""An icon, unmasked. A friendship, unforgettable."Didion, like you've never seen her—this memoir could have easily been titled EAT. PRAY. JOAN.""An intimate, affectionate memoir of friendship and craft.""—A Publishers Weekly Editor's Pick""Loving, funny, and generous.""—Susanah Moore, Author of In the CutAn invitation. A table. A friendship that lasted fifty years.When bestselling au...

2025 BIBA Award Winner, Mental Health Memoir.From survivor to psychotherapist**—**one woman’s path to triumphing over trauma by understanding how the brain’s brilliant protective mechanisms helped keep her alive.In this powerful and deeply personal work of nonfiction, survivor and psychotherapist Sara Davidson explores one of life’s devastating but all too pervasive realities—trauma, and its rippling aftereffects.By...

"Thoroughly engaging, this book about the winter season of life glitters with insight and wisdom for all our years." — Andrew Weil, MD, author of Healthy Aging and Spontaneous HappinessWhen New York Times–bestselling author Sara Davidson received a call from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, asking her to engage with him in what he called "The December Project," she jump...

Thirty years ago, Sara Davidson wrote the phenomenal bestseller Loose Change, the definitive book about the boomer generation’s coming-of-age. Now this witty social observer has again turned her discerning eye to her contemporaries, with Leap!, a no-holds-barred, illuminating, and hopeful look at the choices and challenges we face and the roads open to us.For many years Davidson earned a living as a successful journalist and screenwriter, but in her fifties she saw her lif...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, “every bit as important—and as well written—as A Civil Action and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (The Star-Ledger)“A new classic of science reporting.”—The New York Times“A gripping, page-turning environmental thriller.”—NPR“Unstoppable...

"The wisdom of cultures that live harmoniously with nature spoken through the heart and mind of a true gnostic intermediary." —Ram DassIn this "masterwork of an authentic spirit person," Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax Roshi delves into "the fruitful darkness"—the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation (Thomas Berry).In this highly personal and insightful ...

"A definitive history of bird conservation in America.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred)From the time the country was founded, early Americans assumed that the land’s natural resources were infinite, including its birds, which were zealously hunted for food, game, and fashion. With the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon—a bird once so numerous that its flocks darkened the sky in flight—many realized actions needed to be taken if other birds...

An Economist best book of the yearA Foreign Affairs best book of the yearA Foreign Policy most anticipated book of the yearFrom a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid it in the twenty-first century.The vast majority of people al...

Discover the “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” (The New York Times Book Review),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma).**WINNER OF THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZEONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Wa...

Use knowledge of the chakras to better understand yourself, your happiness, and your purpose in this book by the author of The Seven Wisdoms of Life.While the power of chakra healing is well known, chakras can also be utilized to discover your life's purpose and direction. The seven chakras are energy centers in our bodies that shape our experience of life. By understanding their different qualities and how they influence us, we can better understand our pe...

Clear and illuminating commentary on one of Bodhidharma’s most important texts—designed to help Chan practitioners apply timeless and essential advice to their practiceLegend has it that more than a thousand years ago an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrived in China. His approach to teaching was unlike that of any of the Buddhist missionaries who had come to China before him. He confounded the emperor with cryptic dialogues, traveled the country, lived in...

"Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients."— Daily MailIn the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed.Focusin...