A COURSE IN MEDITATION de Osho

For readers of Deepak Chopra and Gabrielle Bernstein, a 21-day experiential course designed to give readers a taste of meditation as it was taught by the contemporary mystic, Osho

A COURSE IN MEDITATION
A 21-Day Workout for Your Consciousness
by Osho
Harmony Books, September 2019

Osho was a mystic and a scientist, a rebellious spirit whose unique contribution to the understanding of who we are defies categorization. His only interest was to alert humanity to the urgent need to discover a new way of living. Osho’s understanding was that only by changing ourselves – one individual at a time – can the outcome of all our « selves » – our society, our cultures, our beliefs, our world – also change. The doorway to that change is meditation.
Osho saw how difficult it was for the hyperactive 21st-century mind to just sit silently and watch the breath. Out of this observation he created new meditations to address the unique challenges of this generation. Presented in easy-to-understand language and an easy-to-navigate format, A COURSE IN MEDITATION includes a 21-day program for applying meditation and mindfulness to release the tensions and stress of the body and mind in order to relax into an experience of still and silent awareness. Each day of the program introduces a different aspect of meditative living with a simple, practical meditation and awareness exercise related to the subject of the day.

Osho, known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, continues to inspire millions of people worldwide in their search to define a new approach to individual spirituality that is self-directed and responsive to the everyday challenges of contemporary life. Osho was described by UK’s Sunday Times as one of the « 1000 Makers of the 20th Century. » OSHO has had a resurgence recently thanks to the popular Netflix documentary about him and his followers, Wild Wild Country which won an Emmy Award. His teachings are back in the mainstream conversation and media, and his books sell steadily throughout the world. His internationally bestselling works are available in 58 languages around the world. www.osho.com

HUNTER’S MOON de Philip Caputo

From the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin, a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private and the past is never really past

HUNTER’S MOON
A Novel in Stories
by Philip Caputo
Deckle Edge, August 2019

“A poignant and savage tribute to the wilds of the American landscape and to the wilds of the American soul. With Hunter’s Moon, Philip Caputo shows us, once again, why he is a giant of contemporary letters.” ―Elliot Ackerman, author of Waiting for Eden

HUNTER’S MOON is set in Michigan’s wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other’s lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past or seeking to unearth it. Once-a-year lovers, old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, a college professor and his wayward son, a middle-aged man and his grief-stricken father, come together, break apart, and, if they’re fortunate, find a way forward. HUNTER’S MOON offers an engaging, insightful look at everyday lives but also a fresh perspective on the way men navigate in today’s world.

Philip Caputo is an award-winning journalist―the co-winner of a Pulitzer Prize―and the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including “A Rumor of War”, one of the most highly praised books of the twentieth century. His book, “The Longest Road”, was a New York Times bestseller. His novels include “Acts of Faith”, “The Voyage”, “Horn of Africa”, “Crossers”, and “Some Rise by Sin”.

BLACK SUNDAY de Tola Rotimi Abraham

Tola Rotimi Abraham’s heartbreaking and incendiary debut BLACK SUNDAY follows the subsequent splintering apart of an entire family over the course of twenty years in Nigeria, narrating separately — subtly against the backdrop of the recent history of the city itself — each sibling’s fraught search for agency, love, and meaning in a place rife with hypocrisy but also endless life

BLACK SUNDAY
by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Catapult, 2020

Twin sisters and eldest siblings Bibike and Ariyike, along with their two younger brothers, are enjoying a comfortable, relatively privileged life in 1996 Lagos. Until their mother loses her job thanks to political strife and their family, in its desperation, gets swept up into the New Church —a Pentecostal church focused on money, blind faith, and winning. When their family’s patriarch wages their house on a ‘sure bet’ that evaporates like smoke, the twins’ mother abandons them and their brothers, and then their father follows suit. Bibike, Ariyike, Andrew and Peter are suddenly thrust into poverty as they’re reluctantly raised by their traditional Yoruban grandmother.
At the core of BLACK SUNDAY is really the story of the twins desperately trying to uncover the shape of truth in world hellbent on lies. Inseparable while they still have their parents and creature comforts, the twins’ paths diverge once their nuclear family shatters and each girl is left to locate, guard, and hone her own fragile source of power. As Abraham brings Lagos to life, in a voice rife with wry, timeless poeticism, BLACK SUNDAY reveals a tale of grace and connection amidst daily oppression, of two young women slowly finding their own distinct methods of resistance, paths to independence, and brands of faith in the face of a constant battering —sexual, spiritual, and otherwise— from an entrenched and unremitting patriarchy.  A society which compromises just as it fetes its men, too, as seen from their brothers’ eventually waning perspectives. But more than survival in the face of adversity or faith in the face of injustice, more even than the pull to remain in a country unforgivingly and yet irrefutably home, BLACK SUNDAY is a book concerned with examining, as you’ll see, the very nature of storytelling itself.

