Trumpeter imprint: 56 books
by William Gilkerson
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Nova Scotia, 1952. Not exactly the place you’d expect to run into pirates. But an old mariner, his boat driven ashore in a gale, brings with him enough stories about buccaneers and their lore to make it seem that he must have had firsthand experience of the pirate life. But how is that possible?...
Take My Spouse, Please
How to Keep Your Marriage Happy, Healthy, and Thriving by Following the Rules of Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
In love as in comedy, timing is everything. One bad night doesn’t mean it’s time to quit. Have patience: great marriages, like a successful comedy career, take time. Turns out the cardinal rules of comedy have an uncanny resemblance to the "rules" of building a strong marriage. With...
Creative Recovery
A Complete Addiction Treatment Program That Uses Your Natural Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
For writers, artists, musicians, and creators in every field, this book offers a complete addiction recovery program specifically designed for the creative person. Full of explanations and exercises, this book presents ways to use your own innate creative abilities in service of your recovery and...
Daddy Long Legs
The Natural Education of a Father
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
John Price appears to have thrown in the towel. He has spent the last year struggling to support his family, neglecting to spend time with his wife and children, and becoming increasingly cynical about the degraded state of the natural world around him. After a heart-attack scare, however, his wife...
The Five Ways We Grieve
Finding Your Personal Path to Healing after the Loss of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In this new approach to understanding the impact of grief, Susan A. Berger goes beyond the commonly held theories of stages of grief with a new typology for self-awareness and personal growth*.* She offers practical advice for healing from a major loss in this presentation of five basic ways, or types,...
A Mind with Wings
The Story of Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
It's July 4, 1845. A soft-spoken young man named Henry David Thoreau has carefully constructed a small, simple cabin in the woods overlooking Walden Pond. For the next two years, his closest companions will be the chickadees, the woodchucks, and the quiet pines of the Walden Woods.
Henry is...
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy
On Being an American Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
What does is it mean to be a citizen of the United States? Susan Griffin’s provocative investigation of that question takes us from the Declaration of Independence to the Iraq War, with many stops in between. Her conclusion: democracy is nothing less than a revolution of consciousness, and the revolution has just begun.
Wild Comfort
The Solace of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in...
The Wisdom of Maimonides
The Life and Writings of the Jewish Sage
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Here is an accessible introduction to the life and wisdom of the famous twelfth-century philosopher-physician Moses Maimonides, whose prolific writings on medical and religious issues, commentaries on Jewish texts, and writings on Jewish ethics and law profoundly influenced Judaism.
The Wisdom...
With Heart in Mind
Mussar Teachings to Transform Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Here is a spiritual practice for developing a strong and open heart—drawn from Judaism’s Mussar tradition. Mussar draws from the vast storehouse of Jewish wisdom, law, revelation, and text and brings it right home in a way that is completely practical. Judaism teaches that Torah (the collective...
The Kabbalah Reader
A Sourcebook of Visionary Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
This comprehensive and accessible entrée into the world of Kabbalah covers 1,600 years of Jewish mystical thought and features a variety of thinkers—from the renowned to the obscure—unavailable in any other volume. It’s a fresh take on an ancient tradition compiled by Edward Hoffman, a psychologist...
Everyday Holiness
The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Mussar is an illuminating, approachable, and highly practical set of teachings for cultivating personal growth and spiritual realization in the midst of day-to-day life. Here is an accessible and inspiring introduction to this Jewish spiritual path, which until lately has been best known in the world...
Climbing Jacob's Ladder
One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Jewish by birth, though from a secular family, Alan Morinis explored Hinduism and Buddhism as a young man. But in 1997, in the face of personal crisis, he turned to his Jewish heritage for guidance. In his reading he happened upon a Jewish spiritual tradition called Mussar. Gradually he realized that...
Every Day, Holy Day
365 Days of Teachings and Practices from the Jewish Tradition of Mussar
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The myriad events and interactions that make up our everyday life provide a rich opportunity for us to examine our impulses and actions and grow spiritually, according to the Jewish practice of Mussar. Mussar is an eminently wise, practical, and effective way to cultivate awareness, gratitude, personal...