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Zen Confidential: Confessions Of A Wayward Monk
Zen Confidential: Confessions Of A Wayward Monk by Shozan Jack Haubner appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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