The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook
Recipes and Stories from a Zen Retreat Center
Written by Nadia Natali, Illustrated by Marica Natali Thompson
Price: $21.95
North Atlantic Books
The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook, based on Cooking Off the Grid, also by Nadia Natali, blends 126 tasty, healthful recipes with lively tales of the Natali family’s adventures living close to the land—in the wilds of California’s Los Padres National Forest. Nadia Natali's varied dishes, suitable for any group or family...
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Soul Shift
Finding Where the Dead Go
Written by Mark Ireland
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
Businessman Mark Ireland’s father was Richard Ireland, a deeply spiritual minister and renowned psychic and medium who counted Mae West among his famous clients. While he loved his father, Mark followed a more conventional path in pursuit of mainstream success—until the wrenching death of his youngest son. This unexpected tragedy plunges...
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War Lessons
How I Fought to Be a Hero and Learned That War Is Terror
Written by John Merson
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
Military memoirs abound, but few prove to be trustworthy accounts free of spin, bravura, or military glitter. John Merson’s War Lessons takes a rare reflective approach to this pressing issue of our time. In vivid, unadorned prose, he interweaves his own experiences in war with thoughtful assessments of how to prevent...
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The Souvenir
A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
Written by Louise Steinman
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
Louise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written...
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Sorcerer's Apprentice
My Life with Carlos Castenada
Written by Amy Wallace
Price: $18.95
Frog Books
Sorcerer’s Apprentice opens with Amy Wallace’s first meeting with Carlos Castaneda, the infamous anthropologist-turned-shaman, whose books described meetings with Yaqui Indian spiritual teacher don Juan. Castaneda’s rise was meteoric in the late 1960s as he wrote massive bestsellers, inspired many to experiment with psychedelics, and was dubbed “the Godfather of the...
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In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition
Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets
Written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Price: $19.95
Blue Snake Books
The war in Iraq has heightened interest in the military mindset and raised questions about whether it’s possible to be a mindful, moral fighter at a time when impersonal, technology based warfare reigns. In Search of the Warrior Spirit confronts this thorny issue with Richard Strozzi-Heckler’s trademark personal, sympathetic style. In...
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The Knee of Listening
The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light
Written by Adi Da Samraj
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
First published in 1972, The Knee of Listening is the spiritual autobiography of the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj. Containing simple narrative, ecstatic poetry, complex argument, and discourse, Adi Da’s autobiography reveals the miraculous story of his unique incarnation and revelation in the west for “the sake of liberating all beings.”...
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Old Bears
The Class of 1956 Reaches its Fiftieth Renunion, Reflecting on the Happy Days and the Unhappy Days
Written by Dave Newhouse, Foreword by Darryl Brock
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
Feeling a bit guilty about his own high-school experience, author Dave Newhouse searched out classmates from his graduating class, the class of 1956 at Menlo-Atherton High School, to find out what happened to them since high school. The stories run the gamut–some are tragic (three people have died since being interviewed)...
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In Memoriam
Norman O. Brown
Edited by Jerome Neu
Price: $10.00
North Atlantic Books
Norman O. Brown was a scholar, poet and revolutionary who made a lasting impression on the sixties generation. His distinctive fusion of Marxism, psychoanalysis and classical literature inspired students across the United States and in Europe to participate in the political upheaval of that time. His books, including Love’s Body and...
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Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams
Reflections on American Ideals
Written by Don Johnson
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Finding his idealism challenged by the reactionary forces that have proliferated in the post-9/11 world, Don Hanlon Johnson felt a need to recover more sober visions of hope amid the many reasons for despair and cynicism. Everyday Hopes, Utopian Dreams is a bracing backward turn toward the diverse and often conflicting...
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Lessons Out of School
From Detroit Gangs to New Healing Paradigms - Life Stories of Dr. John E. Upledg er
Written by John Upledger, As told to Barry Kaplan and Charles Stein
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
John Upledger has never avoided risks, whether performing an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane, as he did while on Coast Guard duty in the 1950s, or telling the story of his life. In Lessons Out of School, he doesn't spare himself or others, or gloss over unpleasant bits. Raised...
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Cutting Remarks
Insights and Recollections of a Surgeon
Written by Sidney Schwab
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
"A surgeon can kill you...and you'll sleep right through it."
The most dramatic—and seemingly glamorous—of medical fields, surgery captivates the public's imagination. Written for inquisitive laymen as well as anyone in the medical profession, this fascinating first-person account documents the career of one of America's top surgeons. Readers accompany Sidney Schwab through...
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Goodbye
In Search of Gordon Jenkins
Written by Bruce Jenkins
Price: $25.95
Frog Books
Goodbye combines biography with a son's discovery of his father. Gordon Jenkins, one of America's most significant musical figures throughout his 50-year career, collaborated with many of the major talents in postwar pop and jazz. Modest by nature, he rarely spoke of his accomplishments, and there was much to discover when...
