charles Bukowski
  • Collected Poems of Ezra Pound – Ezra Pound
  • The Phenomenal Women: Poems – Maya Angelou
  • At Witt’s End – Erma Bomback
  • The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom – Suze Orman
  • African & African American Religions
  • Classical Religion and Myths of the Mediterranean Basin
  • Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World – Sogyal Rinpoche
  • Voices Behind the Wall: Collection of Poetry – John Farrell
  • I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans – Arnold Adoff
  • The Collected Poems of Beatrice Hawley – Beatrice Hawley
  • Good Woman: Poems and Memoirs 1969-1980 – Lucill Clifton
  • Death & Fame: Last Poems (1993-1997) – Allen Ginsberg
  • Keeping Your Money – Charles Plotnick
  • Memory Power – Steve Moidel
  • The Higher Self – Deepak Chopra, M.D.
  • The Way of the Wizard – Deepak Chopra, M.D.
  • Ageless Body, Timeless Mind – Deepra Chopra, M.D.
  • Out of this World: Collected Poems, An Anthology 1966-1991 – Anne Waldman
  • All I Know About Animal Behavior – Erma Bombeck
  • You Have More Than You Think: The Motley Fool Guide to Investing What You Have – David and Tom Gardner
  • In Conversation, On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy – Pema Chodron and Alice Walker
  • Beating the Dow with Bonds – Michael B. O’Higgins
  • It Takes Money Honey – Georgette Mosbacher
  • Two Treatises of Government – John Locke
  • The Savage Truth on Money – Terry Savage
  • Declaration of Independence – Thomas Jefferson
  • Ordinary Miracles: New Poems – Erica Jong
  • Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected – Erica Jong
  • The Money Diet – Ginger Applegarth
  • The Celestine Vision – James Redfield
  • Marshall Loeb’s Lifetime Financial Strategies – Marshall Loeb
  • Smart Questions to Ask Your Financial Advisers – Lynn Brenner
  • The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton
  • New and Selected Poems – Mary Oliver
  • White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems – Mary Oliver
  • The Dark Side of Earth: Poems – Paul Zweig
  • Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson
  • The Courage to be Rich – Suze Orman
  • A History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century – Timothy Taylor
  • Morality in Our Age: Animals &Ethics – Robert Guillaume
  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Francesca Fremantle
  • Always a Reckoning and Other Poems – Jimmy Carter
  • Morning in the Burned House: A Collection of New Poems – Margaret Atwood
  • Perfect Health – Deepak Chopra, M.D.
  • Care of the Soul – Thomas Moore
  • Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
  • Credit and Credit Power – Daniel Berman, Ph.D
  • Everyday Enlightenment – Dan Millman
  • Journey to the Heart – Melody Beattie
  • Gitanjali: Offerings from the Heart – Rabindranath Tagore
  • Creating Affluence – Deepak Chopra, M.D.
  • Passport to Profits – Mark Mobius
  • Legacies of Great Economists – Timothy Taylor
  • The Caedmon Treasury of Modern Poets (Cummings, Moore, Spender, Pound, etc.)
  • William Carlos Williams’s Poetry – William Carlos Williams
  • A Rich Life – A Feng Shui Tour Through Your Home – Rich Welt
  • Great World Religions: Beliefs, Practice, Histories – Dianna Eck
  • Economics in One Lesson – Henry Mazlit
  • First Things First – Stephen R. Covey
  • A Circle of Nations: Voices and Visions of American Indians – John Gattuso
  • The Craft of Investing – John Train
  • The New Human Revolution – Daisaku Ikeda
  • Light Upon Light: Inspirations from Rumi – Andrew Harvey
  • At Wit’s End – Erma Bombeek
  • You’ve Earned It, Don’t Lose It – Suze Orman
  • Carl Sandburg Poems – Carl Sandburg
  • The Faith of the Earth – Jonathan Schell
  • Healing at the End of this Century – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • The Wizard – Deepak Chopra, M.D.
  • How to Start Your Own Small Business – Jay Phillips
  • Anne Sexton: Selected Poetry
  • Messages from the Masters – Brian Weiss, M.D.
