Inprint - New Books of interest by Jeanne Spiro

Send Me Tulips by Kathe Oleson, Illustrated by Kristin Pluhacek. (Prisma Press, $23.95, Hard Cover.)

Send me Tulips is an inspiring story of living, loving, and loss. Looking much like a children’s book, it is an uplifting tale that teaches us all about the hope that sustains us. The illustrations magically transport us to a place of peaceful tranquility.

This enriching comment on faith and grace is a must-have for anyone seeking nourishment of the soul. It celebrates and honors the journey through life and relationships. For those encountering grief and loss it touches the heart, bringing comfort and healing. It is a reminder that our love transcends all.

What the Bleep Do We Know!? Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, and Mark Vicente. (Health Communications, Inc., $26.95, Hard Cover.)

Many of us have seen the film What the Bleep Do We Know!? Although this book shares its title, it stands alone. It is a book of amazing science. With the help of more than a dozen research and theoretical scientists it takes us through the looking glass of quantum physics into a universe that is more bizarre and alive than ever imagined. Then it takes us beyond, into the outer edges of our scientific knowledge of consciousness, perception, body chemistry and brain structure. What is a thought made of? What is reality made of? And most importantly, how does a thought change the nature of reality? This science leads not just to the material world, but deep into the realm of spirituality, personal choice, and everyday decision making.

What the Bleep do We Know!? is not a book of definitive answers, it is one of mind stretching questions. It is a book that shows you not the path, but the endless possibilities. Do you think you have to go to the same job everyday, do the same errands, think the same thoughts, feel the same way? Well, think again.

The Truth About Medium by Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., with William Simon. (Hampton Roads, $19.95, Hard Cover.)

Every Monday night millions of people tune into Medium, the NBC hit show now in its second season. The drama features a fictional character, based on the real life of Allison DuBois, a woman who lives in Phoenix with her aerospace engineer husband and three young daughters, and helps police solve baffling crimes through her ability to communicate with the dead.

The Truth About Medium paints a remarkable portrait of this astonishing woman, and tells about the scientific experiments conducted with her at the University of Arizona by Harvard-trained psychologist and author Gary Schwartz.

At age thirty Allison was planning on going to law school when she told Schwartz that like the little boy in Sixth Sense, she could actually see and communicate with dead people. She wondered if she could better serve the process of prosecuting criminals and putting the behind bars if she offered her psychic gifts to support the work of the police and prosecutors. The Truth About Medium chronicles many of the most impressive experiments demonstrating her abilities. Whether readers are true believers, fans of the show, or hardened skeptics, this book offers evidence that psychic ability, mediumship, and communication with the dead actually exist.

The Complete Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue by Neale Donald Walsch. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $39.95, Hard Cover.)

Ten years ago, Neale Donald Walsch revealed to the world the conversations he shared with God in his best selling book, Conversations With God. Today, nearly 2 million copies of that book are in print, and there have been two subsequent volumes published.

This trilogy contains essential truths and lessons for spiritual seekers, and these books are the author’s best selling books. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the original publication, this special gift edition of the three books has been produced.

Featuring a new introduction and afterword by Walsch, these books have been reset into one comprehensive volume, printed in two colors and housed in a specially designed, fully enclosed box featuring new artwork, and a comprehensive index referencing all three works.

Curious Lives: Adventures from the Ferret Chronicles by Richard Bach. (Hampton Roads, $15.95, Paperback.)

Richard Bach writes books about why we’re here and where we’re going. He hides them behind titles so modest that nobody can tell what they’re about. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, One. These are not life-changing titles, but they are stories that change lives.

His last story was written in five separate volumes, books about lives of action and adventure, but free of evil, malice, crime, or war. These are The Ferret Chronicles. Here they are, in one volume. These are tales of ferrets who love. They will risk their lives for a higher cause, and they persevere in seeking to fulfill their highest right while striving to help each other do the same. They are about a world without deceit, an alternative vision of human culture.

Read Curious Lives to your children. They will ask you questions that will make you wonder what our lives would be like without hate. Rediscover Bach. Rediscover yourself.

The Seven Whispers: As Spiritual Practice for Times Like These by Christina Baldwin. (New World Library, $12.95, Paperback.)

We all hear a voice that seems to arise from within the mind. We are all engaged in dialogue with a voice that only we can hear. Sometimes, perhaps all the time, our lives depend on being able to hear this voice. The Seven Whispers is about listening intentionally to the inner voice that speaks for our souls. Though we may call this voice by whatever name makes us comfortable—a hunch, intuition, soul, spirit, or God—hearing it is a universal human experience.

This inspiring book explains how we can better listen to this important inner voice. Christina Baldwin explains that our connection with our spirit is like a phone line. Sometimes we turn the ringer off. Sometimes we ignore the ring. Sometimes we pick up the phone with suspicion. Sometimes we get impatient with its interruption. Ironically, this call is the one we’re hoping to receive.

This is a call to re-envision our lives. The Seven Whispers delivers an inspiring yet practical spirituality for times like these.

Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr. (Free Press, $14.00, Paperback.)

Originally published in 1988, Solitude challenges the psychological paradigm that interpersonal relationships are the chief, if not only, source of human happiness. Instead, Anthony Storr argues, solitude ranks alongside relationships in its impact on an individual’s well-being and productivity, as well as on society’s overall progress and health.

Citing numerous examples of scholars and artists, Storr argues that solitary activity is essential to the creative process. He stresses the importance of solitude not only for geniuses, but for the average person as well. “Interests, whether in writing history, breeding carrier pigeons, speculating in stocks and shares, designing aircraft, playing the piano, or gardening, play a greater part in the economy of human happiness than modern psychoanalysts and their followers allow.” Solitude offers a compassionate message and an inspiring reflection on a fundamental human need.