A Day with William Shakespeare offers an intimate, richly imagined portrait of England's greatest dramatist, tracing one June day in 1599 from the streets of London to the stage of the Globe. Shakespeare appears not as a distant monument but as a prosperous, courteous, and deeply observant man—part theatre owner, landholder, and celebrated author—moving through a city alive with booksellers, gossip, music, and the scents of flowers and herbs. His imagination is shown to be rooted in beauty...

Discover the truth hiding behind troubling thoughts with Byron Katie’s self-help classic.In 2003, Byron Katie first introduced the world to The Work with the publication of Loving What Is. Nearly twenty years later, Loving What Is continues to inspire people all over the world to do The Work; to listen to the answers they find inside themselves;and to open their minds to profound, spacious, and life-transforming insights. The Work is simply four q...

Internationally acclaimed, bestelling author Byron Katie’s most anticipated work since Loving What IsWe live in difficult times, leaving far too many of us suffering from anxiety and depression, fear and anger. In her new and most anticipated work since Loving What Is, beloved spiritual teacher Byron Katie provides a much-needed beacon of light, and a source of hope and joy.In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist text...

Comedian and actor Byron Bowers’ wild, funny, and fearless memoir proves that healing can be a psychedelic experience—and that sometimes the only way to tell the truth is to laugh about it.Byron Bowers is a comic’s comic—the guy other comedians watch from the back of the room wondering how he just pulled that off. His sets dive into spirituality, race, the dollar, and manhood—and sometimes he wings half of it on the spot. Most comics turn pain into jokes. Byron tur...

You are lying awake at 3 a.m. again, heart pounding, nightgown soaked, the fan on high and no amount of cool pillows bringing sleep back. By sunrise you feel like you ran a marathon in your sleep, and the day ahead expects you to be sharp, patient, and present for everyone except yourself. If this sounds familiar, you are not broken and you are not alone, because millions of women in midlife describe the same betrayal by their own bodies. The standard advice to eat well and exercise more i...

You picked up this book because you are a busy man with a full life and a heavy load, and somewhere between the alarm at 5 in the morning and the last child asleep at night, your prayer life became the thing you keep meaning to do. You have bought the devotionals and started the plans, and you have fallen off by the second week, and the guilt on top of the exhaustion has made starting again feel impossible. Whatever brought you here, you share the conviction this book honors: you are not l...

Henry has hit rock bottom. A fifty-year old mystery could save him – or finish him off.Henry Lysyk’s life is a mess.With his marriage over and his accounting career marred by scandal, he retreats to the anonymity of a rented suite in a house shared with strangers. But the trail of a decades-old crime leads a murderous treasure hunter to his doorstep, and Henry is baffled by his neighbors’ cover-up.An unexpected visit from his adventure-hungry niece,...

This compelling debut novel by new talent Byron Graves tells the relatable, high-stakes story of a young athlete determined to play like the hero his Ojibwe community needs him to be.These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team—even though he can’t help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident.When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team...

New motel owner Dee Stern has checked out of the familiar comforts in Studio City and checked in to the quaint village of Foundgold. Running a rustic getaway in the woods sure beats LA traffic—until murder ruins the peace and quiet . . .Down-on-her-luck sitcom writer Dee Stern is flipping the script. Twice divorced and wasting her talents on an obnoxious kids’ show, the lifelong Angeleno embraces the urge to jump in her car and keep driving. It's ...

People Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020Named a Must-Read Summer book by Town & CountryNamed One of the 14 Best Books of Summer 2020 by Harper's BazaarOne of Library Journal's 2020 "Titles to Watch"One of the 30 Best Beach Reads According to Parade Magazine**"A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny an...

The common media and scholarly story—especially with the rise of people who don’t identify with any religion—suggests that religion in America is in serious decline. In Death of Religion?: Nones, Others, and the Flourishing of Faith, Byron R. Johnson and Tommy Kidd strongly challenge this view. In this work, they argue that the idea of religion’s decline has been greatly exaggerated and that survey data can often be misleading or incomplete. Their approach is to show that ...

**“A spiritual innovator for the new millennium.” —Time“Byron Katie’s Work is a great blessing for our planet.” —Eckhart TolleInspirational quotes to help you along your journey of self-inquiry as you navigate love and relationships; sickness and health; work and money; and much more.**The profound, lighthearted wisdom embodied within is not theoretical; it is absolutely authentic. Here, she discusses the most essential issues that face us all:• Love...