Tola Rotimi Abraham is a fiction and nonfiction writer from Lagos, Nigeria. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, she has taught writing at the University of Iowa and the International Writing Program. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Catapult, The Des Moines Register, The Nigerian Literary Magazine and other places. She is 33 years old and a Nigerian citizen in the US on a student visa.

THROWBACK de Peter Lerangis

Peter Lerangis, the New York Times bestselling author whose more than 160 books have sold over 5.5 million copies, returns with THROWBACK, the first book in an electrifying action-adventure trilogy about a boy who discovers that he alone may be able to alter the course of history

THROWBACK
(The Throwback Trilogy #1)
by Peter Lerangis
Harper Teen, Fall 2019

Think of me. And time will fly.
Those are the words that 13-year-old Corey Fletcher’s beloved grandfather, his Papou, left on his bedside before he disappeared a year ago.
Corey misses him desperately and refuses to give up hope that he’ll see his grandfather again. But as time passes it seems less and less likely, until the day Corey happens upon a vintage picture of the very block where he lives from 1862, and suddenly Corey finds himself transported back to that very place in time. The very place in time where Papou had been trapped.  Without meaning to, Corey saves a life, changing the past in a way no time traveler ever has been able to before. When they return to the present, Papou explains that Corey may be the first known “throwback.” Plenty of people can time travel, but until now, no one had ever been able to alter the past. Suddenly, everyone is looking for Corey—to kidnap him, to use his powers for their gain— even to kill him. Papou warns Corey that, tempting as it may seem, using his powers is incredibly dangerous. But to Corey, the chance to right certain wrongs is too tempting, and so he goes back to the day his grandmother died, determined to save her. But when things go awry, Corey winds up all the way back in New York City in 1917. Lost and alone, Corey has to use his wits to find a way to make it back to the present alive without changing the past and, perhaps, forever altering his future.

Peter Lerangis is the author of more than 160 books, which have sold more than 5.5 million copies. These include the New York Times bestselling SEVEN WONDERS series, THE COLOSSUS RISES; LOST IN BABYLON; THE TOMB OF SHADOWS; THE CURSE OF THE KING; and THE LEGEND OF THE RIFT, and two books in the 39 CLUES series. Peter is a Harvard graduate with a degree in biochemistry. He has run a marathon and gone rock climbing during an earthquake-though not on the same day. He lives in New York City with his wife, musician Tina deVaron, and their two sons, Nick and Joe.

AN AMERICAN SUMMER d’Alex Kotlowitz

From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago’s most turbulent neighborhoods

AN AMERICAN SUMMER
Love and Death in Chicago
by Alex Kotlowitz
Nan A. Talese, March 2019

The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and community? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing about individuals who have emerged from the violence and whose stories capture the capacity–and the breaking point–of the human heart and soul. The result is a spellbinding collection of deeply intimate profiles that upend what we think we know about gun violence in America. Among others, we meet a man who as a teenager killed a rival gang member and twenty years later is still trying to come to terms with what he’s done; a devoted school social worker struggling with her favorite student, who refuses to give evidence in the shooting death of his best friend; the witness to a wrongful police shooting who can’t shake what he has seen; and an aging former gang leader who builds a place of refuge for himself and his friends. Applying the close-up, empathic reporting that made There Are No Children Here a modern classic, Kotlowitz offers a piercingly honest portrait of a city in turmoil. These sketches of those left standing will get into your bones. This one summer will stay with you.

Alex Kotlowitz is the author of three previous books, including the national bestseller “There Are No Children Here”, selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. “The Other Side of the River” was awarded the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Nonfiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and on This American Life. His documentary work includes The Interrupters, for which he received a Film Independent Spirit Award and an Emmy. His other honors include a George Polk Award, two Peabodys, the Helen B. Bernstein Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.