  • Why People Don’t Heal – Caroline Myss
  • Margaret Atwood: Selected Poems
  • A World Waiting to be Born – M.Scott Peck
  • Life Lessons – Elizabeth Kubler & David Kessler
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
  • The Lexus and the Olive Tree – Thomas Friedman
  • Poet’s Guide – Michael J. Bugeja
  • Something More – Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Soul Mates – Thomas Moore
  • Bringing the Best in People – Alan Loy Mcginnis
  • The Sacred Journey – Sam Keen
  • Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings – Lynn Grabhorn
  • Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being – Andrew Weil, M.D.
  • Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World – Eckhart Tolle
  • The Secret: Universal Mind Meditation – Kelly Howell, M.D. & Steven Gurgevich, Ph.D.
  • 8 Weeks to Optimum Health – Andrew Weil, M.D.
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
  • Whispers – Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Don Miguel Ruiz, Jack Canfield
  • In the Presence of a Great Mystery – Eckhart Tolle
  • The Essence of Being in Balance – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • The Power of a Positive No – William Ury
  • Entering the Now (Excerpted from Realizing the Power of Now) – Eckhart Tolle
  • Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing – Andrew Weil, M.D.
  • Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think – Brian Wansink, Ph.D., M.D.
  • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment – Eckhart Tolle
  • The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • Dr. Wayne Dyer’s 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • Improve Your Life Using the Wisdom of the Ages – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • How to Get What You Really, Really, Really, Really Want – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • Go Put Your Strengths to Work – Marcus Buckingham
  • Breathe & Unwind: With Alpha Brainwave Pulses – Silvia Nakkach, Jorge Alfano & Dr. Jeffrey Thompson
  • A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
  • The Fiber 35 Diet: Nature’s Weight Loss Secret – Brenda Watson, C.N.C. & With Leonard Smith, M.D.
  • How To Be A No-Limit Person – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • Transformation – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  • Small Business Success: Expert Solutions to Grow Your Business – Jim Rohn & Brian Tracy
  • Small Business Marketing for Dummies – Barbara Findlay Schenck
  • Small Business Start-Up Guide – Hal Root & Steve Koenig
  • Guerilla Marketing: A Simple Battle Plan for First-Time Marketers – Jay & Jeannie Levinson
  • The One-Minute Cleaner: 500 Tips for Cleaning Smarter, Not Harder – Donna Smallin
  • A Gorgeous Sense of Hope: A Love Fable – Emma Magenta
  • An Act of God – Stephen P. Miller
  • Heal Your Body: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them – Louise L. Hay
  • The Unofficial Guide to Starting a Small Business – Marcia Layton Turner
  • The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in Your Small Business – Steven D. Strauss
  • The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Toolkit – Beth Goldstein
  • Younger Next Year for Women – Chris Crowley & Henry S. Lodge, M.D.
  • The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
  • Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life – Gail Blanke
  • Sharing Good Times – Jimmy Carter
  • The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
  • Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing (The Self Healing Series) – Andrew Weil, M.D.
  • Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness – Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
  • The New Codependency – Melody Beattie
  • Self-Healing with Sound and Music – Andrew Weil, M.D. & Kimba Arem
  • Invisible Acts of Power – Caroline Myss
  • Younger Next Year – Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D.
  • Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire – Mireille Guiliano
  • Self Matters – Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.
