One woman's unforgettable quest for freedom, love, and god.

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Book of Angels, a wise and inspiring guide to strengthening one's intuitive abilities.Are you intuitive? Do you trust your intuitions? In The Art of Intuition, Sophy Burnham contends that we all have hunches and sudden insights and that we need only awaken to our inborn abilities in order to develop our inner wisdom.In this fascinating book, Burnham tells the stories of individuals w...

One woman's unforgettable quest for freedom, love, and god.

The angel appeared in the White House without warning, no blowing of trumpets or rushing of wings. It stood by the President's bed, radiant, white. Its eyes were pools of love. Its light flooded the bedroom, surrounding and engulfing the President. The angel faded without saying a word, but its appearance forever changed the fate of the world . . .Millions of readers have come to cherish Burnham's glorious A Book of Angels and Angel Letters. Now, in her deeply mov...

A BOOK OF ANGELS tells not only the extraordinary true stories of present-day encounters with angels, but also traces the understanding and study of angels through history and in different cultures. Discover what angels look like, whom they chose to visit, how they enter our lives, and so much more.

"I see but one rule: to be clear." StendhalIf only it were as easy for most writers as it was for Stendhal. The truth about the act of writing is much more varied, even violent. In fact, there seem to be as many contradictory admonitions about how to go about doing it as there are writers themselves.With that in mind, writer Sophy Burnham has collected the thoughts of some of the greatest writers and laced them with her own observations and experiences of the writer's life. W...

**“To read Sophy Burnham is to marvel at her eloquence, erudition, her wisdom and her daring. She answers the question, ‘What is it like to be Old?’ with honesty, humility and humor. This is a woman who fox hunted until she was 80.” -Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way“I love, love, love this book. This is so much more than a book about aging. Prepare for a stunning, uplifting, inspiring, and honest look at the fullness of LIFE that takes the fear out of adding anoth...

Love! Romance! High society! Art Theft—all told by the wise and witty little cat, Alba, who has her own feline affairs. Lorna, now over 60, has just fallen horribly, head-over heels in love—with a younger man; and worse, he’s involved with her best friend, Nikki, and now Nikki, an art conservator, is caught up in international art theft, prison, and other events of everyday life in Washington, D. C. Underneath this light-hearted romp lie serious issues of aging, sexual desire, friendship, ...

The Wonder and Happiness of Being Old is a timeless introspection on age, love, passion, memories, regret and reconciliation, death, forgiveness, and underneath it all, the silent wisdom that derives from how differently we perceive our lives and struggles from the broader, higher perspective of years.What began as a singular letter in response to a younger family member standing on the precipice of her 60th birthday and asking the age-old question, “What’...

“Gritty and suspenseful, Chosen draws us into the obstacle-strewn path of domestic adoption.”—Juliette Fay, author of Shelter MeA young caseworker increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents faces life-altering choices when an extortion attempt goes horribly wrong in Chosen. Written in the spirit of Jodi Picoult and Anna Quindlen, Chosen is an extraordinary debut novel from Chandra Hoffman that deals with the controve...

In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.