From the New York Times bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers comes another riveting novel of the Schuyler sisters—where the epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging '60s... In the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler's problems are in a class of their own. To find a way to take care of herself and the baby she carries—the result of an affair with a married, legendary politician—she fixes up a beautiful and rare vintage Mercedes and sells it at auction. But the car's new owner, the glamorous Annabelle Dommerich, has her own secrets: a Nazi husband, a Jewish lover, a flight from Europe, and a love so profound it transcends decades. As the many threads of Annabelle's life before the Second World War stretch out to entangle Pepper in 1960s America, and the father of her unborn baby tracks her down to a remote town in coastal Georgia, the two women must come together to face down the shadows of their complicated pasts. AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARY READS PICK A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR THE BEST OF SKIMMREADS 2016

Ursula Jarand, a long-time student of the late Japanese Rinzai Zen Master Soko Morinaga Roshi, is a teacher at Daishu-in West, a Northern California Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple she helped found in 1994. This book is a collection of selected talks she gave at Daishu-in West between 2004 and 2016.

Based on the assumption that a close relationship to that which is infinite is crucial for emotional and spiritual well-being, this book describes the many windows that are available to us and that afford us contact with the inexpressible and ineffable. It also highlights ideas, actions, emotions and attitudes that can block our view and thus impede our overall development. The text is liberally enlivened with stories, fables, myths and references to popular culture so that otherwise esoteric ideas are made enjoyable and accessible.

You will find in this book both a challenging personal story and a review of the great religious thinking of our time. -- Robert Fulghum, author of All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.