  • Music for Sound Healing – Dr. Mitchell Gaynor
  • Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life – Spencer Johnson, M.D. and Kenneth Blanchard
  • Living a Life of Inner Peace – Eckhart Tolle
  • The Essential Rumi – Rumi, Coleman Barks and Huston Smith
  • Street Artists: The Complete Guide – Korero Books, Eleanor Mathieso , and Xavier A. Tápies
  • Make It Bigger by Paula Scher
  • The Voice of the Poet: Anne Sextion by Anne Sexton
  • Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice by Lauren Artress
  • Street Artists: The Complete Guide by Eleanor Mathieson
  • Anatomy for the Artist by Jeno Barcsay
  • Botero. Filosofia de la creacion by Marcel Paquet
  • The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickison
  • Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook by Raw Vision Magazine
  • The Key Muscles of Yoga: Scientific Keys Volume I by Ray Long MD FRCSC
  • Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates
  • Zhuan Falun (Revolving the Law Wheel) by Hongzhi Li
  • Herbal Remedies: A Quick and Easy Guide to Common Disorders and Their HerbalRemedies by Asa Hershoff and Andrea Rotelli
  • The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work by Donna Farhi
  • The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in Your Small Business by Steven D. Strauss
  • Organizing from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life by Julie Morgenstern
  • Magritte (25) by Marcel Paquet
  • The Book of Runes: A Compass for Navigating in Turbulent Times by Ralph H. Blum
  • Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki
  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing In The Bardo (Shambhala Classics) by Chogyam Trungpa and Francesca Fremantle
  • The Illustrated Kama Sutra : Ananga-Ranga and Perfumed Garden – The Classic Eastern Love Texts by Captain Sir Richard F. Burton and F. F. Arbuthnot
  • Living with the Himalayan Masters by Swami Rama
  • Yoga the Alpha & Omega; Talks on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali; Volume 7 by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
  • Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
  • A Search in Secret India by Paul Brunton
  • Yoga and Psychotherapy: The Evolution of Consciousness by Swami Rama, Swami Ajaya, and Rudolpy Ballentine
  • Herbs for Common Ailments by Anne McInture
  • The Poets of the Powers: Magic, Freedom, and Renewal by Kamil V. Zvelebil
  • Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits by Red Pine
  • Sufi: Expressions of the Mystic Quest (Art and Imagination) by Laleh Bakhiar
  • The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self by Woody Hochswender, Greg Martin, and Ted Morino
  • Practical Buddhism: The Kagyu Path by Ole Nydahl and Carol Aronoff
  • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
  • A Buddhist Bible: The Favorite Scriptures Of The Zen Buddhist Sect by Dwight Goddard
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  • Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin (Shambhala Classics) by John Blofeld
  • The Three Pilars of Zen Teaching, Practice, Enlightment by Philip Kapleau
  • A Hermit in the Himalayas by Paul Brunton
  • Meditation in Action by Chogyam Trungpa and Sam Bercholz
  • The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation: Or the Method of Realizing Nirvana through Knowing the Mind by W.Y. Evans-Wentz
  • Integral Yoga: A Concept of Harmonious and Creative Living (A Quest book) by Haridas Chaudhuri
  • Chronicles of Tao: The Secret Life of a Taoist Master by Ming-dao Deng
  • Living Zen by Robert Linssen
  • The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment: Part of the On Zen Practice Collection by Taizan Maezumi Roshi and Bernie Glassman
  • Mountain Record of Zen Talks (Dharma Communications) by John Daido Loori
  • Natural Healing Through Macrobiotics by Michio Kushi
  • To forget the self: An illustrated guide to Zen meditation (The Zen Writings Series) by John Daishin Buksbazen
  • Frida Kahlo: The Paintings by Hayden Herrera
  • How to See Your Health: Book of Oriental Diagnosis by Michio Kushi
  • Matter of Zen a Brief Account of Zazen by Paul Wienpahl
  • Zen Master Dogen: An Introduction with Selected Writings by Yuho Yokoi and Daizen Victoria
  • Openness Mind: Self-knowledge and Inner Peace through Meditation (Nyingma Psychology Series) by Tarthang Tulku
  • The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
  • Out of My Mind: An Autobiography by Kristin Nelson Tinker
  • The Art of Doing Nothing: Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself by Veronique Vienne and Erica Lennard
  • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Selected Poems: 1965-1975 by Margaret Atwood
  • World Encyclopedia of Naive Art by Oto Bihalji-Merin
  • Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky
  • Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
  • Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition (8th Edition) by Penelope J.E. Davis, et. al.
  • Self-Healing with Sound and Music by Andrew Weil and Kimba Arem
  • The Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
  • Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Marcus Buckingham
  • Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers
  • The Art of Forgiving by Lewis B. Smedes
  • Reinventing Yourself: How To Become The Person You’ve Always Wanted To Be by Steve Chandler
  • Ultimate Healing: The Power of Compassion by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
  • Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passion by Andrea Kettenmann
  • Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility by Mireille Guiliano
  • The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
  • Fernando Botero: A Celebration by Fernando Botero
  • Mountain Record of Zen Talks (Dharma Communications) by John Daido Loori
  • The Zen Monastic Experience by Robert E. Buswell
  • Hermit in the Himalayas: The Journal of a Lonely Exile by Paul Brunton
  • The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment: Part of the On Zen Practice collection by Taizan Maezumi Roshi, et. al.
