David Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his study under Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in 1966. In 1988 Chadwick flew to Japan to begin a four-year period of voluntary exile and remedial Zen education. In Thank You and OK! he recounts his experiences both inside and beyond the monastery walls and offers insightful portraits of the characters he knew in that world—the bickering monks, the patient abbot, the trotting h...

Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing narrative, David Chadwick draws on Suzuki's own words and the memories of his students, friends, and family. Interspersed with previously unpublished passages...

Twelve Ways God Can Help You Conquer AnxietyDoes it feel like a cloud of worry follows wherever you go? Do you find yourself in a state of fear about the unknown? It's no secret that fear and anxiety are often at the root of our problems.The key to overcoming your anxiety are found in the person of Jesus. He frequently called his followers to trust rather than give into fear–be "anxious for nothing" (Matthew 6:25), and to cast all our anxieties on him (1 Pe...

Dublin, March 1942 – Spy Capital of EuropeVeteran spycatcher Fergus Finnan uncovers a plot to bring a German arms shipment to fiercely neutral Éire.Nationalists want the weapons to defend the fledgling state. But Finnan knows the discovery of the cargo by the Allies would trigger an Anglo-American invasion from the north.Across the Channel, the Germans have their own plans to annex Éire. They will stop at nothing to prevent the island falli...

A Spirituality & Practice “Best Spiritual Book of 2025”“As priceless as discovering a previously unknown time capsule.”—Peter Coyote (Hosho Jishi), actor, director, authorThis is what happened at the famous Zen monastery south of San Francisco.From the best-selling author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki (Crooked Cucumber), comes a memoir and oral history of Tassajara—a monastery founded in 1967 ...

A Spirituality & Practice “Best Spiritual Book of 2025”“As priceless as discovering a previously unknown time capsule.”—Peter Coyote (Hosho Jishi), actor, director, authorThis is what happened at the famous Zen monastery south of San Francisco.From the best-selling author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki (Crooked Cucumber), comes a memoir and oral history of Tassajara—a monastery founded in 1967 ...

Combat veteran Wat Tyler resumes his job as a New York crime reporter, but can’t escape the shadow of Vietnam – or allegations of cowardice.His first newspaper assignment reveals a high-level cover-up following the fatal shootings by National Guardsmen of three civilians at an anti-war protest. Powerful interests are determined to stop Tyler’s investigation at any cost – especially when he links the campus homicides to the murder of three scientists accused of using Vietnam veteran...

Liverpool, 1863: Newly arrived in England, wealthy liberals enlist Trinity, an escaped slave girl, in their campaign to abolish slavery and support Abraham Lincoln’s Union.Jubal, a high-ranking Confederate officer, has arrived to find supporters and raise funds for the opposing side. When Trinity discovers a high-stakes conspiracy to win the war for the South, she must risk everything to stop it – including her new-found freedom.But who will believe a runaway slave? And who...

From the award-winning and best-selling author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki, comes the concluding volume of exploration, through personal memoir, oral history, and rare photographs, of the physical and spiritual place known as Tassajara—a monastery founded by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1967.Peopled like a Sixties film of Buddhism invasion, with hippies, dreamers, lovers, and the first serious practitioners in the US. Joan Baez, David Steindl-Rast, Maud O...

Shunryu Suzuki’s extraordinary gift for conveying traditional Zen teachings using ordinary language is well known to the countless readers of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. In Zen Is Right Here, his teachings are brought to life powerfully and directly through stories told about him by his students. These living encounters with Zen are poignant, direct, humorous, paradoxical, and enlightening; and their setting in real-life contexts makes them wonderfully accessible.L...

**Spirituality & Practice “Best Books of 2021” Award WinnerIn this new collection of quotes from Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and stories from his students, the presence, wisdom, and humor of a great Zen teacher come alive once more.**The teachings of Shunryu Suzuki have served for innumerable people as the gateway to Zen practice and meditation. In Zen Is Right Now, devoted student and biographer David Chadwick sheds new light on Suzuki’s presence and teachings through se...

798 pages, 466 images, with 44 contributors Volume three of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of topics ranging from the risks of the Internet, family abduction, the legal and forensic aspects of child maltreatment cases, and the roles of physicians, nurses, social workers, and multidisciplinary teams. Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment, Volume Three: Cultures at Risk and Roles of Professionals is a comprehensive resource to support health care, law enforcement, social work, ch...