Birth of the Chess QueenMarilyn Yalom has written the rare book that illuminates something that always has been dimly perceived but never articulated, in this case that that the power of the chess queen reflects the evolution of female power in the western world. Cleveland Plain Dealer Everyone knows that the queen is the most dominant piece in chess, but few people know that the game existed for five hundred years without her. It wasn't until chess became a popular pastime

I Love You with the mesmerizing story of a teenaged girl coming face-to-face with grief

In Coconuts and Kettlebells

in picture-book form

The Diamond Sutra (newly translated in these pages by Stephen Mitchell) to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts

heard over the phone

of history itself

This shift in perspective—one that stops seeing the negative and starts seeing the lesson or positive spin—is what no one else can teach us

Una narración divertida

Bacon received rare access to Head Coach Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches

serial killers

sharing their stories and secrets

where every choice has a cost written in ink on her own skin