In the town of Bonneville, good people lose limbs, fight lightning, and slip into sinkholes. They pitch over bicycles, tumble off ladders, and expire without warning. They spin the wheel and take their chances. It’s all in a day’s work.Some blame God, others blame kismet, and still others rail against random happenstance. All told, maybe there are no accidents.

Americanized millennial Arjun Chatterjee is a food-truck chef working in a parking lot outside the nation's capital. He dreams up multiethnic recipes and pursues a young woman toiling in a Kafkaesque office nearby. Building a clientele, he faces life with a sly optimism.One day he idly asks the sky: "Why am I here?"Deep Fried is a tragicomic love story wrapped in creative freedom. Its chefs, musicians, and entrepreneurs face a world of oversized dreams and shaky pr...

Some blame God, others blame kismet, and still others rail against random happenstance. All told, maybe there are no accidents. In the fictional town of Bonneville, good people lose limbs, fight lightning, and slip into sinkholes. They pitch over bicycles, tumble off ladders, and expire without warning. They spin the wheel and take their chances. It's all in a day's work. "Perfect.... The sheer power of 'Bonneville Stories' is enough to make you gasp and stare. It's not the power of wild v...

"Vajra Cave: A Basic Daily Practice For Solitary Buddhists" is a compassionate and practical guide tailored for Western converts to Buddhism, especially those navigating the Vajrayana path without a local sangha. Written by Christopher Mark Doyon, a solitary practitioner and self-described "Dharma Bum," this book distills the essence of Gautama Buddha's teachings into a straightforward daily routine that anyone can adopt, regardless of their circumstances. It's a lifeline for those asking,...

ScoreJames "Law" Lawless is the star second baseman for the Richmond Rogues, the wildest group of free swingers ever to barnstorm their way through the big leagues. So when he hooks up with a seductive stranger at a costume party, it feels like he just hit the winning run of the World Series.Extra InningsCatherine "Cat" May was the hot number in that skimpy Wonder Woman costume. But she's not about to let Law know it--especially aft...

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionA number one New York Times BestsellerA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college student who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This exhilarating debut, at once hilarious and wildly inventive, reinvented the memoir for the twenty-first century.'Brilli...

The classic guide to enlightened living that first presented the Buddhist path of the warrior to a Western audienceThere is a basic human wisdom that can help solve the world’s problems. It doesn’t belong to any one culture or region or religious tradition—though it can be found in many of them throughout history. It’s what Chögyam Trungpa called the sacred path of the warrior. The sacred warrior conquers the world not through violence or aggression, but through ge...

"I thought I was Southern until I read Celia Rivenbark's book . . . What a funny, smart, and irreverent writer she is!" ―Lee Smith, New York Times –bestselling author of Fair and Tender LadiesWhy couldn't the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can't shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes.What does a Southern woman consider ...

It's never an easy task matching a dead body to the scores of missing persons reports. Especially when no one seems to be looking for the victim.New Years Day is a time for new beginnings, but Minneapolis homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are focused on endings: specifically, the tragic end of their latest murder victim, an unidentified young woman. Kovac and Liska are determined to do the girl the small justice of returning her body to her family as th...

In Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand Pabonka Rinpoche explains how the great Atisha would purify any negativity, no matter how small, immediately. Even in public or when riding his horse, as soon as he noticed a breach of his ethics, he would stop what he was doing, drop to one knee and then and there, purify it with the four opponent powers - the powers of dependence, regret, remedy and restraint.Atisha practiced purification in this way because of his deep realization of the ps...

"These stories have a sharp eye for the complexities of modern life, but Neel Patel writes with the wisdom and compassion of an old soul." —Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times– bestselling authorA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceAn NPR Best Book of the YearA Best Book of the Summer— Vanity Fair

The first teaching, "The Three Principal Aspects of the Path," was given in France in 1982.The second teaching, an "Introduction to Tantra," also in two parts, was given at Grizzly Lodge, California, in 1980.These comprise the first two lectures of a commentary on the Chenrezig yoga.Lama Yeshe says:"Meditation is not on the level of the object but on that of the subject - you are the business of your meditation."Bodhicitta is very practical, I tell yo...