Washoe County Library System

If you could break bread one last time with someone you lost, who would it be? Where would you go? What would you say? Kirk Douglas would find out if his father approved of his career. Sara Moulton would have a wine-filled, rollicking lunch with her dear friend Julia Child. Memoirist Erica Heller, who would dine with her father, Joseph Heller, collects imagined stories, sketches, and conversations by forty-eight authors, artists, musicians, and comedians...

If Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour, how would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would he mediate a debate on the best way to raise a child between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato's brain, argues that all his philosophical problems can be solved by our new technologies? What would he make...

The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky's desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can't pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched. The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be...

The whole universe, the entire cosmos in each of its dimensions, is filled with sentient beings, each imbued with the exact same desire-the desire to express and experience their true nature and their true Identity. This involves a process of, first, moving through and knowing every aspect of being physical. then moving through and knowing every aspect of being metaphysical. Then, integrating both. And here is the great secret that Highly evolved...