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"A popular speaker and award-winning author invites readers to meet the ancient African thinker who can help us find ourselves and a faith that speaks to our deepest hungers and hopes"--

A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literature. The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to rise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought...

Encounter the defining commitments of the Religious Society of Friends and how those ideals can be incorporated in personal and public life to bring renewal and eliminate the clutter that is keeping us from deeper spirituality.

Merges the rational with the spiritual world in the story of a man guided by three unusual women on a desperate journey away from the cause of his despair. "In this novel of haunted love, Silas Fortunato, an amateur astronomer, finds his marriage descending toward darkness until the arrival of his sister-in-law and soon thereafter the appearance of a witching neighbor who may or may not exist. Enigmatic, ghostly, and funny, the three women draw him...

A call to confront the politics of fear and divisiveness in the United States today urges a return to the deep spiritual commitment of love for others to restore communal bonds and the spirit of social responsibility.

"Larry el Pepinillo es Minnesota Cuke, el conservador de un museo infantil y aventurero en sus ratos de ocio a quien se le ha asignado encontrar el cepillo perdido de Sansó antes de que sus supuestos poderes sean utilizados para controlar ambas orillas de las Cataratas del Niágara. Podría esta alocado complot haber sido ideado por el profesor Rattan, el enemigo perpetuo de Minnesota?"--Container. When Cuke learns of the legendary hairbrush of...

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them. A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and...

"Drawing from hundreds of interviews with devout believers, resolute skeptics, and everyone in between, The Twentysomething Soul tells an optimistic story about the lives of today's young adults." -- dust jacket flap.

The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from 'Israel's bravest historian' (John Pilger)
Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.

'Along with the late Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history.' NEW STATESMAN

Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians...

Aleph marks a return to the author's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he will again meet Hilal,...