  • Yoga: The Poetry of the Body by Rodney Yee and Nina Zolotow
  • A Night Without Armor by Jewel Jewel; Kilcher
  • African Designs from Traditional Sources by Geoffrey Williams
  • Alex Katz – Prints, Paintings, Cutouts by Beate Elsen-Schwedler
  • Alex Katz: Prints by Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Felix Zdenek, Marietta Mautner Markhof
  • Amedeo Modigliani by Doris Krystof
  • Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In by Nancy Anderson, Charles Brock, Andrew Wyeth
  • Angels: Guardians of the Light by Karen M. Haughey
  • Arts and Culture, Combined Volume (3rd Edition) by Janetta Rebold Benton, Robert DiYanni
  • August Sander (Aperture Masters of Photography) by August Sander
  • August Sander: People of the 20th Century by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Susanne Lange, SK Stiftung Kultur Cologne
  • August Sander: Seeing, Observing, Thinking by Agnes Sire, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Thomas Schatz-Nett
  • Be My Knife: A Novel by David Grossman, Vered Almog, Maya Gurantz
  • Bosch, Bruegel, and the Northern Renaissance by Claudia Lyn Cahan
  • Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing (Self Healing Ser.) by Andrew Weil (Audio CD)
  • Canadian Gothic, and other poems by Stanley COOPERMAN
  • Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit by Jill Lloyd, Michael Peppiatt
  • Clemente: A Retrospective (Guggenheim Museum Publications) by Lisa Dennison, Raymond Foye, Jotindra Jair
  • Collected Poems, 1919-1976 (FSG Classics) by Allen Tate, Christopher Benfey
  • Contemporary American Folk Art: A Collector’s Guide by Chuck Rosenak, Jan Rosenak
  • Dance Me To The End Of Love by Henry Matisse, Linda Sunshine, Leonard Cohen
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Alicia Craig Faxon, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Decision Points by Bush, George W. [2010]
  • Delvaux and the Antiquity by Sophie Basch, Jean Clair, Michel Draguet
  • Dinner at Aunt Connie’s House by Faith Ringgold
  • Discovering Ellis Ruley: The Story of an American Outsider Artist by Glenn Robert Smith
  • Dream Dictionary by Tony Crisp (Mass Market Paperback)
  • Earl Cunningham: Painting an American Eden by Robert Carleton Hobbs
  • Edward Hopper: 1882-1967 Transformation of the Real (Basic Art) by Rolf G Renner
  • Egon Schiele 1890-1918 by Reinhard Steiner
  • English naive painting, 1750-1900
  • Francesco Clemente: A Portrait by Rene Ricard, Luca Babini
  • Francesco Clemente: Made in India by Jyotindra Jain, Salman Rushdie, Stella Kramrisch
  • Francis Bacon: 1909-1992 (Taschen Basic Art) by Luigi Ficacci
  • Golden Centuries of Venetian Painting by G De Logu Mari Abis
  • Grandma Moses: in the 21st Century by Jane Kallir, Roger Cardinal, Michael D. Hall
  • Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau Visionary by Eva di Stefano
  • Haitian Art by Ute Stebich
  • Henri Rousseau’s Jungle Book (Adventures in Art) by Doris Kutschbach
  • History of the Persian Empire by A.T. Olmstead
  • How to Use Yoga: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Iyengar Method of Yoga for Relaxation, Health and Well-Being Shown in 450 Photographs by Mira Mehta
  • Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4) by Allen Ginsberg
  • HR Giger ARh+: 30 Postcards (Postcardbooks​) by Taschen Publishing (Misc. Supplies)
  • I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin by Judith E. Stein
  • In Focus: August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Claudia Bohn-Spector
  • Jazz: My Music, My People: (ALA Notable Children’s Book; ALA Recommended Book for Reluctant Young Readers) by Morgan Monceaux
  • Judy Chicago, An American Vision by Edward Lucie-Smith
  • Kay Nielsen by David Larkin, Keith Nicholson
  • Larousse encyclopedia of modern art, from 1800 to the present day by Rene Huyghe
  • Leonid Purygin by Leonid and Vitalii Patsyukov Purygin
  • Life Is Paradise by Vincent Katz, Francesco Clemente
  • Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel
  • Looking Back at Francis Bacon by David Sylvester, Francis Bacon
  • Love’s Ripening: Rumi on the Heart’s Journey by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Ahmad Rezwani
  • Lucian Freud by William Feaver
  • Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis (Philadelphia Museum of Art) by Anna Vallye, Christian Derouet, Maria Gough
  • Martin Luther King (Mulberry books) by Rosemary L. Bray, Malcah Zeldis
  • Mask Arts of Mexico by Ruth Lechuga, Chloe Sayer, David Lavender
  • Meditation for Optimum Health: How to Use Mindfulness and Breathing to Heal Your Body and Refresh Your Mind (The Self Healing Series) by M. D. Andrew Weil (Audio CD)
  • Moments in Jewish Life: The Folk Art of Malcah Zeldis by Yona Zeldis McDonough, Malcah Zeldis
  • Muraqqa’: Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library by Elaine Wright, Wheeler Thackston, Susan Stronge
  • Naive Painting (Phaidon 20th-century art) by Anatole Jakovsky
  • New Objectivity by Sergiusz Michalski
  • On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Bernard Glassman
  • Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
  • Pinching Spaniards by Beatrice Wood
  • Poets of Modern Russia (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) by France
  • Practicing the Presence: The Inspirational Guide to Regaining Meaning and a Sense of Purpose in Your Life by Joel S. Goldsmith
  • R.B. Kitaj by Richard Morphet
  • Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits by Red Pine
  • Russian Art: From Neoclassism to the Avant Garde 1800-1917 : Painting Sculpture Architecture by Dmitri V. Sarabianov
  • Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey by Alex Grey, Ken Wilber, Carlo McCormick
  • Sahara (World’s Wild Places) by Jeremy Swift, the editors of Time-Life Books, of Time-Life Books
  • Self-Made Worlds by Roger Manley, Mark Sloan, Ted Degener
  • Shirin Neshat by Rebecca R. Hart, Sussan Babaie, Nancy Princenthal
  • Spiritual Feng Shui by Lillian Too
  • Street Artists: The Complete Guide by Eleanor Mathieson, Xavier A. Tápies, Glenn Arango
  • Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
  • That’s the Way I See It by David Hockney
  • The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, Naveed Noori
  • The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
  • The Color Atlas of Human Anatomy by Wolf-Heidegger, Dr. Petra Kopf-Maier
  • The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson
  • The Decorated Garden Room: Interior Design for Your Outside Living Space by Tessa Evelegh, Debbie Patterson
  • The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition by Jalal al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks, John Moyne
  • The Execution (Talonplays) by Marie-Claire Blais, David Lobdell
  • The Flowering of American Folk Art (1776 – 1876) by Jean Lipman, Alice Winchester
  • The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan) by Robert Aitken
  • The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
  • The Jewel Ornament Of Liberation: The Wish-Fulfillin​g Gem Of The Noble Teachings by Gampopa, Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche
  • The modern primitives: Instinctual painters by Madeleine Gavelle
  • The New Israelis by David. Schoenbrun
  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & Inte​rnational Bestseller by Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick Gaffney, Andrew Harvey
  • The Way of the White Clouds by Lama Anagarika Govinda
  • Thrift Store Paintings by Jim Shaw
  • Unbounded Light: The Inward Journey : 15 Tales of the Inner Light from Ancient Scriptures, First Person Accounts, and Modern Science by William E. Williams
  • Voyage to Paradise: A Visual Odyssey by Thomas McKnight, Annie Gottlieb
  • Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice by Lauren Artress
  • We Flew over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold by Faith Ringgold
  • Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays (Icon Editions) by Linda Nochlin
  • Yellow dog journal by Judith Minty

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One Response to “Welcome to My Library”

  1. dear mahvash,
    happy and healthy 2010!! everytime when I visit your website I find more and more interesting things to read, thank you for sharing. I really hope to meet you soon, I hope you will find the time to meet me in your gallery. hope to hear from you soon! best regards, wilma van mierlo, lake arrowhead. 909-337 9733.

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