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Working the Sea
Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons from a Maine Lobsterfisherman
Written by Wendell Seavey
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
In Working the Sea, Wendell Seavey paints a lively portrait of life both on and off the shores of Maine. Journeying from a two-room schoolhouse to the College of the Atlantic, from boatyards to back alleys, and from labor strikes to soul-searching road trips, he is accompanied not only by fisherman...
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Why Do I Scream at God for the Rape of Babies?
Written by Claudia Ford
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
At the center of Why Do I Scream at God for the Rape of Babies? is the tragic story of a five-month-old South African baby named Vyanna who is left alone in a Johannesburg porn theater by her homeless mother and then gang-raped. The story's heart, however, is one of healing...
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Travels with the Evil Inclination
A Rabble-Rousing Renegade Rabbi's Story
Written by Gershon Winkler
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
According to Jewish theology, the "Evil Inclination," or yetzer ha-ra, is the small inner voice that tempts us into doing wrong. In a tone at once witty and heartfelt, Rabbi Gershon Winkler, a.k.a. the “stand-up theologian,” tells stories of his own struggles with that voice as he passes from yeshiva boy...
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My G-String Mother
At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee
Written by Erik Preminger
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
Erik was 12 when Gypsy decided she was through with striptease—'I’m forty-two years old. Too old to be taking my clothes off in front of strangers.' Her endless schemes for staying famous and maintaining their extravagant lifestyle—a best-selling writing career, a musical based on her life, a disastrous attempt to turn...
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Sorcerer's Apprentice
My Life with Carlos Castaneda
Written by Amy Wallace
Price: $26.00
Frog Books
With the skill of a master storyteller and the spiritual courage of a lifelong seeker, Wallace takes us from early meetings to a romantic idyll in Mexico; she shares previously unpublished material straight from the Nagual and explores the harrowing aftermath of Castaneda’s death—including the mystery of five missing disciples who...
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Animated Earth
A Story of Peruvian Whistles and Transformation
Written by Daniel Statnekov
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
At a Pennsylvania country auction, Daniel Statnekov purchases a Peruvian whistling vase. His life is in shambles. What might otherwise have become a treasured antique sitting on a shelf becomes magical, the first step on a mystical journey. Ashe blows into the ancient vessel and Daniel literally flies in a totally...
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Dreaming in Real Time
The Shanti Shanti Story
Written by Linda Forman
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
Andrea and Sara Forman were born to American Catholic parents. At age nine, Andrea, the elder, borrowed her mother's Vedic texts, written in Sanskrit, and began reading and, to the amazement of all, comprehending them. Sanskrit scholars verified a 95 percent accuracy rate in Andrea's Sanskrit. Soon her younger sister also...
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Thich Nhat Hanh
The Joy of Full Consciousness
Written by Rachel Cartier and Jean-Pierre Cartier, Translated by Joseph Rowe
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
In 1999 two French journalists spent time with Buddhist Zen master and Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh at Plum Village, the religious community he founded in southwestern France. This account of their experience shows what daily life is like in this celebrated community and provides a glimpse of the personality and...
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Nelson Mandela
The Early Life of Rolihlahla Mandiba
Written by Jean Guiloineau, Translated by Joseph Rowe
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
Here is the story of a boy who was destined for something larger than his tribal village, a boy who could not contain his wonder and curiosity about the world beyond the familiar. The circumstances of Mandela’s youth led him to a perpetual search for what is right and true, in...
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Tenzin Gyatso
The Early Life of the Dalai Lama
Written by Claude Levenson, Translated by Joseph Rowe
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
This exciting and often intense biography describes the Dalai Lama's rigorous education and his full assumption of power at the age of fifteen following the Chinese invasion in 1950. Though Tibetan tradition holds that the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of his predecessors, one still marvels at the level of responsibility...
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Edward Dorn
A World of Difference
Written by Tom Clark
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
After initiating a critical involvement with new poetics in dialogue with his mentor Charles Olson at Black Mountain College in the 1950s, Dorn wandered the trans-mountain West following the variable winds of writing and casual employment until the mid-1960s, when a time of trial and change resulted in the beginnings of...
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Charles Olson
The Allegory of a Poet's Life
Written by Tom Clark
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
An incandescent biography of the inventor of "projective" verse, this comprehensive portrait distinguishes the convivial, bluff public figure from the tormented inner man. A lapsed Catholic, Olson (1910-1970) turned to Sumerian myths, Mayan legends and Islamic mysticism for cosmic insights that would inform poems of cyclic sweep. Torn by contradictory feelings...
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